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Title: Life and work at the Great Pyramid during the months of January, February, March, and April, A.D. 1865 : with a discussion of the facts ascertained
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Smyth, C. Piazzi (Charles Piazzi), 1819-1900
Subjects: Pyramids Excavations (Archaeology) Pyramids of Giza (Egypt) Great Pyramid (Egypt)
Publisher: Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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-other blocks appear to be useless ; and wouldhave been so architecturally also in the perfect daysof the Pyramid, if, as most probable, or rather quitecertain, they were then hidden under the outsidecoat of the casing-stones of the whole structure.What, then, could they have been inserted for ? We can only suggest, inductively again fromwhat we have observed for ourselves, that they wereintended to add additional force during the Pyra- mids latter days of decay, to the indication that * opposite to them—or downwards through the floor of the entrance passage, and between the two * diagonal points of its walls—is a shaft leading to a most important and probably water-furnished chamber of the builders of the Pyramid ; not in- * deed supplied by a canal from the Nile, as some have thought, but by the same general infiltration * through the rock, which fills the sepulchral well in King Shafres tomb/ And we are rather confirmedin the notion of such a chamber existing in the •Vol. Ill
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