Part I. 
Travels' into the Levant. 
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piece, but the reafonis becaufe the other half of them is built into the Wall 5, 
they are of the fame length as the other feven, all feven reaching a crofs the 
breadth of the Hall, with their ends refting upon the wails on each lide. 
At the end of that Hall there is an empty Tomb all of one ftone, that founds 
like a great Bell 5 it is three foot and an Inch wide, three foot and four Inches 
liigh, and feven foot two inches long : this ftone is very hard, looks like a kind 
of Porphyrie, and is very neat when polifhed, which makes many break off 
pieces of it to make Seals of ; but it requires a llrong Arm and good Ham- 
mer to knock off a bit. The Walls of the Hall are faced with ftones of the The Ecaury 
fame fort, though to fome they feem not fo fine ; but they arc the very of the waiis 
fame. "'^^'.f 
It is the common opinion of all, that this Tomb was made for the fame ^ 
Tharao, who by the permiffion of God, was Drowned in the Red-Sea, he and 
his whole Army, who were in purfuit of the Jews, at that time the chofen 
People of God. As to the doubt that many people make, whether this Tomb 
was placed there before the Pyramide was Built j I think it is not at all to be 
doubted, but that it was fet there before the Pyramide was finiihed; for though 
the entry be wide enough for the Tomb, yet the afcent that immediately 
fucceeds to the defcent, rauft have hindied the conveyance of ir. 
As to the Pit which I mentioned before, into which no man ever defcended 
for ought we knew, before the Month of September, 1652. That the Reverend 
father Elaear, a Capuchin, with fome others went down : finding what dan- 
ger there was in descending, I would not attempt it, thongh I had brought 
Ropes purpofely with me j efpecially fince I knew from the relation of Father 
Elz.ear that there was nothing Curious therein ; butaScotifh Gentleman with 
whom I was, faftened himfelf to Ropes, and having taken in his hand a little 
Wax-candle lighted, our Moors ht him down ^ and that was the lecond time 
that any had defcended into it. This Gentleman being come up again, gave 
me a relation wholly conform to that of Father ELz^ear j and fince that, I 
have got others to go down, who told me the fame things. As you go then 
from the firft paflage or Gallery we mentioned before on the right hand that 
is like a Door, you find this Well, which goes down in a perpendicular line, 
that neverthelefs crooks a little, and makes in a manner the figure of a Spit, 
or of a Hebrew Lamed ; fo that fixty feven foot down from the top, there 
is a fquare Window, that enters into a little Cave hallowed in the Hiil, which 
in that place is not a Rock, but like Gravel, or well compared peble- ftones, 
and this Grott or Cave reaches Eaft and Weft fifteen foot from thence, and A hole in th® 
eighty two in all, from the top or mouth thither -, there is a very fteep ihel- P't t'^^ 
ving and almoft perpendicular hole or defcent cut in the Rock, about two ^y'^^'""'^' 
foot and a third part of a foot wide, and two foot and a half high, reaching 
downwards an hundred twenty three foot, and then it is full of Sand, and 
the dung of Batts, which fo fwarm there, that the Scot told me he was , 
afraid he fhould have been ate up by them, and that he was forced to guard 
his Candle with both hands, left they fhould have put it out ; there are fome 
ftones in it alfo, which have been thrown down from the top, or have fal- 
len of themfelves, as it happened while my Scot was below ; for fetting a 
foot againft the Rock on each fide, as he was comeing up again, a Stone fell 
which had brained him,if it had fallen upon his Head, but it fell upon the 
Candle, put it out, and beat it down to the bottom. 
In all probability this Pit hath only been made to let down the Bodies 
which were laid in the Caves that arc under the Pyramide. When the Scotifh 
Gentleman was come up, I made a man hold a Candle at the top of the fécond 
paflage, and going down to the bottom near the ftreight turning, I looked up 
to the Candle, which was a pretty pleafant Objed, appearing then no big- 
ger than a little Star. At length when we weregot out of this Pyramile, 
we were made fenfible of an errour we had committed, for our Janiz.ary 
that had never been within before, entred with us, and by good luck going 
out again a little after with fome of our company, they efpied fix Arabs Arabs rob 
on Horfe-back, making up to the Pyramide, but he having prefented his t'^*^*^ f'^^t go 
Mufquet and our Men their Fowling-pieces at them, they went back as theyp ^^"^ ^^^f 
came: if they had come a moment fooner, they had taken all our Provifions, ^"^^'"^^'^ 
and 
