THE PYRAMIDS. 



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THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT. 



LETTER FROM MR. DAVISON TO PROFESSOR WHITE. 



Sir, 



I am very much obliged to you for your polite letter of the 4th 

 of last month, and am truly ashamed of not having told you so 

 sooner. To say I have not written a single line to any of my 

 correspondents since it came to hand, though true, is but a lame 

 excuse for deferring my acknowledgments so late. As I certainly 

 might have found time to answer your letter, there remains nothing 

 for me now but to ask your pardon, which I do very sincerely. 



I have little doubt of your success in a translation of Abdallatif, 

 of its doing credit to you, and affording amusement and information 

 to the public ; but I cannot flatter myself that any remarks of mine 

 respecting the pyramids, particularly as I have left the greatest part 

 of my papers at Nice, would add value to it ; though, without doubt, 

 every discovery in monuments so remarkable, which have been, and 

 are likely to continue the wonder of ages, will be deemed of con- 

 sequence by the curious in antiquities. I am now in such a dis- 

 agreeable state of suspense, attendance, and hurry, as not to be able 

 to sit down seriously to any thing; but had I even leisure, yet 

 having left the greatest part of my papers in Italy, I could not 

 give you so full an account as I could wish of the discovery I made 

 of an entresol above the large room, and of the continuation of the 

 first passage which both leads into the pyramid, and a considerable 

 way into the rock below it. If I can possibly find time before I 

 am sent abroad, and materials enough with me to draw up a short 

 general account to my liking, you may depend on having it ; for 

 I am to the full as desirous as you can be of having mention made of 

 the above circumstances in your edition of Abdallatif. 



