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APPENDIX.
229
DE CARERI (1693)
Received from Fulgentius de Tovas, a Capuchin, a plan, with the
dimensions, of the Great Pyramid; and also a plan of the well,
from an account of Lazarus, a Capuchin, who had explored it
ahout the year 1670. He went to the top of the building, and he
says that there were two hundred and eight ranges of stone, and
that the whole had been cased with marble — that the perpen-
dicular height was five hundred and twenty feet, and the base six
hundred and eighty-two feet. The summit, composed of twelve
stones, was sixteen feet eight inches square. The entrance was on
the eighteenth range from the bottom. The inclined passage was
seventy-eight feet long, three feet and a half high, and three feet
and a quarter broad. It led to a space ten feet wide, which opened
to another ascending passage, seventy-six feet long, at the end of
which there were two ways, — the one, an horizontal passage,
twelve paces in length, with a room at the end; and the other, six
feet four inches in width, ascended for the length of one hundred
and sixty-two feet, to a gallery, which conducted to a room thirty-
two feet long, sixteen feet wide, and nineteen feet high, with a
flat roof of nine stones. The apartment contained an empty
marble tomb seven feet two inches long, three feet one inch broad,
three feet three inches high. At the junction of the ascending
with the horizontal passage, there was a well on the right hand,
from which, at the depth of seventy-seven feet, a small cavern
branched to the westward, whence an oblique-descending passage,
two feet four inches broad, and two feet and a half high, had
heen cut in the rock. At the depth of one hundred and twenty-
three feet, the well was entirely filled up with sand and stones.
The Arabs said, that a passage at the bottom of it conducted to
the Sphinx.
Entrance into the Pyramid. Feet. Inches.
Height - - - 3 6
Width - - - - 3 3
Length - - - - 76 0
Space at the end of the descent - - 10 0
First ascent.
Length - - - - 76 0
229
DE CARERI (1693)
Received from Fulgentius de Tovas, a Capuchin, a plan, with the
dimensions, of the Great Pyramid; and also a plan of the well,
from an account of Lazarus, a Capuchin, who had explored it
ahout the year 1670. He went to the top of the building, and he
says that there were two hundred and eight ranges of stone, and
that the whole had been cased with marble — that the perpen-
dicular height was five hundred and twenty feet, and the base six
hundred and eighty-two feet. The summit, composed of twelve
stones, was sixteen feet eight inches square. The entrance was on
the eighteenth range from the bottom. The inclined passage was
seventy-eight feet long, three feet and a half high, and three feet
and a quarter broad. It led to a space ten feet wide, which opened
to another ascending passage, seventy-six feet long, at the end of
which there were two ways, — the one, an horizontal passage,
twelve paces in length, with a room at the end; and the other, six
feet four inches in width, ascended for the length of one hundred
and sixty-two feet, to a gallery, which conducted to a room thirty-
two feet long, sixteen feet wide, and nineteen feet high, with a
flat roof of nine stones. The apartment contained an empty
marble tomb seven feet two inches long, three feet one inch broad,
three feet three inches high. At the junction of the ascending
with the horizontal passage, there was a well on the right hand,
from which, at the depth of seventy-seven feet, a small cavern
branched to the westward, whence an oblique-descending passage,
two feet four inches broad, and two feet and a half high, had
heen cut in the rock. At the depth of one hundred and twenty-
three feet, the well was entirely filled up with sand and stones.
The Arabs said, that a passage at the bottom of it conducted to
the Sphinx.
Entrance into the Pyramid. Feet. Inches.
Height - - - 3 6
Width - - - - 3 3
Length - - - - 76 0
Space at the end of the descent - - 10 0
First ascent.
Length - - - - 76 0