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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH. 163
February 20tJi.
Reis, G. Men, 63. Children, 36.
The same works were repeated.
The gallery at the Third Pyramid had been carried
on about three feet, the boring nearly twelve. A Russian
colonel, and four other strangers, paid me a visit.
February 21s£.
Reis, 6. Men, 90. Children, 59.
The same works were repeated.
The works did not go on to my satisfaction in the
King's and Davison's Chambers, notwithstanding that
Paulo remained during the night in the Great Pyramid.
I therefore ordered an agreement to be made for piece-
work at twenty-two piastres per foot. Seventeen feet of
the northern air-channel had been cleared. The centre
of the southern front of the Great Pyramid was marked
on the same level with the doorway on the northern,
that an entrance might be searched for as far to the
westward of the centre on that side, as the present door-
way is to the eastward of the centre on the other, for I
conceived it possible that a communication might proceed
from a southern entrance. I had not at that time any
idea that the stupendous masses of the pyramids were
composed of solid masonry, and that, (with the exception
of the King's, and Queen's Chambers, and the adjoining
passages and chambers of construction afterwards disco-
vered in this pyramid,) the apartments were invariably
excavations in the solid rock. Indeed, after having ascer-
tained the fact almost beyond the possibility of a doubt,
February 20tJi.
Reis, G. Men, 63. Children, 36.
The same works were repeated.
The gallery at the Third Pyramid had been carried
on about three feet, the boring nearly twelve. A Russian
colonel, and four other strangers, paid me a visit.
February 21s£.
Reis, 6. Men, 90. Children, 59.
The same works were repeated.
The works did not go on to my satisfaction in the
King's and Davison's Chambers, notwithstanding that
Paulo remained during the night in the Great Pyramid.
I therefore ordered an agreement to be made for piece-
work at twenty-two piastres per foot. Seventeen feet of
the northern air-channel had been cleared. The centre
of the southern front of the Great Pyramid was marked
on the same level with the doorway on the northern,
that an entrance might be searched for as far to the
westward of the centre on that side, as the present door-
way is to the eastward of the centre on the other, for I
conceived it possible that a communication might proceed
from a southern entrance. I had not at that time any
idea that the stupendous masses of the pyramids were
composed of solid masonry, and that, (with the exception
of the King's, and Queen's Chambers, and the adjoining
passages and chambers of construction afterwards disco-
vered in this pyramid,) the apartments were invariably
excavations in the solid rock. Indeed, after having ascer-
tained the fact almost beyond the possibility of a doubt,