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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII. 221
that the tomb was built upon it, and the sarcophagus and
the large stone placed over it, possibly on account of the
difficulty attending these operations at the bottom of the
pit, into which it was afterwards gradually let down by
taking out the sand in the same way as the lining of a
well is lowered. The building, in its present state, would
be soon destroyed by the crumbling away of the sub-
stratum from beneath it, did not the sand fall in from the
mounds on the top, and continually accumulate around it.
Mr. Maltas and Mr. Mushet called at the tents. In
the evening Mr. Perring and Mr. Mash arrived from
Cairo, when we again visited Campbell's Tomb.
April 10th.
Iteis, 9. Men, 180. Children, 169.
The same operations were repeated.
Mr. Perring, Mr. Mash, and Mr. Hill went to Cairo.
There was a strong Kamseen wind, and consequently
blasts of air were felt in the interior of the Fourth Py-
ramid. In the course of the excavation at the northern
front of the Great Pyramid, it was found that not only
the lower part of it had been forced in search of an
entrance, but that a large hole had been made through
the pavement into a deep hollow, which had been filled
up with rubble work, pieces of granite, and of other
stones, and afterwards closed with large blocks, and effec-
tually concealed by the pavement.4 The disclosure of it,
* It will be seen that this hollow was subsequently cleared out to the
depth of forty-seven feet, when it became so narrow that the people
could not work. A low grotto, and a small channel branched off from
it. It seemed to be a natural fissure, and extended along the centre of
the northern front, within ten feet of the building.
that the tomb was built upon it, and the sarcophagus and
the large stone placed over it, possibly on account of the
difficulty attending these operations at the bottom of the
pit, into which it was afterwards gradually let down by
taking out the sand in the same way as the lining of a
well is lowered. The building, in its present state, would
be soon destroyed by the crumbling away of the sub-
stratum from beneath it, did not the sand fall in from the
mounds on the top, and continually accumulate around it.
Mr. Maltas and Mr. Mushet called at the tents. In
the evening Mr. Perring and Mr. Mash arrived from
Cairo, when we again visited Campbell's Tomb.
April 10th.
Iteis, 9. Men, 180. Children, 169.
The same operations were repeated.
Mr. Perring, Mr. Mash, and Mr. Hill went to Cairo.
There was a strong Kamseen wind, and consequently
blasts of air were felt in the interior of the Fourth Py-
ramid. In the course of the excavation at the northern
front of the Great Pyramid, it was found that not only
the lower part of it had been forced in search of an
entrance, but that a large hole had been made through
the pavement into a deep hollow, which had been filled
up with rubble work, pieces of granite, and of other
stones, and afterwards closed with large blocks, and effec-
tually concealed by the pavement.4 The disclosure of it,
* It will be seen that this hollow was subsequently cleared out to the
depth of forty-seven feet, when it became so narrow that the people
could not work. A low grotto, and a small channel branched off from
it. It seemed to be a natural fissure, and extended along the centre of
the northern front, within ten feet of the building.