. It is singular also in having, upon itscentral axis and at the point upon which, at various heights, all itsgalleries converge, a sort of large well, a chamber about twentyfeet square and eighty feet high, in the pavement of which a hugeblock of granite cut into the shape of a cork or plug was so… … Fig. 131.—The pyramid of Illahoun, horizontal section in perspective; from the phn of Perrircr. the long passage which leads to the thirty chambers which havebeen counted beneath this pyramid has been found in theneighbouring sands (Fig. 134). Another point of difference : most of the pyramids are…
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