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136 THE GREAT PYRAMID.
a clepsydra, or water-clock—must have been set
there, and persons appointed to mark the passage
of time in some way, and to note also the instants
when the observer or observers in the Great Gallery
signalled the beginning or end of transit across
the gallery's field of view. These time-indicating
persons, with their instruments, would have occu-
pied the space where now are the floors of the so-
called Antechamber and King's Chamber—then,
of course, not walled in (or the walls would have
obstructed the view along the gallery). These
persons themselves would not obstruct the view,
unless they came too near the mouth of the gallery.
Or they might be close to the mouth of the gallery
at its sides, without obstructing the view.
But now, notice that if the place they thus
occupied—the future King's Chamber (perhaps, as
the region in or near which all the observations of
the heavenly host in culmination had been made)
—were in the centre of the square top of the
pyramid as thus far built, they would be very much
in the way of other observers, who ought to be
stationed at certain special points on this horizontal
top, to observe certain important horizontal lines,
viz. the lines directed to the cardinal points and to
points midway between these. An observer who
had this task assigned him should occupy the very
a clepsydra, or water-clock—must have been set
there, and persons appointed to mark the passage
of time in some way, and to note also the instants
when the observer or observers in the Great Gallery
signalled the beginning or end of transit across
the gallery's field of view. These time-indicating
persons, with their instruments, would have occu-
pied the space where now are the floors of the so-
called Antechamber and King's Chamber—then,
of course, not walled in (or the walls would have
obstructed the view along the gallery). These
persons themselves would not obstruct the view,
unless they came too near the mouth of the gallery.
Or they might be close to the mouth of the gallery
at its sides, without obstructing the view.
But now, notice that if the place they thus
occupied—the future King's Chamber (perhaps, as
the region in or near which all the observations of
the heavenly host in culmination had been made)
—were in the centre of the square top of the
pyramid as thus far built, they would be very much
in the way of other observers, who ought to be
stationed at certain special points on this horizontal
top, to observe certain important horizontal lines,
viz. the lines directed to the cardinal points and to
points midway between these. An observer who
had this task assigned him should occupy the very