. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . a very different anglefrom 51° 5o for the slope of the [G. W.] Perhaps Herodotus does not mtendveitical height, which he would haveuo means of measuring, but the heightof the sloping side, which he may evenhave measured (infra ch. 127) fromone of the amile
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . a very different anglefrom 51° 5o for the slope of the [G. W.] Perhaps Herodotus does not mtendveitical height, which he would haveuo means of measuring, but the heightof the sloping side, which he may evenhave measured (infra ch. 127) fromone of the amiles at the base to the this case his estimate would not beso very wrong, for the length of the linefrom the apex to the ground at one ofthe angles of the base would have ex-ceeded 700 feet. The size of the stones varies. Hero-dotus alludes to those of the outer sur-face, which are now gone; but it maybe doubted if all, even at the lowerpart, were 30 feet in length. On the subject of the pyramids see M. Eg. 319 to 371.—[G. W.] * These steps, or successive stages,had their faces nearly perpendicular,or at an angle of about °, and thetriangular space, formed by each pro-jecting considerably beyond the oneimmediately above it, was afterwardsfilled in, thus completing the generalform of the pyramid. This was first. suggested by I\Ir. Wild, who observedthat if he had to build a pyramid heshould pioceed in that manner ; for Ihad supposed it confined to the ThirdPyramid, instead of being a general sys-tem of construction. (M. Eg. W. ) On each of these stages themachines Herodotus mentions wereplaced, which drew up the stones fromone to the other. Two explanationsof the upper portion of the pyramidbeing finished first may be given—onethat it was adding the pp-amidal apex,and filling up the triangular spaces asthey worked downwai-ds; the otherthat (after the triangular spaces hadbeen filled in) it referred to theii• cut-ting aM-ay the projecting angles of thes
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