This was cut in the rock more than a hundred feet up, being two-thirds the height of the cliff.

The hieroglyphic and cabalistic symbols cut in the rock were so managed as to disguise it.

The cutting was deep, and was continued through the rock and the portals of the doorway, and through the great slab which formed the door itself.

This was fixed in place with such incredible exactness that no stone chisel or cutting implement which I had with me could find a lodgment in the interstices.

I used much force, however; and by many heavy strokes won a way into the tomb, for such I found it to be.