"On each side of the centre of the steps is a mound of ruins, apparently of a circular tower. _About halfway up the steps_ [of the pyramidal base] on this side, is a pit [_i. e._ descent] five feet square and seventeen feet deep, cased with stone. At the bottom is an opening two feet four inches high, with a wall one foot nine inches thick, _which leads to a_ CHAMBER (!) _ten feet long, five feet eight inches wide, and four feet high_. _At each end is a niche_ one foot nine inches high, one foot eight inches deep, and two feet five inches long. Colonel Galindo first broke into this SEPULCHRAL VAULT ["chamber"] and found the niches and the ground full of red earthenware, dishes, and pottery, [Egyptian again] _more than fifty_ of which, he says, _were full of human bones_, packed in lime. Also several sharp-edged and pointed knives of chaya; _a small_ DEATH'S-HEAD _carved in fine green stone_, its eyes nearly closed, the lower features distorted, the back symmetrically perforated with holes, _the whole of exquisite workmanship_!" This last sentence brings us to a specimen of _Gem engraving_, the most ancient of all the antique works of Art. Not only is the death "Chamber" identical with that of Egypt, _but also the very way of reaching it_--viz., first, by _ascending_ the pyramidal base, and then _descending_, and so entering the Sepulchre! This could not be accidental,--the builders of that pyramidal Sepulchre must have had a _knowledge_ of Egypt. The foregone "self-denials" (so valued in man under other aspects), lose all their virtue when exerted to sustain fallacious premises. It might be thought that enough has been brought forward to refute his conclusions; but we desire to operate upon this subject, as Tobin says, "Like the skilful surgeon, who cuts _beyond_ the wound to make the cure complete." "Again," he writes, "columns [circular] are a distinguishing feature of Egyptian architecture. There is not a Temple on the Nile without them; and the reader will bear in mind, _that among the whole of these ruins_, NOT ONE COLUMN _has been found_! If this Architecture had been _derived from_ the Egyptians, so striking and important a feature would never have been thrown aside."