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APPENDIX.
169
O'Conncll, Colonel Vyse, with an esprit dc corps, not a little
natural, assigns to it the name of Wellington. Neither name is,
in my opinion, well chosen ; for the Liberator of Ireland, a fame
more imperishable than even the Pyramids themselves, has
already been secured at the hands of the historian; whilst the
hero of Waterloo, if he be not remembered in the bridges, streets,
and boots, which are named after him, will for ever be preserved
in our memory by those annual instalments, which, in the form
of taxation, are levied in payment for his glory. In my opinion,
the apartment should be named after its discoverer, Caviglia, as
both the most proper and most euphonious title. Colonel Camp-
bell, whose name has been given to one of these discoveries, has
no right to identify himself in any way with the triumph of anti-
quarian science; not having, since his residence in Egypt, as
British consul, until the present questionable instance, lent the
slightest assistance to the cause of such researches. I would
recommend to his notice and imitation the very opposite conduct
of his worthy predecessor, Mr. Salt, who, whilst he patronized
the exertions of such enterprising individuals as Belzoni and
others, left them in the undisputed possession of all the honour
which justly accrued from their meritorious labours. I venture,
then, to give to the lately-discovered apartment the name of the
" Caviglia Chamber," in justice to the fame of an amiable and
enthusiastic devotee at the shrine of antiquarian learning—in
justice to one who has sacrificed country, home, friends, and
fortune, for the indulgence of the refined though eccentric taste
of exploring the hidden mysteries of the Pyramids and Tombs of
E5?)'l>t.
R. C.
Manchester, 20tk Aug. 1837.
Captain Caviglia, already known by the discoveries which he
made in 1817, in the interior of the Great Pyramid, by the dis-
covery of the temple situated betwixt the fore-feet of the Andro-
Sphinx, as well as by other labours crowned with similar success,
kegs to submit to the notice of the scientific world the results of
h'8 subsequent exertions in the same great field of antiquarian
learning
o
In 1820, upon revisiting the Great Pyramid, he was induced
to try un experiment, by pushing into the two small apertures,
169
O'Conncll, Colonel Vyse, with an esprit dc corps, not a little
natural, assigns to it the name of Wellington. Neither name is,
in my opinion, well chosen ; for the Liberator of Ireland, a fame
more imperishable than even the Pyramids themselves, has
already been secured at the hands of the historian; whilst the
hero of Waterloo, if he be not remembered in the bridges, streets,
and boots, which are named after him, will for ever be preserved
in our memory by those annual instalments, which, in the form
of taxation, are levied in payment for his glory. In my opinion,
the apartment should be named after its discoverer, Caviglia, as
both the most proper and most euphonious title. Colonel Camp-
bell, whose name has been given to one of these discoveries, has
no right to identify himself in any way with the triumph of anti-
quarian science; not having, since his residence in Egypt, as
British consul, until the present questionable instance, lent the
slightest assistance to the cause of such researches. I would
recommend to his notice and imitation the very opposite conduct
of his worthy predecessor, Mr. Salt, who, whilst he patronized
the exertions of such enterprising individuals as Belzoni and
others, left them in the undisputed possession of all the honour
which justly accrued from their meritorious labours. I venture,
then, to give to the lately-discovered apartment the name of the
" Caviglia Chamber," in justice to the fame of an amiable and
enthusiastic devotee at the shrine of antiquarian learning—in
justice to one who has sacrificed country, home, friends, and
fortune, for the indulgence of the refined though eccentric taste
of exploring the hidden mysteries of the Pyramids and Tombs of
E5?)'l>t.
R. C.
Manchester, 20tk Aug. 1837.
Captain Caviglia, already known by the discoveries which he
made in 1817, in the interior of the Great Pyramid, by the dis-
covery of the temple situated betwixt the fore-feet of the Andro-
Sphinx, as well as by other labours crowned with similar success,
kegs to submit to the notice of the scientific world the results of
h'8 subsequent exertions in the same great field of antiquarian
learning
o
In 1820, upon revisiting the Great Pyramid, he was induced
to try un experiment, by pushing into the two small apertures,