130 OBSERVATIONS EEGAEDING PYRAMID NUMBERS, 



6. The basal layer has 13 distinct cubes in eacb side, corres- 

 ponding to number of weeks in each quarter, whicli tbe 

 side typifies naturally; while the three angles of each 

 triangular face makes 12, corresponding with the months 

 in the year or hours in the day. 

 These combinations are all natural to the particular 



structure, and are not selected in arbitrary or forced way 



as in many suggestions found in works referring to the 



pyramids. 



Square Pyramid of Even Numbers Having 12 for its 



Base, 



The remarkable characteristic of this pyramid is that — 



1. The aggregate of all the cubes, if capped with an odd one 



as a finishing point, numbers 365, corresponding to the 



number of days in the year. It has 12 cubes along the 



basal layer of each side, corresponding to months. 



There are exactly 36 cubes in each triangular face, and 



144 in basal layer. If each of these be multiplied by 



the number of cubes in side of 2nd layer, and taken as 



divisor of the circuit and side of pyramid they give 



results which almost exactly correspond with the existing 



cubit of Egypt, 



The same result is very closely attained bp multiplying the 



aggregate number of cubes (365) by 7, and dividing the 



result by the square of the second layer (100), 



2. But perhaps the more interesting numbers in this pyramid 



of even numbers are those of the cubes of the exposed 



sides of squares, and the aggregates of the cubes in 



each layer. 



It is singular that in the first series the sequence 1, 4, 12, 



20, should exactly correspond with the sequence of English 



standards of money value, viz.: Farthing, farthings in penny, 



pennies in a shilling, and shillings in a pound. 



The figures of the base, 12 and 144, are associated with 

 sub-divisions of square measured multiples or sub- 

 divisions of 28, as 7, 14, 28, 56, 112, 2,240 as in sub-divisions 

 of weight ; and in the second series of aggregates we have in 

 the second layer the numbers 10, 220, and in the basal 

 exposed margin of cii'cuit 44, all suggestive of some connection 

 with reasons which originally entered into the determination 

 of subdivision of 44, 220, 440, 1,760, in the English mile. 



Conclusion, 



Taken by themselves the remarkable coincidences with 

 known facts relating to measurement of time and space might 

 only be construed as simple examples of the facility with 

 which many numbers may be made to coincide with known 



