Life and Work at the Great Pyramid During the Months of January, February, March, and April, A.D. 1865: With a Discussion of the Facts Ascertained, Band 1Edmonston and Douglas, 1867 - 620 Seiten |
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Life and Work at the Great Pyramid During the Months of January, February ... Charles Piazzi Smyth Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2013 |
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Alee Dobree amongst ancient angle Arabs arrived baksheesh basalt Basha began blocks Boolak builders building Cairo candles CHAP cliff clinometer coffer Colonel Howard Vyse Consul corner course desert diorite East Tombs Egypt Egyptian entrance passage excavations feet floor fourth dynasty French French Consul going Governor of Jeezeh Grand Gallery granite hands heaps height Herodotus horizontal Ibraheem inches joints Khamaseen King King's chamber land length limestone look lower Mamoon's hole Mariette Bey masonry measures ment modern Mokattam morning never night Nile northern nummulites observations once party plain Plate portcullis present Pyra Pyramid hill Ramadan Reis Alee Shafei Reis Atfee rock round rubbish sand sarcophagus second Pyramid sepulchral Sheikh side Smyne Sphinx stone surface things tion travellers upper Vassalis vertical Viceroy village Vyse's walls wherefore whole wind
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Seite xxxii - ... the Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of Hosts, is his name, great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings : which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day...
Seite 448 - With what amazement did we survey the vast surface that was presented to us, when we arrived at this stupendous monument, which seemed to reach the clouds ! Here and there appeared some Arab guides upon the immense masses above us, like so many pigmies, waiting to shew the way up to the summit.
Seite 171 - Nummulites are so called from their resemblance to a piece of money — they vary in size from that of a crown piece to microscopic littleness ; and occupy an important place in the history of fossil shells, on account of the prodigious extent to which they are accumulated in the later members of the secondary, and in many of the tertiary strata. They are often piled on each other nearly in as close contact as the grains in a heap of corn. In this state they form a considerable portion of the entire...
Seite 248 - The style of building in the Second Pyramid is inferior to that of the First ; and the stones used in its construction were less carefully selected, though united with nearly the same kind of cement...
Seite 448 - Arabs, who had assembled to receive us upon our landing, were much amused by the eagerness excited in our whole party, to prove who should first set his foot upon the summit of this artificial mountain. As we drew near its base, the effect of its prodigious magnitude, and the amazement caused in viewing the enormous masses used in its construction, affected every one of us; but it was an impression of awe and fear, rather than of pleasure. In the observations of travellers who had recently preceded...
Seite 172 - Carpathians, and is in full force in the north of Africa, as, for example, in Algeria and Morocco. It has also been traced from Egypt, where it was largely quarried of old for the building of the Pyramids, into Asia Minor, and across Persia by Bagdad to the mouths of the Indus. It occurs not only in Cutch, but in the mountain ranges which separate Scinde from Persia, and which form the passes leading to Caboul ; and it has been followed still farther eastward into India, as far as eastern Bengal...
Seite 172 - The nummulitic formation, with its characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid framework of the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa. It often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and is in full force in the north of Africa, as, for example, in Algeria and Morocco.
Seite 326 - Thy form stupendous here the gods have placed, Sparing each spot of harvest-bearing land ; And with this mighty work of art have graced A rocky isle, encumber'd once with sand ; And near the Pyramids have bid thee stand : Not that fierce Sphinx that Thebes erewhile laid waste, But great Latona's servant mild and bland ; Watching that prince beloved who fills the throne Of Egypt's plains, and calls the Nile his own. That heavenly monarch [who his foes defies], Like Vulcan powerful [and like Pallas...
Seite 172 - It often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and is in full force in the north of Africa, as, for example, in Algeria and Morocco. It has...