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HOLY LAND, AND CYPRUS. 115
and three or four in breadth, joined without cement, yet
so closely united as not to admit the point of a penknife
in their interstices. They were in projecting layers from the
summit, the uppermost overhanging in succession those below
them, which retired with the angle of inclination of the sides
of the chamber. At the south side, even with the ground,
was another opening, leading to a second chamber, similar to
that I have described ; and, according to the account given
by Mr. Davison, in the memoirs relative to Turkey*, pub-
lished by Mr. Walpole, there is a third chamber. I was
prevented from further research, and hurried from my obser-
vations by hearing the report of a musquet at the mouth
of the shaft. My first sensations were of course not very
agreeable, as I imagined my servant had been attacked; but
I found, on ascending, that my alarm had been needless,
and that he had fired at a hyena, which, though wounded,
had made its escape.
From these pyramids I went to the village of Metrahenny,
and descended to Boolac on the 19th of July, when I again
became an inmate in Colonel Misset's house. I found that
the plague had raged in this part of Egypt with great
violence during mj' absence, which had obliged him to cut
* P. 359.
Q 2
and three or four in breadth, joined without cement, yet
so closely united as not to admit the point of a penknife
in their interstices. They were in projecting layers from the
summit, the uppermost overhanging in succession those below
them, which retired with the angle of inclination of the sides
of the chamber. At the south side, even with the ground,
was another opening, leading to a second chamber, similar to
that I have described ; and, according to the account given
by Mr. Davison, in the memoirs relative to Turkey*, pub-
lished by Mr. Walpole, there is a third chamber. I was
prevented from further research, and hurried from my obser-
vations by hearing the report of a musquet at the mouth
of the shaft. My first sensations were of course not very
agreeable, as I imagined my servant had been attacked; but
I found, on ascending, that my alarm had been needless,
and that he had fired at a hyena, which, though wounded,
had made its escape.
From these pyramids I went to the village of Metrahenny,
and descended to Boolac on the 19th of July, when I again
became an inmate in Colonel Misset's house. I found that
the plague had raged in this part of Egypt with great
violence during mj' absence, which had obliged him to cut
* P. 359.
Q 2