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whether or no it had been originally contrived (like the Well 

 in the Great Tyramid) for a Stair-Cafe. Upon the Head like- 

 ^ wife there is another Hole, of a round Figure, which, I have 

 been told, is five or fix Foot deep, and wide enough to receive a 

 well grown Perfon. The Stone, which this Part of the Head 

 conlifts of, feems to be adventitious ; but the reft of the Figure is 

 Thefe Roles hc wu out of thc ttatural Rock. It muft be left to futureTravellers 



had frobAbly 



acommunna- to fiud out, whcther thcfe Holes ferved only to tranfmit a 



tion with the η i η τ • 



Pyramids. Succeifiou of frcfh Air into the Body of the Sfhinx, or whe- 

 ther they might not have had likewife a Communication with 

 the Great Tyramid, either by the Well, or by the Cavity in 

 the Wall of the Chamber, that lyes upon the fame Level with 

 it. Nay it will fometimes perhaps appear, that there are 

 Chambers alfo in the two other ^Pyramids ; and not only fo^ 

 but that the Eminence likewife, upon which they are ereded, is 

 cut out into Cryptte, narrow PaiTages and Labyrinths, which 

 may, all of Them , communicate with the Chambers of the 

 Priefts, the artful Contrivers of thefe ^dyta, where their ini- 

 tiatory, as well as other myfterious Rites and Ceremonies, 

 were to be carried on with the greater Awe and Solemnity. 

 The Ca a- The Accounts that have been hitherto given us of the Mum- 

 Sakara. m'les, fccm to be very imperfeft ; and indeed the Catacombs 

 at Sahara, which are commonly vifited, have been fo fre- 

 quently rifled and difturbed, that nothing hath preferved it's 

 The Urns in primitive Situation in Them. There are ftill remaining, in 

 Is 'preferved]^ fomc of thcfc Vaults, 2i grcat Number of LJrns, of baked Earth, 

 in a conical Figure, a, which contain, each of them, an Ibii. 

 The Bill, the Bones, nay the very Feathers of this Sacred Bird 

 are admirably well preferved even to this Time. For (if we 

 except the Hieroglyphic al Writing) the fame Bandage and Mix- 

 ture of Spices, that was applyed to the human Body, feems to 

 have been beftowed upon This. But the Skull and fome other 

 Bones of an ^pii, (as it may beprefumed to havebeen,) that 

 were brought from thence, difcovered not the leaft Token of 

 their having been embalmed. There were feveral little wooden 

 Figures alfo, of the fame Quadruped, that v/ere painted white, 

 with their Legs tyed together, as if ready to be facrificed. 

 1 was ihewed at the fame Time, a fmall Vefl^el, like a Sloop, 

 with the Mafts and, Sails intire, and the Men tugging at their 

 Oars. 



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