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— that I have thought it enough to send the author a letter, nearly 
to the following effect : — 
“ Dear Sir, — I have read to-day your communication on the 
u Great Pyramid of Jeezeh , and my Views concerning it , in the 75th 
u Number of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 
“ (pp. 235-238). 
“ So much ability appears in the Memoir, that I regret you had 
“ not something better to work upon than those few pages of mine, 
“ written four years ago, especially as I have since then visited the 
“ G-reat Pyramid, examined it steadily during four months, and 
“ published the results last year in full. 
“ Your time would surely be more usefully spent in criticising 
“ what I now maintain, and have myself measured at the Great 
“ Pyramid, than in running down details which I have long since 
“ discarded, because proved to be without sufficient foundation. 
“ Some important leading points, however, both in theory and 
“ induction, which I still hold implicitly, and always have held, 
11 with regard to the Great Pyramid, since I first published any- 
“ thing upon it — you seem to have entirely failed to apprehend. 
“ As, for instance, the very broad and striking fact, that none of 
“ the standards deduced from the Great Pyramid’s earth-com- 
“ mensurabilities, are similar to those of the idolatrous Egypt of 
“ history. Even the stars of reference in the sky, are absolutely 
“ and totally different. The very essence, in fact, of the Great 
“ Pyramid theory, as to its earth-founded weights and measures 
“ is, that they are actively opposed to those of profane Egypt, and 
“ could not have been invented by, nor were they ever known to, 
“ any of her idolatrous sons. 
“ Therefore you do not bring up anything new, either to the 
“ theory or myself, when you discover and publish that some one 
11 in particular of the Great Pyramid standards was not in general 
“ use in ancient Egypt. Nor again do you really injure my next 
“ argument about the high antiquity of the British inch , by show- 
“ ing, as I also had done, that our yard is of comparatively recent 
“ origin. 
“ If your special desire is to upset the metrical theory of the 
“ Great Pyramid, prove, if you can, that I am largely wrong in 
l( those measures of length and angle throughout the building, on 
