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APPENDIX. 27o
when exactly measured, gave a distance of 232m,747. This
was taken, across the heap of rubhish, from the north-eastern
to the north-western angle. The vertical height was taken by
measuring each step; and, including the two ruined tiers at the
top, it was found to be 139m l 17 (428. 3. 2$); and, excluding
the upper tiers, which made lm-117, exactly 138m (424.9. 11.)
There were also two hundred and three tiers, which, including
the part formed out of the rock, were 138m>598. (426. 8. 0^.)
To the place where two angular stones had been imbedded was
0--519. (1. 7. 2.) The height, therefore, from this bed to the
two ruined tiers at the top was 139m-117; and, including those
which the Pyramid may originally have had, would be 146m
(449^- feet,)—more than twice the height of the towers of Notre
Dame. He concludes, that the Pyramid was built upon a plat-
form 32m (100 feet) above the level of high Nile, that it contains
2,002,628 cubic metres, 8,669,305 cubic feet, and that it had been
originally covered with a smooth casing. Colonel Coutelle does
not mention any quarry-marks. ,
In a large tomb, westward of the Great Pyramid, a shaft
was discovered, whence, at the depth of 19-30 millimetres, 58-7
'"clies, a rough grotto proceeded, which extended east and west,
and contained a sarcophagus of granite, l'"-068 in height,
2m-675 in length, and lm-133 in width. It was placed north and
south, and had the same dimensions as that in the Great Pyramid ;
Jt was well polished, but without hieroglyphics. The lid was
fitted on by pommels, with corresponding hollows and grooves.
The mummy had been taken away. As the tombs, which had
been excavated, were found to have been plundered, Colonel
Coutelle and his companions determined to secure the possession
Of a sepulchre, which had never been opened or violated, by taking
down one of the smaller pyramids. They accordingly fixed upon
one of the three to the southward of the Third, the base of which
was 43m, and they concluded that a shaft would be discovered in
the centre of the building. The stones were from lm to lJ-m in
thickness, and weighed about six thousand kilogrammes, and they
had been removed from the top to more than half of its height
when the French evacuated Gizeh.
It appears, by the Colonel's account, that the back of the
Sphinx was the only part uncovered.
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when exactly measured, gave a distance of 232m,747. This
was taken, across the heap of rubhish, from the north-eastern
to the north-western angle. The vertical height was taken by
measuring each step; and, including the two ruined tiers at the
top, it was found to be 139m l 17 (428. 3. 2$); and, excluding
the upper tiers, which made lm-117, exactly 138m (424.9. 11.)
There were also two hundred and three tiers, which, including
the part formed out of the rock, were 138m>598. (426. 8. 0^.)
To the place where two angular stones had been imbedded was
0--519. (1. 7. 2.) The height, therefore, from this bed to the
two ruined tiers at the top was 139m-117; and, including those
which the Pyramid may originally have had, would be 146m
(449^- feet,)—more than twice the height of the towers of Notre
Dame. He concludes, that the Pyramid was built upon a plat-
form 32m (100 feet) above the level of high Nile, that it contains
2,002,628 cubic metres, 8,669,305 cubic feet, and that it had been
originally covered with a smooth casing. Colonel Coutelle does
not mention any quarry-marks. ,
In a large tomb, westward of the Great Pyramid, a shaft
was discovered, whence, at the depth of 19-30 millimetres, 58-7
'"clies, a rough grotto proceeded, which extended east and west,
and contained a sarcophagus of granite, l'"-068 in height,
2m-675 in length, and lm-133 in width. It was placed north and
south, and had the same dimensions as that in the Great Pyramid ;
Jt was well polished, but without hieroglyphics. The lid was
fitted on by pommels, with corresponding hollows and grooves.
The mummy had been taken away. As the tombs, which had
been excavated, were found to have been plundered, Colonel
Coutelle and his companions determined to secure the possession
Of a sepulchre, which had never been opened or violated, by taking
down one of the smaller pyramids. They accordingly fixed upon
one of the three to the southward of the Third, the base of which
was 43m, and they concluded that a shaft would be discovered in
the centre of the building. The stones were from lm to lJ-m in
thickness, and weighed about six thousand kilogrammes, and they
had been removed from the top to more than half of its height
when the French evacuated Gizeh.
It appears, by the Colonel's account, that the back of the
Sphinx was the only part uncovered.
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