CHAMBER IN THE GREAT PYRAMID. 



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J'ai omis jusqu' a present, mais non pas oublie de vous dormer les 

 mesures des puits. Le premier a 22 pieds de profondeur ; le second 

 29, et le troisieme 99 ; et si vous voulez ajouter la descente ne cinque 

 pieds entre le premier et le second puits, le tout fera 155. 



CHAMBER IN THE GREAT PYRAMID OF EGYPT. 



This part of Mr. Davison's Journals gives an account of the manner in which he entered 

 a room in the Great Pyramid, over the chamber containing the Sarcophagus. Maillet 

 had been forty times in the Pyramid, and had not seen it ; Niebuhr did not observe it, 

 and after his return from Cairo, he received some information concerning it from Mr. 

 Meynard j the person who accompanied Mr. D. in his visit to this Pyramid. The room 

 has never yet been explored by any other traveller; Dr. Hales (Chronol. i. 384.) thinks 

 the existence of it problematical ; but the publication of Mr. D.'s remarks will satify all 

 doubts upon the subject. Bruce alludes to Mr. D.'s discovery. — Ed. 



M. Cousinery, Consul at Rosetta, set out for Giza, on Monday, July 8, 

 1765, with an intention to make a party with some French gentlemen to 

 visit the pyramids. The 9th in the morning I went and joined them. 

 Having taken three Arab guides and a Janissary, we mounted our asses 

 at midnight, and travelling by the light of the moon we arrived at the 

 pyramids in something less than two hours. I descended the first with 

 a carpenter and another who widened the strait passage in the first 

 canal ; I was surprised to find that this canal which was supposed to 

 end here continues a considerable way down the pyramid. It was 

 formerly stopped up with stones and sand ; these have been washed in 

 the last winter by the rain which seems to have penetrated to this part 

 of the pyramid. At entering we contented ourselves with pushing the 

 earth and stones into it which were taken out of the narrow passage. 

 The chief reason of my returning now to the pyramid was to 



