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was thus discovered in two days.3 The passage was
in the masonry and in the centre of the northern front.
It had been completely built up with large blocks of stone,
laid in cement, and part of them had been cut through so
as to allow of a narrow entrance on the western side,
which, when discovered, was full of sand ; we there-
fore blocked up the mouth with loose stones, marked
with a pencil, and left Goodman in charge of it for the
night. A piece of buff earthenware with a green glaize
similar to that found in the northern front of the Great
Pyramid, and a small copper coin, were dug out of the
rubbish near this entrance.
The great stone, supposed to be granite, in the
bottom of the shaft in the Third Pyramid, was blasted;
the shaft was four feet northward, and thirteen feet east-
ward of the centre, so that had there been any chamber
or passage near that place, it must have been discovered.
Mr. Mash copied the hieroglyphics on the great stone
that covered the sarcophagus in Campbell's Tomb.4 He
then, in company with Mr. Andrews, examined the joint
at the mouth of the southern Air-channel, whence the iron
was taken by Mr. Hill.
July 1st.
Iteis, 11. Men, 220. Children, 183.
Second Pyramid.—Belzoni's Chamber.
3 The centre of this pyramid is rather to the east of that of the Third.
It is built of small stones in irregular courses, none of which are more
than two and a half feet in height. Most of the material had been quar-
ried on the spot; but a few blocks from the Mokattam mark the former
extent of the building, and shew that it had been at one time cased over
with hard stones.
4 See Appendix.
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
was thus discovered in two days.3 The passage was
in the masonry and in the centre of the northern front.
It had been completely built up with large blocks of stone,
laid in cement, and part of them had been cut through so
as to allow of a narrow entrance on the western side,
which, when discovered, was full of sand ; we there-
fore blocked up the mouth with loose stones, marked
with a pencil, and left Goodman in charge of it for the
night. A piece of buff earthenware with a green glaize
similar to that found in the northern front of the Great
Pyramid, and a small copper coin, were dug out of the
rubbish near this entrance.
The great stone, supposed to be granite, in the
bottom of the shaft in the Third Pyramid, was blasted;
the shaft was four feet northward, and thirteen feet east-
ward of the centre, so that had there been any chamber
or passage near that place, it must have been discovered.
Mr. Mash copied the hieroglyphics on the great stone
that covered the sarcophagus in Campbell's Tomb.4 He
then, in company with Mr. Andrews, examined the joint
at the mouth of the southern Air-channel, whence the iron
was taken by Mr. Hill.
July 1st.
Iteis, 11. Men, 220. Children, 183.
Second Pyramid.—Belzoni's Chamber.
3 The centre of this pyramid is rather to the east of that of the Third.
It is built of small stones in irregular courses, none of which are more
than two and a half feet in height. Most of the material had been quar-
ried on the spot; but a few blocks from the Mokattam mark the former
extent of the building, and shew that it had been at one time cased over
with hard stones.
4 See Appendix.