Howard-Vyse, Richard William Howard: Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into upper Egypt, and Appendix (Band 1) (London, 1840)

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PREFACE.

meats inserted in these volumes have been copied'.8
Plans of Campbell's Tomb, and of most of the other
Pyramids, as far south as the Faiyoum, including
the ruined site of Abou-Ileche, have also been re-
ceived from Mr. Perring, and will compose a third
number. The whole, it is presumed, will form a
work of considerable interest; and the value of it
will be greatly increased by a number of excellent
drawings taken on the spot by Mr. Andrews, who
remained at Gizeh for a considerable time, and
who with the same disinterested kindness, which
distinguished the conduct of the other two gentle-
men, was indefatigably employed in my behalf
even during the intense heat of summer. I find
it difficult to express my acknowledgments for the

2 The plates which relate to Gizeh have been executed
from Mr. Andrews' drawings by Mr. Arundale, with the excep-
tion of the panoramic view, the well, and the tent, which together
with the other plates that gentleman has contrived to arrange
from rough and imperfect sketches attempted by myself I take
this opportunity of remarking that the table of levels at the
bottom of the plate containing the section of the rock (see page
138, Appendix, Vol. II.) was added in this country to Mr.
Perring's drawing, and that the difference of 13 feet 10§ inches
is erroneously inserted, as may be seen by reference to page 150.
Another mistake in the level of high Nile of 1838, instead of
1837, has been corrected.