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APPENDIX.
canal. Historical events, and astronomical and medical treatises,
were engraved upon them. The First was especially dedicated to
history and astronomy; the Second to medical knowledge, and
contained, in thirty chambers of granite, talismans, malleable
glass, and other treasures; the priests were buried in sarcophagi
made of granite, in the Third, and their annals were deposited
with them. The stones of which the Pyramids are composed
were fastened by iron rods through their centres, and by melted
lead, and had been worked down from the top. These buildings
were one hundred royal (five hundred common) cubits in height.
They had all of them entrances forty cubits high; that of the
eastern looked towards the east, of the Second to the west, and
that of the Third to the south; that the entrances were one
hundred cubits from the centre of their respective fronts, where
the passages commenced.5
Abou Abd Allah Mohammed Ben Abdurakim Alkaisi,—
that the Pyramids had quadrangular bases, and triangular sides ;
that they were eighteen in number; that the three largest were
opposite to Fostat, and had bases five hundred cubits square,
and were of the same height. That the largest (Haroun Youssef)
was five hundred cubits in height, and had a circumference
of two thousand. It was constructed with stones fifty cubits square.
He also says, that the highest Pyramid was at the town of
Haroun Misr; that it was like a mountain, and was built in five
terraces, and was called " Meidoun."
Abou Yazid al Balkiii, — that an inscription was found upon
a stone in the eastern Pyramid, which declared that, at the time
when the two Pyramids were built, the Eagle was in conjunction
with Gemini, 72,000 solar years before the Hegra.6
Abou Mohammed al Hassan Ben Ahmed Ben Yakub al
Hamadani/—that the Pyramids were antediluvian, and that they
resisted the force of the flood.
From another author, that the construction of the two
J M, Jomard imagines that the entrances are intended to be described as being
forty cubits within the buildings, and that the passages were filled up with masonry
for the distance of one hundred cubits.
6 According to M. Jomard's translation of this author, Leo was in conjunction
with Cancer. He remarks, that this account is very obscure; and says, that the
traditions that the Pyramids were antediluvian buildings only prove their great
antiquity, and that nothing certain was known about them; for that they have been
attributed to Venephes, the fourth king of the first dynasty, and to Sensuphis, the
second king of the fourth Memphite race.
APPENDIX.
canal. Historical events, and astronomical and medical treatises,
were engraved upon them. The First was especially dedicated to
history and astronomy; the Second to medical knowledge, and
contained, in thirty chambers of granite, talismans, malleable
glass, and other treasures; the priests were buried in sarcophagi
made of granite, in the Third, and their annals were deposited
with them. The stones of which the Pyramids are composed
were fastened by iron rods through their centres, and by melted
lead, and had been worked down from the top. These buildings
were one hundred royal (five hundred common) cubits in height.
They had all of them entrances forty cubits high; that of the
eastern looked towards the east, of the Second to the west, and
that of the Third to the south; that the entrances were one
hundred cubits from the centre of their respective fronts, where
the passages commenced.5
Abou Abd Allah Mohammed Ben Abdurakim Alkaisi,—
that the Pyramids had quadrangular bases, and triangular sides ;
that they were eighteen in number; that the three largest were
opposite to Fostat, and had bases five hundred cubits square,
and were of the same height. That the largest (Haroun Youssef)
was five hundred cubits in height, and had a circumference
of two thousand. It was constructed with stones fifty cubits square.
He also says, that the highest Pyramid was at the town of
Haroun Misr; that it was like a mountain, and was built in five
terraces, and was called " Meidoun."
Abou Yazid al Balkiii, — that an inscription was found upon
a stone in the eastern Pyramid, which declared that, at the time
when the two Pyramids were built, the Eagle was in conjunction
with Gemini, 72,000 solar years before the Hegra.6
Abou Mohammed al Hassan Ben Ahmed Ben Yakub al
Hamadani/—that the Pyramids were antediluvian, and that they
resisted the force of the flood.
From another author, that the construction of the two
J M, Jomard imagines that the entrances are intended to be described as being
forty cubits within the buildings, and that the passages were filled up with masonry
for the distance of one hundred cubits.
6 According to M. Jomard's translation of this author, Leo was in conjunction
with Cancer. He remarks, that this account is very obscure; and says, that the
traditions that the Pyramids were antediluvian buildings only prove their great
antiquity, and that nothing certain was known about them; for that they have been
attributed to Venephes, the fourth king of the first dynasty, and to Sensuphis, the
second king of the fourth Memphite race.