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" It was choked with mummies, and I could not pass without putting my face in contact with that of some decayed Egyptian; but as the passage inclined downwards, my own weight helped me on ; however, I could not avoid being covered with bones, legs, arms,... "
The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge - Page 112
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 14

1824 - 494 pages
...•bout twenty fret in length, and no wider than that a body could be forced through. It was choaked with mummies, and I could not pass without putting my face in contact with that of tome decayed Egyptian : but as the passage incline*! downwards, my own weight helped me on : however,...
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Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids ...

Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - 566 pages
...to another resembling it, through a passage of about twenty feet in length, and no wider than that a body could be forced through. It was choked with mummies,...some decayed Egyptian ; but as the passage inclined downwards, my own weight helped me on : however, I could not avoid being covered with bones, legs,...
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Quarterly Review, Volume 24

1821 - 602 pages
...to another resembling it, through a passage of about twenty feet in length, and no wider than that a body could be forced through. It was choked with mummies,...some decayed Egyptian ; but as the passage inclined downwards, my own weight helped me on : however, I could not avoid being covered with bones, legs,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 24

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 602 pages
...to another resembling it, through a passage of about twenty feet in length, and no wider than that a body could be forced through. It was choked with mummies,...some decayed Egyptian; but as the passage inclined downwards, my own weight helped me on : however, I could not avoid being covered with bones, legs,...
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The British review and London critical journal

1821 - 536 pages
...about twenty feet in length, and no wider than that a bodv could be forced through. It was choaked with mummies, and I could not pass without putting...some decayed Egyptian : but as the passage inclined downwards, my own weight helped me on : however, I could not avoid being covered with bones, legs,...
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The London Magazine, Volume 3

1821 - 746 pages
...about twenty feet in length, and no wider than that a body could be forced through. It was choaked //}՜G w r , P | + ˜ q > N m > ~ ${( 8 a j ;O @ 2 »^Է@ ҃ ҟ; @yLqq u 9 V? O A~ ӷ ' 6 : downwards, my own weight helped me on : however, I could not avoid being covered with bones, legs,...
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Il Conte di Carmagnola: tragedia di Alessandro Manzoni, Milano, 1820 ...

1821 - 598 pages
...feet in length, and no wider than that a body could be forced through. It was choked with mumraie, and I could not pass without putting my face in contact...some decayed Egyptian ; but as the passage inclined downwards, ray own weight helped me on : however, I could not avoid being covered with bones, legs,...
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Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the ..., Volume 1

Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Mrs. Belzoni (Sarah) - 1822 - 486 pages
...to another resembling it, through a passage of about twenty feet in length, and no wider than that a body could be forced through. It was choked with mummies,...in contact with that of some decayed Egyptian ; but is the passage inclined downwards, my own weight helped me on : however, I could not avoid being covered...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...to another resembling it, through a passage of about twenty feet in length, and no wider than what a body could be forced through. It was choked with mummies,...some decayed Egyptian ; but as the passage inclined downwards, my own weight helped me on ; however, I could not avoid being covered with bones, legs,...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 13

1823 - 496 pages
...crushed a mummy in some part or other. In forcing ray way through the passages I could not proceed without putting my face in contact with that of some...passage inclined downward* my own weight helped me on : however, I could not avoid being covered with bones, legs, arms, and heads, rolling from above. Thus...
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