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APPENDIX.
Pavement at the centre of the northern front. Feet. Inches.
Width from the original base - - 33 6
Thickness of stones - - - 1 9
Note.—The chasm discovered in the pavement
was about 47 feet 6 inches deep.
The courses of stone in the Pyramid vary from
2 feet 2 inches, to 4 feet 10 inches in height.
Mr. Perriug's Account of the Shaft sunk in the Subterraneous
Chamber, during the Summer of 1838.
Base of the Great Pyramid was above the Nile in 1838 137 3
The rise, that has gradually taken in the bed of the river,
is (according to Mr. Wilkinson) about - 10
147
From the base of the pyramid to the ceiling Feet. Inches.
of the subterraneous apartment - 90 8
Height of apartment - - 116
Probable height of any undiscovered chamber 10
112 2
35
The shaft has been sunk to the depth of 36 feet.
THE SECOND PYRAMID.
As the rock upon which the Pyramids are placed rises con-
siderably to the westward, in preparing a base for the Second, it
has been levelled so as to form an area round the building,
hounded on the western and northern sides by a low cliff, in
which grottoes containing shafts have been excavated; but imme-
diately under the pyramid, the rock has been merely stepped up
in horizontal layers, and it appears at the south-western corner
eleven feet ten inches, and at the north-western fourteen feet
three inches above the base.8 The stone that has been removed
was no doubt used in the building. Sepulchral shafts have been
sunk before the northern front; and the rock sounds hollow in
several places between the two larger pyramids, and probably
• See page 160, Vol. I.
APPENDIX.
Pavement at the centre of the northern front. Feet. Inches.
Width from the original base - - 33 6
Thickness of stones - - - 1 9
Note.—The chasm discovered in the pavement
was about 47 feet 6 inches deep.
The courses of stone in the Pyramid vary from
2 feet 2 inches, to 4 feet 10 inches in height.
Mr. Perriug's Account of the Shaft sunk in the Subterraneous
Chamber, during the Summer of 1838.
Base of the Great Pyramid was above the Nile in 1838 137 3
The rise, that has gradually taken in the bed of the river,
is (according to Mr. Wilkinson) about - 10
147
From the base of the pyramid to the ceiling Feet. Inches.
of the subterraneous apartment - 90 8
Height of apartment - - 116
Probable height of any undiscovered chamber 10
112 2
35
The shaft has been sunk to the depth of 36 feet.
THE SECOND PYRAMID.
As the rock upon which the Pyramids are placed rises con-
siderably to the westward, in preparing a base for the Second, it
has been levelled so as to form an area round the building,
hounded on the western and northern sides by a low cliff, in
which grottoes containing shafts have been excavated; but imme-
diately under the pyramid, the rock has been merely stepped up
in horizontal layers, and it appears at the south-western corner
eleven feet ten inches, and at the north-western fourteen feet
three inches above the base.8 The stone that has been removed
was no doubt used in the building. Sepulchral shafts have been
sunk before the northern front; and the rock sounds hollow in
several places between the two larger pyramids, and probably
• See page 160, Vol. I.