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appeared on the scene, and occupied thereafter the place which — 
my time and means being then just exhausted,— I was shortly 
after obliged to vacate. 
Libel the First. 
The apparition of this new party, however, has furnished the 
Proceedings’ author with an opportunity for serious misstatements 
and grave insinuations, which he has availed himself of in the 
following manner in p. 255 : — 
“ At the time at which Professor Smyth was living at the 
“ Pyramid, Mr Inglis, of G-lasgow, visited it, and, for correct 
“ measurement, laid bare for the first time the four corner sockets. 
“ Mr Inglis’ measurements not only differed from all the other 
“ measurements of one side base-lines made before him, but he 
“ makes the four sides differ from each other; one of them — 
“ namely, the north side — being longer than the other three. 
“ Strangely, Professor Smyth, though in Egypt for the purpose of 
“ measuring the different parts of the pyramid, — and holding that 
“ its base-line ought to be our grand standard of measure, — and 
“ further holding that the base-line could only be accurately as- 
“ certained by measuring from socket to socket — never attempted 
“ that linear measurement himself after the sockets were cleared. 
“ These four corner sockets were never exposed before in historic 
“ times ; and it may be very long before an opportunity of seeing 
“ and using them again shall ever be afforded to any other 
“ measurers.” 
This paragraph plainly begins with implying, that at, or dur- 
ing, the time I was living at the Pyramid, Mr Inglis (a young and 
worthy, but poor, engineer’s assistant) visited it, made all the pre- 
parations necessary for correct measure of the sides of the base ; 
measured them, got into some anomaly about the results ; and was 
not assisted by me, who, although there for the express purpose of 
performing such a measure, yet “ strangely” did nothing; and have 
caused an opportunity to be lost, the like of which never occurred 
before within history, and may be very long before it will occur 
again. Wherefore, some of our members may remark, “ is that 
“ the person to whom the Society should have given their Keith 
11 medal for his measures at the Great Pyramid /” 
