Identifier: cassellshistoryo00gran (find matches)
Title: Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Grant, James, 1822-1887
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Publisher: London Cassel
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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EMKA^fJi TO TUE UKEAT I-VKAMIU. Egyptologists has endeavoured toprove that the great northern Pyramid•of Dashoor, twenty miles south of Ghi-zeh, and on the left bank of the Nile,belongs to the era of the third dynastyof kings. Colonel Vjse and Mr. Perring, whenamong its ruins, discoveredtwo or three fragments of sculptured diggmg and from the moment you leave thevillage until you reach them theyalways seem close at hand. I mayas well own, says Prince PucklerMuskau, in his Letters on Egypt, that the Pyramids struck me as farmore imposing when seen from afarthan on closer view—the common fateof greatness ! On ascending them the
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88 CASS ELLS HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE SOUDAN. grand effect was in some measure re-stored. Colonel Vyses splendid work con-tains a vertical section of the GreatPyramid from south to north, throughits passages and chambers, showing thegalleries, the air-channels, and the un-explored subterranean chambers. ThisPyramid has been estimated to coverthe same space as Lincolns Inn Fields,in London. By what power these enormousblocks were raised into position is be-yond modern comprehension; for in noEgyptian painting, says Letronne, dowe perceive pulleys, blocks, capstans,or machines of similar description. Ifthe Egyptians had employed such aids,we should find some trace of them in abas-relief which represents the removalof a colossus, drawn by long rows ofmen, fastened to ropes, attended byothers with pails to wet or grease theartificial basement along which thecolossus is being dragged. Before quitting the subject of theGreat Pyramid, we are tempted to quoteEbers account of the view from it

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