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of Edinburgh, Sessiori 1867 - 68 . 
But I will now set forth how vastly different from the truth, 
is the above statement of the Proceedings' author. 
1. Mr Inglis’ visit was not made during my stay at. the Great 
Pyramid, but close to the latter end of, and after, it. He arrived, 
when I was, in fact, preparing to leave, had many of my instru- 
ments already packed up for removal, and had even fixed a day 
with the Egyptian government for removing, and had to keep 
to that day ; and he not only outstayed me, but occupied my 
rooms after I had left, and was much more my successor than con- 
temporary at the Great Pyramid. 
2. Mr Inglis did not visit the Great Pyramid on his own scanty 
means, as I did on mine ; or for his own purposes : he was sent 
there, paid for being there, and furnished with funds for engaging 
assistants by his employer, Mr Aiton, a weathy contractor with a 
hundred times the amount of money that I had. A very fearless 
and independent man too, this Mr Aiton — who had obtained 
from the Egyptian government greater powers for explora- 
tion than I had received ; held his own ideas about the Great 
Pyramid, and amongst others — as rumour said — wished to upset 
everything that I was doing or concluding about, touching the 
ancient monument. And I do believe, from all that I have seen 
since, that if Mr Aiton’s employe who stepped into my place as 
above described, when I left the Pyramid in April 1865, had found 
anything materially wrong in my account of the same, Mr Aiton 
was precisely the man to let all the world know of it, and even 
ring with it, long before this. While, if he would open the sockets, 
and expose them thereby to the chance of irreparable mischief, he 
was the person morally bound to have them properly measured. 
3. But Mr Inglis, with the Arabs whom he engaged with Mr 
Aiton’s money, did not by any means do everything that was 
required for the correct measure of the sides of the Pyramid base. 
Indeed, they only executed No. 1 — the least expensive of the three 
necessary heads which I have noted under p. 340. And even one 
half of that No. 1, they did not achieve without my assistance, as 
narrated in “ Life and Work,” vol. i. p. 532-535. 
4. When all the four corner sockets were thus imperfectly 
opened up, Mr Inglis and myself divided between us such obser- 
vations as it seemed possible then to make ; he chose the linear 
