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PYRAMIDS OF SACCARA. 
CHAP, sepulchre than any of the Pyramids. It is a 
simple hemispherical mound. We saw after- 
wards others of the same kind. 
Tlic most 
antient 6;. 
]>ulclircs 
not pyra • 
inidal. 
Comparing these appeara;nces with that regula- 
larity of structure which characterizes the Pyra- 
mids of Djiza, and also with another style of 
architecture observable at Saccdra, where a 
transition may be discerned between one and 
the other, (the curved outline not having wholly 
disappeared, nor the rectilinear form prevailing 
altogether,) we may establish a rule for ascer- 
taining different degrees of antiquity throughout 
the whole series of these monuments. The 
most antient lie towards the south. Almost all 
the buildings of Saccdra, of whatever size or 
shape, whether hemispheroidal or pyramidal, 
seem to be older than those of Djiza: and, as 
we proceed in surveying them from the south 
towards the north, ending with the principal 
pyramid of Dj'iza, we pass from the primevej 
