The lovely Osiria's legend of King Saurid--Stately Hebrew woman--Tradition of the construction of the larger pyramid--Its foundations--Its gates--Its covering of silk--Its treasure-chambers and magical guardians of stone and agate--Miriam, the papyrus-copier--Her striking resemblance to Prince Remeses--The pyramid penetrated by a Phœnician conqueror--Discovery of treasures--Mighty sarcophagus of the dead monarch of two worlds, Noah--Chamber of the precession of the equinoxes--Hall of the Universe--Pyramids built before the Deluge--Configuration of the seven planets as at the Creation--Astrology-- Enigma of the Phœnix--The riddle solved--Nelisa--Interview with the stately Miriam in the Hall of Books--pp. 277-293. LETTER XVIII. Tidings from Prince Remeses and the army--Antediluvian origin of the pyramids--The barbaric King of Ethiopia, Occhoris--His body-guard of Bellardines--His sacrilege in the temple of the sacred bull at Thebes--Pious vengeance of the people--Visit of Remeses to the tomb of his father--Remarkable conversation with Miriam, the papyrus-copier-- Description of Miriam--Ben Isaac and the lad Israel--Contempt of the Egyptians for Israel--Religious and political degradation of the Hebrews--Miriam declares the mystery of the God of her fathers--Her denunciation of idol-worship--Miriam's occupation--The winged asps--Interview with the Prince of Uz, Ra-Iub (Job)--Job speaks of the ALMIGHTY!--Seems inspired of God--Tradition of a Day's-man, or mediator--Job convinces Sesostris that there is but one God--pp. 294-313. LETTER XIX. Intelligence from Ethiopia--Remeses a conqueror--Great spoils--He enters Memphis in triumphal array--His filial piety--The captive Ethiopian king--Victorious army of one hundred thousand men in triumphal procession--The Prince of Egypt in his war-chariot--Column of twelve thousand Ethiopian captives--Description of the bands of captives, and their treatment--Invocation of the victors in the great temple of Pthah--Distinction between captives taken in war and the Hebrews--pp. 314-330. LETTER XX. Delightful climate--Indolence and leisure by day--Spirit of life and enjoyment reigns at night--Galley of a noble designedly runs down a small baris--Handsome Hebrew--Another startling resemblance to Prince Remeses!--The lad Israel again--Miriam, the papyrus-copier, the sister of the handsome Hebrew--What he saw, in boyhood, beside the Nile--His infant brother committed to the river--Subterranean chambers for casting images of the gods--The Hebrew gives an account of his people and his God--He mourns the oppression of his race--pp. 331-346. LETTER XXI.