Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . the ascent, but is hardly less fatiguing, and the traveller willfind the help of the Arabs not unacceptable. Interior (cornp. Plan, p. 355). Some of the chambers in theinterior of the Great Pyramid are at present closed ; but, to preventconfusion, we shall not mention these until we have describedthose which are still shown. An interval of rest between the ascentand the expedition into the interior is again recommended. The Entrance (PI. a~) is on the thirteenth tier of stones, on theN. side
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . the ascent, but is hardly less fatiguing, and the traveller willfind the help of the Arabs not unacceptable. Interior (cornp. Plan, p. 355). Some of the chambers in theinterior of the Great Pyramid are at present closed ; but, to preventconfusion, we shall not mention these until we have describedthose which are still shown. An interval of rest between the ascentand the expedition into the interior is again recommended. The Entrance (PI. a~) is on the thirteenth tier of stones, on theN. side of the structured, and at a perpendicular height of 48 the ground. The long passage a r, which is now only 3 ft. i height and 3 ft. 11 in. in width, descends in a straight directionat an angle of 26° 41, and is altogether lOG/^yds. in length. Wefollow this passage as far as the point d only, 20 yds. from theentrance. A huge triangular trap-door of granite (PI. b), let into i All the pyramids are entered from their N. sides. The stonesarcophagi containing the bodies lay from N. to anite Temple, Sphinx & Great PyramidoF I Eh Soati Easl of a stoi1*1 Wilding ?
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