Identification of the British Inch as the Unit of Measure. 1 5 1 



structure " which it contains, and its measures. As the circle is 

 connected with an octagon, so the ellipse is connected with a 

 square. The " l)ird mound," in the centre of the ellipse, affords, 

 by reason of the measures of its various parts, a table of selected 

 measures, the most of which are of familiar use throughout the 

 groups in the valleys. It affords a table of typical measures. The 

 description is as follows: "It can hardly be called a mound, but 

 is rather a group of four, so arranged and connected as to con- 

 stitute an unbroken outline. Denominating the figure, for the sake 

 of distinction, a bird, the dimensions are as follows: Length of 

 body 155 feet; of each w^ng 1 10 feet; (difference 45 feet) ; between 

 the tips of the wings,* measuring in a right line 200 feet, width of 

 body (i2> fcet; of wings, in centre, 45 feet; of same next the body 

 40 feet; height of mounds composing the body, 7 feet; of 

 mounds, composing the wings, 5 feet. The head of the bird 

 points directly towards the entrance of the enclosure. The 

 bearing of the body is S. 65° E." Seriatim, the same measures 

 in inches are i860, 1320, 2400, 756, 540, 480, 84 and 60 inches. 

 Here are the roots of our typical measures, y ^105 and 63-1-45= 

 108. 1 10 is of itself one, and 110X12^1320, which is used; and 

 1320X4=5280. 105-1-108=213, and 2^3--_255 which, with 113, 

 measures the elements of the circle. 



And now let us notice the fact of an identity of measures, by 

 means of numbers of measures applied to geometrical relations, of 

 these works with those of The Great Egyptian Pyramid. We have 

 identity of idea, identity of inter-relation of geometrical shapes by 

 common numbers, and identity of the unit of measure to accomplish 

 this ; a strange combination when we think that this identity 

 applies to works on two separate continents ; to one structure called 

 the "wonder of the world," the evidence of the height of civiliza- 

 tion, removed back in time beyond history, and to others which 

 belonged to a race removed in time far back of the Egyptians, a 

 race w^hose bones in the valleys are so '■'■very dry,'''' ds to have 



*The use of -Mings calls to mind the Hebrew " cherube''' which, in its g^reat variety 

 of forms, had one common feature, viz.: these " vjings;'''' and these were certainly used 

 as types of measure, ( 1 1, in the divijion of the length of the ark ot the covenant, or 2.50 

 cubits, into two parts, viz.: 1,25, and 1.25 cubits, which division indicated the use of the 

 two stones which were placed therein \ahn^ 125. abn, I2S>. These were to indicate, in 

 connection with the name Jehovah and Sinai, the measure of the lunar year, for : the 

 sum of the fquares of the two sides of a square, the side being 354 3670548,1116 exact value 

 of that year in days will be 521125. the square root of which will be 50115C6, the diagonal 

 of the square, a purposed change on the numbers of Jehovah's name and Sinai, to monu- 

 ment this astronomical value, and (2) in 'he division of the 20 cubits of the Holy of Holies 

 by the wings of the cherubim. In the Hebrew Bible the ratio 113 to 355 is called " The 

 man {IIJ) even yeliovah measure .^^ 



