EOTPtlAir PYRAMIDS. 
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upon a sort of platform before 
^ '■‘^'7 considerable 
behind them. 
l^flasTin^ tp!i® ’ behind them. 
i^S of r, ® testimony of their curiositi' and zeal The 
>ii ^ our army n Etrvnt ont , 
,VC; CnX^;s.S.SlV7. “ £ ifz 
submitted 
„ y which has long been an object among literary 
\ ^avi[, 
vV*nutnberof t, ,i"f "'‘otior, and 
the 1 ^* ^ tapers, we all descended into the dark 
The impression ma^L upt 
Of p„ ‘ -ine impression made upon 
\vS Wh^’j ‘be entrance, was this : that no 
V,^t'tie r, could thus have opened a passasre bv 
‘b® PJ^'-'-^uud whL thee?- 
'Vnere me en- 
WifU •. ‘ unless they had been previously 
posh;?* ; “ud for these reasons : First, 
‘ beino- ■; ; ujceciureor one ot its planes, 
4dsI % -a ‘bat not a trace 
k'W sea?if fiP‘‘^” have been the 
^ * <k' X^L‘ >TT “ i -cl. » 
i.aiiH - the UK "‘T‘'pro me interior J such as now 
’Sti>’i'*'bich "P°“ ‘be smaller 
'}y ‘he “‘ ompted to open. The persons who 
' me vyn-K . t- u^cu. ine persons who 
all iTs opened the pyramid in the only 
V??''’’*’ ioclin where, from the appearance 
■\|| °'ber above the mouth of the 
i'tt^'^ended**'”? mterioi seems to have been 
; '.H “ crea::®“.- ?o mm " ■ 
* '’■editin' marvellously concealed as this was. 
an Iranian writer, 
Vi? ^bisL£ Wonders of Egypt, attributed the 
i^'^^^dino- !u b% years since ? ^ 
lino- .1 , ^ " ”'uce .' 
abou7? b® compared 
S6^... ut a yaid wide, we presently arrived at a 
SrnJnite : this sppmc tn _ 1 t 
AriTiuss V wiae, we pre 
i‘v: '0 ch^lF"’'?.' ‘0 have been placed 
b7^,s, ta- 
irth7“. bvTu*'i hut a way has been 
sir.,.' *‘®b 'Ye were enabled to ascend into a 
Vtaube P'og, in a contrary direction, towards the 
'(^tai * of „L _ Having ascended along this channel, to 
hnnHfP/l »irA^ r. , 
y ' of Q ‘uiving ascended along this channel, to 
'‘til Passawp ^ ib‘u?ured ‘®u feet, we came to a 
* 'Pt^in to a chamber with an angular 
of the pyramid. ’’ ' ' 
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In this passage we 
