41^ Vhyfical and Mijcellaneous 



They were ta-Qin\_{i^Q Ht Icaft, of all thcfe Tvramtds. is of the fame Nature 



ken from the ■" ■/ "^ 



Mou7^tah:^ and Contexture, hath the like Accidents and Appearances of 



upo7i which _,^ - . ^ ■*- 



they are em- Spars, Foffil Shclls, C<>'r^//i//(? Subftattces ' &c. as are common 

 ^''^'' to the Mountains o'i Ly¥ia. Tn like Manner JofepJSs Well, 

 the Quarries of Moccat near Kairo, the Catacombs of Sahara 

 the Sph'wx, and the Chambers, that are cut out of the natural 

 Rock, on the Eaft and Weft Side of thefe Tyramids , do all 

 of them difcover the fpecifick Marks and Chara«5lerifticks of 

 the Tyram'tdal Stones, and, as far as I could perceive, were 

 not to be diftinguiflied from them. The Tyramidal Stones 

 therefore, were, in all Probability, taken from this Neicrh- 

 bourhood; nay perhaps they werethofe very Stones, that had 

 been dug away, to give the Sphinx and the Chambers, I have 

 mentioned, their proper Views and Elevations, 

 ThegreatV'j- It mav be farther obferved, that the Tyramids, efpeciallv 



lamid is not ' n • • • tt C t m • ^ 



all of H ^the greatelt, is not an intire Heap or hewn Stones; inafmuch 

 sloncs. "^"as that Portion of it, which lyeth below the Horizontal 

 Se<^ion of the Entrance, may probably be no more than an 

 Incruftation of the natural Rock, upon which it is founded. 

 For, in advancing through the narrow Paffage, the natural 

 Rock is twice difcovered : the lower Chamber alfo, together 

 with the Well, (whofe Mouth lyeth upon a Level with it,) 

 appear to be of the fame; whereby a confiderable Abatement 

 is to be made in fuch foreign Materials, as would have been 

 otherwifc required in the building of this Pile. 

 AccouZ'''Zen It is vcry furprizing, that the TyramidSy which from their 

 Zef%y7t'"^^^ Foundation, muft have been looked upon with Wonder 

 wJ'"^ and Attention, fliould not have preferved a more certain 

 ^ra, and Tradition of the Time of their Foundations, or of 

 the Name of their Founders. Tliny - reckons up a Number of 

 Authors, who have wrote of the Tyramids ; and all of them. 

 He tells us, difagree in the Accounts they give us of thofe 

 who built them. Cheops ^, Chephrenes^ and Mycerinus have been 



1 Efpecially of fuch as ^/wio calls petrified L(?«fi/^, telling us, that they were originally 

 the Food of the Workmen. Ex ya.^ -iis KarclTms ua^^i mn <nt^ tSi' nu^ttixiJkv kUvhu, h roC-nif ^' 

 iuelan'cTtu ■X'wyij.aia. itj ■jii'Tra itj fJLiycSm ipuKoeiJ^' hioif J^, !^ (if av iliiTfJM oiov ii^iKirngziv V3re'7fej^«. ^aji y 

 iHini^l^SiVcu Kti-\-aya. 4 7av l^yal^afAivav 'T^o^M- cmaTnoiy.i iN 8CC. Strab. GeOgV. 1.17. P'S$^- 2 Qui 

 de ijs (Pjramhlibus) fcripierunt, funt Herodotus, Euhemerits, Ditr'is Samius, yirifiagoras, Dio- 

 njfiiis, ^rtemidorus, Alexander Poljbijlor, Btitorides, Ant'ifthenes, Demetrius, DemotUes, Apion : 

 inter omnes cos non conftat a quibus faiStse lunt, juftiffimo cafu oblitcratis tants vanitatis 

 autoribus. The iil^ y^ccount we have in Diodorus. rijei ■i rav UufafjiiJiov iJiv oamc iSi '^^ roTt 



ifxihy iu-me, o'l cN liifvi Tivis. Diod. 1. i. p. 41. 3 Diodorus (1, i . p. 39.) calls him Chemmis. 



generally 



