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104 TIIK MONUMENTS OF UPPER E(iYPT.
and one comes upon the ascending corridor G at
the end of which the landing-place K Avould not
have been disposed as we find it at the present
day. It would be completely blocked, as also
would be the aperture of the well. If the pas-
sage is forced, it is quite natural to follow the
flagstones, and the explorer will find himself in
corridor F without suspecting that a second
ascending corridor runs over his head. Chamber
B is thus reached. Here fresh doubts will arise
as to the real character of this chamber, and
fresh efforts will be made to ascertain where the
next bifurcation takes place. The point of
connection is hit upon after a while, and the
corbellated corridor E is gone through, when at
length the true chamber is reached, the two
grooves presenting no serious obstacle- There
is nothing, even to the well, which is not
explained in this manner of accounting for the
internal distribution of the monument. During
the construction of the Pyramid, blocks of gran-
ite of the same dimensions as corridor G were
deposited in the corbellated corridor E. The
Pyramid being finished, and the mummy laid in
its place, these blocks would be allowed to slide
by their own weight down corridor G; the
and one comes upon the ascending corridor G at
the end of which the landing-place K Avould not
have been disposed as we find it at the present
day. It would be completely blocked, as also
would be the aperture of the well. If the pas-
sage is forced, it is quite natural to follow the
flagstones, and the explorer will find himself in
corridor F without suspecting that a second
ascending corridor runs over his head. Chamber
B is thus reached. Here fresh doubts will arise
as to the real character of this chamber, and
fresh efforts will be made to ascertain where the
next bifurcation takes place. The point of
connection is hit upon after a while, and the
corbellated corridor E is gone through, when at
length the true chamber is reached, the two
grooves presenting no serious obstacle- There
is nothing, even to the well, which is not
explained in this manner of accounting for the
internal distribution of the monument. During
the construction of the Pyramid, blocks of gran-
ite of the same dimensions as corridor G were
deposited in the corbellated corridor E. The
Pyramid being finished, and the mummy laid in
its place, these blocks would be allowed to slide
by their own weight down corridor G; the