CORRIGENDA

IN SOME FORMER VOLUMES.

(1.) The length of 1878.4 Pyramid Inches in the Grand Gallery was inadvertently stated in the 3rd Edition to be “at the height marked by a groove”; it should have been “at the height of the first side overlapping.”

(2.) The breadth of the top of the niche in the Queen’s Chamber was given in the 2nd Edition of this book, and in “Life and Work,” by estimation only, at 25 inches, but has since been ascertained, by measure, to be only 19.5 inches, as stated here on p. 224.

(3.) In “Life and Work at Great Pyramid,” 1847, the figure of the boss on the granite leaf was made too high. See its correct figure here, on Plate XV.

(4.) In Plate IX. here, the horizontal passage to the Queen’s Chamber is far from correctly drawn; the proper numbers for it are given on pp. 223 & 224.

(5.) In Plates XIV. and XV., the topmost little joint-line at the upper North corner of East wall of Ante-chamber, in a narrow limestone space there, is said by Mr. Waynman Dixon not to exist; and in Plate XV. it is further said, by the same authority, that the next little joint-line below, in the same narrow limestone space, is drawn too high up by about one-fifth part of the small stone below. I am not aware of the pressing importance of these particular corrections, but announce them as requested.

(6.) I beg to repeat here what I have stated in former Pyramid volumes, that the small-sized drawings of these very limited plates are only intended to show generally whereabouts and to what sort of forms the elsewhere written and recorded numbers of the measures apply;—these measures having been taken on the stones of the Great Pyramid themselves, and corrected afterwards, if necessary, and as described in the volumes of “Life and Work,” both for value of the divisions of the scale employed, and for wear, tear, or dilapidation of the stones, so far as that could be ascertained,—before being employed for theory.