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London, England, 1801-04-16 00:00:00

THE PYRAMIDS OP EGYPT.

The following conjeetures, refpeding the origin
of there Itupendous works, are from a French paper:
" It is certain that the Obelifics and the Pyra-
mids were efpecially confecrated to the fua ; fire.
being confidered as an emanation from that lumi-
nary, which diiiributes heat and light; theft monu-
ments Aimed the form of flame arifing from fire.
The pyr.unid then was the type of the triangle of
fire. From thii idea, it appears, that it is without'
any folid re.ifitn, that the artift who has placed in

the hall of the mat um of natural binary the re-
hero of the Lybian rock has entitled the grand
Pyramid of Egypt the Tomb of Cheops.
44 This Pyramid, it is true, is a tomb and an
altar befides ; but it is not to be premed that
fuck a mars of granite Ihould have bee* defined
for the body of one man. We do not fee the eanfe,
or rather the privilege, that fisonld have confecra-
ted this enormous Colofus to Cheops, in prefer-
ence to other Kings, who were more diftinguillsed
than he was, and particularly in a country, and
at an epoch, in which Kinds bowed before the
prieft ,s who were the real Sovetheigns of Egypt.
14, f any perfon among mortals could have pre-
tended to cover his fad relics with fuels a monu-
ment, the Supreme Pontiffs had more right than
any one. The Priefthood will not have difdained
thee means of rendering itfclf mere venerable, by
giving a (snaky to the wrecks of its prielis by thee
invincible mafes, the rivals of eternity.—But it
never entered into their imagination : and how-
ever we may lay much firels upon the pride of the
clafs, we muff releafe the Egyptian Priefts, who
were as learned afirmomifts as they were ambi-
tious I.egiflators, from the accufation.
1, There was ken at Megara in the time of Pau-
fanias, a pyramid perfealy refemhling that of
Egypt ; but lefs folid in its conftruetion, it has
yielded to the ravages of time, and the rapacity of
barbaritin. It was the Apollo-Carinus, or the Sun
of Spring, which was reprefented under this trian-
gular figure. Similar periods were at Edeffa, Ba-
bylon, in Chaldea, all in honour of the Sun.

The Apollo of the Creeks was the Egyptian
Ofiris, or Sun Cod ; who, on his annual circuit,
affumed the fuceeflive forms of youth, manhood,
decrepitude, with the attributes of force or bent.
volencc, under the names of Oreis, Apollo, Ofiris,
Hercules, Scrapis, &c. The pyramid of Egypt, in
that quality, was confecrated to the good Ofiris,
fertilizing nature, and making the urns of the Nile
overflow.

" The learned men of the Delta, according to
the allegorical genius of thole ancient times, had
compofed the hidary of Ofiris, or of the Sun cir-
culating progrefs on the Zone ; they made him be
born, live, inireafe, and die like a perfon in a ro-
mance. His cradle, his trophies, and his fepulchre
were (hewn ; thus the Pcrilans and Cretans proved
by fuch monuments the abode A Jupiter and Mithra
among them. The grand pyramid then was the
Maufoleum of the famous Ofiris killed by Typhon;
that is to fay, of the Sun driven away by Winter,
and defcending to the Lowell hemifphere.
" The fpirit of religion was alone capable,
among the mat fuperflitious people of the world,
of completing the. pyramid. It would have been,
in fa h% very ridiculous to found fuch a mils for the
purpofe of containing the infignificant remains of
an unknown Cheops, who, if he had been a tyrant,
would hardly have obtained, from the fcrerity of
the laws, a (mall grave.
The number of workmen employed in the co.
loifal ftru&ure was 36,000, or as many thoufand
individuals as there are days in the year, without
the complementary day; for the deeadory year of
ranee is the fame as that of the Egyptians.
" But what is molt wonderful is, that the Sun,
in its afcent towards the fuperior figns, came at
noon precifely, in the environs of the equinoxes,
to repofe, if we may ufe the wc.rd, on that int-
mcnfc cope ; the pyramid then (hone with light,
and no trace of ihadow projeaed on its fides.—
The pyramid then was a real altar, crated to the
Dit ism. in his power and his triumphs in the days
of November ; and according to the fine obferva-
tion of Menus, a paella: given to the image of
the Sun, the bolded idea that ever entered the
head of man. This is the moll rational motive
that can be given for the couttniElion of this great
monument."

The Rev. T. HILLYARN of Olney, Bucks, m a
letter of the 6th intla:tt, to Mr. Plating, of Lei-
celler.fquare, the Patentee and Proprietor of the
Metallic Trt&ors, has Itateil the following ;comfit-
aMe Cure of Rhenm::tifri by thole Inbroments
Etta Hillyard, a child of Ocoer, was violently [deed with
the Rheutnatilto, whezh 1.4;s Ass the ufe of her limbs, fo that
the could mob.. by the arfulan. e of crutches only, for two years.
.1 great variety of rcint.ll • wers tried: ansoag ethers, a long
courfe of Ekdri.ity ; after with &e was three months in the
Northampton Infirmary, for medical aid, but all without the
lead bent ht. In thisbopeleiattate your MttallicTra.llors were
reeasum Ivied. I had not much Lath, yet was not G.-rest an
iulldel et to MK fads. I Grit tried them niyfll in May loft,
en her hand. and di .7 proved effedusl; (or in fourteen days
dry removed the centradion of he: riorrs, ai4 a cAlliis from
her knuckle.l-.'.Ve then began tle.ir application train tin hip
to the sacs, which drew down the complaint, and occationed,
while cling them. alw,:lic•" a:sd inflammation in her great toe.
This I thettyle in tiep ahltfy iptarn, and we therefore perk-
valid to th.ir ufs, twenty minute. At a ti nn e, twice a d'.l)., for
dirt, morths, whin the had shrived ft mach betide as to he
able teleAft Ahd: her rrutelt,• and Its had no Devalue for them
flea:. She runs .Uwe a. &dive as other children, sad enjoys
good health."
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