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)

OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.

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Soon afterwards I found it necessary to recall Paulo, and
the party, who were boring in the Great Pyramid, and to
withdraw the rods, owing to circumstances, which it is
unnecessary to detail, but which subsequently induced
Colonel Campbell to give up his share in the under-
taking, and to dismiss M. Caviglia from the pyramids.8
I wrote to Colonel Campbell, and went with Mr. Perring
to the Great Pyramid, where we took the angles, examined
the excavations, and likewise the stone at the northern
end of the great passage, which appeared to Mr. Wilkin-
son to have been granite. We also directed our atten-
tion to a considerable settling on the western side of this
passage, occasioned, probably, either by the excavation
made by the Caliphs, or by the chasm connected with
the grotto in the well. Dr. Wilson, Mr. Rutherford, and
Mr. Lakin arrived; with whom, and with Mr. Perring,
I went in the evening to Cairo; where I saw Colonel
Campbell, and explained to him my reasons for declining
all further co-operation with M. Caviglia.

12th.—I returned with Mr. Galloway and Mr. Perring
to the pyramids, where the Arab Sheiks had been some
time in attendance. I desired them to send, on the fol-
lowing morning, the additional men, whom they had pro-
mised ; but this they now refused to do. Mr. Galloway,
Mr. Perring, and myself, measured the exterior of the
Great Pyramid; and Mr. Perring, in passing over the
centre of the northern front for that purpose, disco-
vered the mouth of the northern air-channel.9 On return-

8 See Appendix.

9 As there had been an excavation to the length of thirty-seven feet
along the upper end of the channel, and a great many stones removed