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and parti-coloured little crystals, beyond any other species 

 of stone there, might be taken almost as emblematic of 

 some mighty and extensive number, though not necessarily 

 100,000,000. But this is only a beginning ; for next, in a 

 far more remarkable and certain manner, the floor of this 

 chamber (on which the coffer, so eminently depending on 

 the standard of 50 of those units long, actually stands) is 

 found to be coincident with the 50th course of colossal, 

 wide-spread, horizontal masonry which forms the structure 

 of the entire Pyramid : * and marks off outside, but for those 

 only who know them by measure, the levels of the scientific 

 chambers within. 



Plainly, therefore, by this constantly increasing number 

 of consilient and allied coincidences, we are dealing here 

 with numbers and proportions arising from no mere accident. 

 And when it has been still further and variously shown that 

 the cubic contents of this unique Great Pyramid coffer were 

 precisely those of the most sacred " Ark of the Covenant " 

 of Moses, under a symbology, too, also indicating the solid 

 earth as awhole: and when the marked portion of the chamber 

 course is found equal in cubic contents to Solomon's Molten 

 Sea ; t and when the exact cubic contents of one-fourth of 

 the coffer, — or equally the Hebrew chomer and Anglo-Saxon 

 quarter, — have been found more recently % to be expressed 

 by the lower stone of that granite leaf, of which the upper 

 one expresses the division of the sacred and Pyramid cubit 

 into 5 and 5 again, or into the very units employed — we are 

 plainly on a threshold where the primeval architect drew 

 from the same eternal well of truth as did Noah, Moses, and 

 David at almost equal intervals with him, through the 

 ages; and where the material in which this first of architects 

 in stone worked, has enabled his own ipsissima verba, as it 

 were, to be preserved for our reading, testing, and guidance 

 down to this very day. And if so, to raise this still further 

 question above even all others, viz., if or rather when all 

 these things were thus evidently "prepared from the beginning 

 of the world," why have they been allowed only just now to 

 be in part rightly apprehended ? 



Perfectly inexcusable, however, would it be in me, at this 

 most extended point of a repeated paper, to crave a little 

 more, and then, doubtless, more space still after that from 

 our most complaisant and intelligent Editor ; for there now 

 rises in view really only the beginning of the end ; or a vast, 



* See " Life and Work," vol. iii, p. 172. 

 t See " Life and Work," vol. ii, p. 466. 

 I By Captain Tracey, R.A. 



