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“ which the theory is mainly founded,-— and you may succeed in 
“ your design ; especially, too, if you can explain all the well - 
u measured and already explained facts still more accurately, on 
“ some other single, consistent, and connected theory. 
“ But if, in place of doing any of these things, you merely pro- 
“ duce more specimens of the isolated and perverse examples which 
u appear at the close of your paper, wherein you go off to new and 
a separate subjects on every occasion, and by much trying, succeed 
“ at last in catching a single coincidence of a purposely ridiculous 
“ character each time,— -do not flatter yourself that you are thereby 
“ reducing to an absurdity, on mathematical principles, the whole 
“ Great Pyramid theory ; whose strength consists — not only in the 
“ large number and mutually connected character, of the series of 
“ close coincidences with a united and consilient purpose, which it 
“ proves between that primeval building and nature, — but alfeo, in 
“ the universal earth-importance of the things and system there 
“ symbolized : and I remain, &c. &c. &c.” 
The gentleman addressed in the preceding letter, has duly 
returned me an answer, wherein he acknowledges his want of 
acquaintance with recent Pyramid explorations, so honestly, that I 
have had nothing else left me to do, than to ask his acceptance of a 
copy of my “ Life and Work at the Great Pyramid and the 
volumes went off to him accordingly, last week. 
SIR J. Y. SIMPSON’S PAPER. 
So far then for the first of these two essays, in its shortness and 
simplicity. 
Very far otherwise, however, must be the second essay, when it 
extends, though professedly only an abstract, to no less than twenty- 
six pages ; is written by a home-member and well instructed, of this 
Society ; and is entitled at page 243, — 
“ Pyramidal Structures in Egypt and elsewhere, and the objects 
“ of their erection .” 
That is the printed title ; yet after only two pages on such pro- 
posed extensive subject, all the other twenty-four pages , are filled 
up with hardly anything else than severest animadversion upon, 
merely the one Great Pyramid of Egypt and myself. 
I trust that I shall not be accused of conceit for saying in such 
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