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WONDERS OF ART. 
siTLiction required so many years, and ernploy®^,^j.jic j, 
multitude of labourers, that the expenditure for S'^jpoit^A 
onions alone, for their consumption, is said to 
ed to one thousand and sixty talents, upwards ot o’ 
million sterlinsr. Its interior is thus accuri 
ot a 
ed by the above traveller, 
ately 
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tl^ 
'• The entrance of the first gallery is conceal j 
general outer coverincc which invests the 
pyramid. 
It is, however, probable, that the 
some particular . 
the earlier searchers 
directed to this spot. . „ , 
of theedifiOe, in a direction sloping downward , „fc « 
.. ■ ■ . 1 ,1. _.,j ,1 eiie if 
This gallery goes towtnds 
it is sixty paces in length ; and at the further 
large blocks of granite, an obstacle which cause be 
certainty in the digging. A horizontal passage^ 
made for some distance into the mass ot stone > ^ 
undertaking was afterwards abandoned, llery’A*' 
“ Returning to the extremity of the first 
working upward by the side of the two gf”^’ gtair'^jif' 
you come to the beginning of the first 
which proceeds in an oblique direction upward 
dred and twenty feet. You mount the steep 
gallery, helping your steps by notches cut m (li® 
and by resting your hands against tire sides. ^ 
of this gallery, wdiich is formed of a calcareous 
mented with mortar, you find a landing C’'^ 
feet square, within which, to the right of aplyf 
is a perpendicular opening called tire well. - j, 
from its irregularity, to have been the result 
attempt at a search, and has a diameter of 
eighteen inches. I'lierc were no means of ^ (r 
but by throwing down a stone, it was ascerkai 
perpendicular direction could not be very conn o ^ j,|i^ ^ 
a level with the landing is a horizontal j 
and seventy feet in length, rauning directl) 
centre of the pyramid ; and at the extrenfity ° 
is a small room, called tlie Queen’s chambe^^ 
the • 
u-chif.,.!”' 
the' side walls has also been worked into, 
left on the spot. The roof, which is fornicd 
anil.'V 
ot 
oblong square of eighteen feet two inches, . 
eight inches ; but the height is uncertain, ’ 
been tor ed up by the avidity of the seai'C 
