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and twenty feet in lengti, and mount-
ing a short space by means of holes
cut on the sides, I entered the king’s
chamber, which is about thirty-seven
feet long, seventeen feet wide, and
twenty feet high. The walls of the
chamber are of red granite, highly
polished, each stone reaching from the
floor to the ceiling. The ceiling is
formed of nine large slabs of polished
granite, reaching from wall to wall. At
one end of the chamber, stands a sar-
cophagus, or stone coffin, also of red
granite.”

Some of the pyramids are much
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