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278 OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
rested upon a low wall about three feet high, which
allowed for the inequalities of the floor, composed, as in
the other instances, of the reverse of the granite slabs
that formed the ceiling of the rooms below it; the stone,
by the side of which the entrance was worked up, was
six feet six inches in thickness. Holes had been cut in
the floor, apparently for the purpose of sustaining tem-
porary supports of wood for the erection of the roof. Ex-
cepting the floor, the whole of the chamber was built of
calcareous stone. The joints were open, and there were
considerable settlements; some of the stones of the roof
also were cracked, which was not surprising, considering
the immense weight they supported. When we first
entered this chamber, the floor was covered with the
same deposit of dust which we had observed in the apart-
ments below it, and, in addition, the calcareous stones
were covered with an exudation, which had the appear-
ance of white feathers, and resembled that afterwards
found in the Third Pyramid. There were many quarry-
marks similar to those in the other chambers, and also
several red lines crossing each other at right angles, with
black equilateral triangles described near the intersec-
tions, in order probably to obtain a right angle.
8 This hieroglyphic was not observed by Mr. Hill.
rested upon a low wall about three feet high, which
allowed for the inequalities of the floor, composed, as in
the other instances, of the reverse of the granite slabs
that formed the ceiling of the rooms below it; the stone,
by the side of which the entrance was worked up, was
six feet six inches in thickness. Holes had been cut in
the floor, apparently for the purpose of sustaining tem-
porary supports of wood for the erection of the roof. Ex-
cepting the floor, the whole of the chamber was built of
calcareous stone. The joints were open, and there were
considerable settlements; some of the stones of the roof
also were cracked, which was not surprising, considering
the immense weight they supported. When we first
entered this chamber, the floor was covered with the
same deposit of dust which we had observed in the apart-
ments below it, and, in addition, the calcareous stones
were covered with an exudation, which had the appear-
ance of white feathers, and resembled that afterwards
found in the Third Pyramid. There were many quarry-
marks similar to those in the other chambers, and also
several red lines crossing each other at right angles, with
black equilateral triangles described near the intersec-
tions, in order probably to obtain a right angle.
8 This hieroglyphic was not observed by Mr. Hill.