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height, from the belly to the summit of the asp on the head, 

 sixty-two. 25 



The largest 26 Pyramid is built of stone quarried in Arabia: 

 three hundred and sixty thousand men, it is said, were em- 

 ployed upon it twenty years, and the three were completed in 

 seventy-eight years and four months. They are described by 

 the following writers : Herodotus, 87 Euhemerus, Drris of 

 JSamos, Aristagoras, JHonysius, Artemidorus, Alexander Foly- 

 histor, Uutoridas, Antistheues, Demetrius, Demoteles, and 

 Apion. These authors, however, are disagreed as to the persons 

 by whom they were constructed ; accident having, with very 

 considerable justice, consigned to oblivion the names of those 

 "who erected such stupendous memorials of their vanity. Some 

 of these writers inform us that liileen hundred talents were 

 expended upon radishes, garlic, and onions 58 alone. 



The largest Pyramid occupies seven 29 jugera of ground, and 

 the four angles are equidistant, the face of each side being eight 

 hundred and thirty. three 50 feet in length. The total height 

 from the ground to the summit is seven hundred and twenty- 

 live feet, and the platform on the summit is sixteen feet and 

 u-hulf in circuit. Of the second Pyramid, the faces of the four 

 sides are. each seven hundred and fifty-seven feet and n-half in 

 length." 1 The third is smaller than the others, but far more 

 prepossessing in appearance : it is built of -/Ethiopian stone/* 



25 Tliis rcruling i.; perhaps, prclVrahlc to the LXI. s. (01 J) of theBam- 

 Ix-rg MS. The heat] and neck, wlun uncovered. WI-FI! found to bo 27 ittt 

 in lititfht. 



26 Jiuilt by King Cheops, according to Herodotus, B. ii. 



27 All thoe writers arc mentioned in the libt of authors at the end of 

 the present Hook. 



- 11 For the use of the workmen. There is, probably, no foundation for 

 a Rtattintitt so exact as this ; as it would be vt-ry singular that such a fact 

 should continue to be known, and the names of the builders be buried in 

 oblivion. 



29 According to modern measurement, the sides of its base measure nt 

 the foundation 7G3 frrt 4 inches, and it occupies a space of more than 13 

 acres, ltd perpendicular height is 480 feet. 



30 Other readings are 8J>3, and 783. 



51 Diliering very considerably from the modern measurement. These 

 variations may possibly arise, however, from a large portion of the base 

 being covered with ?and. 



3 - Jt Was entirely coated with marble from the Tbebaid ; which, how- 

 ever, was removed by t l ie Arabs in the middle oges. In the vicinity there 



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