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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH. 185
Second Pyramid, the operations in the horizontal passage
were given up, and the lower entrance was found in the
pavement ahout forty feet from the base of the pyramid.
It was completely filled up with solid masonry, closely
jointed and cemented: the first stone was ten feet long,
and the others six, or seven. I ordered parts of them
to be removed so as to admit of a passage ; but, on
account of their hardness, confined situation, the bad-
ness of the tools (merely picks), and the unskilfulness
of the Arabs, very little was effected before the arrival
of the men from the Mokattam quarries.
Colonel Rainsford paid me a visit.
I measured the excavation in the Third Pyramid, and
ordered four remarkable stones to be removed from the
higher part of the western front, as I thought that they
might conceal an air-channel.
March lOtk.
Ileis, 7. Men, 136. Children, 121.
Great Pyramid.—Excavation in southern front.
- Excavation in northern front.
- Davison's Chamber.
- Queen's Chamber.
- Passage to Queen's Chamber.
- Large Stone in Great Passage.
Second Pyramid.—Lower Entrance.
- Excavating in forced Passage.
Third Pyramid.—Interior.
Campbell's Tomb.
Fourth Pyramid.—Preparing to bore.
Several pieces of bone and of decayed mummy-board
were found in the square of Campbell's Tomb, also some
fragments of stone inscribed with hieroglyphics. The
Second Pyramid, the operations in the horizontal passage
were given up, and the lower entrance was found in the
pavement ahout forty feet from the base of the pyramid.
It was completely filled up with solid masonry, closely
jointed and cemented: the first stone was ten feet long,
and the others six, or seven. I ordered parts of them
to be removed so as to admit of a passage ; but, on
account of their hardness, confined situation, the bad-
ness of the tools (merely picks), and the unskilfulness
of the Arabs, very little was effected before the arrival
of the men from the Mokattam quarries.
Colonel Rainsford paid me a visit.
I measured the excavation in the Third Pyramid, and
ordered four remarkable stones to be removed from the
higher part of the western front, as I thought that they
might conceal an air-channel.
March lOtk.
Ileis, 7. Men, 136. Children, 121.
Great Pyramid.—Excavation in southern front.
- Excavation in northern front.
- Davison's Chamber.
- Queen's Chamber.
- Passage to Queen's Chamber.
- Large Stone in Great Passage.
Second Pyramid.—Lower Entrance.
- Excavating in forced Passage.
Third Pyramid.—Interior.
Campbell's Tomb.
Fourth Pyramid.—Preparing to bore.
Several pieces of bone and of decayed mummy-board
were found in the square of Campbell's Tomb, also some
fragments of stone inscribed with hieroglyphics. The