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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
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Third Pyramid.—Interior.
Campbell's Tomb.
Fourth Pyramid.—Interior.
I was detained till late by business in Cairo, as Mr.
Piozan (the consul, and also Messrs. Briggs and Thur-
burn's agent) had gone to Alexandria. On arriving at the
pyramids with Mr. Mash, I found Mr. Brettel and three
other gentlemen just setting out on their return to Cairo.
Two parties had, on the 16th instant, begun to bore
in the passage leading to the Queen's Chamber, in order
to ascertain whether the communication existed, which
appeared to be concealed by the stones let in under the
step, where we had been so long employed. The borings
were made near a round hole in the pavement, about six
inches deep. Similar holes had been found in the Queen's
Chamber, at the exterior of the north-western angle of the
Second Pyramid, and in other places.8
March 21st.
Reis, 6. Men, 99. Children, 130.
The same works were repeated.
Fragments of earthenware were found in Campbell's
Tomb. The gallery had arrived within fifteen feet of the
centre of the Third Pyramid, and was continued for a
short distance at an angle of forty-five degrees, when
8 Mr. Perring says, that these holes may be observed wherever the
upper part of the courses of stone are exposed, and that they were in-
tended to support the wooden machines mentioned by Herodotus for
raising the stones, which he thinks were like the polyspaston of Vitruvius,
but this machine is supposed to have consisted of an apparatus of blocks,
and pullies, which were probably then unknown.
197
Third Pyramid.—Interior.
Campbell's Tomb.
Fourth Pyramid.—Interior.
I was detained till late by business in Cairo, as Mr.
Piozan (the consul, and also Messrs. Briggs and Thur-
burn's agent) had gone to Alexandria. On arriving at the
pyramids with Mr. Mash, I found Mr. Brettel and three
other gentlemen just setting out on their return to Cairo.
Two parties had, on the 16th instant, begun to bore
in the passage leading to the Queen's Chamber, in order
to ascertain whether the communication existed, which
appeared to be concealed by the stones let in under the
step, where we had been so long employed. The borings
were made near a round hole in the pavement, about six
inches deep. Similar holes had been found in the Queen's
Chamber, at the exterior of the north-western angle of the
Second Pyramid, and in other places.8
March 21st.
Reis, 6. Men, 99. Children, 130.
The same works were repeated.
Fragments of earthenware were found in Campbell's
Tomb. The gallery had arrived within fifteen feet of the
centre of the Third Pyramid, and was continued for a
short distance at an angle of forty-five degrees, when
8 Mr. Perring says, that these holes may be observed wherever the
upper part of the courses of stone are exposed, and that they were in-
tended to support the wooden machines mentioned by Herodotus for
raising the stones, which he thinks were like the polyspaston of Vitruvius,
but this machine is supposed to have consisted of an apparatus of blocks,
and pullies, which were probably then unknown.