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Race of Anceftors,, in a manner with as much fatisfaftion 
as if they were alive and converfant with them : Nay, as 
feveral Authors aflert, they placed them at Table like 
Guefts, and made merry with them, by Eating and Drink- 
ing 3 but he concludes, that fucb as Buried their Dead 
cut of their Houfes, in the Fields and Plains, built Sepul- 
chres for them, as noble as poffible their circumftances 
would admit, chufing rather to have their Monuments 
magnificently built, than their Dwelling Houfes 5 foraf- 
much as they defpifed the prefent Life, and took little 
care in building their Habitations, looking upon them but 
as fo many Inns and Baiting places, where they were to 
inhabit but for a Seafon % whereas the Glory of a future 
Life, that was to be procured by Virtue, they greatly 
efteemed, and confequently fpent their whole Care, Study 
and Riches about the magnificency ot their Sepulchres, 
which they called Sempiternal and Eternal Houfes, look- 
ing upon the time they are to dwell here on Earth, as no- 
thing, in refpedtof theftay they wercto make in the Grave. 
The third Letter is to Dr Harts^loaffCy Secretary to the 
Royal Society, and Fellow of the College of Phyficlans, 
London. 
Being a fuccinft account of thtPyramids^ Subterranean 
Vaults and Lamps of the Egyptians 5 for as in the fore- 
going Letter was fully (hewn the manner of EMhatmini 
Dead Bodies, in this the Sepulchres or Repofitories where- 
in they were laid, is chiefly confider d : Forafmuch as the 
Egyptians did not only content themfelveswith preferving 
their Dead from Putrefaftion, but likewife with equal 
care provided Conditories that might be lafting as the Bo- 
dy, and in which it might continue fecure, both from the 
Injuries ot Time and Pefons, becaufe they Religioufly be- 
lieved, that fo long as the Body endured, fo long would 
the Soul continue with if, not asa quickning or animating 
Spirit, but as an Attendant or Guardian, without going 
into any other Body, as otherwife they thought it would. 
