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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
July 5th.
Reis, 6. Men, ICO. Children, 85.
Third Pyramid.—Interior.
-■ Clearing the pavement.
Fourth Pyramid.—Clearing the chambers and passage.
Fifth Pyramid--Clearing the chambers and passage.
The interior of the Fourth Pyramid was practicable,
and it was carefully examined.7 The passage conducted
to an anteroom, which was coated with white stucco; it
contained a quantity of sand and of broken stones; and
as the southern side had been forced in search of another
apartment, it appears that the first explorers were en-
tirely ignorant of its interior construction. Immediately
beneath the roof, a cavity about two feet deep ran along
the western side, and extended over the sepulchral cham-
ber, which was ceiled with large blocks of well-wrought
calcareous stone, laid horizontally from east to west, and
supported on ledges cut in the solid rock, and not on the
linings of the chamber; so that, except for the cavity, the
roof could not have been formed. This cavity had been
closed up with masonry, which was
Aentirely removed, and nothing was
found in it, excepting a fragment of
grey stone, inscribed with two hiero-
glyphics. A short inclined passage
from the western side of the anteroom, near the north-
western angle, communicated with the sepulchral cham-
ber. It had been closed with a door of granite, which
7 The dimensions are given in the Appendix.
8 "Giver of life" generally concludes the titles and names of
Pharaohs. — Mr. BinCH.
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
July 5th.
Reis, 6. Men, ICO. Children, 85.
Third Pyramid.—Interior.
-■ Clearing the pavement.
Fourth Pyramid.—Clearing the chambers and passage.
Fifth Pyramid--Clearing the chambers and passage.
The interior of the Fourth Pyramid was practicable,
and it was carefully examined.7 The passage conducted
to an anteroom, which was coated with white stucco; it
contained a quantity of sand and of broken stones; and
as the southern side had been forced in search of another
apartment, it appears that the first explorers were en-
tirely ignorant of its interior construction. Immediately
beneath the roof, a cavity about two feet deep ran along
the western side, and extended over the sepulchral cham-
ber, which was ceiled with large blocks of well-wrought
calcareous stone, laid horizontally from east to west, and
supported on ledges cut in the solid rock, and not on the
linings of the chamber; so that, except for the cavity, the
roof could not have been formed. This cavity had been
closed up with masonry, which was
Aentirely removed, and nothing was
found in it, excepting a fragment of
grey stone, inscribed with two hiero-
glyphics. A short inclined passage
from the western side of the anteroom, near the north-
western angle, communicated with the sepulchral cham-
ber. It had been closed with a door of granite, which
7 The dimensions are given in the Appendix.
8 "Giver of life" generally concludes the titles and names of
Pharaohs. — Mr. BinCH.