![]() ![]() ![]() It was then that Sir William, examining the hewn walls, made the odd observation that the passage, according to the direction of the strokes, must have been chiselled from beneath. We did not pause long, but shiveringly began to clear a passage down the steps. This current was not a sudden and noxious rush as from a closed vault, but a cool breeze with something of freshness in it. Above the hellishly littered steps arched a descending passage seemingly chiselled from the solid rock, and conducting a current of air. The skulls denoted nothing short of utter idiocy, cretinism, or primitive semi-apedom. Those which retained their collocation as skeletons shewed attitudes of panic fear, and over all were the marks of rodent gnawing. Through a nearly square opening in the tiled floor, sprawling on a flight of stone steps so prodigiously worn that it was little more than an inclined plane at the centre, was a ghastly array of human or semi-human bones. There now lay revealed such a horror as would have overwhelmed us had we not been prepared. ![]()
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