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 geon down an endles ladder, which was withdrawn as oon as my foot touched the ground. Egyptian darknes and a death-like ilence, reigned in the horrid cell: a cadaverous mell aailed my enes. I oon felt that I tood before the entrance of the kingdom of the dead, for I tumbled ometimes againt a keleton, and ometimes againt an half-putrified body, as I pored about in earch of a place for my own death-bed. Full of depair, I tretched myelf along the hard floor, and invoked death to free me from the pains of life; but for this time he only ent his brother leep, who made me forget for a while the miery of my ituation. On awaking, I was urpried at a light glimmering in the den, and on oberving whence it proceeded, aw a lamp burning in the middle of my charnel-houe; it reted on a baket, which eemed to have been let down from above by a rope. I examined the contents of the baket, and