Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-12-31
The Great Pyramid.
ITS SCIENTIFIC THEORY,

The ine}t specimen OF one of the ancient
casing stones OF the great pyramid known at
present to exist either IN Edrope or even IN
Egypt was received in Edinburgh from Mr..
Waynman Dixon, rising young engineer OF
Newcasle-on Tyne, who has recently completed
IN iron bridge across the Nile between Cairo
aud Jeezeh.
Exploring among the now notorious rubbish
mounds on the northern foot of the great pyra-
midland especially among the parts of them
~hi h had been extensively Cut into by the khe-
dives wofkmen lew years ago, in order to
supply cruoe materials for the new road whereby
the prince and princess Of Wales drove ont soon
aiterward one fine morning 10 visit the yenera.
BILE primeyal mooument-Mr Waynman Dixon
discovered this loose specimen just in time to
save its being carried off among other large
Jumps OF stone preparing TO be broken no aud
used by the Arabs in building themselves new
village near the pyramid.
The specimen was illustrious in his ewes,
though not al all IN theirs, by its possessing,
though in more or less injured condition, tve ol
The anciently worked sides of the block, incud-
ing, fortunately, among them the upper aud
lower horizontal surfaces, together with the bev-
ged surface between The exact angle of thai
Develed slope Common TO all the Great Pyrd-
mid's casing stones whenever they have been
llighied on led the laIe John Taylor OF Cover
street, London, TO the immortal archie illogical
ruth, never dreamt OF IN the philosophy of all
the regular linguistic and Theological Egyptol-
ogists, viz: that the shaOe of the entire monu.
nent (snce then declared by the learned Lep-
sluS TO be the oldest ar hitectura monument
stlll existing above the surface of the Garth, and
The one TO which the first link, not only oil
Egyptian, but oil universal, history is securely
iastened) was carefully so adjusted aud exactly
fashioned in Its own day to precisely such Il
figure that II does demonstrate in the right way
the true and practical squaring Of the circle.
Whether that shape was given to the great
amid Inr haf 10 -.
and may serve AS a question for the schoolmen
10 90 on disputing over, If they like Bur there
is another noteworthy fact for more practical
men, touching this material stone so happily
saved by Mr.. Waynman Dixon, and it is this,
viz that the length OF the front foot of the
stone, or that most important line or ledge from
which the angular slope Of the whole stone com
mences to rise, and which may, therefore
possibly have been regarded as a radical length
for the theory of the great pyramid, is found in
this case TO measure very remarkable length.
And what length may that be? Not the ordi.
nary proiane cubic of old Egypt, nor any ex.
traordinary profane one either, nor anything
whatever that the modern Egyptologists oil
Europe have ever suspected, but within the
limits OF mensuraton error now unavoidable
the number of just twenty-five pyramid inches
neither less nor more And twenty-five pyra
mid inches have been shown TO he the ter
millionth part of the length of the earth's semi
axis of rotation, as well as to have been the
length Of the cubt Of Noah, Moses aud Solo
mon; or. in the words Of Moses TO the Hebrews
before Sinai: "the cublt OF the Lord their God ,
The (English) AHengaDl.