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 2) (London, 1841)

OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZE1I.

37

Mr. Mash and Mr. Andrews came. I examined with
Mr. Raven and Mr. Hill the chasm on the northern front
of the Great Pyramid. It had been excavated for the
space of twenty feet to the westward, and fifty-four feet to
the eastward of the centre to the depth of forty-seven
feet, when it became so narrow, that nothing further
could be done without blasting. As it was found to
be a natural fissure, and did not contain a passage, the
work was given up. A piece of stone with some plaster
adhering to it was dug up near the Fifth Pyramid, which
led me to believe that the entrance was not very distant,
and also that it had been opened. Some more pottery was
found in Campbell's Tomb, which was at last effectually
cleared out. The excavation in the Queen's Chamber
was also satisfactorily concluded: the stones of the roof
had been carried to a great distance into the masonry, in
order to secure the walls of the chamber from any super-
incumbent weight, and the ends of them were cut so as to
give them a perpendicular bearing.

June 30///.
Reis, 11. Men, 177. Children, 158.

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

-- Clearing the Pavement.

Excavation between Third and Fifth Pyramids.
Fourth Pyramid. —Interior.

In the afternoon, whilst I was examining the ruins
near the Second Pyramid, I was informed by an Arab
Sheik, that the entrance into one of the others had been
found. I immediately hastened to the Third, but upon
arriving I found that it was the entrance of the Fifth, which