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firmly believing tKe Trmifmlgrdlion. To this end th re- 
fore they bt?ik their H/pogo'a and Pyramids, as lading 
Monuments to preferve ihem from the injuries of Time 
and Weather, for which reafon they chiefly made thera 
of a Pjramidd form^ the better to fecure them fronj 
Ruin. Oar Anthor Cbewji their Situation^ Number ani 
Founders, as likewife how many Men were employed in 
the building of them, together with a compleat Defcri- 
ption of the great Pyramid^ its Entrance^ firft and fccond 
Galleries, Anticlofecs and fpacious Chamber wherein Cheeps 
Tomb ftands. He likewife defcribes the fecond and third 
Pyramid^ with the Lodgings of the Priefts, and the moo- 
ftrous figure of the Sphinx reprefenting Momptha^ snd af- 
ter various Obfervations and Refleftions on thofe Stru- 
fi:ures, he proceeds to defcribe the Subterranean Caves 
near the Pyramids^ together With the Mummies both of 
Men and Birds therein contained ^ as alfo an Account of 
the Perpetual Lamps^ fuppofed to have burnt in the firft 
Pyramid and Subterranean Faults^ to what end rhey vvere 
invented, and of what matter compofed. He (hews how 
that they cfteem'd Fire the Emblem of the Soul and of 
Eternal Life, |and gives the Sacred Reafon why they infli- 
tuted the feaji of Lamps^ In a word, he has given 
us more light into this Arf^ which contains the Hi(tory of 
the firft Antiquities of the World, than any of thofe im- 
. perfeft Accounts of H^r<?^<?^//^ and Diodorns Siculus^ and 
has improved it in fbme things, and in others apply'd it 
to thofe Ufes that have hardly before been thought ol 
All which renders the whole Work more compkat thm 
any other Book wrote hitherto upon that fubjcct. 
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