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APPENDIX.
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the Sarcophagus is placed, and of the same size, hut lower; and
the entrance to it is about thirty feet ahove the floor of the passage
leading to the King's Chamber. He observed the petrefactions
in the masonry of the Pyramids, and also in the adjacent rock.
Dimensions by M. Niebiiltr.
Feet.
Elevation of the base of the Great Pyramid above the Nile 200
Distance between the nearest angles of the Great and of
the Second Pyramids ... 565
Elevation of base of the Second Pyramid above that of the
Great - - - - 34
Base of Second Pyramid ... 705
Base of western side of Great Pyramid - - 710
Inclined height of south-western angle of the Great Pyramid 500
Height of Great Pyramid - - 440
MR. DAVISON (1763).
An account of this gentleman's operations is contained in the
memoirs of the Rev. Robert Walpole, and has been alluded to
at some length in the nineteenth volume of the " Quarterly
Review." It appears that Mr. Davison took the height of the
Great Pyramid of Gizeh first, by measuring the ranges of stone,
and, subsequently, with a theodolite, and that both accounts
agreed. He found the number of ranges to be two hundred and
s,x • the perpendicular height of the Pyramid four hundred and
Slxty feet eleven inches; the base seven hundred and forty-six
^et; and that the platform at the top was composed of six stones.
The entrance, in the northern front, was upon the sixteenth
range from the base, and three hundred and fifty feet from the
north-eastern, and three hundred and ninety-six feet from the
noi th-Western angle; and the base was, on the 22d of October,
"ne hundred and sixty-three feet above the level of the Nile.
e afterwards measured the interior of the Pyramid. He then
examined the two oblong excavations to the eastward of it; the
second, the third, and two ruined pyramids eastward of them;
another built upon a square rock, and those to the southward of
tne third.5
The two ruined Pyramids eastward of the Second and Third, and the one on a
*l>iare rock, are no longer to be distinguished; it is just possible, that by the two
rni«, Mr. Davison alluded to the ruins of the temples.
255
the Sarcophagus is placed, and of the same size, hut lower; and
the entrance to it is about thirty feet ahove the floor of the passage
leading to the King's Chamber. He observed the petrefactions
in the masonry of the Pyramids, and also in the adjacent rock.
Dimensions by M. Niebiiltr.
Feet.
Elevation of the base of the Great Pyramid above the Nile 200
Distance between the nearest angles of the Great and of
the Second Pyramids ... 565
Elevation of base of the Second Pyramid above that of the
Great - - - - 34
Base of Second Pyramid ... 705
Base of western side of Great Pyramid - - 710
Inclined height of south-western angle of the Great Pyramid 500
Height of Great Pyramid - - 440
MR. DAVISON (1763).
An account of this gentleman's operations is contained in the
memoirs of the Rev. Robert Walpole, and has been alluded to
at some length in the nineteenth volume of the " Quarterly
Review." It appears that Mr. Davison took the height of the
Great Pyramid of Gizeh first, by measuring the ranges of stone,
and, subsequently, with a theodolite, and that both accounts
agreed. He found the number of ranges to be two hundred and
s,x • the perpendicular height of the Pyramid four hundred and
Slxty feet eleven inches; the base seven hundred and forty-six
^et; and that the platform at the top was composed of six stones.
The entrance, in the northern front, was upon the sixteenth
range from the base, and three hundred and fifty feet from the
north-eastern, and three hundred and ninety-six feet from the
noi th-Western angle; and the base was, on the 22d of October,
"ne hundred and sixty-three feet above the level of the Nile.
e afterwards measured the interior of the Pyramid. He then
examined the two oblong excavations to the eastward of it; the
second, the third, and two ruined pyramids eastward of them;
another built upon a square rock, and those to the southward of
tne third.5
The two ruined Pyramids eastward of the Second and Third, and the one on a
*l>iare rock, are no longer to be distinguished; it is just possible, that by the two
rni«, Mr. Davison alluded to the ruins of the temples.