Troy, Feb. 6, 1898.
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CATAcoMBs IN EGyFr.-These are receptscles
for the dead, and vary in size from 50 to 900
feet square; some are two furlongs in length and
one in breadth; the depth has not been ascertain
ed. In these, the bodies were placed, III stand
ing position, as close as they possibly couid oe
placed together, like soldiers when formed IN a
solid column. When the stratum IS thus COM
pleted, the second course is commenced, the feet
being placed upon the heads of those below.
Thus one tier after another is filled up, until
the whole catacomb is full. Some of these have
been already excavated to the depth of thirteen
tiers, and still more yet remain to be got out In
the area of the largest of these, more than mil
lion bodies have been discovered.