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sources that are not liable to the objections 
urged by Pauw, being wholly independent of 
any notions which he supposes the Greeks to 
have blended with their accounts of the Pyra- 
mids, the following conclusions may perhaps 
appear to be warranted: 
1. That the Hebrews inhabited Egypt in the 
period to which the Pyramids may be 
referred. 
2. That the Pyramids contain an existing 
document corresponding with the mode of 
interment practised by this people, and 
were therefore intended as sepulchres. 
3. That the present state of the principal 
Pyramid may possibly be owing to the 
circumstance related in their history, of 
the removal of Joseplis relics from the 
Soros in which they had been preserved. 
4. That from the records of Jezvish and Egyp- 
tian historians, as well as from the tradi- 
tions of the country, we may attribute the 
origin of some of the Pyramids to the 
Hebrews themselves ; and may assign to 
others a period even more remote than 
the age in which this people inhabited 
Egypt. 
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