GYPTIAN PYRAMIDS. 
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J\ie neatly brougiit together, has the form of 
teaily equilateral ; but contains neither ornament, 
it 1.!^ fot' tbe smallest trace of a sarcophagus. Whe- 
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■^'*ca^^ '"tended to contain a body, is uncertain; but, 
the iiyramid must have been built with a view 
^U(;u’"nS two bodies, and would not therelorc ha\e 
'lip tti once. If the second tomb was really tiiat 
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Csallc- Itlofk® of granite at the end of the 
,iittefjl’’ roust have been finally reserved to close all 
. ‘llgj chambers of the pyramid. 
again .from the queen’s chamber to the land- 
nscend a few feet, and immediately find 
.t'llif.f .o'e bottom of a large and magnificent stair-case, 
l^li, plane, one liundi;ed and eighty feet in 
n direction upwaid, .and still bearing towards 
i*^'icli edifice. It is six feet six inches in breadth, 
■ 'sih -ftc to be included two parapets, each nineteen in- 
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pierced every tliree feet six inches, 
I'olcs twenty- two inches by three. The sarco- 
have ascended this passage, and the series of 
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e'Hn’ 1" raising so heavy a mass as die 
e been intended to receive a machine of some 
sarco^ 
\ri'^’iie^ M '•^‘^1’ ““ "soft. 
lor*'*^^ walls of tills ascending gallery rise perpendi- 
'%^'''*s.sii, feet, and then form a sloping roof of 
high pitch, not by a regular angle, but by 
1^1. projections, each of them six feet in 
**'§ above the other, and approaching nearer to 
\ Cqjj°l“^hig projection on the opposite side, till the 
y *hu-t in.' The height of this singularly -con- 
•!■ -eor e.stimated at sixty tect from the part 
lli'^ beneath. '1 he ascent of the stair- 
' 5 .**''^*^ hy pretty regular but modern footings cut 
i|«, 'liirM. . ' and at the top is a small platform, in which 
of graiiit 
resembling an immense chest. 
soild building, and hollowed out so as to 
Ntj* .''f t^^ projections and rctiriiigs, into which are lei 
sanie material, with corre.spewiing grooves 
intended for ever to conceal and protect 
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h ^ ro ihe pi'incipa! chamber which is behind 
'fiis required immense labour to eon- 
"■ of the ediliee, and not less to h;ive brokeu 
