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A rv JK. S
UPO N THE
PYRAMIDOGRAPHIA
os Mr. J O H N GREAVES,
Formerly Prosessor os Astronomy at Oxsord.
PaGe i \ Authors or sounders of the pyramids.
Although all the ancient authors, that have written os Egypt, have dis-
serent opinions, with regard to the time and names os thofe, that were the found-
ers of the pyramids; yet I think that the epochas of the building of these
enormous manes, must be carried back much surther than has been supposed.
We mall fee, by the reasons which I am going to alledge, the changes that may
be admitted to have happened to them.
Page 2. Wforeas all these pyramids consisl os s one.
This fhews that Mr. Greaves has not gone very far into the upper Egypt,
to fee the pyramid, built of large bricks, hardened in the fun, the same un-
doubtedly that Herodotus makes Cheops the founder of, and which is situated
at four leagues diftance from Cairo b.
a N. B. The reserences are made to the learned
dotlor Birch's edition os Mr. Greaves's miscel-
laneous works-.
bMr. Norden is miftaken in citing the pyra-
mid built by Cheops, for that was entirely built
of ftone, according to Herodotus •, the brick py-
ramid was built by Asychis, and had this remar-
kable infcription engraven on a ftone :
Let no one disparage me, by comparing me with ftone
pyramids; for I excel them as much as Jupiter
does the other gods. In turning up the bottom os
a lake, whatever mud stuck to the pearch, being
lolletled together, was formed into bricks ; and by
this means I was made.
Herodotus, lib. ii. cap. 136.
Doctor Pococke cbferves, " That the pyramid
of unburnt brick was doubtless built near the
plain, on account of the brick. It seems to be made
of the earth brought by the Nile, being of a fandy
black earth, with some pebbles and ihells in it ; it is
mixed up with chopped draw, in order to bind the
clay together, as they now make unburnt bricks in
Egypt, and many other eastern parts, which they
use very much in their buildings. I found fome of
thefe bricks thirteen inches and a half long, fix
inches and a half broad, and four inches thick ;
and others fifteen inches long, feven broad, and
sour inches three quarters thick. I observed on the
north fide, the bricks were laid lengthways from
north to fouth, but not every where in that direc-
tion -, however, I particularly took notice that they
were not laid fo as to bind one another. It is much
crumbled and ruined •, but as it is, I measured it,
and sound it to be an hundred and sifty feven feet
on the north side, and two hundred and ten on the
Pags
A rv JK. S
UPO N THE
PYRAMIDOGRAPHIA
os Mr. J O H N GREAVES,
Formerly Prosessor os Astronomy at Oxsord.
PaGe i \ Authors or sounders of the pyramids.
Although all the ancient authors, that have written os Egypt, have dis-
serent opinions, with regard to the time and names os thofe, that were the found-
ers of the pyramids; yet I think that the epochas of the building of these
enormous manes, must be carried back much surther than has been supposed.
We mall fee, by the reasons which I am going to alledge, the changes that may
be admitted to have happened to them.
Page 2. Wforeas all these pyramids consisl os s one.
This fhews that Mr. Greaves has not gone very far into the upper Egypt,
to fee the pyramid, built of large bricks, hardened in the fun, the same un-
doubtedly that Herodotus makes Cheops the founder of, and which is situated
at four leagues diftance from Cairo b.
a N. B. The reserences are made to the learned
dotlor Birch's edition os Mr. Greaves's miscel-
laneous works-.
bMr. Norden is miftaken in citing the pyra-
mid built by Cheops, for that was entirely built
of ftone, according to Herodotus •, the brick py-
ramid was built by Asychis, and had this remar-
kable infcription engraven on a ftone :
Let no one disparage me, by comparing me with ftone
pyramids; for I excel them as much as Jupiter
does the other gods. In turning up the bottom os
a lake, whatever mud stuck to the pearch, being
lolletled together, was formed into bricks ; and by
this means I was made.
Herodotus, lib. ii. cap. 136.
Doctor Pococke cbferves, " That the pyramid
of unburnt brick was doubtless built near the
plain, on account of the brick. It seems to be made
of the earth brought by the Nile, being of a fandy
black earth, with some pebbles and ihells in it ; it is
mixed up with chopped draw, in order to bind the
clay together, as they now make unburnt bricks in
Egypt, and many other eastern parts, which they
use very much in their buildings. I found fome of
thefe bricks thirteen inches and a half long, fix
inches and a half broad, and four inches thick ;
and others fifteen inches long, feven broad, and
sour inches three quarters thick. I observed on the
north fide, the bricks were laid lengthways from
north to fouth, but not every where in that direc-
tion -, however, I particularly took notice that they
were not laid fo as to bind one another. It is much
crumbled and ruined •, but as it is, I measured it,
and sound it to be an hundred and sifty feven feet
on the north side, and two hundred and ten on the
Pags