1/8 PYRAMIDS OF DJIZA. 
CHAP, niade to the Institute of Es^ypt, during the 
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_■ residence of the French at Cairo', is very just; 
that all preceding travellers have attended only 
to the principal objects, in their visits to the 
Pyramids. They have disregarded a number of 
other remains, less entire, and more diminutive, 
but calculated to throw considerable light upon 
the history of those antiquities which here 
occupy such a surprising extent. Strabo, whose 
observations were certainly made upon the 
spot, as will hereafter be proved, has given, in 
his account of Memphis, a description of the 
situation of the Serapeum, pointedly applicable 
to this position of it; indeed it seems almost 
identified by liis remark. He says it stood in a 
place so sandy, that hills of sand were heaped 
there by the winds; and mentions the remains 
of Sphinxes, as markmg the place where it 
stood ^ A writer of somewhat later date, the 
author of the Sibylline Verses, which are believed 
(l) " Rapport k I'lnstitut siir les recherches k faire dans I'enaplace- 
ment de I'ancienne Memphis, et dans toute I'etendue des ses sepul- 
tures." Foy. CourUr de I'Egypte, No. 104. p. 3. Au Kairc, de 
V Imprimerle Natlonale. 
xi^fiuv tru^iiiffta,, a-p Zi a', (T^plyyif k.t.X. " Est etiani Serapiuni, in 
loco valde arenoso, adeo ut aren;c colles a ventis exaggereiitur : ibi 
vidimus Sphinges," &c. Slrab. Geog. lib. xvii. ;;. 1145. Ed. O.vo7i, 
