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planes; and then measuring the base as accu- chap. 
rately as possible, together with the angle of , ^]' , 
inclination subtended by the sides of the pyra- 
mid. The result, however, as it disagreed with 
any account hitherto published, did not satisfy 
us^ It is a curious circumstance, that all ac- 
counts of its perpendicular height differ from 
each other. Some French engineers measured 
successively all the different ranges of stone, 
from the base to the summit. According to 
their observations, the height of this pyramid 
equals four hundred and forty-eight French feet *. 
We now proposed to enter this pyramid : and 
as an inquiry into the origin and antiquity of 
these buildings will be reserved for a subse- 
quent consideration, (after a careful examination 
(3) " Although these immense masses had heen within our view 
for the preceding three days, and we gradually approached them iu 
the boat, on our arrival we were more astonished than ever: the pro- 
tlijious stones which are piled one upon another in regular courses, 
and joined together with cement, are continued to such an exceeding- 
height, that some persons on the top of the great pyramid appeared 
to us immediately under it, as if they were birds." Squire's MS. 
Journal. 
(4) Descript. des Pyram. de Ghize, par J. Grobert. See Peltier's 
Edit. oiVoijage en Eg'jpte par Denon, Append, torn. \l. p. 62. Lond. 
i802. 
