LETTER XVI.

Continuation of description of the Pyramids--Colossal monolith of Horus--Perilous ascent of Cheops--Prospect from a resting-place upon the pyramid, four hundred feet in air--A prince of Midian falls from Chephres--Magnificent view from the top of Cheops, six hundred feet in air--Tombs of kings--The Giants before the Flood founders of the great pyramids--Ancient appearance of pyramids--Greater duration of human life--The third pyramid built by Amun, son of Noah--Egyptian tradition of Noah and his sons--Entombment of Noah in Cheops, and the mourning of the Nations--Verdant plain of the Nile--The desolation of the Desert--Jizeh--Raamses and Pythom, the treasure-cities--The smiling land of Goshen--Prophecy of an Unknown World, in the West--The sacred papyri--Descent of the pyramid--Luxora, the beautiful daughter of the high-priest--Her legend of the Emerald Table of Hermes--Osiria--pp. 262-276.