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REMARKS, etc. 85
As to what concerns the works, on which the Israelites were employed in
Syptj I admit, that I have not been able to sind any ruins of bricks burnt in
the sire. There is indeed a wall of that kind, which is sunk very deep in the
ground, and is very long, near to the pyramids, and adjoining to the bridges os
the Saracens, that are situated in the plain; but it appears too modern, to think
that the bricks, os which it is sormed, were made by the Israelites. All that I
have seen eisewhere os brick building, is composed os the large kind os bricks,
hardened in the sun, such as thofe of the pyramid, os which I have been (peaking.
Page 13. Certain sepulchre, Being a quadrilateral pyramid . . . .....
Diodorus relates, that over the fepulchre there was a circle os gold\ os three
hundred and fxty-five cubits compafs, and a cubit in thicknefs, in which the
days of the year were infcribed, and divided into a cubit a-piece, with a des-
cription, according to their nature, os the setting and?'ifng os the fars, and
alfo their operations, after the' Egyptian afirohgers.
The sepulchre, that is here mentioned, and srom whence, according to Dio-
dorus Siculus, Cambyses carried away a circle os gold, is that of Osi-
^andyas. It is not in the pyramid, as Mr. Greaves conjectures, founded on
the text of St r abo ; but, according to all appearances, it is that, which fubfifls
at prefent quite intire at Lukkoreen, and amongft the ruins of ancient Thebes.
The walls of this fepulchre, and thofe of the temple, where it is placed, are
covered with figures, that reprefent the funeral proceflion, and the facrifices,
which were made at the death of this prince ; as the ruins of the palaces and of
their porticos contain the wars, and great exploits of the fame monarch. This
ls enough to prove that it is there, and not in the pyramid, that we mull place
his fepulchre. I have drawn the whole upon the fpot, and the reader may even [Thest desies
*ee> in my designs, the place where the circle of gold might have been fixed. %' Irigiwl!}
Page 23. Os the time in which the pyramids were built.
I pass over all conjectures, both ancient and modern; and consine myfels
only to two points, which perfuade me, that the time os the foundation of the
Pyramids is much more remote, than that to which they commonly fix it.
I. I n no pyramid whatever, do we find, either within, or without, any . •
nieroglyphical figure'. We know, however, that the Egyptians never omit-
ted them : all the other ruins are a convincing proof of it, and are covered
^th hieroglyphics, both without and within. There is reafon theresore, I think,
to conjecture, that the pyramids, even the most modern, were built before this
*°rt os writing had been invented. This being supposed, and that, in the time
Weft side, it being much broke away on the east to it is easy, as the bricks are crumbled away. As
*n& west sides, sor at the top it measured sorty three there is gravel and mells in the bricks, it is not
*eet by thirty sive ; it is an hundred and sifty seet probable that this is the pyramid built by that ex-
h'gh. By what I could judge srom the prefent lhape travagant king Asychis." Page 53.
y.% I concluded that it was built with five degrees, c In a pajsage I have already quoted from father Yak-
s^ the pyramid at Saccara, each being about sleb, he declares, " That he law upon some os the
len feet broad, and thirty deep ; so that the afcent pyramids fome hieroglyphic characters."
Z os
As to what concerns the works, on which the Israelites were employed in
Syptj I admit, that I have not been able to sind any ruins of bricks burnt in
the sire. There is indeed a wall of that kind, which is sunk very deep in the
ground, and is very long, near to the pyramids, and adjoining to the bridges os
the Saracens, that are situated in the plain; but it appears too modern, to think
that the bricks, os which it is sormed, were made by the Israelites. All that I
have seen eisewhere os brick building, is composed os the large kind os bricks,
hardened in the sun, such as thofe of the pyramid, os which I have been (peaking.
Page 13. Certain sepulchre, Being a quadrilateral pyramid . . . .....
Diodorus relates, that over the fepulchre there was a circle os gold\ os three
hundred and fxty-five cubits compafs, and a cubit in thicknefs, in which the
days of the year were infcribed, and divided into a cubit a-piece, with a des-
cription, according to their nature, os the setting and?'ifng os the fars, and
alfo their operations, after the' Egyptian afirohgers.
The sepulchre, that is here mentioned, and srom whence, according to Dio-
dorus Siculus, Cambyses carried away a circle os gold, is that of Osi-
^andyas. It is not in the pyramid, as Mr. Greaves conjectures, founded on
the text of St r abo ; but, according to all appearances, it is that, which fubfifls
at prefent quite intire at Lukkoreen, and amongft the ruins of ancient Thebes.
The walls of this fepulchre, and thofe of the temple, where it is placed, are
covered with figures, that reprefent the funeral proceflion, and the facrifices,
which were made at the death of this prince ; as the ruins of the palaces and of
their porticos contain the wars, and great exploits of the fame monarch. This
ls enough to prove that it is there, and not in the pyramid, that we mull place
his fepulchre. I have drawn the whole upon the fpot, and the reader may even [Thest desies
*ee> in my designs, the place where the circle of gold might have been fixed. %' Irigiwl!}
Page 23. Os the time in which the pyramids were built.
I pass over all conjectures, both ancient and modern; and consine myfels
only to two points, which perfuade me, that the time os the foundation of the
Pyramids is much more remote, than that to which they commonly fix it.
I. I n no pyramid whatever, do we find, either within, or without, any . •
nieroglyphical figure'. We know, however, that the Egyptians never omit-
ted them : all the other ruins are a convincing proof of it, and are covered
^th hieroglyphics, both without and within. There is reafon theresore, I think,
to conjecture, that the pyramids, even the most modern, were built before this
*°rt os writing had been invented. This being supposed, and that, in the time
Weft side, it being much broke away on the east to it is easy, as the bricks are crumbled away. As
*n& west sides, sor at the top it measured sorty three there is gravel and mells in the bricks, it is not
*eet by thirty sive ; it is an hundred and sifty seet probable that this is the pyramid built by that ex-
h'gh. By what I could judge srom the prefent lhape travagant king Asychis." Page 53.
y.% I concluded that it was built with five degrees, c In a pajsage I have already quoted from father Yak-
s^ the pyramid at Saccara, each being about sleb, he declares, " That he law upon some os the
len feet broad, and thirty deep ; so that the afcent pyramids fome hieroglyphic characters."
Z os