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92 REMARKS ON M\ GREAVES'S
Page ibid. On the easi fide of this room, in the middle of it, there feems to have
been a pajfage leading to fome other place. Whether this way the priejls went
into the hollow of the Sphinx.
This forced and extremely narrow passage subsists slill at present, and ter-
minates in a kind of niche. It could never lead to the Sphinx, because it is in
the third part of the pyramid, above the horizon.
Pagei20. Venetian, a man very curious, who accompanied me thither, ima~
vined, that this fort of marble came from mount Si?ia.
A l l that I have seen, and touched, of granite marble, which they had be-
oun to cut at Essouaen, formerly Syene, does not permit me to believe that
they transported this marble from Mount Sina to the pyramids, by such dif-
ficult roads. They may have taken from that mountain some stones for the
edifices in its neighbourhood; but as for the granite, which they employed in
Ecrypt, I am satisfied it was taken in the place I have mentioned.
Page ibid. Which may alfo be confirmed by Bellonius's obfervations, who
defer ibing the rock, out of which, upon Moses''s fir iking it, there gujhed out
waters makes it to be fuch a fpeckled kind of Thebaic marble: Est une
prosse pierre, massive, droite, de meme grain et de la couleur, dont est la
pierre Thebasque.
There is shewn at Venice, in the church of St. Mark, a square piece of
marble that was brought from Mount Sina, and which they pretend to be the
very stone, that Moses struck. It is a granite, of so fine a grain, that it comes
very near to the porphyry. We find many of the like kind in Egypt \
Page 134. The ingenious reader will excufe my curiofity, if, before I conclude
my description of this pyramid, I pretermit not any thing within, of how* light
a confequence foever* This made me take notice of two inlets, or fpaces, in the
fouth and north fides of this chamber, jujl oppofite to one another ; that on the
north 'was in breadth feven hundred of a thoufand parts of the Englifij foot,
in depth four hundred of a thoufand parts, evenly cut, and rwining in a
ftr ait line fix feet, and farther, into the thicknefs of the wall; that on the
fouth is larger, and fomewhat round, not fo long as the former, and, by the
blackness within it, feems to have been a receptacle for the bwning of lamps.
They appear to me vent-holes, to give air to the chamber. The blackness
that they have is come since; and is the efFecl: of the smoak of torches, which
Dp Ttavton bishop of Clogher, in his Vin- posssession of one of these rocks in the church of St
tended discoveries by Dr. Shaw, and the prefetto of identical rocks multiplied, like relicks in the Romish
Egypt, of the identical rocks, that Moses struck. churches.
But by Mr. Norcen's account, they have been in
the
Page ibid. On the easi fide of this room, in the middle of it, there feems to have
been a pajfage leading to fome other place. Whether this way the priejls went
into the hollow of the Sphinx.
This forced and extremely narrow passage subsists slill at present, and ter-
minates in a kind of niche. It could never lead to the Sphinx, because it is in
the third part of the pyramid, above the horizon.
Pagei20. Venetian, a man very curious, who accompanied me thither, ima~
vined, that this fort of marble came from mount Si?ia.
A l l that I have seen, and touched, of granite marble, which they had be-
oun to cut at Essouaen, formerly Syene, does not permit me to believe that
they transported this marble from Mount Sina to the pyramids, by such dif-
ficult roads. They may have taken from that mountain some stones for the
edifices in its neighbourhood; but as for the granite, which they employed in
Ecrypt, I am satisfied it was taken in the place I have mentioned.
Page ibid. Which may alfo be confirmed by Bellonius's obfervations, who
defer ibing the rock, out of which, upon Moses''s fir iking it, there gujhed out
waters makes it to be fuch a fpeckled kind of Thebaic marble: Est une
prosse pierre, massive, droite, de meme grain et de la couleur, dont est la
pierre Thebasque.
There is shewn at Venice, in the church of St. Mark, a square piece of
marble that was brought from Mount Sina, and which they pretend to be the
very stone, that Moses struck. It is a granite, of so fine a grain, that it comes
very near to the porphyry. We find many of the like kind in Egypt \
Page 134. The ingenious reader will excufe my curiofity, if, before I conclude
my description of this pyramid, I pretermit not any thing within, of how* light
a confequence foever* This made me take notice of two inlets, or fpaces, in the
fouth and north fides of this chamber, jujl oppofite to one another ; that on the
north 'was in breadth feven hundred of a thoufand parts of the Englifij foot,
in depth four hundred of a thoufand parts, evenly cut, and rwining in a
ftr ait line fix feet, and farther, into the thicknefs of the wall; that on the
fouth is larger, and fomewhat round, not fo long as the former, and, by the
blackness within it, feems to have been a receptacle for the bwning of lamps.
They appear to me vent-holes, to give air to the chamber. The blackness
that they have is come since; and is the efFecl: of the smoak of torches, which
Dp Ttavton bishop of Clogher, in his Vin- posssession of one of these rocks in the church of St
tended discoveries by Dr. Shaw, and the prefetto of identical rocks multiplied, like relicks in the Romish
Egypt, of the identical rocks, that Moses struck. churches.
But by Mr. Norcen's account, they have been in
the