Note 320 — Chapter IV
Walter Armstrong translation
As M. Maspero has remarked (Annuaire de l'Association des Études Grecques, 1877, p. 135), these secret passages remind us of the movable stone which, according to Herodotus (ii. 121), the architect of Rhampsinit contrived in the wall of the royal treasure-house which he was commissioned to build. Herodotus's story was at least founded upon fact, as the arrangement in question was a favourite one with Egyptian constructors.