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APPENDIX.
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wide, and as many high, which must have been placed there
when the Pyramid was built. The cover had been taken away.
He conceives that the king was buried in it, and that many of his
attendants were also enclosed alive in the chamber, who were
successively buried by each other in separate coffins, excepting
the last, who, M. Maillet remarks, could not have received any
assistance, and must therefore have buried himself. He was led
to this conclusion by observing the air-boles, which he states to
have been exactly in the middle of the opposite walls, and at the
height of 31 feet from the pavement. That on the northern side
was one foot wide, eight inches high, and had penetrated, in a
horizontal direction, to the outside of the Pyramid. M. Maillet,
however, found it stopped up with rubbish to within five or six
feet of the chamber. The mouth of the other channel, which he
says was on the eastern side, he describes as being perfectly
round, and big enough to admit two fists. He says that it was
a foot in diameter, and descended towards the bottom of the
Pyramid.7 He conceives that these communications were made
for the use of those persons who were buried alive with the dead
king; that by the former they received air and also nourishment,
by means of a wooden box drawn in and out with cords, and that
hy the latter all impurities were removed. He says that he was
unwilling to search for the opening of the northern channel, for
fear of exciting the jealousy of the Arabs, but that he had no doubt
upon the subject. He then states that the large gallery was
necessarily spacious to contain, on several scaffoldings, the stones
with which the lower part of it, the horizontal passage and the
ascending passage, were eventually filled up; that the space was
exactly calculated to receive the whole of the materials, and
that they must have been placed there when the Pyramid was
built. He conceives that there were other passages still undis-
covered, situated, most probably, between the two chambers
already mentioned.
He then gives nearly the same account of the well as M.
Thevenot, and conjectures that, when the funeral had taken place,
the workmen closed up the passages with the stones contained in
the Great (Jallery, and descended by the shaft, the upper part
°f which was afterwards, by some contrivance, closed with ma-
7 After reading this description, stated to have been the result of direful and
re|>eated examinations, 110 person would suppose that both these channel] incline
upward*.
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wide, and as many high, which must have been placed there
when the Pyramid was built. The cover had been taken away.
He conceives that the king was buried in it, and that many of his
attendants were also enclosed alive in the chamber, who were
successively buried by each other in separate coffins, excepting
the last, who, M. Maillet remarks, could not have received any
assistance, and must therefore have buried himself. He was led
to this conclusion by observing the air-boles, which he states to
have been exactly in the middle of the opposite walls, and at the
height of 31 feet from the pavement. That on the northern side
was one foot wide, eight inches high, and had penetrated, in a
horizontal direction, to the outside of the Pyramid. M. Maillet,
however, found it stopped up with rubbish to within five or six
feet of the chamber. The mouth of the other channel, which he
says was on the eastern side, he describes as being perfectly
round, and big enough to admit two fists. He says that it was
a foot in diameter, and descended towards the bottom of the
Pyramid.7 He conceives that these communications were made
for the use of those persons who were buried alive with the dead
king; that by the former they received air and also nourishment,
by means of a wooden box drawn in and out with cords, and that
hy the latter all impurities were removed. He says that he was
unwilling to search for the opening of the northern channel, for
fear of exciting the jealousy of the Arabs, but that he had no doubt
upon the subject. He then states that the large gallery was
necessarily spacious to contain, on several scaffoldings, the stones
with which the lower part of it, the horizontal passage and the
ascending passage, were eventually filled up; that the space was
exactly calculated to receive the whole of the materials, and
that they must have been placed there when the Pyramid was
built. He conceives that there were other passages still undis-
covered, situated, most probably, between the two chambers
already mentioned.
He then gives nearly the same account of the well as M.
Thevenot, and conjectures that, when the funeral had taken place,
the workmen closed up the passages with the stones contained in
the Great (Jallery, and descended by the shaft, the upper part
°f which was afterwards, by some contrivance, closed with ma-
7 After reading this description, stated to have been the result of direful and
re|>eated examinations, 110 person would suppose that both these channel] incline
upward*.