EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS. 
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(o be 
experiment, and found i 
^''Oof are only six ranges of stone from the floor to 
’'ibe* twenty feet high ; and the length of the 
S fociV* twelve yards. It is also about six yards wide, 
k* ceiling consists only of nine pieces, of stupend- 
^ lyij, length, traversing the room from side to side, 
■Mr o^; ^‘1^® enormous beams, across the top.” 
' the traveller, having paid a recent visit to the 
,H ^Pyramid, in company with a British ofBcer, it has 
^^^ertained that tlie short descending pas.sage at its 
' ■'yhich afterwards ascends to the two chambers, is 
^ tile ® straight line through the base of the pyramid 
“sKw tock on which it stands. This new passage, after 
was formerly called the well, is continued 
?tit|j"'3n horizontal line, and terminates in a well, JO 
I tlig iPP^l** exactly beneath the apex of the pyramid, and 
Pth of 100 feet beneath its base.v Mr. Salt’s 
J^tely has likewise discovered an apartment imme- 
C: '*1 th king’s chamber, exactly of the same size, 
l^t. fine workmanship, but only four feet hi 
nf the pyramid of Ctphrenes, the next in mag- 
pyramids of Djiza, to that of Cheops, is 
(f ^iseri^^ height at 398. The pyramid 
onus has a base of 280 feet, and an elevation 
^ting^'’®niids of Saccara, which are numerous, are in- 
Account of the peculiarities of their structure, 
them is of an irregular form, the line of the 
^|'''llief angle being sloped like a buttress reversed, 
i! ^ middling size, is composed of stages rising 
\ other. The smaller ones are greatly 
*hul.- whole occupy an extent of two leagues. 
pyramids scattered over the district of 
\^'‘p‘oij ^tton observes, prove that this territory was the 
j* dead) to the south of Memphis, and 
?ge opposite to this, in which the pyramids of 
was another Necrojiolis, which formed 
extremity of Memphis. I'he extent of that 
y may thus be measured. 
