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180 OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
fore, to conceal the entrance into another passage. We
began to remove the great block under the recess in the
Queen's Chamber, and the whole of that apartment was
carefully examined. The people commenced boring for
a lower entrance at the Second Pyramid, and a party
under an intelligent reis, carefully sounded Belzoni's
Chamber, and the passage leading to it. The various
chasms and imperfections in the rock, through which this
passage was cut, were made good with masonry, and
the sides had been stuccoed, and painted. On the sides
of the chamber (cut out of the solid rock) a sparry
secretion appeared, similar to that on the walls of the
Queen's Chamber; although, it is to be observed, that the
latter are composed of masonry. About half the floor
from the eastern end of Belzoni's Chamber was rock,
the remainder was a pavement of two tiers of calca-
reous stone, excepting some blocks of granite at the
western end, in which the sarcophagus had been sunk.
March 4th.
Iteis, 7. Men, 152. Children, 114.
The same works were repeated.
A stone in the southern side, and exactly opposite the
entrance of the Queen's Chamber, was broken into; the
joints appeared to indicate a door, but nothing was dis-
covered. The gallery had arrived within thirty-seven feet
of the centre of the Third Pyramid, when strong blasts
of air were distinctly felt in it from the south, although
the excavation was on the northern front. This was
invariably the case when a Kamseen (southerly wind)
was prevalent. As the joints were too close, and
fore, to conceal the entrance into another passage. We
began to remove the great block under the recess in the
Queen's Chamber, and the whole of that apartment was
carefully examined. The people commenced boring for
a lower entrance at the Second Pyramid, and a party
under an intelligent reis, carefully sounded Belzoni's
Chamber, and the passage leading to it. The various
chasms and imperfections in the rock, through which this
passage was cut, were made good with masonry, and
the sides had been stuccoed, and painted. On the sides
of the chamber (cut out of the solid rock) a sparry
secretion appeared, similar to that on the walls of the
Queen's Chamber; although, it is to be observed, that the
latter are composed of masonry. About half the floor
from the eastern end of Belzoni's Chamber was rock,
the remainder was a pavement of two tiers of calca-
reous stone, excepting some blocks of granite at the
western end, in which the sarcophagus had been sunk.
March 4th.
Iteis, 7. Men, 152. Children, 114.
The same works were repeated.
A stone in the southern side, and exactly opposite the
entrance of the Queen's Chamber, was broken into; the
joints appeared to indicate a door, but nothing was dis-
covered. The gallery had arrived within thirty-seven feet
of the centre of the Third Pyramid, when strong blasts
of air were distinctly felt in it from the south, although
the excavation was on the northern front. This was
invariably the case when a Kamseen (southerly wind)
was prevalent. As the joints were too close, and