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OPERATIONS CARRIED OX AT GIZEII.
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the Madyr of the district at Mabietta on the following
morning at eight o'clock.
May 14th. — I went with Mr. Perring to Mabietta, but
the Madyr had not arrived. In the afternoon I was
taken ill, and did not return to Gizeh till the evening of
the 18th.
May 15th.
Rcis, 9. Men, 81. Children, C7.
The same works were repeated.
I was informed, by a letter from Mr. Raven, that the
passage through the northern Air-channel was open, but
that a partial obstruction remained, which he proposed to
remove by means of the boring-rods. This was soon
effected, and the rods, and also water, passed freely from
the top to the bottom, which proved that the Chan-
nel did not communicate with any apartment excepting
the King's Chamber. Before Mr. Raven's arrival this
difficult operation had been attended to by Mr. Hill; but,
in justice to the former gentleman, it is to be remarked,
that, although he had at the same time the superintend-
ence of all the other works, he succeeded in clearing
ninety feet of the upper part of an inclined channel, only
nine inches, by nine and a half inches, wide, and situated
more than three hundred feet above the base upon the
exterior of the pyramid, from the sand and stones with
which it had for centuries been choked up. For this pur-
pose his Arab servant was constantly on the spot, and he
was himself obliged to ascend the pyramid two or three
times every day to direct the Arabs how to proceed.
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the Madyr of the district at Mabietta on the following
morning at eight o'clock.
May 14th. — I went with Mr. Perring to Mabietta, but
the Madyr had not arrived. In the afternoon I was
taken ill, and did not return to Gizeh till the evening of
the 18th.
May 15th.
Rcis, 9. Men, 81. Children, C7.
The same works were repeated.
I was informed, by a letter from Mr. Raven, that the
passage through the northern Air-channel was open, but
that a partial obstruction remained, which he proposed to
remove by means of the boring-rods. This was soon
effected, and the rods, and also water, passed freely from
the top to the bottom, which proved that the Chan-
nel did not communicate with any apartment excepting
the King's Chamber. Before Mr. Raven's arrival this
difficult operation had been attended to by Mr. Hill; but,
in justice to the former gentleman, it is to be remarked,
that, although he had at the same time the superintend-
ence of all the other works, he succeeded in clearing
ninety feet of the upper part of an inclined channel, only
nine inches, by nine and a half inches, wide, and situated
more than three hundred feet above the base upon the
exterior of the pyramid, from the sand and stones with
which it had for centuries been choked up. For this pur-
pose his Arab servant was constantly on the spot, and he
was himself obliged to ascend the pyramid two or three
times every day to direct the Arabs how to proceed.