THE PYRAMIDS. 
They are even more antient than the age of the 
earUest writers whose works have been trans- 
mitted to us. That we may arrive, therefore, 
at any thing hke satisfactory information con- 
cerning them, the followmg order of inquiry 
may be deemed requisite: 
Manner of j^ Who wcre the hihahitants of this part of 
the Inves- 
tigation. Egypt in the remote period to which these 
monuments refer? 
II. Is there any thing in the Pyramids, as they 
now appear, which corresponds with any 
of the known customs of this people ? 
jii. Did any thing occur in the history of the 
same people which can possibly be adduced 
to explain the present violated state of the 
principal pyramid? 
IV. Doth any record or tradition attribute the 
origin of the Pyramids to this people, or to 
a period equally remote with that of their 
residence in Egypt? 
If the three last of these queries admit of an 
answer in the affirmative, and a satisfactory re- 
ply can be given to thejirst, the result will surely 
be, either that we do possess documents suffi- 
cient to illustrate this very difficult subject, or, at 
least, that a very high degree of probabihty 
