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PROF. C. P. SMYTH ON THE REPUTED METROLOGICAL SYSTEM 



is reported to exist among Jewish traditions : but this we now know from modern 

 science and Mr Taylor's Great Pyramid deductions combined, viz., that a length 

 of 207 inches, is wretchedly incommensurable, while 25'0 inches, is admirably, 

 and even inimitably commensurable with the one, and only true metrical re- 

 ference which the earth possesses, viz., its axis of rotation ; it is in fact Tru,TTwu,jnTU^^ 

 of the earth's Polar semi-axis, or radius. Now this length is also the length of 

 our " smaller" standard of the Pyramid ; and although that has been deduced 

 hitherto, from the larger standard halved, for practical convenience ; it is also 

 to be derived directly from the Pyramid, by taking that particular chrono- 

 logical fraction, or ^jhyt^i of ^^^ side of the Pyramid's base ; and we are then 

 reminded, by the four sides of the Pyramid (in such case representing four 

 years), of the period during which the incommensurability of the earth's day, 

 and year, is practically restored. And this further leads on to an inquiry, whether 

 there may possibly be any indication within the Pyramid, of that division of time 

 also, which the Jews held as sacred, and to have been commanded from the most 

 primitive times, — viz., the seven days to form a week. 



(11.) Time Pleasures in the Pyramid. 



In his discussion of Greaves' measures of the Pyramid, Sir Isaac Newton 

 remarked much upon the clearness with which some particular standard of 

 length had been adhered to throughout the whole of the inclined passages ; and 

 he appeared to think that that standard was the profane cubit of Memphis, or 

 a multiple of it. If the measures be taken in the shortest transverse direc- 

 tions, this is often the case ; but if w^e compute the vertical height, under the 

 Pole-star inclinations of 20" 18', these measures of the working men of Egypt, are 

 at once turned, — with quite enough approximation to distinguish what measure 

 of space is intended, in a case where time is the real element concerned, — into 

 the scientific standard of the Pyramid, or the linear measure intended by the 

 directors of the building of the Pyramid, and who, there is reason to believe, 

 were completely apart from the Egyptians themselves. 



Now, the transverse heights of the small inclined passages being given as 

 follows, with large errors of observation, apparently from the observers not 

 adhering very rigidly to the true ti'ansvei^se measure, — 



Passage Name. 



Obseever. 



Transverse Height. 







Inches. 



Entrance, .... 



Howard Vyse, 



47 



,, ■ . . - . 



Caviglia, 



490 



Ascending, .... 



Howard Vyse, 



470 



5, .... 



Jomard, 



43 -2 



Ante-chamber (level), 



Howard Vyse, 



44-0 



i> !) • • 



Jomard, 



43-7 



M >) • • 



Caviglia, 



43-0 



