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178 OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
strations of joy in the villages on the plain below our
tents, in consequence of the celebration of a wedding.
March 2d.
Reis, 7. Men, 110. Children, 94.
The same works were repeated.
I again carefully examined the excavation across the
horizontal passage in the Second Pyramid, and also Bel-
zoni's Chamber. In the latter, square holes like the be-
ginning of air-channels had been cut on the northern and
southern sides ;3 and others below them marked out with
red lines. If a northern air-channel had likewise been
begun on the exterior, it might have been a guide for
the forced passage. As I conceived that it was possible
to find out, by means of the boring-rods, the lower en-
trance of the Second Pyramid, the operations carried on
at the Sphinx were suspended, and the hole made
near the shoulder, about twenty-five feet and a half
in depth, was plugged up. The excavation for the base
at the north-western angle of the Second Pyramid was
finished. The chisel in the King's Chamber was found
to have been broken upon a calcareous stone, and not
upon granite ; all hopes therefore of an apartment in
that direction were at an end.
Dr. Cummins came to the pyramids. The Englishman
mentioned in the note page 171, arrived: he was indefa-
tigable in his exertions, directed most successfully several
operations during the day, and passed every night for
3 Mr. Perring imagined that they might have been used in the
construction of the roof.
strations of joy in the villages on the plain below our
tents, in consequence of the celebration of a wedding.
March 2d.
Reis, 7. Men, 110. Children, 94.
The same works were repeated.
I again carefully examined the excavation across the
horizontal passage in the Second Pyramid, and also Bel-
zoni's Chamber. In the latter, square holes like the be-
ginning of air-channels had been cut on the northern and
southern sides ;3 and others below them marked out with
red lines. If a northern air-channel had likewise been
begun on the exterior, it might have been a guide for
the forced passage. As I conceived that it was possible
to find out, by means of the boring-rods, the lower en-
trance of the Second Pyramid, the operations carried on
at the Sphinx were suspended, and the hole made
near the shoulder, about twenty-five feet and a half
in depth, was plugged up. The excavation for the base
at the north-western angle of the Second Pyramid was
finished. The chisel in the King's Chamber was found
to have been broken upon a calcareous stone, and not
upon granite ; all hopes therefore of an apartment in
that direction were at an end.
Dr. Cummins came to the pyramids. The Englishman
mentioned in the note page 171, arrived: he was indefa-
tigable in his exertions, directed most successfully several
operations during the day, and passed every night for
3 Mr. Perring imagined that they might have been used in the
construction of the roof.