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PYRAMIDOGRAPHIA. 9t
Pageii6. 'Through the mouth os which ....
I t is very surprizing, that the author should pafs over in silence the counter-
seit portal, or rather the srontifpiece os the sirft passage. I have measured it
with all the exaclness that was poffible; which will enable me one day or other
to give a particular description of it, and to enquire the reason they had sor mak-
ing it in that manner.
Page ibid. Having paffed, with tapers in our hands, this narrow sreight, we
land in a place fomewhat larger.
This place, to which Mr. Greaves does not Co much as deign to give his
attention, deferves however to be well confidered: and I am certain, that this
learned man would have taken more account of it, if he had known what it
contains. It is there we difcover clearly the manner, in which the firft paffage
has been clofed up, by means of three rough pieces of oriental marble, which
join fo well the fides of the paffage, that one has a difficulty to introduce within
the joints the point of a knife. It is there, like wife, that the fight can penetrate,
as I may fay, into the bowels os the pyramid ; for as this place has been forced,
vve perceive there clearly, that the folid part of the pyramid is compofed of
great ftones, thrown at random, and joined by a kind of mortar, which cements
them fo well, that they appear to make but one fingle mafs.
Page 119. The walls within are covered with a sort os plaijler.
I t is the same crust as that we see the walls covered with, both in the ancient
thermae, and baths at Rome, and in the refervoirs of Pouzzol.
Page ibid. The reason os the disserence between Pliny's observation and mine,
1suppofe to be this; that f nee his time it hath almofi been dammed up, a?id choahd
ttith rubbifi.
The disserence does not arise srom the reason alledged by Mr. Greaves.
T 4
*t is owing rather to this, that at the end of twenty feet os depth, the well goes
^anting sor a certain space ; and afterwards resumes the perpendicular line,
which, at last loses itsels in the sand, without having any other outlet.
Page 120. The /loiies are very tttassy, and exquistely joined. I know not whether
of that glifering and fpeckled marble I mentioned in the columns of the cif-
terns at Alexandria.
IT is all a white oriental marble : there is not the least doubt about it.
Page ibid. The walls are entire, andplaisered over with lime*
All the fides of this chamber, as well as the triangular vanity are os fquare
P^ces os granite marble, unpolished, and which is not at all covered with plaister.
Page
Pageii6. 'Through the mouth os which ....
I t is very surprizing, that the author should pafs over in silence the counter-
seit portal, or rather the srontifpiece os the sirft passage. I have measured it
with all the exaclness that was poffible; which will enable me one day or other
to give a particular description of it, and to enquire the reason they had sor mak-
ing it in that manner.
Page ibid. Having paffed, with tapers in our hands, this narrow sreight, we
land in a place fomewhat larger.
This place, to which Mr. Greaves does not Co much as deign to give his
attention, deferves however to be well confidered: and I am certain, that this
learned man would have taken more account of it, if he had known what it
contains. It is there we difcover clearly the manner, in which the firft paffage
has been clofed up, by means of three rough pieces of oriental marble, which
join fo well the fides of the paffage, that one has a difficulty to introduce within
the joints the point of a knife. It is there, like wife, that the fight can penetrate,
as I may fay, into the bowels os the pyramid ; for as this place has been forced,
vve perceive there clearly, that the folid part of the pyramid is compofed of
great ftones, thrown at random, and joined by a kind of mortar, which cements
them fo well, that they appear to make but one fingle mafs.
Page 119. The walls within are covered with a sort os plaijler.
I t is the same crust as that we see the walls covered with, both in the ancient
thermae, and baths at Rome, and in the refervoirs of Pouzzol.
Page ibid. The reason os the disserence between Pliny's observation and mine,
1suppofe to be this; that f nee his time it hath almofi been dammed up, a?id choahd
ttith rubbifi.
The disserence does not arise srom the reason alledged by Mr. Greaves.
T 4
*t is owing rather to this, that at the end of twenty feet os depth, the well goes
^anting sor a certain space ; and afterwards resumes the perpendicular line,
which, at last loses itsels in the sand, without having any other outlet.
Page 120. The /loiies are very tttassy, and exquistely joined. I know not whether
of that glifering and fpeckled marble I mentioned in the columns of the cif-
terns at Alexandria.
IT is all a white oriental marble : there is not the least doubt about it.
Page ibid. The walls are entire, andplaisered over with lime*
All the fides of this chamber, as well as the triangular vanity are os fquare
P^ces os granite marble, unpolished, and which is not at all covered with plaister.
Page