Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-12-08

few hours if the windows are shut.
Open those of your sleeping rooms
whenever you quit them to go to your
workshops. Keep the windows OF
your workshops open, whenever the
weather is not unexpectedly cold.
have no interest in giving you this adj
vice. Remember what |, your country
man, and a physician, tell you. II you
would not bring infection and disease
upon yourselves, and to your wives and
little ones, change the air you breathe,
change ii many times day by opening
your windows"
Pyramids of Egypt,-The height OF
Che great pyramid is five hundred feet
its base seven hundred and seventy feet
long at each square, making circumter-
ence of more than three thousand feet
and its summit is twenty-eight feet
square. 1t is perfectly true, as cele-
bratSd traveller observes, that you feel
much disappointed at the first view OF
the Pyramids, as they stand in the midst
of fat and boundless Desert, and there
is no elevation near with which TO con-
trast them; ii is not easy to be aware OF
their real magnitude, until after repeat
ed visits and observations, their vast
size fills the mind with astonlshment.
On the third night carrying lights with
US, we entered the large pyramid by a
long gradual descent of near hundred
feet land next assembled the long gal
lery of marble, hundred and fifty feet
in length, and excessively steep, which
conducted US to the great chamber. In
the roof of this lofty room are stones of
granite Is feet long, In what manner
these masses were conveyed to such a
situation is not easy TO conceive, still less
for what purpose these immense struc-
lures were formed, filled up as the great
er part of the interiour is with masses
ofstones and marble The few cham
bers hitherto discovered bear no pro-
portion whatever TO the vast extent of
the interior. So Immensely strong is
theIr fabric, and so little do they appear
injured by the lapse of more than three
tn ,usand years, that one cannot help
believing, when gazing at them, their
duration can end only with that Of the
world.
Near the pyramids is small and sin
guIar group of trees, called the sacred
trees by the Arabs, not one of whom
wilt ever dare to pluck leaf of them i:
they consist of two sycamores, and two
or three palms, and stand alone in the
waste of sand; the leaves are not with
cred, but have vivid green colour.
and afford most agreeable relief to the
eye.
The last evening passed here was
very lovely one: | was seated with c.
near the door of his rocky abode, as the
sun was going slowly down over the ex-
tensIve scene before us, its red rays
lingering on the pyramids, the desert,
and IFS dreary precipices and wastes.
OF all the sunsets [ ever beheld, none
are SO beautiful as those of Egypt: the
fierce redress, almost the colour of
blood, that is thrown ever the horizon,
and then fades into the most delicate
iluss of yellow, green and azure, make
them often singular spectacle. About
a mile on the right, small tribe Of
wandering Bedoulns, who had just arriv-
ed, had pitched their tents; the camels
were standing beside, the fires were
lighted, and the Arab masters moving a.
boul in their wild aud picturesque drap-
cry the only scene of life in that vast
solitude.