90 Account of the recent discoveries respecting 
gallery D ; and for this purpose provided himself with several 
short ladders, capable of being fastened to one another by w ood- 
en pins, so as to extend, when thus united, to the length of 26 
feet. Having mounted by the assistance of this ladder to the 
opening which he had observed, he found a passage tw^o feet 
four inches square, which turned immediately to the right ; but 
on account of the dust and bats’ dung with which it was cover- 
ed to the depth often of a foot, it wm whth the greatest diffi- 
culty, and the constant hazard of suffocation, that he crawled 
along with his face to the ground. Upon reaching the end of 
this passage, he found on the right a straight entrance into a 
long, broad, and low room E ; and, both by the length and 
direction of the passage through which he had entered, he knew 
it to be situated immediately above the large room F This 
newly discovered chamber is four feet longer than the one be- 
low, but exactly of the same breadth, and its covering is com- 
posed of eight stones of beautiful granite. This place could 
not be found by Niebuhr, though informed of its situation by 
Mr Meynard who had accompanied Mr Davison, and has never 
been visited since the time of the last-mentioned traveller, till 
the date of those recent discoveries which we now proceed to 
describe. 
Captain or Mr Cavigiia, the master of a mercantile vessel in 
the Mediterranean trade, set out from Cairo on the 8th of 
January 1817, with a resolution to employ his utmost exertions 
in exploring the numerous passages and interior recesses of the 
pyramids of Gizeh. Conceiving that the descent of the Well in 
the great pyramid had never been thoroughly prosecuted, he 
entered the shaft at A as Mr Davison had done, with a lamp in 
iiis hand and a rope about his middle. He describes the diffe- 
Tent shafts nearly in the same manner as that gentleman does, 
but discovered the additional fact, that the interior was lined 
with masonry above and below the grotto B, for the purpose, as 
was supposed, of supporting one of those insulated beds of 
gravel, which are frequently found in rock. He found nothing 
This room F is usually called the King’s Chamber, to distinguish it from that 
'Called the Q'.;een’s Chamber G. 
