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tions for any determinate portions, which they may have
adopted, for uses peculiar to their state and condition :
all we are certain of in that regard is, their diligent at-
tention to commensurahility, from which, hy any ade-
quate division and subdivision, a part might be assumed,
for any metrical purpose, always referable to some greater
division, or to the whole.
The denomination cubit, (as we term it) is the
assumption of an adequate portion, whereof the original
name is unknown: the foot is also ah adequate part,
clearly traced up to the Egyptians, before the emigration
of the colony under Cecrops, and even the denomination
itself is deduced from the ancient Greeks; as also is the
aroura, and the plethron.
But to proceed to the proofs Of this perfect harmony,
this happy, pleasant, useful commensurahility of the
Pyramid of Giza: which, I shall, to avoid ambiguity,
measure by the denomination of cubits: (the several
measures of which the reader may reduce to English
feet by 1.824 when the number of feet only is required
to be ascertained: which multiplied by 12 is reduced to
in.21.888 = ft.l, in.9.888;) yet,'in such dimensions äs
are to be proved by inferences, they will be herein re-
duced from cubits to pyramidic, and also to English feet,
and vice versa.
That the base or. plan of this Pyramid is a geome-
trical square, and that the side thereof measures 400
cubits; also that the granite Chest, (heretofore incon-
gruously called sarcophagus) is four cubits in length, and
is contained in a side of the square base, just 100 times,
are incontrovertibly ascertained. The question now is,
What is the vertical height of the Pyramid ; viz,
frora the centre of the square base to the apex or point
perpendicularly
tions for any determinate portions, which they may have
adopted, for uses peculiar to their state and condition :
all we are certain of in that regard is, their diligent at-
tention to commensurahility, from which, hy any ade-
quate division and subdivision, a part might be assumed,
for any metrical purpose, always referable to some greater
division, or to the whole.
The denomination cubit, (as we term it) is the
assumption of an adequate portion, whereof the original
name is unknown: the foot is also ah adequate part,
clearly traced up to the Egyptians, before the emigration
of the colony under Cecrops, and even the denomination
itself is deduced from the ancient Greeks; as also is the
aroura, and the plethron.
But to proceed to the proofs Of this perfect harmony,
this happy, pleasant, useful commensurahility of the
Pyramid of Giza: which, I shall, to avoid ambiguity,
measure by the denomination of cubits: (the several
measures of which the reader may reduce to English
feet by 1.824 when the number of feet only is required
to be ascertained: which multiplied by 12 is reduced to
in.21.888 = ft.l, in.9.888;) yet,'in such dimensions äs
are to be proved by inferences, they will be herein re-
duced from cubits to pyramidic, and also to English feet,
and vice versa.
That the base or. plan of this Pyramid is a geome-
trical square, and that the side thereof measures 400
cubits; also that the granite Chest, (heretofore incon-
gruously called sarcophagus) is four cubits in length, and
is contained in a side of the square base, just 100 times,
are incontrovertibly ascertained. The question now is,
What is the vertical height of the Pyramid ; viz,
frora the centre of the square base to the apex or point
perpendicularly