42a "T^hy Ileal and Mifcellaneous 



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 

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

 faf rMi ^^wn out of the natural Rock. It muft be left to futureTravellers 

 acommun]ca- to find out, wfiether thefe Holes ferved only to tranfmit a 



tto7i TDith the _ _ -^ _ 



Pyramids. Succeflion of frefh Air into the Body of the Sphinx, 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 Tyramids ; and not only fo^ 

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

 cut out into Crypto, narrow Paflages and Labyrinths, which 

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

 Priefts, the artful Contrivers of thefe Adyta, where their ini- 

 tiatory, as well as other myfterious Rites and Ceremonies, 

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



The cata- Thc Accounts that have been hitherto given us of the Mum- 



combs at . „ i • i i i y^ 



Sakara. Mtes, feem to be very imperfect ; 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 m pHmitive Sltuation in Them. There are ftill remaining, in 

 Is '^nfervecL fomc of thefe Vaults, a great Number of Urns, of baked Earth, 

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

 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 Apis, (as it may be prefumed to have been,) 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 were painted white, 

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

 1 was fhewed at the fame Time, a fmall Veflel, like a Sloop, 

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

 Oars. 



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