Wilson, Robert Thomas: The British expedition to Egypt: carefully abridged in two parts (London, 1803)

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building like an immense chest,
observed, that before an opening of this pyra-
mid was effected, it was necessary for the
curious invader of the mansions of the dead to
work through thirteen feet of granite. After
this immense labour a door of three feet three
inches was discovered, namely, the door of the
royal chamber. This containing the sarcopha-
gus, is remarked as the little sanctuary, the tiny
object of the immense pile in which it is con-
cealed.
The royal chamber is sixteen feet in depth,
by thirty two in width, and eighteen in height.
Towards the bottom, on the right of the door,
is an insulated sarcophagus, six feet eleven
inches in length, three feet in width, and little
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out of a single
cabine
polished,
as to render any
, . The tomb,
however, is open and empty, nor does a single
vestage of its lid remain
o
pyramid of Cheops that of Cephrenes is sup-
o be 655 feet in its base, or circumfe-
and its height 398, not much short of
A part of the stucco,
with which it was once covered, is still remain-
ing, and seems to have been a cement of gyp-
sum, sand, and flints.
The smaller pyramid of Miserrinus, is sup-
posed to be 280 feet in base, and 162 in height,
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