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scem as if rcady to tumble iii on the least nio- 

 tion, and it is not without awe that one pcr^ 

 ccives, on loóking up, a thousand heavy blocks 

 held by little visible force, just ready to fall 

 and crush and ovcrwhelm the curious visitor, 

 In its original state^ judging from the re- 

 mains, it appeafs to have formcd a re^ulaf 

 pyramid reversed to the very brow of z 

 single stone entirely plain. An opening near 

 the top admiis light from the East, but I am 

 not certain if it was originally so, and if it 

 wanted this light the funnel must have been 

 impenetrably dark — the whole of this cham* 

 ber of darkness was entirely plain and de- 

 void of ornament. — Nor could ï perceive any 

 Image or Sculpture within or without, though 

 itis probable that the outside coating was orna- 

 niented in its original state with some of those 

 chaste designs that we find in the rest. — I am 

 led to suppose this from the vast number of brokea 

 niouldings we found built up in the stone-walls of 

 the inclosure, on one of which I particularly ob- 

 served a part of the frequent running Arabesque 

 pattern ; the stones that formed the inside coating 

 were seldom more than one foot high and two 

 or three long ; vast numbers were not more than 

 a foot in Icngth ; but some large blocks were 

 visible in tbc heap on the floor^ though on the 



