THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
205 
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1844. 
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[FroTii the Boston Evening 'Transcript.'] 
\ ie w from the Pyramids of Egypt, Anec- 
dotes, Facts, dic. 
The lollowing ol Mr. Gliddon’s 
4ih lecture, we doubt not, will interest such of 
our readers as preler to let the memory dwell 
upon the single thoughts ol a discourse, rather 
than upon the combined ideas of the whole, 
v/hich is olten coiilused and embarrassed. In- 
deed, it there be a lauli in Mr. G.’s lectures, it 
is the complexity of his facts and their thick 
grouping together. They are sufficiently nu- 
merous in each lecture to lorm three ol moderate 
length and fashionable pro funaity. 
No description hitherto given by poets, print- 
ers, historians O: philosophers, comes up to 
the me-its olthe view from the Pyramids, nor 
does any prmZiTig yet put forth attempt to ap- 
{troach the fac simile. Dr. Lepsius has caused 
a panoramic view to be taken from the summit 
ol the second Pyramid, which, said Mr. Gliddon, 
will be valued by those who never expect to be- 
hold the reality ; and the lecturer hoped that be- 
sides the day view, the Prussians would add their 
night scene ot New Year’s Eve, 1842, where the 
blaze of lighted on the top of each three 
pyramids cast a lurid glare on every side, bring- 
ing out the craggy peaks of the long desecrated 
Mausoleum of Memphite Pharaohs, tinting tha 
dreary wilderness of tombs with a light, emble- 
matical of Lepsius’s vindication oftheir inmates, 
and leaving the fitful shadows ofluneral gloom 
to symbolise the fifty centuries ot historic night 
now broken by the Hierologists ! 
“ No other scene on earth,” said Mr. Gliddon, 
with a natural enthusiasm excited by the vivid, 
remembrance of the reality which had been 
seen like a map before him — " noother scene on 
earth presents at one view and in one series, to 
the evidence of the senses, such monuments of 
Man. Beginning from an antiquity antecedent 
to all history, and unfolding their respective 
ages before the gaze, associated with the 
sublimest deeds ol human greatness, or bedewed 
with the sad tears shed by unnumbered succes- 
sions of varied nations, until step by step, gene- 
ration after generation, century alter century. 
Empire by Empire, his eye follows each monu- 
ment, down from the mighty Pyramid that has 
survived 5000 suns, to the Irail and ephemeral 
Arabhovel, which, with fresh Nile mud and a 
few canes, yonder Fallahs are raising for their 
habitation, and yet from the summit of the 
Great Pyramidyon behold the allF 
Continuing the lecture, and giving many 
statistics of admeasurements, chambers, pas- 
sages, &c., in the Great Pyramid ol Cheops, as 
well as showing that the ancient Cubit guided 
the construction of all its parts, Mr. Gliddon 
related an anecdote with regard to two small 
lateral apertures that had been seen in the Pyra- 
mid, but the purpose or end ol which remained 
inexplicable to all explorers until 1837, when 
Col. Vyse discovered that they were the inner 
mouths of Air Channels, extending on each 
side to the surface ot the Pyramid. Whilst Col. 
Vyse’s men were probing the northern Air 
Channel, they found it impossible to tell whether 
it was open all the v/ay through, as palm sticks 
lashed together could not pass; stones, rolled in, 
stopped ; and water, poured in, was absorbed by 
he masonry. An Arab solved 'he difficulty in 
a very simple method. He brought a cat with 
her young kittens in a sack, and placed the 
kittens aiihe bottom ol the air hole in the King,s 
Chamber, and shut them in with a stone; then 
going outside, he placed the cat at the opposite 
end, and shut her in also with a stone. On going 
inside again, alter an interval, the cat, attracted 
by the cries ol her offspring, being found with 
her little lamily at the bottom of the channel, 
proved that the passage was open from top to 
bottom! This anecdote, as Mr. Gliddon re- 
marked, is not mentioned in Col. Vyse’s great 
work, because they have recorded there, only 
the scientific methods of solving architectural 
problems! 
It seems also that the outer mouth of the 
southern Air Channel was discovered accident- 
ally by a man whose hat blew off his head 
whilst standing at the top of the pramid, and 
whodiscovered the hole which turned out to be 
this mouth as he went down the south side 
persuing his air taken beaver 1 The lecturer 
observed that the discovery of these air-holes 
was a most decided blessing to all explorers and 
tourists, relieving them essentially from an un- 
comfortable feeling ol suffocation, at times both 
oppressive and deleterious. Issuing from these 
hoary places ol sepulture, said Mr. G., and 
coming again to the ligat of day, your are lost 
in amazement at the thousands o{ tons ol granite, 
alone, cut 640 miles off at the quarries ol the 
first cataract, and rafted down the river by the 
Nile and by Canals to the loot ol the Causeways, 
and thencedragged on sledges up inclined planes, 
to the Monument wherein they were fitted, after 
elevation by sheers, derricks, blocks and falls, by 
the application of Bullock power, and the 
sinewy arms ol thousands upon thousands ol 
aborers. 
There was one part of this lecture which was 
peculiarly beautiful and striking; where, in al- 
lusion to the modern discoveries in connection 
with Egypt, and especially to the fortunate ex- 
plorations by the Prussian Expedition under 
Lepsius, Mr. Gliddon, as if with one quick 
glance at the past, the present, and the future, 
exclaimed with fervor, 
“ Dark has been thy night 
Oh Egypt ! but the Aame ^ 
Of new-born science gilds thine ancient'name !" 
And then quoting with a few slight altera- 
tions, the lines by W. O. Bourne, Esq., previous- 
ly given in this paper, he instantly added, with 
skilful appropriateness : 
“ No more thy hieroglyphics shall tongueless be 
The empty marvel ol a wondering world ; 
For Science hath declared her bright decree, 
And from the Tombs of Ages, mystery hulled ! 
Thy granite shall revive, and speak again, 
Through the long lapse of years with freer tongue ; 
And we sball catch its words, nor seek in vain 
The occult counsels in thy temples rung ; 
CUAMPoLLlON gave to mind the master-key ; 
Reread thy records in the sacred sign ; 
Whilst drinking in at thy fount of Mysterie, 
He learned the palegraphic to divine — 
And Truth shall henceforth lend her brightening ray. 
With aid to chase the lingering gloom away.'' 
The quotation was received with an applause 
which well indicated that the audience lelt the 
force ol his sentiment. 
NEW SYSTEM OF MANURSNO. 
A singular idea has just been suggested in 
Scotland in relation to the nutrition ol plants. 
It may be summed up in a very few words, thus ; 
that a sufficient quantity ol the elements of nu- 
trition may be absorbed in the .seed of wheat, 
oats, and barley, &c , to ensure a very large 
product at harvest, without any other manure. 
Experiments have been made with complete 
success, and they have been published by the 
Agricultural Society of Scotland. Sulphate ol 
Ammonia has been used, and nitrate of soda 
and potash, and all in combi.nation , — Albany 
Cultivator. 
5^ It is stated in the papers that a young 
wife in Lowell, Mass., has presented her hus- 
band with five children in eleven months ! — 
An Editor asks — "Who can beat thaf?” 
The Editor of the Saturday Conner, ver/ 
feelingly answers—’’ Who would wish to?’‘ 
