^2o Phyfical and Mifcellmeous 



The cheft «<7f would be very fcrupulous to deny to the human Body. Now 



httended for 



the Co: 



'p'of if this Cheft was not intended for a Coffin, (and indeed Hero- 



^^^°^'' dotii^s ' tells us that Cheops' s Tomb was in the Vaults below) we 

 have fo far a prefumptive Argument, that neither could the "Py- 

 ramid itfelf have tal;en the Name of a Sepulchre from it. Nay 

 provided even that Cheops and others had been buried within the 

 Precindls of This or any other of the "Pyramids, yet ftill this 

 was no more than what was pradifed in other Temples \ and 

 therefore would not deftroy the principal life and Defign for 

 which they were erected. And indeed, I am apt to think, that 

 there are few, who attentively confider the outward Figure 

 of thefe Piles ; the Strutlure and Contrivance of the feveral 

 Apartments in the Infide of the Greateft ; together with the 

 ample Provifion , that was made on each Side of it, for the 

 Reception, as may be fuppofed, of the Priefts ; but will con- 

 clude , that the Egyptians intended the Latter for one of the 

 Places, as all of them were to be the Objeds at leaft, of their 

 Worfliip and Devotion. 

 The Antiem Stvobo \ as far as I know, is the only Perfon among the 

 ZhhthcHide Antients, who feems to have been acquainted with the narrow 

 pyramid?"' Enttancc, that conducts us into the Great Pyramid. We have 

 only a fmall Afcent up to it at prefent ; and, as it may be pre- 

 fumed , that the Situation of it in his Time % was nearly 

 half Way up the Pyramid, we are fo far inftru6ted, what ex- 

 traordinary Encroachments have been fince made, by the Sands, 

 in that Direftion. However if there had been a Paflage left 

 open, fo early, into thisPyramid ', if this Paflage was not con- 

 tinued diredtly forward, in the fame Angle of Defcent, quite 

 down to the fubterraneous Cavities, (as the many Breaches and 

 IrregularitiesintheArchitefture of that Part of it, where weiirfl 

 begin to afcend,will give us Room to fufped ;) it is much, that no 

 particular Account ftiould have been left us, by antient Hifto- 

 rians % of the feveral Apartments that have been fince defcribed 



I Outs ytvTKh (fpeaking of the Pyraimds of Chephrenes,) hiKti/MTa -vswyMV, i-n k n tieihv ^itS^u^ 

 «K« u aviitt. ai'Tn^ h tm Ite^xi'} |£k(7«" S'lotKoJhiJi.iiiJ.ivx Ji auhwQ^ taa vmov -sfei^gss/i', iv th auriv f^iymrt KeiQvu 

 Xmjib. Herod. Eut. ^.127. 2 E^ot^ai' (Aprien) » t^<ti TraT^r^riiri TcKp'^itrf al Ji t^in Iv to 'i^a i A^iD'oinr. 

 Id. ibid. 5- ^69. E7tt?» (Amafis) h r^ai Ti^mi 7«fi h t5 /pa. Herod. Thai. 5io. Oi/.- ert, iH 



laP'it nu( i'jiyjix}ini/.iy)if . * iv tS via "^ ASw"*? Iv A«teioJ)i, laipQ' £??v hueuriis. " ji J^ Eei-)^LviQy j i-^i iv jS 

 Via <} UoKiaS'Q)' mniiJ^vpu ; Oe»). yf/fAT. Cohortat. adGentes. p. 39. 3 E;)^« <?' «i' S^.^ ^raf ■5r«>f tof 

 TjKujfav Ki^ov i^tufi^iuov apSei'T®' JV (n/'e/}-! ^' ffJtoAia fMj^ei -f Siiiwf . Strab. 1. I7. p.l I(Jl. 4 Vid. 

 Not. utfupra. j Plhiy indeed mentions the Well, (Vid.Not.(J. p-4i7-) but noother Place. 



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