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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
finished down from the top.2 The western side was
the highest; and a large stone on the apex had heen
displaced, possibly by lightning, but more probably
by human violence: the platform was about nine feet
square.
The boring in the shoulder of the Sphinx had pene-
trated sixteen feet. I gave up the excavation at the
bridge in the Southern Dyke, until Mr. Perring was ready
to survey it, on account of the great difficulty of keeping
out the loose sand. It was composed of two horizontal
stones; the northern was found to be twenty-two feet in
length, and six feet six inches in depth. The length
of the bridge was eight feet nine inches ; its breadth,
twenty-seven feet eight inches. Three tiers of very large
blocks had been uncovered. At the bottom of the rub-
bish at the northern front of the Second Pyramid, a
stratum, chiefly consisting of desert sand, and about four
feet thick, appeared to mark the first attempt to open the
pyramid, and some black spots upon its surface seemed to
have been occasioned by fire. No other distinct stratum
occurred; but the remainder was an accumulation of
large blocks of stone and of rubbish. The lower tier,
revetted with granite, had been forced apparently in
search of an entrance ; but the pavement, as far as I
could observe, had remained untouched. Two masons
arrived from the citadel to cut through the blocks of
granite, but they entirely failed, and returned on the
following day to Cairo.
I sent a message to Colonel Campbell by the lieu-
! They have been worked in the same way in the propylaea of the
(irrut Temple of Karnac.
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
finished down from the top.2 The western side was
the highest; and a large stone on the apex had heen
displaced, possibly by lightning, but more probably
by human violence: the platform was about nine feet
square.
The boring in the shoulder of the Sphinx had pene-
trated sixteen feet. I gave up the excavation at the
bridge in the Southern Dyke, until Mr. Perring was ready
to survey it, on account of the great difficulty of keeping
out the loose sand. It was composed of two horizontal
stones; the northern was found to be twenty-two feet in
length, and six feet six inches in depth. The length
of the bridge was eight feet nine inches ; its breadth,
twenty-seven feet eight inches. Three tiers of very large
blocks had been uncovered. At the bottom of the rub-
bish at the northern front of the Second Pyramid, a
stratum, chiefly consisting of desert sand, and about four
feet thick, appeared to mark the first attempt to open the
pyramid, and some black spots upon its surface seemed to
have been occasioned by fire. No other distinct stratum
occurred; but the remainder was an accumulation of
large blocks of stone and of rubbish. The lower tier,
revetted with granite, had been forced apparently in
search of an entrance ; but the pavement, as far as I
could observe, had remained untouched. Two masons
arrived from the citadel to cut through the blocks of
granite, but they entirely failed, and returned on the
following day to Cairo.
I sent a message to Colonel Campbell by the lieu-
! They have been worked in the same way in the propylaea of the
(irrut Temple of Karnac.