THE SOUR€£ OF THE NILE, 41 



every body's hands. Engravings of them had been publifh- 

 ed in England, with plans of them upon a large fcale, two 

 years before I came into Egypt, and were fhewn me by Mr 

 Bavidfon conful of Nice, whofe drawings they were. 



He k was too that difcovered the fmall chamber above 

 the landing-place, after you afcend through the long gal- 

 lery of the great Pyramid on your left hand, and he left 

 the ladder by which he afcended, for the fatisfactron of 

 other travellers. But there is nothing in the chamber fur- 

 ther worthy of notice, than its having efcaped difcovery fo 

 -many ages, 



I think it more extraordinary Hill, that, for fuch a time 

 as thefe Pyramids have been known, travellers were con- 

 tent rather to follow the report of the ancients, than to 

 make ufe of their own eyes. 



Yet it has "been a conftant belief, that the Hones compo- 

 sing thefe Pyramids have been brought from the * Libyan 

 mountains, though any one who will take the pains to re- 

 move the fand on the-fouth fide, will find the folid rock 

 there hewn into fteps, 



And ki the roof of the large chamber, where the Sar- 

 cophagus Hands,, as alfo in the top of the roof of the gallery, 

 as you go up into that chamber, you fee large fragments 



Vol. I. F of 



* Herod, lib. 2, cap. 8, 



