Reviarkable Form of one of the Fyraviids of Sacrira. 
CHAP. V. 
PYRAMIDS OF SACCARA. 
illustrious Travellers who have visited the Pyrdrnids-'^ 
Audience of the Vizier — Voyage to ^a.cc-dva.-^Noctttrnal 
Festivities of an Arab Village — Appearance of the 
Country to the South of Cairo— Indigofera — Situation 
of Memphis— Tumulus seen among the Pyramids — The 
most-antient Sepulchres not pyramidal — Village of 
SdiCcixdi— Difference between the Pyramids of Sacc^ra 
and those of Di'izsi — Descent into the Catacomls — Notion 
founded on a passage in Herodotus — Evidence for the 
Horizontal Position of the Bodies — Difficulty of ascer- 
taining the truth — Repository of Embalmed Birds — 
Cause of their Interment — Hieroglyphic Tablet — Ante- 
lope— -Antiquities found by the Arabs — Horses of tlie 
VOL. V. P Country 
