HIEROGLYPHICS. 



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The interior of the building is divided into two corri- 

 dors, running lengthwise, with a ceiling rising nearly to 

 a point, as in the palace, and paved with large square 

 stones. The front corridor is seven feet wide. The 

 separating wall is very massive, and has three doors, 

 a large one in the centre, and a smaller one on each 

 side. In this corridor, on each side of the principal 

 door, is a large tablet of hieroglyphics, each thirteen 

 feet long and eight feet high, and each divided into two 

 hundred and forty squares of characters or symbols. 

 Both are set in the wall so as to project three or four 

 inches. In one place a hole had been made in the 

 wall close to the side of one of them, apparently for 

 the purpose of attempting its removal, by which we 

 discovered that the stone is about a foot thick. The 



