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258 NorvdEn’s Travels into Egypt, Ge Author says he had ‘rather go twice this way than once the other. ’ Besides thost already described, there are others, called the pyramids of Dagfour. They are seen to the south of those of Memphis, and end near Meduun, where stands the most southern of them. Its greatest effect is when seen at a distance, for when you come up to it, you find it built of large bricks, baked in the sun, and therefore it is called by the Turks and Arabs, the false pyramid. It is conspicuous at a great distance, not being near the mountains, nor in the neighbourhood of the other pyramids, and is raised upon a better hill. The four sides are equal, sloping down in the form of a glacis’ in fortifications. It has three or four steps, or degrees, of which the lowest may be twenty feet in perpendicular height. This pyramid has never been opened, and the expence and difficulty of destroying it, will, probably, deter any one from the attempt. Of the rest of the pyramids of Dagfour, which are situate near ‘akarra, there are only two that deserve notice; one of them has been opened, but visited by few. “There are in all twenty of them. As the old Memphis stood near to this plain, Mr. Norden conjectures, that these pyramids were inclosed within at capital. ' At the end of this description of the pyramids, is a letter from’our. Author to the late Mr. Folkes, in which are some remarks upon Mr. Greaves’ account of the pyramids. He al lows the merit justly due to Mr. Greaves, and says he wrote his remarks, not to destroy that writer's observations, but as additions to them. When Mr. Greaves says, * all these py *tramids confit of stone,” it shows that he had not gone far enough into Upper Egypt, to see the pyramid of bricks, which is unquestionably the same that, according to Herodotus, was built by Cheops, and is situate within four leagues of Cairo. It is a mistake to imagine any one of the pyramids to be the Sepulchre of Olymandyas, from whence Cambyses took the golden circle. It is rather at Lukoreen, and still entire amidst the ruins of antient Thebes. “The walls of the sepulchre, and of the Temple where it stood, are covered with figures, which represent the funeral obsequies and sacrifices, celebrated on the death of that prince ; as the palace and porticos, the’ in ruins, contain his battles and great actions. Mr.Norden took de signs of them on the pot, and has then where the golden circle might have been placed. But these designs are ‘not in this volume. He proves, the great antiquity of the pyramids by these two arguments. 1. That they were built before the use of hieroglyphics, for none are to be found on them either within or without... And if what Vanileb says is true, tha’ we cannot
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