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probable that fuch multitudes of ruins fhould have exifted as to 
raife other buildings on them. I am fatisfied, from the pofition 
of the one that remains entire, and the broken one near it, they 
never underwent a fecond arrangement, but remain in their re- 
lative pofition, as at the gate of fome public building. The 
obelifk is in a very low part of the city, (which indeed is all 
very low,) and very little above the level of the fea — how does 
this accord with the ruins of other buildings being yet found 
under it ? Perhaps in this part a firm foundation was not found 
very near the furface, and the builders have formed an artificial 
one. The French antiquary may have niiftaken this for the 
ruins of buildings, 
P. 59. My meafurement of the height of the pyramid was 
a few feet fiiort of this, but does not very materially differ from 
the one here given. 
P. 95. El Maraboot is a kind of fort, and the tomb of a 
faint, fituated on a high ground in the neighbourhood of the 
Gulf of the Arabs, a good view of which it commands. 
