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dimensions being thus accomplished, — I next entered into an ex- 
amination of certain residual features, of the coffer. 
1. The first of these consisted in modern breakages, lamentably 
large, hut sufficiently simple to inquire into. 
(They are shown in this model which is tS the linear size of the 
real coffer, also in the frontispiece to vol. i. of my “ Life and 
“ Work at the Great Pyramid.”) 
2. The second class was caused by traces of a ledge cut inside 
the top of three sides, and all across the fourth side of the coffer. 
(In this 2nd model, the breakages being restored, the ledge is 
exhibited more clearly; they are also shown in the frontispiece 
plate of vol. i. of above work.) 
Now this ledge has a little history connected with it. 
Trusting to Professor Greaves, the great French work on Egypt, 
and other authorities, I had unfortunately described the coffer as 
without any ledge, before I went to Egypt. But on afterwards 
seeing the coffer there, I found that it had traces of a ledge. On 
my return to this country, I discovered, in a book of thirty years 
ago,* a notice, short and imperfect, but still a notice, to the same 
ultimate effect. 
On finding these things, I both got that book added to the 
College Library, — called much attention to it in my own Pyramid 
book of last year ; and published my own observations of the ledge 
with numerous particulars, both in description and in measure, 
down to hundredths of inches, in a manner, and with a complete- 
ness never before attempted by any one, so far as I am aware. 
After all this has been before the public for nearly a year, the 
Proceedings' author republishes at page 252, — and as if elsewhere 
ascertained — some of my own particulars ; and adds to them so much 
of the defective notice in the old book just mentioned, as to extin- 
guish a very radical difference really existing between the ledge of 
the coffer in the Great Pyramid, and the ledges on the sarcophagi in 
all the other Pyramids of Jeezeh. And which difference in form 
produces this variation in effect. 
* An enormous folio book or portfolio, usually termed Perring's Plates of 
the Pyramids , and containing many excellent lithographs of them from his 
drawings; but the book was got up, and its letterpress edited by Colonel 
Howard Vyse, and includes contributions from Dr Birch, Mr Lane, and Mr 
Andrews as well. 
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