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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
in which is this cartouche. It is also inscribed
upon the blocks sent over by the late Mr.
Salt, which are now in the British Museum.
As it had been arranged that the antiqui-
ties found at the Pyramids were to belong to
the Pacha, every thing, that had been disco-
vered since the 13th of February, was de-
i livered to Colonel Campbell, who made ap-
plication to Boghos Bey for those articles, which I desired
to take to England. A list of them is given in the
Appendix, and a few articles are added, which I collected
at Thebes, in Upper Egypt. A list is likewise given of
those left with Colonel Campbell at Alexandria.
On the 27th of August I took leave of my friends at
that place, and sailed for Malta.
Since my return to this country I have received many
interesting letters from Mr. Perring, containing remarks,
most of which are embodied in this Journal. He entertained
an opinion that a secret passage existed in the Second
Pyramid; and it may be observed that the same idea
seems always to have prevailed respecting the other
pyramids, and also the tombs at Thebes; but, although
universally searched for, no such communication has
been found in any of the Pyramids at Gizeh, with the
exception of the concealed entrance in the Third. There
1 This name reads pe-Ojq or pG-.i>q by a metathesis gives UJCJpe,
or ^qpe, Shefre or Khefre, Shefrenes or Kefrenes, Kitp^vm, the t>is
being a mere Greek terminal; another instance that the solar disc at
the commencement of the prenomen was often suffixed in the spoken
language. The same monarch is called Suphis II.: his name is not
that supposed to be so by M. Itosellini in the cartouche found in the
First Pyramid, and in the Tomb of Trades.—Mr. Birch.
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
in which is this cartouche. It is also inscribed
upon the blocks sent over by the late Mr.
Salt, which are now in the British Museum.
As it had been arranged that the antiqui-
ties found at the Pyramids were to belong to
the Pacha, every thing, that had been disco-
vered since the 13th of February, was de-
i livered to Colonel Campbell, who made ap-
plication to Boghos Bey for those articles, which I desired
to take to England. A list of them is given in the
Appendix, and a few articles are added, which I collected
at Thebes, in Upper Egypt. A list is likewise given of
those left with Colonel Campbell at Alexandria.
On the 27th of August I took leave of my friends at
that place, and sailed for Malta.
Since my return to this country I have received many
interesting letters from Mr. Perring, containing remarks,
most of which are embodied in this Journal. He entertained
an opinion that a secret passage existed in the Second
Pyramid; and it may be observed that the same idea
seems always to have prevailed respecting the other
pyramids, and also the tombs at Thebes; but, although
universally searched for, no such communication has
been found in any of the Pyramids at Gizeh, with the
exception of the concealed entrance in the Third. There
1 This name reads pe-Ojq or pG-.i>q by a metathesis gives UJCJpe,
or ^qpe, Shefre or Khefre, Shefrenes or Kefrenes, Kitp^vm, the t>is
being a mere Greek terminal; another instance that the solar disc at
the commencement of the prenomen was often suffixed in the spoken
language. The same monarch is called Suphis II.: his name is not
that supposed to be so by M. Itosellini in the cartouche found in the
First Pyramid, and in the Tomb of Trades.—Mr. Birch.