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The sixth Pyramid measured at its base 102 feet 6 inches, and had a total height of 69feet 6 inches. It contained, besides its passages, an ante-room, and sepulchral chamber,which was in length, from north to south, 26 feet, in breadth 11 feet 4 inches, and in height24 feet: the entrance here is by descent also. (SeeJig. 24.)

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The seventh Pyramid had its passage lined with masonry, and its sepulchral chamberwith highly-wrought square slabs of stone: its dimensions were, from east to west, 11 feet8 inches, and from north to south 9 feet 9 inches.

The length of one side of its square base was 172 feet 6 inches, its perpendicularheight 111 feet, its inclined height .140 feet, and the angle of its side 52° 10'.

When the enterprising Belzoni was in Egypt , he attempted to open most of thesepyramids, and had considerable difficulty in finding out the entrance, which was notalways in the centre, or at an equal distance from the angles; much time was spent in vainupon the pyramid in question, and it is to Mr. Perring and his patron that we areindebted for the means of describing the entrance shown above.

The stones in this pyramid, like the others, were laid in distinct courses, diminishingsuccessively in size as they approached the top : each course was so much within the otherbelow, that it formed a sort of stair previous to the casing stones being laid upon theoutside, which rendered the work complete. These steps served for the placing of the

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