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NOETH-EAST AFRICA. 



tas found adherents, especially in Scotland and the New World. By their pro- 

 portions and dimensions the pyramids have thus come to be regarded as so many 

 " Bibles in stone." 



The Pyramid of Cheops, or Khufu, the largest of the three, is estimated to 



Kg. 123. — Ascent of thb Great Pyramid. 



cover an area of over twelve acres, while its four triangular sides present altogether 

 a surface of no less than twenty acres in extent. The quantity of materials 

 required to be brought from great distances by the Nile, placed on their rocky 



