Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-04-21
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rIr. G,iddon's Second Lecture.


and the lecturer limselfin finer ieather.-
We are favored with the following sketch
Of the interesting lecture:
Having established in lis irst discourse
reported IN our columns of Friday the
place which Egypt now occupies in the
worlds history, according to the arehno.
logical principles endorsed by the most
distinguished Egyptian saraRs in the year
1851, Mr.. Gliddon commenced last even
ing's lectures by pointing out and explain
ing the enormous array of illustrations to
elncida,e the pyramids, &c, suspended
round the walls, which formed a beauti-
full and singular coap dab, dwelling at first
on the greatpyrnmid---one ofthc 81 tombs
OF antc-Abrahamic sovereigns who ruled
over Memphis as far back as the third dy-
nasty, upwards of $500 years ago. Itbas
been ascertained that this enormous struc-
ture covers more than thirteen acres Of
ground at the base. and that the masonry,
before the smooth outer casing was par.
tally destroyed by the Arabs. between the
l2tn and 10th centuries of our era, meas
ured nearly 9000o,000 cubic feet, and
weighed 6,S4S,000 tons. Even now, az
ter the ravages Of five thousand years, it
embraces more than S0,000.000 cubic feet
Of masonry, weighing considerably more
than 6 100000 tons. Its original height
was 4S0 feet. No doubt exists that il was
the tomb Of the monarch whomthe Greeks
call Chcops, who belonged to the fourth
Memphis dynasty, and lived. died, and
was buried in it about b. G, $500 wears
His hieroglyphical name (Shoopho) was
found in the interior Of Col. Vysc; and a
facsimile oftho inscription was shown 10
US from the great Prussan work, together
with a copy ofbis golden signet.
One fact connected with this extraordi-
nary strncture---which, If it We're couver-
ted into brick, would furnish enough ol
that material to build the whole city OF
Philadelphia. and still leave granite suifi;
cieut to face all the public etifces--is.
that the chambers and galleries cut ia il
are only onc-sixteen hundredth par, of the
whole mass. Yet il is bat one tomb out
Of 67 similar, Of all sizes ranging from a.
bout 60 to $50 feet high, as a minimum
and maximum. The lecturer gave some
accounts Of the great distance whence
some materials had been brough,--,he
granite G 10 miles, the white limestone about
Is, across the Nile.
1t was shown how nothing about the
pyramids was certain until lS25--h,,le un-
I'll Col. Vysc exploded 80 Of them in 1887
40, which rouglt US TO Lepsius's disco :
cries among these mountains in ls43.--
He ascertained that 5s more pyramids had
been overlooked by preceding travellers
the superstructures having been carried az
way by the Arabs, g., long ago.
Mr.. Glddon explained the process Of
building the pyramids, upon blackboard,
(see his Oha, page 32-33,) so as to show
that their size corresponds with the length
Of their monareh's reign. We do not
dwell upon this simple but most important
law Of construction, because the woodcut
on Mr. Gliddon's programmes explains the
method. Lepsius established thereby that
large pyramids are the tombs Of kings who
lived long time--small ones of those
whose reigns were short. Dr. Lepsius
discoveredthc sites Of twenty-eight pyra-
mids, which, added to the thirty -lne ex-
ploded by Nyse, make sixty-seven--ali
tombs of kings who had reigned and been
gathered TO their fathers before Abraham's S
visit to Egypt. Mr.. G. explained the rca-
son why the Pcntateuch makes no men
ton Of them. The Arabs who are born on
the spot, if asked who built them, get rid Of
the question by answering "Satan!" In
the mind of the modern Arab the pyramids
excite no emotion, for he is accustomed to
the sight Of them, and SO, no doubt, it was
with the Israelites. Yet job (IlI, I,14) prob
ably alludes to the word pyramid in the
Hebrew text where our version has "dcso-
late places"
The ancient burial ground Of Memphis,
% miles in length, came next under re-
view. The details We're most curious
The regal pyramids which lie on this
space, and were the last resting place Of
monarchs, are surrour ded each BY It's own
separate system Of private individuals
tonIbs. In these tombs arc buried the
household ofthe king, the nobility of those
ancient days---a succession Of generations
existing long before Abraham, extending
backwards for 800 years, from the 22g
century before the Christian era. 1t wat
clearly shown that the sand which now
exists along the brow Of the Lybyan hills.
on which stand the pyramids, is the accu
mutation Of the last 1900 years. and that
there was little or none in the primitive
ages of which he was treating.
But the most interesting portion Of the
lecture to US was the explanation Of one
hunrded and thirty private tombs opened
BY Lepsius in the year 1Si3, most olthem
belonging to the fourth, fifth, and sixth dy-
nastics, ranging from 2e to "a centuries
B. c. These tombs contain complete his
tories Of their occupants, with Infinite pie
torial details Of these antique Egypians'
lives and times--sometirne for six success
i've gererations--great-grandfather grand.
father, father. son, grandson. and great
grandson. Mr.. Gliddon exhibited copy
made by Lepsius ola scene in the Oldest
tomb known 70 exist in the world, and
now, with three others ofa century later,
built to the museum Of Berlin. it is that
Of royal prince Of the third dynasty,
$500 years B. G. He is rpresented in
his leopard-skin robes, emblematical Of
the priesthood, and is the centre of group
Of serfs and dcpendants, from whom he is
receiving the rent-roll Of bis estates. It's
beautifully colored. From stamps which
were taken from the tomb carried by Lep-
sius TO Berlin, and exhibited by Mr. Gid
don, there remains no doubt that the Egyp-
tians were in conformation genuine Can-
cqsian race, and that they. and no other ma
ton, built the pyramids. Specimens Of
the limestone Of which these monuments
are constructed, an Of the granite which
lines them. (fhe latter brought down the
Nile $40 miles, were exhibited. Among
the former was fragment nf the altar