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APPENDIX.

Inclined passage.

Feet.

Inche

Length -

- 56

9

Breadth -

3



Height -

3

ui

Angle 27° 12'.





Horizontal passage.





Length to portcullis

4

0

Thickness of portcullis

0

10i

From portcullis to apartment

8

9

Breadth

3

5j

Height ...

4

1

Apartment.





Length, east and west, north side

- 25

6

south side

25

2

Width

10

5

Height -

8

9

Depth of the roof below base

- 14

9

Sarcophagus.





Exterior, length

8

0J

- breadth - . -

3

3

-- depth

3

n

Interior, length

6

2

- breadth

1

9J

- depth

2

1

Former extent of base, 2361 square yards.

Present extent of base, 2116

TABLE OF DIMENSIONS OF THE SIXTH PYRAMID,0

THE WESTERN SOUTH OF THE THIRD.

[For description, see page 06, Vol. II.]

Square of base - - - - 102 G

Height of first step - - - 17 3

- second step - - - - 19 6

- third step - - - 19 6

- fourth step - - - - 13 3

6 Mr. Perring remarks, that this Pyramid is in ruins, and that it is the one into
which the French, during their occupation of Egypt, attempted to enter hy means
of artillery; a mode of inquiry, he observes, worthy of military $mnmi: this cir-
cumstance is alluded to by Colonel Coutelle.—See "Abstracts" from various authors.