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fore the chamber, some slones, with which the way is embarrasfed; but you gee
°ver that difficulty, although with a little trouble.
All the inside of the chamber is, in like manner, covered with stones; and
whoever would undertake to examine the way, through which they have drawn
them, would expose himself to the same ceremony that is practised in palling from
the first gallery to the second; for it is a forced passage, narrow, and little fre-
quented. There are but very few that have the curiosity to enter into it, as it
Js known that the way does not reach far, and that there is nothing to see in it
out a niche.
When you have visited the lower chamber, you return back again, along
the horizontal pasiage, to get to the resting place, which deprives the fourth
gallery of its acute angle, by which it joined the second gallery, and obliges you
to ascend upwards, by fattening your feet in some notches, made on each side of
the wall. It is by this means that you arrive at the fourth gallery, that goes
With an ascent. You advance on with crouching. For though it is twenty-
two feet in height, and has a raised way on each side, it is, however, so steep
andso slippery, that if you happen to fail of the holes, made for facilitating the
ascent, you Aide backwards, and return, in spite of yourself, quite to the rest-
ing place.
These difficulties surmounted, you repose yourself a little at the end of the
gallery, where you meet with a little platform. You must afterwards begin
again to climb. But as you presently find a new opening, where you can keep
yourself erect, you soon forget that trouble, by contemplating a sort of a little
r°om, which at first is no more than a palm's breadth larger than the galleries,
°ut it enlarges itself afterwards on both sides; and at length, by stooping yourself
for the last time, you pass the remainder of the fifth gallery, which leads, in
an horizontal line, to the upper saloon, of which I have before given the de-
scription.
When you are in this saloon, you commonly make some discharges of a pi£
tolj to give yourself the pleasure of hearing a noise> that resembles thunder j
and as there is then no hope of discovering more than what others have already
reniarked, you resume the way by which you came, and return in the same man-
ner, as well as with the same difficulty, chiessy on account of the quantity of
stones and sand that embarrass the entrance.
As soon as you are got out of the pyramid, you dress yourself; wrap your-
felf up well; and drink a good glass sull of strong liquor ; which preserves you
fr°m the pleurisy, that the sudden change from an extremely hot air to a more
temperate, might occasion. Afterwards, when you have regained your natural
fteat, you mount up to the top of the pyramid, in order to have a prospect from
thence of the country round about, which is charming to behold. You there
perceive, as well as at the entrance, and in the chambers, the names of abund-
ance of persons, that have visited, at different times, this pyramid, and who were
siling to transmit to posterity the memory of their travels.
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fore the chamber, some slones, with which the way is embarrasfed; but you gee
°ver that difficulty, although with a little trouble.
All the inside of the chamber is, in like manner, covered with stones; and
whoever would undertake to examine the way, through which they have drawn
them, would expose himself to the same ceremony that is practised in palling from
the first gallery to the second; for it is a forced passage, narrow, and little fre-
quented. There are but very few that have the curiosity to enter into it, as it
Js known that the way does not reach far, and that there is nothing to see in it
out a niche.
When you have visited the lower chamber, you return back again, along
the horizontal pasiage, to get to the resting place, which deprives the fourth
gallery of its acute angle, by which it joined the second gallery, and obliges you
to ascend upwards, by fattening your feet in some notches, made on each side of
the wall. It is by this means that you arrive at the fourth gallery, that goes
With an ascent. You advance on with crouching. For though it is twenty-
two feet in height, and has a raised way on each side, it is, however, so steep
andso slippery, that if you happen to fail of the holes, made for facilitating the
ascent, you Aide backwards, and return, in spite of yourself, quite to the rest-
ing place.
These difficulties surmounted, you repose yourself a little at the end of the
gallery, where you meet with a little platform. You must afterwards begin
again to climb. But as you presently find a new opening, where you can keep
yourself erect, you soon forget that trouble, by contemplating a sort of a little
r°om, which at first is no more than a palm's breadth larger than the galleries,
°ut it enlarges itself afterwards on both sides; and at length, by stooping yourself
for the last time, you pass the remainder of the fifth gallery, which leads, in
an horizontal line, to the upper saloon, of which I have before given the de-
scription.
When you are in this saloon, you commonly make some discharges of a pi£
tolj to give yourself the pleasure of hearing a noise> that resembles thunder j
and as there is then no hope of discovering more than what others have already
reniarked, you resume the way by which you came, and return in the same man-
ner, as well as with the same difficulty, chiessy on account of the quantity of
stones and sand that embarrass the entrance.
As soon as you are got out of the pyramid, you dress yourself; wrap your-
felf up well; and drink a good glass sull of strong liquor ; which preserves you
fr°m the pleurisy, that the sudden change from an extremely hot air to a more
temperate, might occasion. Afterwards, when you have regained your natural
fteat, you mount up to the top of the pyramid, in order to have a prospect from
thence of the country round about, which is charming to behold. You there
perceive, as well as at the entrance, and in the chambers, the names of abund-
ance of persons, that have visited, at different times, this pyramid, and who were
siling to transmit to posterity the memory of their travels.
As ter