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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
Great Pyramid.—Southern Air-channel.
Second Pyramid.—Roof in Belzoni's Chamber.
Third Pyramid.—Interior.
Temple eastward of the Great Pyramid.
Excavation between the Third and Fifth Pyramids.
Campbell's Tomb.
Boring the Sphinx.
Shaft westward of Sphinx.
Shaft between Campbell's Tomb and Second Pyramid.
Shaft north of Sphinx.
I examined the shaft to the north of the Sphinx. The
tomb was an excavation in the rock, and was entered on
the southern side. An outer chamber conducted to two
others, one to the north, and the other to the west; both
of them contained shafts ; and over that in the western
chamber a figure, in a sitting posture, had been sculptured
in a niche. As our object was to ascertain the level of
the water, we only cleared out the shaft in the northern
chamber, which was found to contain, at a certain depth,
a sarcophagus, in a grotto or recess. The level of the
water is given in the Appendix; and the only objects of
interest which we met with, consisted of some green idols,
a piece of flat stone marked with one or two straight
lines, and the fragment of a Sphinx, about eighteen incbes
long, roughly carved in coarse stone, without inscription
or hieroglyphics.
The boring-rods were broken owing to the carelessness
of the Arabs, at the depth of twenty-seven feet in the back
of the Sphinx. Various attempts were made to get them
out, and on the 21st of July gunpowder was used for that
purpose ; but being unwilling to disfigure this venerahle
monument, the excavation was given up, and several feet
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
Great Pyramid.—Southern Air-channel.
Second Pyramid.—Roof in Belzoni's Chamber.
Third Pyramid.—Interior.
Temple eastward of the Great Pyramid.
Excavation between the Third and Fifth Pyramids.
Campbell's Tomb.
Boring the Sphinx.
Shaft westward of Sphinx.
Shaft between Campbell's Tomb and Second Pyramid.
Shaft north of Sphinx.
I examined the shaft to the north of the Sphinx. The
tomb was an excavation in the rock, and was entered on
the southern side. An outer chamber conducted to two
others, one to the north, and the other to the west; both
of them contained shafts ; and over that in the western
chamber a figure, in a sitting posture, had been sculptured
in a niche. As our object was to ascertain the level of
the water, we only cleared out the shaft in the northern
chamber, which was found to contain, at a certain depth,
a sarcophagus, in a grotto or recess. The level of the
water is given in the Appendix; and the only objects of
interest which we met with, consisted of some green idols,
a piece of flat stone marked with one or two straight
lines, and the fragment of a Sphinx, about eighteen incbes
long, roughly carved in coarse stone, without inscription
or hieroglyphics.
The boring-rods were broken owing to the carelessness
of the Arabs, at the depth of twenty-seven feet in the back
of the Sphinx. Various attempts were made to get them
out, and on the 21st of July gunpowder was used for that
purpose ; but being unwilling to disfigure this venerahle
monument, the excavation was given up, and several feet