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to relate, that it is now no longer entire. The chap. 
IV 
soldiers and sailors of our army and navy ^ ' . 
having had frequent access to the interior of the t?onTf 'iiie 
pyramid, carried with them sledge-hammers, to '^'''"'*' ^*" 
rJ' ... tempted. 
break off pieces, as curiosities to be conveyed 
to England; and began, alas! the havoc of its 
demolition*. Had it not been for the classical 
taste, and the laudable interference, of Colonel 
now General Stewart, then commanding-officer 
in that district, who threatened to make an 
example of any individual, whether officer or 
private, who should disgrace his country by 
thus waging hostility against History and the 
Arts, not a particle of the Soros would have re- 
mained. Yet, as a proof of the difficulty which 
attended this worse than Scythian ravage, the 
persons who thus left behind them a sad memo- 
riail of the British name, had only succeeded in 
accomplishing a fracture near one of the angles. 
It >vas thus disfigured when we arrived ; and 
every traveller of taste will join in reprobating 
any future attempt to increase the injury it has 
so lamentably sustained. 
(9) During the same week in which this Chapter was printing, 
little pieces of granite were shewn to the author, as " Ills of King 
PharaolC To7nb," which were taken fioni this sepulchre. 
