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to them afterwards; and it is probable that, in ^"f/** 
certain instances, the only clue to the interior was ^ » • ^ 
in the possession of the priests, or of the family 
to whom these sepulchres belonged. Hence may 
have oriofinated the Oriental tales of charms 
used in admission to subterraneous caves, and 
chambers of the dead'. 
The next we visited was particularly remark- 
able for its simplicity and beauty. The letters 
of an inscription in the front of it were rude, and 
barbarously engraven. A repetition of the words 
THE MOXUMEXT (jO y^V'^UAt'ov), iu tWO liuCS OUC 
above the other, without any other inscription, 
is also remarkable. Within, it had three 
receptacles for dead bodies, one on each side of 
the chamber. One of the pannels in front was 
open : the other never was intended to be so, 
the rock behind being plain and entire ^ Of all 
(2) There is something of this nature in Gray's translation of " The 
Deseent of Odin," from the IVorse tongue. 
*' Faring to the northern clime. 
Thrice he traced the Runic rhyme; 
Thrice pronounc'd, in accents dread. 
The thrilling verse that wakes the dead ; 
Till, from out the hollow ground. 
Slowly breath'd a sullen sound : 
' What call unknown, what charms presume, 
* I'o break the quiet of the tomb ." " 
(3) Its length, within, was five feet ten inches; and its breadth, 
five feet two inches. 
