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APPENDIX.
241
Feet. Indies.
Its height is unequal; in the middle of it are
groovings, and it is lined with granite. It
conducts to a chamber constructed with granite
in every part.
Length - - - - 32 0
Breadth - - ' - 16 0
Height (of five equal stones) - - 16 0
The ceiling is formed of nine large stones of equal size; but
half of the width of those at the sides are built into the walls. At
the right hand of this apartment, and at the distance of four feet
four inches from the wall, is a monolythic tomb of granite, without
any top. Its height is three feet and a half, length seven feet,
breadth three feet, thickness six inches. To the right of the
tomb, in the corner of the floor, is a hole about three paces long,
and about two toises deep. There are two holes near the door,
the one to the right and the other to the left, each about two
feet square; but their length is unknown; they appear to have
been part of the original construction.
M. ISORDEN (1737)
Says, that the Pyramids were tombs, and erected before hiero-
glyphics were invented, which were unintelligible at the time of
tbe Persian invasion under Canibyses. He also remarks, that
there are four principal Pyramids at Gizeh, besides several others
less worthy of notice; that all of them bad been built upon the
rock without any substructions ; that the height of each of the two
larger was five hundred feet; and that the Great Pyramid was
tbe only one that had been opened. He observes, that they were
constructed of unequal ranges of blocks, cut in the shape of
Prisms, and taken partly from tbe spot and partly from the
mountains on the other side of the Nile; and be adds, that mortar
had been used only in the interior. He does not believe that
these buildings had been cased, although the upper part of the
second Pyramid was covered with granite. He ascended, to the
entrance of tbe Great Pyramid, by a mound of rubbish on the
northern side ; — it was a little to the eastward of the centre, and
had been forced. An architrave over it shewed that it had had
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241
Feet. Indies.
Its height is unequal; in the middle of it are
groovings, and it is lined with granite. It
conducts to a chamber constructed with granite
in every part.
Length - - - - 32 0
Breadth - - ' - 16 0
Height (of five equal stones) - - 16 0
The ceiling is formed of nine large stones of equal size; but
half of the width of those at the sides are built into the walls. At
the right hand of this apartment, and at the distance of four feet
four inches from the wall, is a monolythic tomb of granite, without
any top. Its height is three feet and a half, length seven feet,
breadth three feet, thickness six inches. To the right of the
tomb, in the corner of the floor, is a hole about three paces long,
and about two toises deep. There are two holes near the door,
the one to the right and the other to the left, each about two
feet square; but their length is unknown; they appear to have
been part of the original construction.
M. ISORDEN (1737)
Says, that the Pyramids were tombs, and erected before hiero-
glyphics were invented, which were unintelligible at the time of
tbe Persian invasion under Canibyses. He also remarks, that
there are four principal Pyramids at Gizeh, besides several others
less worthy of notice; that all of them bad been built upon the
rock without any substructions ; that the height of each of the two
larger was five hundred feet; and that the Great Pyramid was
tbe only one that had been opened. He observes, that they were
constructed of unequal ranges of blocks, cut in the shape of
Prisms, and taken partly from tbe spot and partly from the
mountains on the other side of the Nile; and be adds, that mortar
had been used only in the interior. He does not believe that
these buildings had been cased, although the upper part of the
second Pyramid was covered with granite. He ascended, to the
entrance of tbe Great Pyramid, by a mound of rubbish on the
northern side ; — it was a little to the eastward of the centre, and
had been forced. An architrave over it shewed that it had had
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