ΛίΛ ΨΙηβοαΙ and Mtfcellaneous 



Neither the THc Dimenfioiis of thc great !ζί'ΓΛ»//<^, have given Occaiiori 

 'iioderilT- to one Difpute. Herodotus' makes the Bafe of it to be eight 

 ^theOfmlt hundred Foot long ; T)iodoniS ' feven hundred ; and Strabo > 

 &eafpy- only fix hundred. Among the Moderns^ Sandjs^ found it to be 

 ramid. ^^^j-qq hundred Paces ; Bellonms ' three hundred and twenty 

 four ; our Profeflbr Grea'ves \ fix hundred and ninety three 

 Engltfi, and Le Brun '' feven hundred and four Feet^ ( as 

 we may fuppofe,) of France, which make about feven hundred 

 and feventy of our Meafure, There is no Way, I prefume, to 

 reconcile thefe Differences, and it would be unjuft to charge 

 any of thefe Authors with a defigned Miftake. Thus much 

 then, in general, may be faid, in Defence and Vindication of 

 None of the Errors and Difagreements of this Kind, that none of the Sides 

 ΰροΖΙη'ΙχαΒοξ this Tyramid are exactly upon a Level. For there is a 

 Defcent in paiTmg, from the Entrance into it , gll along by 

 the eaftern Corner, to the fouthern ; there is again an Afcent 

 from This to the weftern Point ; at the fame Time the Sides, 

 which regard theWeft and theNorth,have been encroached upon 

 by fuch Drifts of Sand, as the Etefian Winds, from Time to 

 Time, have brought along with them. As therefore it will be 

 difficult to find a true Horizontal Bafe ; it being likewife un- 

 certain, (which is the chief Thing to be confidered,) how far 

 thefe Drifts of Sand may have been accumulated above the 

 Foundation of it ; all Calculations of this Kind muft be exceed- 

 ingly precarious, agreeable only to the Time, and to the parti- 

 cular Circumftances of the Situation, when they were made. 

 None of the Neither doth it appear that either This, or any other of the 

 JelTever t\\xQQ greater Tyramids, was ever finiflied. For the StoneS;, 

 filmed' in the Entrance into the greateft, being placed archwife and 

 to a greater Height than feems neceflary for fo fmall a Paflage ; 



1 Τϋί• nufa//J<r®' TiavlaiCfi μίη>•ην "ίμ^ΐΐίν Ικτφ τ^ί^Λ^ iimi Tiifdyins, 19 5•4^ "tfor. Hcrodot. Eut. 

 5. 124. 2 Η |wW >«j ,«e>(i« nuf«juif 7Έ7?ά•3^λ&υρ@' %ou rj ^iMV^ TW tii 4 βίσία! nKz'-J^h iyjsn' (χ« 

 T/i3p«i' ίΤ7«, •η <f' "4®' 'X" -ίτλΗ» TOv e| TAeSpsw. Diod. S'icul. Bibl. I. I. p. 4°• 3 ^"^ '"*'""' 

 Π"ρίί|ΐ/ίΛιΐ' tm ςα^ιάλύΛ το L-j®', Tiiftiyanoi τω ο^μαν, -ί mhiM^^f \i{ss\\( ^uy^u μπζον τό ΰ•\•& «χ»'"". Strab. 

 Geogr. 1.17. ρ Jjy. 4 The greateft of the three Pyramids, being Square at the bottom, is 

 fuppofed to take up eight Acres of Ground ; every Square being 300 fingle Paces in Length. 

 Sand.Tnv. p. 99. Ed.vi. 5• Nos niaximae Pyramid'ts bafim dimenfi fumus, quse quatuor an- 

 gulorum paribus intervallis cum fit, trecentos viginti quatuor paflTus habct in fingula latera, 

 paululum extenfis cruribus, gradiendo Cngulos paffus numerantes. Bcllon. Obfervat. 1.2. 

 p. 269. 6 See his Pyramidographia. 7 Je contai trois cens bons pas dun coin a I'autre du 

 grand Pyramide. Plus je donnai a deux Arabes une corde que j'avois pour cet efFet prife 

 avec moi & je leur fis mefurer la diftancc de ces coins de I'un a I'autre, qu'ils trouvcrent qui 

 montoit a cent vingt bralTes qui font fept cens & quatre pieds. La Hauteur par devant cent 

 douze braffes f. fix cent feize pieds ; un braffe cinque pieds & demi, Le Brim. Voyag. 

 cap. z6. 



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