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APPENDIX.
M. LEBRUN (1674)
Says, that the Second and Third Pyramids were closed, and that
two of the three larger were nearly equal in size. He ascended,
by the mound of rubbish, to the entrance of the Great Pyramid,
which was on the sixteenth tier of stones from the bottom, and
about sixty feet eastward of the centre on the northern front. He
was informed, that the entrance had been formerly so exactly
closed up by a large stone, that it remained a long time undis-
covered, till a pacha at length succeeded in opening it.
The entrance he found to be square, and of the same size from
one end to the other, it being three feet and a half high, and of
nearly the same breadth; the large stone over it was about twelve
feet long, and more than eight feet broad. The inclined passage
continued to the length of seventy-six or seventy-seven feet, when
a short and inconvenient excavation opened into an ascending
passage, of about the same width, and of more than one hundred
feet in length, which had a coved roof formed of stones, from
twenty-five to thirty palms long. M. Lebrun states, that being
a good deal overcome with fatigue and dust, he trusted, in many
instances, to the observations of others : and proceeds to remark,
that a large hollow, which appeared to be the effect of time and
of dilapidation, was found at the bottom of the ascending pas-
sage ;B and that at the upper end of that communication, two others
commenced, the lower one in a horizontal, and the upper in an
ascending direction. He then mentions the well, and repeats M.
Thevenot's account of it, and also that gentleman's description of
the other passages and apartments, referring the reader to a
print in which it is to be observed that the sides of the great
gallery incline inwards and meet at the top. lie says, that the
sarcophagus was six feet two inches long, three feet one inch
broad, and three feet four inches high, and remarks, that most
probably it never had a cover, as it was reported that the body of
the king for whom it was intended had not been deposited in it.
Having been informed that there was a communication from this
chamber to other passages and apartments, he examined an exca-
vation which he found in it to the right of the entrance.9 It was
8 This is no doubt the forced entrance made by the caliphs, the mouth of which
was stopped up by the rubbish on the outside of the Pyramid.
,J The excavation in the floor near the north-western corner.
APPENDIX.
M. LEBRUN (1674)
Says, that the Second and Third Pyramids were closed, and that
two of the three larger were nearly equal in size. He ascended,
by the mound of rubbish, to the entrance of the Great Pyramid,
which was on the sixteenth tier of stones from the bottom, and
about sixty feet eastward of the centre on the northern front. He
was informed, that the entrance had been formerly so exactly
closed up by a large stone, that it remained a long time undis-
covered, till a pacha at length succeeded in opening it.
The entrance he found to be square, and of the same size from
one end to the other, it being three feet and a half high, and of
nearly the same breadth; the large stone over it was about twelve
feet long, and more than eight feet broad. The inclined passage
continued to the length of seventy-six or seventy-seven feet, when
a short and inconvenient excavation opened into an ascending
passage, of about the same width, and of more than one hundred
feet in length, which had a coved roof formed of stones, from
twenty-five to thirty palms long. M. Lebrun states, that being
a good deal overcome with fatigue and dust, he trusted, in many
instances, to the observations of others : and proceeds to remark,
that a large hollow, which appeared to be the effect of time and
of dilapidation, was found at the bottom of the ascending pas-
sage ;B and that at the upper end of that communication, two others
commenced, the lower one in a horizontal, and the upper in an
ascending direction. He then mentions the well, and repeats M.
Thevenot's account of it, and also that gentleman's description of
the other passages and apartments, referring the reader to a
print in which it is to be observed that the sides of the great
gallery incline inwards and meet at the top. lie says, that the
sarcophagus was six feet two inches long, three feet one inch
broad, and three feet four inches high, and remarks, that most
probably it never had a cover, as it was reported that the body of
the king for whom it was intended had not been deposited in it.
Having been informed that there was a communication from this
chamber to other passages and apartments, he examined an exca-
vation which he found in it to the right of the entrance.9 It was
8 This is no doubt the forced entrance made by the caliphs, the mouth of which
was stopped up by the rubbish on the outside of the Pyramid.
,J The excavation in the floor near the north-western corner.