. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ller monuments of the same kind nearer to tlie Nile. lie remarked, iiioreover, an appear-ance of ruins which might be traced the whole way from the pyramids of Gizeh to those olSiccaia, as it the «holc had once constituted one great city. The stones of the platform are soft 1 I httk hardtr and more compact than what in England is called clunch. The j^jT^-—T 1 ^ i-\^^5i!>j!^ pyramids are built with common mortar ex- —-Lj^-^f :>?K^ ternally, but
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ller monuments of the same kind nearer to tlie Nile. lie remarked, iiioreover, an appear-ance of ruins which might be traced the whole way from the pyramids of Gizeh to those olSiccaia, as it the «holc had once constituted one great city. The stones of the platform are soft 1 I httk hardtr and more compact than what in England is called clunch. The j^jT^-—T 1 ^ i-\^^5i!>j!^ pyramids are built with common mortar ex- —-Lj^-^f :>?K^ ternally, but no appearance of mortar can xE?^E57?^ be discerned in the more perfect parts of the masonry. The faces of the pyramid are directed to the four cardinal points. The entrance is in the north front, and the passage to the central chamber is shown on the preceding section. That in the jiyramid of Cliephcren (fig. 47.) is thus described by Belzoni:— flie first passage is built of granite, the rest are cut out of the natuial sandstone rock which rises above the level of the basis of tiie 4 ft. high, and 3 ft. 6 in. wide ; descending at an. NTKANCE TO TH This passage is 104 ft. Ion angle of 26 degrees: at the bottom is a portcullis, beyond which is a horizontal passage D :,i IIISTdKY OF A IICIIITKCTLRE. I of the same lieiglit as the liist, ami at the distaiice of 22 ft. it desceiHls in a diirereiit(liiectioii. leaciiiig to some passages below. Hence it re-ascends towards the centre of tiiepyramid by a gallery 84 ft. long, 6 ft. high, and .^ ft. 6 in. wide, leading to a chamber alsocut out ofthe .solid rock. Jhe chamber is 46 ft. in length, 16 feet wide, and 23 ft. 6. in. inheight, and contained a sarcopliagus of granite 8 ft. long, .5 ft. 6. in. wide, and 2 ft. 3 in the inside. Returning from tlie chamber to the bottom of the gallery a passage de-scends at an angle of 2fi degrees to the extent of 48 ft. 6 in., when it takes a horizontal direc-tion for a length of
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