It was a deep pit, more than seventy feet; but it had never been filled up.

The passage at the bottom sloped up to the sarcophagus Chamber, and was longer than is usually found.

It had not been walled up.
"Within, we found a great sarcophagus of yellow stone.

But that I need not describe; you have seen it in Mr.Trelawny's chamber.

The cover of it lay on the ground; it had not been cemented, and was just as Van Huyn had described it.