The water in the lake does not come from the place where it is, for the country there is very deficient in water, but it has been brought thither from the Nile by a canal: and for six months the water flows into the lake, and for six months out into the Nile again;
eta bietako bakoitzean harrizko koloso bat dago thronoan eseria. Horrela, piramideak ehun besaldikoak dira; eta, ehun besaldi sei pletro luzeko stadioa da zuzenki, besaldiak sei oin edota lau beso neurtzen duelarik, oina lau arrabetekoa eta besoa seikoa delarik.