GENERAL STATEMENT OF CONTENTS. 
pyramidal — Village of Saccara — Difference between the 
Pyramids of Saccara and those of Dji'za — Descent into the 
Catacomls — Notion founded on a Passage in Herodotus — 
Evidence for the Horizontal Position of the Bodies — Dif- 
ficulty of ascertaining the truth — Repository of Emlalmed 
Birds — Cause of their Interment — Hieroglyphic Tablet — 
Antelope — Antiquities found by the Arabs — Horses of the 
Country — Theft detected — History of the Pyramids — Man- 
ner of the Investigation — Age of those Structures — their 
Sepulchral Origin — Possible Cause of the Violation of the 
principal Pyramid — Historical Evidence concerning the 
building of Pyramids in Egypt — Further views of the 
subject— Hermetic Steles — Mexican Pyramids. 
CHAP. VI. 
p. 271. 
GRAND CAIRO TO ROSETTA. 
Monastery of the Propagandists — Marriage Procession — Visit 
to the Reis EfFendi — First Intelligence concerning ^^e Alex- 
andrian Soros — Preparation for Departure — Arrival of 
the Covering for the Caaba at Mecca — Escape of Four 
Ladies — Passage down the Nile — Chemical Analysis of the 
IVater and Mud of the River — Remains of tlw City of 
Sais — Anli(/uities — Bronze Relics — Aratriform Sceptre of 
the Priests and Kings of Egypt — Hieroglyphic Tablet — 
Enumeration of the Archetypes — Curious Torso of an 
antient Statue — Triple Hierogram with the Symbol of the 
Cross — its meaning explained — MahMet Abouaii — Berinbal 
— Ovens for hatching Chickens — Tombs at Massora Shi- 
brecki — Birds — ylrrival at Rosetla — Mr. Hammer sails 
for England — State of Rosstta at this season of the 
year. 
