Gabb, Thomas: Finis pyramidis or Disquisitions concerning the antiquity and scientific end of the great pyramid of Giza, or ancient Memphis, in Egypt, and of the first standard of linear measure (Retford, 1806)

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advantage the winds would have on the greater altitude
of the sands, we will take the average at 40 feet, each
of the 4000 years since the deluge, which makes, inclu-
sive of the present 30, an altitude of sands, at thè
subsiding of the waters, equal to 190 féet, and the entire
altitude of the Pyramid from the centre of the area of
the base, to the vertical point of the apex, is ft.631. 85.
and the side of the base ft.729.6 English.

Hence it will be found that the solid contents of the
Pyramid is=4 152 394 cubic yards. And the square of
the base multiplied into 190 feet, (the altitude of the
sands after the flood) produce 101 140 070 cubic feet
=3 745 998 cubic yards. This I insert, to show the
absurdity of the opinion of the Pyramid being built since
the deluge, because the builders must have had to dig
out and remove a quantity of sand, almost equal to the
solid contents of the entire Pyramid, which, when finish-
ed, would have been encompassed by a depth of sand
almost one third of it's height.

But if any should be so sceptically inclined as to
question the above position upon the mere possibility
that Greaves or Herodotus, or even both, may have
erred in their dimensions; and may have differed above
100 feet from each other; at least, they cannot expect
to find credit, if they pretend the winds have brought
the present accumulation : for whoever read of winds
that imperceptibly convey fish shells, and petrified
oysters to such a distance ? Now the present strata,
taken at the altitude of 31 feet, would produce an
excavation equal to oil 177 cubic yards, which the
builders according to these sceptics, must have had to
dig out and clear away : a task altogether as incredible,
as the supposition of the conveyance of shells is absurd.

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