DESCRIPTIONS OF EGYPT. 
singular people reared these amazing structures 
solely in honour of the brutal objects of their 
worship. It is suggested, indeed, that the mo^ 
narchs may have merely chosen to sanctify their 
own remains, by mingling them with those of the 
bestial divinities, to whom Egypt paid its adora- 
tion. This would seem to be confirmed, should 
human bones also be found within the sacred 
circuit ; a point which will doubtless be the ob- 
ject of careful investigation. 
