^i8 Vhyfical and Mifcellaneous 



Walls of the upper Room ; or for the two Ante-Chambers, and 

 the lofty Gallery', with Benches on each Side, that introduce 



rke Great yg into it ? As the whole of the Egyptian Theology was cloathed 

 fvMiy /T/- ifj myftcrious Emblems and Figures, itfeemsreafonable tofup- 

 Temp/e." pofe, that all thefc TuHiings, Aparttticnts, and Secrets in Archi- 

 tedure, were intended for fome nobler Purpofe, (for the Ca/a- 

 comhs are plain, vaulted Chambers, hewn out of the Rock) 

 and that the Deity rather , which was typified in the out- 

 ward Form of this Pile ', was to be worfliipped within. The 

 great Reverence and Regard, which Sufhis\ one of the fup- 

 pofed Founders, is faid to have paid to the Gods, will perhaps, 

 in the firft Place, not a little favour fuch a Suppofition. Yet 

 even if this at laft fliould not be granted, no Places certainly 

 could have been more ingenioufly contrived for the y4dyta, 

 that had fo great a Share in the Egyptian Myfteries. 

 The feccnd \t has bcen before obferved, that Chephrenes built the fecond 

 ramSs'wr.' Tjramid, and Mycerinus the third: but for what Intent? not 

 %set£s. to be their Sepulchres ; inafmuch as no Paflage being left open 

 into Them, as into the Great Tyramid, they muft have been 

 pulled down, and built again after their Deceafe, before their 

 Bodies could have been there depofited. If indeed we had any 

 authentick Tradition, that thefe Tyramids had been built, by 

 fome pious Succeflbrs, over the Tombs of their Anceftors, 

 there would then be lefs Occafion to call in Queftion an Opi- 

 nion, that hath been fo generally received : but if no Report 

 of this Nature occurs in antient Hiftory, if the Founders made 

 no Provifion in them for their Interments, (which is fuppofed 

 to be the principal Intent of thefe Structures,) but contrived 

 them, as far as we know, and are informed from Antiquity, 

 to be clofe, compad Buildings, it may fo far, I prefume, be 

 difputed, that the two lelfer Tyramids, at leaft, could never 

 have been intended for Sepulchres. 

 Th, chefl i» The fquare Cheft likewife of Granate Marble , which is 

 rtmui'CJ/' placed in the upper Chamber of the Great Tyramid, may be 

 }met4^^«^ fuppofed to have been rather intended for fome religious Ufe, 

 ^^'' than for the Coffin of Cheops. For among other Ufes, which 



at this Diftance of Time, and in fo fymbolical a Religion, we 

 cannot exped to trace out in Hiftory, This Cheft may be fup- 



f See the Defcription of thefe fcvcral Places in Grexva'^ Tyramidograph'tit. 2 VId. 

 p. 407, 411. 3 Out®' ci 19 nspoTliif [ni?<o7f?itf, Contemplator. M(«r^j. Chron. Canon, p- f I.] 

 «f 5ew iy%vi-n, i^ m h^h nn^^H'^i fiiSho?, iv u{ (it}a, Xf"/** ^^ A/jv:7?w j-trJ.wsr®' (Manetho) lKVisv(M.t' 

 Sjticell. p. J 5. 



pofed. 



