. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. more freedom. As our torches light up the dark hall-way innumerable bats, disturbed in their slumbers, flit about 134 WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. us, flapping their wings in our faces, gnashing their teeth,and emitting an odor which makes the hot, stifling air almostunendurable. But we do not think of turning back. Wecame to see and are notto be deterred by thesedifficulties. Pressingon we reach the upperend of the hall and hereburning some magnesi-um wire we have a lightequal
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. more freedom. As our torches light up the dark hall-way innumerable bats, disturbed in their slumbers, flit about 134 WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. us, flapping their wings in our faces, gnashing their teeth,and emitting an odor which makes the hot, stifling air almostunendurable. But we do not think of turning back. Wecame to see and are notto be deterred by thesedifficulties. Pressingon we reach the upperend of the hall and hereburning some magnesi-um wire we have a lightequal to that made byelectricity, and thebeauty of the GrandGallery is revealed tous. The work of pol-ishing and jointing thegreat blocks of fine-grained limestone, withwhich the sides androof of the hall areformed, has been donewith wonderful accu-racy. The builders ofthis old pyramid pos-sessed an unsurpassableand marvelous skill inmasonry. So smoothlyare the stones polishedand so closely andevenly joined togetherthat you could not placethe point of a needle or even the finest hair into the joints of the stones. One. WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 135 scarcely knows which to admire most, the great magnitudeof the work or the wonderful skill shown by the of a structure containing seven million tons of solidstonework standing at least four thousand years! And themasonry of these interior chambers has not swerved a hair-breadth from the position in which it was laid so many cen-turies ago. At the end of the Grand Gallery is a small passage theentrance to which is shown in our engravings. The openingis so low that we must crawl in and through the passage,which is twenty-two feet long. After passing through wefind ourselves in the Kings Chamber, the most interestingpart of the pyramid. The north and south sides of thechamber are each seventeen feet in length, the east andwest sides thirty-four and a half feet, and the height isnineteen feet. The floor of the chamber is one hu
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