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And finally he states that “ a print page of Professor Smyth’s 
“ book, 6*2 inches in length, is 1-80, 000, 000th of this great 
“ standard; &c., &c.” But 6'2 inches form, evidently, not that 
even fraction, but the 1-80, 645, 161st part of the same 500,000,000. 
A length, however, this last, in British inches (and no others are 
there alluded to by the British Proceedings’ author), which neither 
Professor Smyth stated, nor Captain Clarke, nor any other known 
geodesist, ever found, the earth’s axis to measure. Nor is the length 
24'82 inches, as shown in the previous section, the length which 
Professor Smyth has deduced, or considers to be deducible from all 
Sir Isaac Newton’s numbers, taken together according to modern 
scientific principles, for the length of the Sacred Cubit. 
All the three examples thus given by the Proceedings’ author 
have totally failed in producing his promised “ startling strings of 
“ 0’s and though he does put “ &c., &c.” after his last case,— yet 
if these symbols refer to other examples of the same order as his 
previous ones, they will not strengthen his case. 
With a very little cleverness in looking out through the world, 
no doubt other persons might find some trifle coming more nearly 
to an even fraction of the earth’s polar axis than any of the Pro- 
ceedings’ author’s given examples. But then it must be remem- 
bered, that when the length of that said axis has already been as- 
certained by national efforts, -—there is no more difficulty in finding 
a practical equivalent to a small fractional part thereof, than in 
performing a sum in simple arithmetic : and after this little thing 
should have been done, it would really possess no similarity with the 
alleged case of standards of measure in the Great Pyramid, — de- 
posited or built in there, on a gigantic scale, 3000 years before any 
accurate determination of the length of the earth’s polar axis had 
been made by men,— -and yet found now to be an apparently exact 
and even decimal and quinary fraction thereof. 
This really astonishing geodesical character of the Pyramid 
standards, is a matter to be disproved, only by still more accurate 
measures of both the Great Pyramid and the earth being instituted; 
and then, perhaps, found not to be commensurable by quantities 
larger than the limits of error of the measures. At present there is a 
coincidence within the limits of errors of the best modern measure- 
ments of both ; but in the case of the Great Pyramid these are not 
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