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)

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also found near the Fifth and most of the other pyramids.
Mr. Perring and Mr. Mash surveyed Colonel Campbell's
Chamber.

May 30M.

Reis, 10. Men, 196. Children, 185.

Great Pyramid.—Excavation in northern front.

- Roof in Queen's Chamber.

- Clearing the Chambers and Passages.

Second Pyramid.—Roof in Belzoni's Chamber.
Third Pyramid.—Interior.

Excavation between the Third and Fifth Pyramids.

Campbell's Tomb.

Fourth Pyramid.—Interior.

Shaft westward of Sphinx.

Shaft between Campbell's Tomb and Second Pyramid.
Shaft north of Sphinx.
Bridge in southern Dyke.

Several Arab Sheiks came to the tents.

Mr. Hill copied the hieroglyphics in Camp EL ^^|^^

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ber. The survey was continued, and a partj
sent to the bridge in the southern Dyke. Tl:
sarcophagus in Campbell's Tomb was mo j
wooden rollers, that the hieroglyphics mighl:
and various articles were sent from this r.E
consulate. A quantity of bones and pieces:
ware were found on the buttress at the sc |
angle, and in different parts of the fosse. ;
with Mi-. Hill, the chasm at the northern -
Great Pyramid; it had been cleared to a . \
and had become so narrow that the works \
on with difficulty. As the operations were ne -
in the interior of the Great Pyramid, peopE

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