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APPENDIX.
Ethiopian stone; and from Diodorus Siculus, that it was so cased
for fifteen tiers, each of them five feet deep; and he found by
admeasurement that these accounts were tolerably correct. He
then adverts to the assertion of Strabo, that on account of the
rcrttement, this Pyramid cost as much as the others. He adds
that a considerable part of these granite blocks are yet to be seen
scattered near the building, some of them above five feet in
height. The three smaller Pyramids, to the south of the Third,
he concludes to be those mentioned by Diodorus as the tombs of
the Queens. The two to the westward were eighty-seven feet
square, and built of three degrees, ten feet broad — each degree
consisting of three tiers of stones, four or five feet deep, that set
out about one foot. The eastern of these three Pyramids was
called the Fourth, and was one hundred feet square. The origin
of all these buildings was, in his opinion, the practice of covering
small eminences with masonry, as funeral monuments ; and he
supposes that all the Pyramids have been built round masses of
rock; that the Great Pyramid was built over two rocky eminences
—the present entrance having been placed on the top of one, and
the room containing the Tomb (the King's Chamber) on the top
of another; and that the passages and lower chambers "might
have been cut in the side of the hill, though at some distance from
the outside of it."
DR. PERRY (1743)
Says that the Pyramids are very numerous ; that there are above
twenty large ones, and that the two biggest at Gizeh were those
generally visited ; that they were situated about six miles west-
ward from the river, and were called the Pyramids of Memphis,
but that it was not known by whom, or when, they were built, or
for what purpose, whicli appeared to him extraordinary, con-
sidering- their enormous magnitude, and the regular chronological
account of every great occurrence supposed to have been kept by
the antient Egyptians. He conceives, however, that even now
some account of them may yet be discovered in the hieroglyphic
character. He remarks that an equal uncertainty exists as to the
height and base of the Great Pyramid,5 that according to the
5 Tbis may be owing to the dilapidated state of the building, and to the base
having been covered with sand and rubbish. The building was, no doubt, equi-
lateral and rectangular.
APPENDIX.
Ethiopian stone; and from Diodorus Siculus, that it was so cased
for fifteen tiers, each of them five feet deep; and he found by
admeasurement that these accounts were tolerably correct. He
then adverts to the assertion of Strabo, that on account of the
rcrttement, this Pyramid cost as much as the others. He adds
that a considerable part of these granite blocks are yet to be seen
scattered near the building, some of them above five feet in
height. The three smaller Pyramids, to the south of the Third,
he concludes to be those mentioned by Diodorus as the tombs of
the Queens. The two to the westward were eighty-seven feet
square, and built of three degrees, ten feet broad — each degree
consisting of three tiers of stones, four or five feet deep, that set
out about one foot. The eastern of these three Pyramids was
called the Fourth, and was one hundred feet square. The origin
of all these buildings was, in his opinion, the practice of covering
small eminences with masonry, as funeral monuments ; and he
supposes that all the Pyramids have been built round masses of
rock; that the Great Pyramid was built over two rocky eminences
—the present entrance having been placed on the top of one, and
the room containing the Tomb (the King's Chamber) on the top
of another; and that the passages and lower chambers "might
have been cut in the side of the hill, though at some distance from
the outside of it."
DR. PERRY (1743)
Says that the Pyramids are very numerous ; that there are above
twenty large ones, and that the two biggest at Gizeh were those
generally visited ; that they were situated about six miles west-
ward from the river, and were called the Pyramids of Memphis,
but that it was not known by whom, or when, they were built, or
for what purpose, whicli appeared to him extraordinary, con-
sidering- their enormous magnitude, and the regular chronological
account of every great occurrence supposed to have been kept by
the antient Egyptians. He conceives, however, that even now
some account of them may yet be discovered in the hieroglyphic
character. He remarks that an equal uncertainty exists as to the
height and base of the Great Pyramid,5 that according to the
5 Tbis may be owing to the dilapidated state of the building, and to the base
having been covered with sand and rubbish. The building was, no doubt, equi-
lateral and rectangular.