and those 
vi' Dj'iza. 
PYRAMIDS OF SACCARA. 223 
village of Saccara. Some of them are rounded 
at the top, and, as it was observed by Pococke"^, 
" do not look like pyramids, but more like hil- bctweentite 
locks cased with stone/' One of these is gra- oSnccdm 
duated, like the principal pyramid o{ Dj'iza; but 
with this difference, that the gradations here 
are much larger, although the pyramid be 
smaller. It consists only of six tiers or ranges 
of stone ; the pyramid itself being an hundred 
and fifty feet in height \ The ranges or steps 
are twenty-five feet high, and eleven feet wide. 
The rest of these structures are so fully and 
accurately described by Poeoche, that little will 
be added here to his description of them. There 
is one, built also with steps, which he believed 
to be as large as the principal pyramid of Dj'iza. 
The works at Saccara, independently of the dif- 
ferent forms which characterize them, appear to 
be older than those of Dj'iza; the buildings 
being more decayed, and the stones crumbling, 
as if they were decomposed by longer exposure 
to the action of the atmosphere. Four miles to 
the south of Saccara stands a pyramid built of 
unburned bricks. This is in a very mouldering 
state. The bricks contain shells, gravel, and 
(2) Descr. of the East, vol. I. p. 50. 
(3) Ibid. 
