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APPENDIX.
second was seven feet long, three feet and a half wide, and ten
feet high. Three grooves had been cut on the eastern and
western sides, within two feet and a half of the top, which he
says was wider than the bottom. These two apartments were
separated by a stone of red speckled marble, which was fixed
within three feet of the pavement, and two feet below the roof.
He mentions the lines that are cut perpendicularly over the
entrance into the King's Chamber, and, as he did not find any
other engravings or sculptures in the whole Pyramid, he was
much surprised at the statements of the Arabic authors, about the
various inscriptions said to have been engraved upon it, and was
at a loss to imagine upon what authority Dio, or his epitomiser
Xiphilinus, asserted that Cornelius Gallus, whom Strabo (lib. xvii.)
more truly names iElius Gallus, and with whom he travelled into
Egypt, had engraved in the Pyramids his victories, unless he
alluded to some other pyramids that had been destroyed.
From the antechamber he entered an apartment by a square
passage about the same size as the others, nine feet in length, and
formed of Thebaic marble. This chamber was twenty-four feet
distant from the great gallery, exactly in the centre of the Pyra-
mid, and nearly as far from the base as from the apex. It was
most beautifully formed of six ranges of blocks of Thebaic marble,
very highly polished ; and its roof consisted of nine stones of the
finest workmanship, and of equal widths, although the halves of
the two at the eastern and western ends were concealed by the
masonry.
Upon a minute examination, he found that the length of the
chamber was 34-38 English feet, the breadth 17-19 feet, and the
height 19-5 feet; and observes, as the apartment had remained
entire for so many ages, that it would probably serve for a con
siderable time as a standard of mensuration.
He adds the following scale of admeasurements : —
English feet
1000
Roman pes Colotianus
967
Paris ...
1068
Spanish
920
Venetian -
1062
Rhinland
1033
Braccio of Florence
1913
Braccio of Naples
- 2100
Derah of Cairo
1824
Pike of Constantinople
. ' - 2200
APPENDIX.
second was seven feet long, three feet and a half wide, and ten
feet high. Three grooves had been cut on the eastern and
western sides, within two feet and a half of the top, which he
says was wider than the bottom. These two apartments were
separated by a stone of red speckled marble, which was fixed
within three feet of the pavement, and two feet below the roof.
He mentions the lines that are cut perpendicularly over the
entrance into the King's Chamber, and, as he did not find any
other engravings or sculptures in the whole Pyramid, he was
much surprised at the statements of the Arabic authors, about the
various inscriptions said to have been engraved upon it, and was
at a loss to imagine upon what authority Dio, or his epitomiser
Xiphilinus, asserted that Cornelius Gallus, whom Strabo (lib. xvii.)
more truly names iElius Gallus, and with whom he travelled into
Egypt, had engraved in the Pyramids his victories, unless he
alluded to some other pyramids that had been destroyed.
From the antechamber he entered an apartment by a square
passage about the same size as the others, nine feet in length, and
formed of Thebaic marble. This chamber was twenty-four feet
distant from the great gallery, exactly in the centre of the Pyra-
mid, and nearly as far from the base as from the apex. It was
most beautifully formed of six ranges of blocks of Thebaic marble,
very highly polished ; and its roof consisted of nine stones of the
finest workmanship, and of equal widths, although the halves of
the two at the eastern and western ends were concealed by the
masonry.
Upon a minute examination, he found that the length of the
chamber was 34-38 English feet, the breadth 17-19 feet, and the
height 19-5 feet; and observes, as the apartment had remained
entire for so many ages, that it would probably serve for a con
siderable time as a standard of mensuration.
He adds the following scale of admeasurements : —
English feet
1000
Roman pes Colotianus
967
Paris ...
1068
Spanish
920
Venetian -
1062
Rhinland
1033
Braccio of Florence
1913
Braccio of Naples
- 2100
Derah of Cairo
1824
Pike of Constantinople
. ' - 2200