144 WONDERS OF EGYPT.

 

smaller than the one which I have de-
scribed, though they are all huge works
of art. Formerly there were a good
many paintings,.and a few pieces of
sculpture in these pyramids, some of
which were very beautiful. In some of
the pyramids, and I am not sure but in
all of them, the remains: of mummies
have been found. Fragments of figures,
too, as large as life, have been discov-
ered in some of them.

It is a curious fact, that in each one
of the whole forty pyramids there is a
well, from the bottom of which there is
a passage to an underground chamber.