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APPENDIX II. 



Specimens from Great Pyramid Region, presented to the Royal Society, Edinburgh, 



and to be seen in their museum. 



A. — Examples of the Natural Rock. 



1. Large specimen of nummulitic rock from the neighbourhood of the Great Pyramid and 



abounding in both large and small nummulites. 



2. Smaller do do. 



3. Do. do. do. 



4. Hand specimen of rock, almost entirely a congeries of small nummulites. 



5. 6, and 7. Portions of the lime-stone rock, with fossils, from the neighbourhood of the Second 



Pyramid. 



8. Loose nummulites, large and small. 



9. Echinus and other separate fossils of the nummulitic rock. 



10. Sulphate of lime, found near the Third Pyramid. 



11. Four specimens of fossil wood found on the desert surface West of the Pyramids : one of 



them recently sawn in Edinburgh. 



12. Jasper and quartz pebbles, large and small, found similarly on the desert hill surface. 



13. Two portions of an ancient rock-matrix holding said pebbles. 



14. Specimens from a hill about thi-ee miles south of the Great Pyramid, all of more recent 



formation than the nummulite, and consisting of large echini out of " green-sand"(l), 

 and numbers of well-preserved cardium shells, casts of volutes, and portions of rock 

 made up almost exclusively of organic remains. 



1 5. Drift-sand of the desert, from near the Sphinx. 



B. — Examples of Imported Materials. 



These were picked up on the open ground of the Pyramid hill, in so far like 

 naturally placed specimens, but were undoubtedly brought to the Pyramid region 

 by man, and for building purposes ; in testimony whereof, portions of one or more 

 worked surfaces are usually to be seen on every fragment ; and if such specimens 

 are now mixed up with the soil of the hill, and only to be obtained by digging, — 

 that indicates the great length of time which must have elapsed since the monu- 

 ments, which these stones once helped to form, were broken to pieces. 



1. Large lump of dark red granite, similar to the material of the coffer. 



2. Smaller lump of light red granite. 



3. Smaller piece of light-red granite, one side polished. 



4. Three varieties of coarse black basalt, each of them with worked surfaces. 



5. Remarkably fine-grained basalt, excessively hard, and having a portion of a rectangular 



edge exquisitely worked, and left rather higher than the more central part of the surface, 

 as if to insure the stone standing firmly by resting on its circumference when introduced 

 into some construction. 



6. Fragment of diorite, from the ancient rubbish-heap on the north flank of the Great Pyramid 



hill. 



7. Three specimens of arragonite from the neighbourhood of Shafre's tomb and the temple on 



the east of the Second Pyramid. 



C. — Casing-Stone Fragments of Great Pyramid. 

 These were picked up amongst the innumerable fragments of stone compos- 

 ing the small hills of modern rubbish which lean against the middle of the lower 



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