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APPENDIX.
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attended with great labour and expense, and with more time, than
he had at his disposal. He therefore sent for the sheik of the
village, and the reis, whom he had employed, and he offered
them two purses (about 10/.) if they would discover the entrance
by the time of his return from the Faioum; but they would not
undertake the discovery at that price, notwithstanding the people
of the village were unemployed.
The shafts A and B were sunk to ascertain the depth of the
rock below the base of the Pyramid ; it has been described to
be 15 feet, and the intermediate space was filled up with com-
pact gravel.
Figs. 1 and 2 were written with red ochre upon the blocks,
which had belonged to the casing. Figs. 3 to 10 represent sculp-
tured inscriptions found upon other blocks. Mr. Perring imagines
that Fig. 3 formed part of the inscription mentioned by He-
rodotus.
Feet. Inches.
Original Base....... 350 0
Height.......2156
Angle of Casing - 51° 20' 25"
Present Height above the Base, about - - - - 90 ft.
above the surface of the sand of the Desert, about 8'2 ft.
THE NORTHERN STONE PYRAMID.
It is built with stone taken from the adjacent mountains, and
principally from quarries to the westward and south-westward of
the edifice, which, like that in the Mustabet el Faraoon, is of a
reddish colour, calcareous, and interspersed with semi-petrified
shells, chiefly those of oysters. The exterior casing, and the lin-
ings of the passages, and of the chambers, are of white compact
limestone from the Arabian mountains; and, were it not for a
quantity of broken granite near an inclined road, which proceeds
from the eastern side of the Southern Brick Pyramid, it might be
supposed that these buildings were erected by kings, who pos-
sessed the lower country only, and who consequently had not
access to the quarries at Es Souan ; for that material does not
appear to have been used in either of the stone Pyramids at this
place.
Two causeways had been constructed from this Pyramid to
the quarries to the westward, and two others also towards the
valley of the Nile, for the conveyance of the stone, which was
brought from the opposite side of the water.
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attended with great labour and expense, and with more time, than
he had at his disposal. He therefore sent for the sheik of the
village, and the reis, whom he had employed, and he offered
them two purses (about 10/.) if they would discover the entrance
by the time of his return from the Faioum; but they would not
undertake the discovery at that price, notwithstanding the people
of the village were unemployed.
The shafts A and B were sunk to ascertain the depth of the
rock below the base of the Pyramid ; it has been described to
be 15 feet, and the intermediate space was filled up with com-
pact gravel.
Figs. 1 and 2 were written with red ochre upon the blocks,
which had belonged to the casing. Figs. 3 to 10 represent sculp-
tured inscriptions found upon other blocks. Mr. Perring imagines
that Fig. 3 formed part of the inscription mentioned by He-
rodotus.
Feet. Inches.
Original Base....... 350 0
Height.......2156
Angle of Casing - 51° 20' 25"
Present Height above the Base, about - - - - 90 ft.
above the surface of the sand of the Desert, about 8'2 ft.
THE NORTHERN STONE PYRAMID.
It is built with stone taken from the adjacent mountains, and
principally from quarries to the westward and south-westward of
the edifice, which, like that in the Mustabet el Faraoon, is of a
reddish colour, calcareous, and interspersed with semi-petrified
shells, chiefly those of oysters. The exterior casing, and the lin-
ings of the passages, and of the chambers, are of white compact
limestone from the Arabian mountains; and, were it not for a
quantity of broken granite near an inclined road, which proceeds
from the eastern side of the Southern Brick Pyramid, it might be
supposed that these buildings were erected by kings, who pos-
sessed the lower country only, and who consequently had not
access to the quarries at Es Souan ; for that material does not
appear to have been used in either of the stone Pyramids at this
place.
Two causeways had been constructed from this Pyramid to
the quarries to the westward, and two others also towards the
valley of the Nile, for the conveyance of the stone, which was
brought from the opposite side of the water.