Howard-Vyse, Richard William Howard: Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into upper Egypt, and Appendix (Band 2) (London, 1841)

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APPENDIX.

Feet. Inches.

Tliis passage is filled up with sand, and the forced
passage from it communicates with the passage
above, which continues, in an ascending direc-
tion, in the same line, towards the southward, as
the passage of entrance.
Ascending passage.

Length - - - 96 0

Breadth and height - - 3 G

At the end of this passage is a well, cut, partly in
the rock, to the depth of twenty-seven toises ;
near the well is a platform.
Length - - - 12 0

Breadth - - - 3 4

Whence, to the southward, in the same lineal direc-
tion, is a horizontal passage.
Length - - - - 113 0

Height and breadth - - 3 0

Which conducts to a chamber.

Length - - - - 18 0

Breadth - - - 16 0

Height of the angular roof - - 11 3

There is a niche, of ten or twelve paces in depth, on
the left hand of the chamber on entering it,
in which an excavation has been made, and
the stones and rubbish have been left in the
chamber. Returning from this chamber, and,
from the horizontal passage to the well, the
passage continues—
Ascending - - - 13G 0

Breadth between the walls - - 6 6

Breadth between the ramps on each side - 3 6
Breadth and height of the ramps on each side 1 6
Holes in the ramps.

Length - - - I 8

Breadth - - - 0 6

Depth, about - - - 0 6

Distance from one hole to another, about - 3 4
Fifty-six holes in both the ramps, twenty-eight
inches each.

Height of the roof of this passage - 22 6

At the end of this passage is a horizontal passage.

Length - - - 21 0

Breadth - - - 3 8