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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zîne, who honored it with a plate, in supplement to the
Mag. for the year 1802. Which, though circumstanced
as I was then, I took much pains to prove feasible : I am
now under the necessity of retracting, and of sacrificing
my then labours at the shrine of truth. For,

Since the above concerted plan was published, I
have discovered, on the authority of the Rev. Fred.
Barlow, that several fragments of the columns were
surveyed and the true diameter, by them ascertained,
as already fully treated of in Chap. 3, to which I beg
leave to refer the reader.

To return, then, to the further consideration of the
character of this Temple, which Vitruvius cites, not as
a subject of disquisition, but merely to exemplify his
previous description of a double winged disposition
called dípteros. But when he comes to the hypethros,
he says, he has 10 columns in front, has the same num-
ber in postern front, two ranges, one within the other,
all round ; on the side 19 columns in the outer row, and
17 (of course) in the row next to the walls, which wall«
are so situated, as to have their ends opposite to, not
the fourth, as in octastyle diptères, but to the sixth
column, right and left, causing the width between the
walls within the Temple, to be equal to 4 columns
and 5 intercolumns ; has it's cell in the middle, with
an access to its folding doors along the pronaos at each
end ; and, besides columns in the two pronai, has also
columns (of similar diameters) all round the cell, in the
manner of peristyles, at a distance from the walls of the
cell, which in the area, thus surrounded by columns
double in altitude, is open to the sky, the double co-
lumns rising to receive the roof that covers the walk»
all round.

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