[Footnote 275: In vol. i. p. 365, this "raised ornament" is described as "a very curious, and, for the Pyramid, perfectly unique adornment, of a semicircular form, raised about one inch above the general surface, and bevelled off on either side and above," etc.] [Footnote 276: The whole sentence runs thus, and is punctuated thus:--"It may be remarked that the Arabian authors have given the same accounts of the pyramids with little or no variation, for above a thousand years; and that they appear to have repeated the traditions of the ancient Egyptians, mixed up with fabulous stories and incidents, certainly not of Mahometan invention." Vol. iii. p. 328.] END OF VOL. I. _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh._ End of Project Gutenberg's Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1, by James Y. Simpson