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OBSERVATIONS REGARDING PYRAMID NUMBERS. 



1,760, in sub-divisions of the English mile ; of multiples of 

 12 in square measure ; of either 8 or 7 as a root of wine 

 measure ? 



8x1 



8x84 



7x96 



ffalL: 



8x42 

 7x48 



1 8 X 126 



puncheon : 7 ^ ^44 



tierce 



pipe : 



8x62 



7x72 



8 X 252 

 7x288 



hogshead 



tun 



Then going to the survivals of ancient systems of linear 

 measurement, how can we account for the origin of lineal 

 measures, such as — 



The English foot ... Equivalent to 12 



The ancient " Pied de 



Eoi" of Prance 



The German elle 



The Italian pie ... „ 



The common guerze of 



Persia ... ... ,, 



The pic of Turkey ... ,, 



The braccio of Ancona ,, 



The short picha of Greece ,, 

 The long _ „ 

 The existing derah or 



cubit of Egypt ... ., 



Jewish cubits ... l „ 



May it not be possible therefore that the ancient draftsmen 

 or modellers of pyramids had seized upon many of these 

 characteristics shown in the forms and figures referred to, 

 both for sub-divisions of measures and weights, and also to 

 typify in their important fixed standards some of the more 

 remarkable facts of astronomy then known to them ? 



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