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64 OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
July 25th.
Reis, 11. Men, 100. Children, 89.
Third Pyramid.—Interior.
- Clearing the pavement.
Sixth Pyramid.—Clearing the passage.
Some charcoal was found under the stones in the
passage of the Sixth Pyramid; and, soon after the en-
trance had been cleared, it was again covered over by a
number of blocks, which fell from the top of the pyramid,
and were not removed without much labour and difficulty.
Fortunately no accident happened.
July 26th.
Reis, 11. Men, 110. Children, 98.
Third Pyramid.—Clearing the pavement.
Sixth Pyramid.—Blasting stones in northern front.
- Clearing the passage.
The excavation in the interior of the Third Pyramid
was at length entirely given up, and the men were em-
ployed to blast the stones that had fallen over the en-
trance of the Sixth. They were good workmen, and had
attended very regularly for many weeks.
I rode with Mr. Hill a little way into the desert.
Nothing was to be seen but a dreary prospect of black
craggy rocks, and of extensive hollows filled up with
yellow sand. It has never, probably, been explored ; and
as, in the lapse of centuries, great changes may have
taken place, the examination of it for a few miles might
afford some curious discoveries.
The remains of mounds, and tombs, and lines (appa-
rently periboli), are to be traced on the high ground to the
westward of the Second and Third Pyramids, where the
July 25th.
Reis, 11. Men, 100. Children, 89.
Third Pyramid.—Interior.
- Clearing the pavement.
Sixth Pyramid.—Clearing the passage.
Some charcoal was found under the stones in the
passage of the Sixth Pyramid; and, soon after the en-
trance had been cleared, it was again covered over by a
number of blocks, which fell from the top of the pyramid,
and were not removed without much labour and difficulty.
Fortunately no accident happened.
July 26th.
Reis, 11. Men, 110. Children, 98.
Third Pyramid.—Clearing the pavement.
Sixth Pyramid.—Blasting stones in northern front.
- Clearing the passage.
The excavation in the interior of the Third Pyramid
was at length entirely given up, and the men were em-
ployed to blast the stones that had fallen over the en-
trance of the Sixth. They were good workmen, and had
attended very regularly for many weeks.
I rode with Mr. Hill a little way into the desert.
Nothing was to be seen but a dreary prospect of black
craggy rocks, and of extensive hollows filled up with
yellow sand. It has never, probably, been explored ; and
as, in the lapse of centuries, great changes may have
taken place, the examination of it for a few miles might
afford some curious discoveries.
The remains of mounds, and tombs, and lines (appa-
rently periboli), are to be traced on the high ground to the
westward of the Second and Third Pyramids, where the