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OPERATIONS CARRIED OJf AT GIZEH.
if the excavation was continued four or five yards
southwards to the base of the Fifth Pyramid, an entrance
would probably be found, which might be a guide for that
of the Fourth, upon which we had been so long and un-
successfully employed. I approved of the idea, and gave
directions to that effect; and to shew how accidentally
these boasted discoveries are often made, the remark of
my poor Arab led to the discovery of the entrances of the
six smaller pyramids f they were entirely concealed, and
no information existed at that time respecting them, but
they were subsequently opened without difficulty.
Some glass bottles, small pieces of leaf gold, bones,
small illegible coins, apparently bronze, coarse earthen-
ware, and one or two fragments of brass, or of bronze,
were found in the foss at Campbell's Tomb.
The air was extremely sultry and hot, but, as usual,
about four o'clock, there were strong gusts of wind from
the north and north-west. In the evening, the cavalry
came again to exercise.
June 29th.
Reis, 11. Men, 182. Children, 179.
The same works were repeated.
2 The French could not find out the entrances of these Pyramids,
and therefore proceeded to take one of them down, to ascertain its in-
terior construction, supposing that it had never been opened. Colonel
Coutelle describes the difficulties attending the operation, which was
interrupted by the evacuation of Gizeh. It appears, however, by Mr.
Salt's papers, that M. Caviglia succeeded in penetrating into one of the
Pyramids near the Third, and that he found at the end of a passage two
empty chambers, which communicated with each other. As there are
sarcophagi in the Fourth and Fifth, and as the Sixth has never been
completed, this description does not apply to either of the three.
OPERATIONS CARRIED OJf AT GIZEH.
if the excavation was continued four or five yards
southwards to the base of the Fifth Pyramid, an entrance
would probably be found, which might be a guide for that
of the Fourth, upon which we had been so long and un-
successfully employed. I approved of the idea, and gave
directions to that effect; and to shew how accidentally
these boasted discoveries are often made, the remark of
my poor Arab led to the discovery of the entrances of the
six smaller pyramids f they were entirely concealed, and
no information existed at that time respecting them, but
they were subsequently opened without difficulty.
Some glass bottles, small pieces of leaf gold, bones,
small illegible coins, apparently bronze, coarse earthen-
ware, and one or two fragments of brass, or of bronze,
were found in the foss at Campbell's Tomb.
The air was extremely sultry and hot, but, as usual,
about four o'clock, there were strong gusts of wind from
the north and north-west. In the evening, the cavalry
came again to exercise.
June 29th.
Reis, 11. Men, 182. Children, 179.
The same works were repeated.
2 The French could not find out the entrances of these Pyramids,
and therefore proceeded to take one of them down, to ascertain its in-
terior construction, supposing that it had never been opened. Colonel
Coutelle describes the difficulties attending the operation, which was
interrupted by the evacuation of Gizeh. It appears, however, by Mr.
Salt's papers, that M. Caviglia succeeded in penetrating into one of the
Pyramids near the Third, and that he found at the end of a passage two
empty chambers, which communicated with each other. As there are
sarcophagi in the Fourth and Fifth, and as the Sixth has never been
completed, this description does not apply to either of the three.