Howard-Vyse, Richard William Howard: Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into upper Egypt, and Appendix (Band 1) (London, 1840)

232 OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.

The works at Campbell's Tomb were discontinued
for want of hands. I wrote to Mr. Hamilton, and sent
Mr. Perring's drawings of the quarry-marks, and some of
the black dust found in Wellington's Chamber. As the
result of the excavation in Belzoni's Chamber was not
considered satisfactory, the work was resumed at that
place.

April list.

Reis, 9. Men, 117. Children, 146.

The same works were repeated.

The jaw-bone of a sheep and some decayed charcoal
were found in the interior of the Fourth Pyramid. These
articles were probably brought in by the Arabs ;B or they
would otherwise establish the great antiquity of the
charring of wood, and possibly, by inference, of the smelt-
ing of metals — the latter process must indeed have been
practised before the Pyramids could have been built.

Mr. Perring and Mr. Mash continued the survey; and
in the course of it, copied the characters in the pit at the
foot of the sarcophagus in Campbell's Tomb. They were
inscribed with red paint between double lines, about two
inches apart. — (See page 217.)

Captain and Mrs. Mitchell arrived in the morning, and
returned after dinner to Cairo.

A quantity of broken pottery was found near the
forced entrance on the northern front of the Great
Pyramid.

8 When I was employed, in 1832, in an excavation at Bosco Tre
Case, near Mount Vesuvius, the same piece of broken pottery was
brought up from a shaft five successive times, by way of an inducement
to go on with the work.