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thirty-six feet long, six feet wide, and twenty-four feet high,
with ramps on each side ; and at the upper end a platform,
whence a corridor composed of blocks of granite, twenty-one
feet long, three feet eight inches wide, and three feet four inches
high, led to the sepulchral apartment. This chamber was thirty-
three feet long, sixteen feet wide, and sixteen feet high; had a
flat ceiling, composed of six large stones ; and contained a tomb of
granite, very like that which the Abbe had seen in the church of
St. Athanasius, at Alexandria. It was hewn out of a single stone,
and was seven feet long, three feet wide, and three feet high,
and he found it entirely empty. In returning from this chamber,
a passage was visible, which led to a small apartment, apparently
the highest in the Pyramid.3 The Abbe then ascended the Pyra-
mid, and found the top of it about twelve feet square ; and upon
it he observed six large stones, arranged in the form of an L,
which he was told signified a hieroglyphic.

MONSIEUR SAVARY (1777),

Who travelled in 1777, visited the interior of the Great Pyramid,
and afterwards ascended to the top, by the usual path at the
north-eastern angle. He gives the dimensions of the Great Pyra-
mid from the following authors: —





Height.

Base.



Herodotus



800 feet.

800

feet.

Strabo



625 —

600



Diodorus



600 —

700



Pliny





708



Le Brun



616 —

704



Prosper Alpinus -



625 —

750



Thevenot



520 —

682



Niebuhr



440 —

710



Greaves



444 —

648



Number

of Ranges of Stone.





Greaves







207

Maillet







208

Albert Lewinstein







260

Pococke







212

Belon - - - - - 250

Thevenot 208

3 This must have been Davison's Chamber.