the S'phmx md the Great Pyramid, 89 
terior of the Great Pyramid, and excavating the bed of the 
Andro-Sphinx which fronts the pyramid of Cephrenes. 
The great pyramid of Gizeh, was explored with extraordi- 
nary labour and peril by Mr Davison, British Consul at Algiers, 
who accompanied Wortley Montague to Egypt in’ the year 
1763 ; and in order to apprehend the importance of the recent 
discoveries, it is necessary to understand the extent to which 
that gentleman had carried his researches. 
One of his principal objects was to ascertain the depth of what 
had hitherto been denominated the Well, C, Plate II. hg. 4^. 
After descending by means of a rope tied about his body, to 
the bottom of the first shaft from the opening at A, he found, 
on the south side, at the distance of eight feet from the lower 
extremity of that shaft, a second opening which reached in a 
perpendicular direction to the depth only of five feet ; and, at 
the distance of four feet and a half from the bottom of this 
shaft, he found a third opening, which was so much closed up 
by a large stone at the mouth, as barely to admit the body of a 
man. Having with the utmost difficulty prevailed upon the 
Arabs who accompanied him, to come down and hold the rope 
by which he was suspended, he proceeded in his descent, and 
about half way down he came to a grotto at B nearly fifteen feet 
long, four or fi^ve feet wide, and as high as a man of ordinary 
stature. From this place the shaft took a sloping direction for 
a little way, and then becoming more perpendicular, he at 
’length reached the bottom, C, which was completely closed with 
sand and rubbish. Here he found a rope ladder, which had 
been used by Mr Wood, (author of the Ruins of Palmyra and 
Balbec,) who had proceeded no farther than the grotto ; and 
though it had been left there sixteen years before, was as fresh 
and strong as if perfectly new. The depth of the first of these 
shafts was 22 feet, of the second 29? and of the third 99, 
making, with the addition of the 5 feet between the first and 
second shafts, a total descent of 155 feet. 
Upon a subsequent visit, Mr Davison next proposed to ex- 
plore an opening which he had discovered at the top of the 
• The drawings from which the engravings of the Sphinx and the Pyramid were 
snade, were taken by our correspondent on the spot. 
