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there is a passage which leads into it. Having lighted our candles, 

 we descended and found it four feet five inches and a quarter high, 

 three feet five inches and a half wide, and 200 long ; at the end of 

 200 feet there is a passage running horizontally 24 feet four inches 

 and a half, and leads to a large pyramidal room 27 feet four inches 

 long, and 1 1 feet 1 1 inches broad, 43 feet four inches high ; from this, 

 a passage of 10 feet four inches conducts to another of the same 

 dimensions. At the height of 11 feet, the stones set in six inches 

 one over another for 11 together, each stone beino; three feet high. 

 At the end of the inner room, 30 feet 10 inches from the ground, 

 there is a passage 24 feet long, three feet five inches square, which 

 leads to a third*, differing only from the former in being one foot 

 eight inches broader. Not only all the pavement of this room, but 

 five tiers of stones have been forcibly taken up in search of treasure. 

 The stones of the passage have also hefm taken up. There is not 

 much of the covering preserved on this pyramid ; what remains is 

 towards the top. 



11th. — Early this morning we prepared to set out for the farthest 

 pyramid^ , where we arrived in something less than an hour and a 

 half. A little way up on the north side, there is an entrance to 

 which one may mount, but with danger and difficulty. This pyramid 

 has 600 feet for its base ; 184 feet up to the angle, and 250 feet 

 thence to the top, which is thirty feet broad. The passage, as far as 

 one can advance, is 174 feet in length. It is very difficult to creep 

 down in the lower parts, on account of the stones and rubbish with 

 which it is at last entirely choked up. It cuts the side of the 

 pyramid at right angles. The building, as it now stands, consists of 

 198 steps, namely, 68 large ones from the ground to the angle ; and 

 130 lesser ones from that point to the top. Upon measuring one 

 of the largest of the former, I found it to be four feet two inches, 



* Pococke saw two of these rooms only. 



t The great pyramid to the south. — Pococke, lii. 1. 



