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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 (1867)

Smyth, C. Piazzi (Charles Piazzi), 1819-1900 · Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas · leaf 293

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h for distin-guishing comparatively the various parts ; and thereal feature to be noticed is,—that whereas the spacewhich intervenes between the lower end of the frag-mentary casing (which forms a sort of Normanhelmet to the structure), and the beginning of thebad part of the masonry far below,—is… … 1743. 1865. Evidently then the good masonry courses of theupper part held their packing for the casing stones,long after the casing stones themselves had beenviolently stripped away, and after the similar ])utslighter packing had left the ruder portions below ;and if we are still so fortunate as to…

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