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chimney, running from the bottom almost to the top, with holes cut
out on both sides to put in one's feet as we ascend. Having got
to a considerable height, we found a pretty little chamber adorned
with marble, with a tomb at the further end, said to be for Pha-
raoh, where he designed to be buried, had he not left his carcass
in the Red Sea, pursuing the children of Israel. Near this was
another very similar to it; but finding nothing more worthy of
notice, we returned by the way we came. The other two Pyra-
mids are much less, have no opening, and are of no great note."
QUATREMERE (1701),
In his translation of Makrisi, mentions an English traveller,
Veryard, who had been in Egypt, and in other parts of the East,
towards the close of the seventeenth century, who, speaking of
his residence at Suez, says:—"From hence (Suez) we made
an excursion of about five leagues into the isthmus to see a
Pyramid, which may contend with the greatest of those near
Cairo in all its dimensions. It has likewise steps on one side, by
Which we ascended to the top, where we found an obelisk of about
four feet square at the base, eighteen feet high, and inscribed
With hieroglyphics. It seems to be one entire stone; but how
they could get any thing of that kind to such a prodigious height,
I cannot easily conceive ; for I am apt to think that it passes the
skill of our modern architects to do the like. From the bottom
of the Pyramid, we passed, through a narrow entry, into a large
vaulted room, in which we saw three tombs, rising about four feet
from the ground, two of which were covered with hieroglyphics.
From hence we ascended, by twenty-three steps, into another room,
arched like the former, but somewhat less, in which we observed
six niches in the walls, and a stone in the middle, which is
thought to have contained a statue, the fragments of which lie
still scattered up and down the room. This is a considerable
P't-'ce of antiquity, and was probably the sepulchre of some great
man, though all antient and modern history is silent on the
"latter."*
11. Quatremere remarks, that tliis narrative is very extraordinary—that it is
difficult to imagine that an author who, in other respects, has given a true and
rational account, would invent a story which could be so easily detected, and from
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chimney, running from the bottom almost to the top, with holes cut
out on both sides to put in one's feet as we ascend. Having got
to a considerable height, we found a pretty little chamber adorned
with marble, with a tomb at the further end, said to be for Pha-
raoh, where he designed to be buried, had he not left his carcass
in the Red Sea, pursuing the children of Israel. Near this was
another very similar to it; but finding nothing more worthy of
notice, we returned by the way we came. The other two Pyra-
mids are much less, have no opening, and are of no great note."
QUATREMERE (1701),
In his translation of Makrisi, mentions an English traveller,
Veryard, who had been in Egypt, and in other parts of the East,
towards the close of the seventeenth century, who, speaking of
his residence at Suez, says:—"From hence (Suez) we made
an excursion of about five leagues into the isthmus to see a
Pyramid, which may contend with the greatest of those near
Cairo in all its dimensions. It has likewise steps on one side, by
Which we ascended to the top, where we found an obelisk of about
four feet square at the base, eighteen feet high, and inscribed
With hieroglyphics. It seems to be one entire stone; but how
they could get any thing of that kind to such a prodigious height,
I cannot easily conceive ; for I am apt to think that it passes the
skill of our modern architects to do the like. From the bottom
of the Pyramid, we passed, through a narrow entry, into a large
vaulted room, in which we saw three tombs, rising about four feet
from the ground, two of which were covered with hieroglyphics.
From hence we ascended, by twenty-three steps, into another room,
arched like the former, but somewhat less, in which we observed
six niches in the walls, and a stone in the middle, which is
thought to have contained a statue, the fragments of which lie
still scattered up and down the room. This is a considerable
P't-'ce of antiquity, and was probably the sepulchre of some great
man, though all antient and modern history is silent on the
"latter."*
11. Quatremere remarks, that tliis narrative is very extraordinary—that it is
difficult to imagine that an author who, in other respects, has given a true and
rational account, would invent a story which could be so easily detected, and from