536 WONDERS OF ART. I' 
an opening tlirough ; so that the zeal of sujtet*'' ' j ll^ 
here been opposed to the eagerness of at'aricej li' 
latter has prevailed. After mining through fr;. 
of solid granite, a door three feet three inches 
been discovered, which is the entrance to the 
chamber. This is a long square, sixteen feet by J 
and eighteen in height. The door is in the angl^ 
gallery, corresponding to the door of the queen I 
below. When it is said that the tomb is a single- . 
granite, half polished, and without cement, 
remarkable in this strange monument, which exbj ,, ■ 
rigid simplicity in the midst of the utmost magn> 
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human power, will have been described. The 
part is an attempt at a search at one of the angle*; 
small holes nearly round and breast high. Sucl) ^(' 
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terior ot this immense edifice, in which the 
woi 
hand of man appears to rival the gigantic forms ot 
To the above account by the accurate Denon, 
the following pleasing one by the celebrated Docd’ 
The impression made by these monuments, whei' ' 
a distance, can never, he observes, be obliterate^ ^ 
mind. 
“ By reflecting the sun's rays, they appeared 
snow, and of such surprising magnitude, that '’f’pitf’j- 
had previously conceived in our imagination h* ||y 
us for the spectacle we beheld. The sight in*tJ’‘|..,,<’.i1j 
vinced us that no power of description, no 
can convey ideas adequate to the effect produced j. 
The formality of { 
these stupendous monuments, me loim.un/ — -(ii. 
ture is lost in their prodigious magnitude: the 
vated by wonder, feels at once the force of an ax'9' 
however disputed, experience confirms, — ihat^” ^ 
whatsoever be its nature, there dwells sublimity • jc-tV 
“ Having arrived at the bottom of a sandy 
up to the priuciptil pyramid, a band of 
who had assembled to receive ns upon our 
much amused by the eagerness excited in our 
to prove who should first set his foot upon the suit 
artificial mountain. As we drew near its 
of Its prodigious magnitude, and the amazemO 
viewing the enormous masses used in its construe ^ 
ed every oue of us j but it was an impression u 
