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8 inches high under a lintel, it turns by 6 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 

 2 feet 6 inches high into cell 4. 



Fourth Chamber. — This is oyer 13 feet long, 6 feet where widest 

 between north entrance and south passage, and 5 feet where highest- 

 On south side of heap of stones and eastern end are remains of bones 

 and a skull ; shell of skull crumbled when touched. The passage from 

 4th to 5th cell is scarcely 14 inches in diameter at the entrance, but 

 widens to 2 feet 6 inches by 2 feet high, and is 6 feet long. 



Fifth Chamber. — Length, 12 feet; breadth, 4 feet; height, 5 feet. 

 There are stones piled in east end ; saw no bones. The roof of west 

 end, which is not acute, is formed of rough gravel and stones. 



Sixth Chamber. — A passage 5 feet by 3 feet, and 3 feet high, runs 

 from west end of 4th cell to the 6th cell, which running north and 

 south is 13 feet by 6 feet, and 6 feet high. At south end are remains 

 of a skull and bones among some stones, and at north end are dry 

 stones piled up. The passage at west side runs north-west 14 feet by 

 1 foot 6 inches and 1 foot 8 inches high to an entry 9 feet long by 

 5 feet wide, and 3 feet 6 inches high to 7th cell. 



Seventh Chamber. — This cell runs east and west; is 13 feet by 

 5 feet, and 6 feet high, llemains of a skull and bones among stones 

 at west end ; stones piled up at east end passage at north side, 9 feet 

 long by 3 feet wide, and 3 feet high to 8th cell. 



Eighth Chamber. — This is the last cell; is 14 feet long, 5 feet wide, 

 and 6 feet high ; it seems the driest of them all. The roof at eastern 

 end appears to be partly fallen in. The air through these chambers is 

 more close than cold. 



Obseevations. 



All these chambers, with the exception of 1 and 2, are excavations, 

 and are more or less in the shape of inverted canoes or boats. How 

 the material was scooped out through the narrow passage is a mystery. 



The supposition for a concealed cell rests on the fact that at east 

 end of chamber 7 are upright flags or heavy stones. They do not 

 appear to have been placed from the inside of the chamber, but from 

 the opposite side ; hence a notion exists that there is a chamber behind 

 them. The same theory applies to chamber 3, where stones are piled 

 up at south end, but not with the same degree of plausibility as at 

 chamber 7. 



It is difficult to make an exhaustive Paper on the buildings I have 

 brought under your notice for many reasons : firstly, that next to 



