Lands, classical and sacred . s height, affording a sample also, as theDoctor imagines, of the premature demise of the sove-reign down to the line Vihen this more rapid inclinationcommences, and that it Mas afterwards completed in itspresent form by the successor, saving, by the deflexionof the angle, more than half the amount of the labourand material it would have cost had the original designbeen carried out. ^ Ui. ^ k =-\ II > It will be seen by the accompanying diagram that if,contrary to the direct statement of Herodotus and theevidence afforded by the pyramids of Sakhara, Maidour,&c.,
Lands, classical and sacred . s height, affording a sample also, as theDoctor imagines, of the premature demise of the sove-reign down to the line Vihen this more rapid inclinationcommences, and that it Mas afterwards completed in itspresent form by the successor, saving, by the deflexionof the angle, more than half the amount of the labourand material it would have cost had the original designbeen carried out. ^ Ui. ^ k =-\ II > It will be seen by the accompanying diagram that if,contrary to the direct statement of Herodotus and theevidence afforded by the pyramids of Sakhara, Maidour,&c., we were (as has been suggested) to suppose thelower half of this pyramid to have been the first partcompleted, and consequently that it had been intendedto continue it in the same inclination to the apex B, not VOL. I. L 206 APPENDIX. only would it differ materially in its proportions from theother pyramids in its vicinity, but also must be relin-quished all the constructional advantages afforded by theterraces or The Doctor then exhibited a selection from his folioof beautiful drawings, taken from the tombs of Geezehand Sakhara, fraught with details of civil and politicallife, of the most ancient civilization, known to us bymonumental evidence. He said that no less than eightytombs had been drawn by the mission in the vicinity ofthe pyramid of Cheops, chiefly of princes and officers ofthe household of that Pharaoh from which might bedrawn up a kind of Court Guide of Memphis of the re-mote period. I remain, My dear Sir, Yours most truly, J B. END OF VOL. I. London : Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street. K ^^^mMmiJ. ^^^^^^mm l^*M«(»*«,* ;«flH^^ UC SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY l^r^Kfif^Mf^f
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