Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-05

THE GREAT PYRAMiD.-The finest speci-
men of one of the ancient casing stones OF
the great pyramid known at present to ex
list, either in Europe or even Egypt, was
received in Edinburgh from Mr.. Wayman
Dixon, a rising young engineer Of New
castle -on-Tyne, who has recently complet-
ed an iron bridge across the Nile between
Cairo and Jeezeh.
Exploring among the now notorious rub
bish mounds on the northern foot of the
Great Pyramid-and especially among the
parts of them which had been extensively
cut into by the Khedive's workmen, few
years ago, in order to supply crude mate
rials for the new road whereby the Prince
and Princess of Wales drove out soon af
terward one fine morning to visit the ven
cradle primeval monument-Mr. Wayman
Dixon discovered this loose specimen just
in time to save its being carried off among
other large Jumps of stone preparing to be
broken up and used by the Arabs in build
ing themselves new village near the
pyramid.
The specimen was illustrious in his eyes,
though not at all in theirs, by its possess
ing, though in more or less injured condi-
ton, five Of the anciently worked sides of
the block, including, fortunately, among
them the upper and lower horizontal sur
faces, together with the beyeed surface be-
tween. The exact angle of that beveled
slope common to all the Great Pyramid S
casing stones whenever they have been
allghted on) led the late John Taylor, OF
Cover street, London, to the immortal
archaeological truth, never dreamed of in
the philosophy of all the regular linguistic
and Neurological Psychologists; viz, that
the shape of the entire monument (since
then declared by the learned Lepsius to be
the Oldest architectural monument still ex-
sting above the surface of the earth, and
the Que to which the first link, not only OF
Egyptian, but Of universal, history is Sc
cureIy fastened) was carefully SO adjusted
and exactly fashioned in its own day to
precisely such figure that it does demon
strate in the right way the true and practl-
cal squaring OF the circle.
Whether that shape was given to the
great Pyramid for that purpose is differ
ent affair, and may serve as question tor
the schoolmen to 60 on disputing over, il
they like. But there is another noteworthy
fact for more practical men, touching this
material stone SO happily saved by Mr.
Wayman Dixon, and it is this, VIZ, that
the length of the front foot Of this stone
or that most important line or edge from
which the angular slope Of the whole stone
commences to rise, and which may, there.
fore, 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 wha
. length may that be? Not the ordinary
protane cubit of old Egypt, nor any extra
ordinary profane one either, nor anything
whatever that the modern Psychologists o
Europe have ever suspected, but, within
the limits Of mensuration error now un
avoidable, the number of just twenty five
pyramid inches, neither less nor more
: And twenty-five pyramid inches have beef
: shown to be the ten millionth part Of tn
4 length of the earth's semi-axis of rotation
as well as to have been the length of tn
. cubit of Noah, Moses, and Solomon; or i
Z, the words OF Moses to the Hebrews befor
. Sinai the cubit of the Lord their God i.
L -Atheneum.