Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE ID, 1874
Local and State Affairs.
Lecture on the Great Pyramid.


great pyramid of Egypt, in the Town Hall of
Middletown, to large and attentive audience.
The lecturer expressed himself as highly gratifed
at seeing SO large an audience attend SO dry an
entertainment as scientific lecture, and promis-
ed to make 1t as attractive as possible. Dr.
Morris was accompanied by Prof. Kelly, who
engaged to exhibit stereoscopic views of various
places and scenes in and around the pyramids
and ruins of ancient works in Egypt, but for
some unfortunate cause the light used was SO
very weak that the pictures upon the canvas
were entirely too dim, SO much so that many
objects of interest which the Doctor sought to
explain to his hearers could not be seen at all
or so imperfecly to give but little satisfaction
DIR. NJ. gave us many hints of most valuable in
formation entirely new to most OF us and all
the more interesting because he spoke from ac-
tua personal observation and experience.
Below we give the compilation of dates
measurements, etc., promised by DR.. NJ. to the
readers of the TRANSCRIPT -
THE GREAT PyRAMID.-By Rott Morris III.
D.-By the courtesy of the editor of the TRAN
SCRIPT, | note down, for the information OF
those who may desire to preserve the main facts
in my Pyramid Lecture, the following measure
mcnts -
The Great Pyramid of Cheops is four square
the sides stand exactly with the cardinal points
of the compass Each side was 764 feet in
length, and was divided into 365 parts with
fraction over) corresponding exactly with the
days of the year The surface covered by the
building about thirteen acres. 1t stands
upon range of hills 1875 feet in height. The
height of the pyramid 4s4 feet, but reduced
now, by throwing off the upper stones, to 45l
feet. Originally il ran up TO point, and was
cased with smooth shining blocks OF white mar
bic, on which was inscribed, in hieroglyphics,
the history Of the building. But now there is II
level place top 80 feet square, and the casing
stones are entirely removed. The amount of
building stone employed in the construction is
about seven million tons. The material is chief
ly limestone from the quarries of Mokattam,
about twelve miles distant, but there are some
large blocks of granite employed in certain por-
tons of the central parts Of the building. The
stones are ordinarily from six TO eight feet long,
and from two to four feet high. There are 2o2
tiers of these stones, all of which run level clear
through the pyramid.
There are only eight rooms in the building,
none of them large. The lowest one is found
l02 feet below the base of the building. This is
called the Prmeval Chamber. 1t has we'll in
the CENTRE now choked up but supposed orisi-
nally to have been 80 feet deep.
The next chamber is liz feet above the Prime
val Chamber, and 70 feet from the base of the
Pyramid. The next is 10 feet above the second
Then there are five small chambers, one above
the other, about twelve feet apart.
To enter the building 90 90 feet to thu
North side, near the centre, and climb to thu
sixteenth course of stone, about 80 feet in per
pendicular height. The entrance is by pas
sage way sloping downward at an angle of abou
26 degrees. Tie passage is IL inches wide anf
Al high lined with smooth marble. II leads II
the underground chamber also by n forke,
passage upward at the same angle, to the othe
two chumbers.
There are no inscriptions hieroglyphies up
on any part of the building except few painte'
the ends of stones in the quarry to designat
their proper place in the pyramid. Everything
in the building: the JOINTS sizes, qualities and fit
tings of stones thoroughly calculated, be
efficiency for some great purpose.
Sunday school Institute.
The Northern Sunday School Institute of Ncs
Castle Preshytery will hold its 3d session in til
Forest Presbyterian Church of Middletown o
Thursday and Friday Of next week, 18th and lot
inst The first meeting will he held at half pas
two o'clock Thursday afternoon.
Judging from the character of the programu
a pleasant and profitable time may be expected
Hon. VIM. II. Purnell, President of Deawar
College, will act as chairman. Among til
speakers for the occasion are Col Theo. Hyatt
OF the Penn. Mil. Academy, at Chester, DR.. Rob
Morris, L. l.. D., of the Holy Land Exploratio
Society, Rev. J. NJ. p OTIS, Rev. G. j. Porte
and several others. A cordial invitation is e,
tended to all friends of Sunday Schools to a
tend. All are welcome.
Great Opportunity.
Yon can get good Working Suit
For Seven Dollars-and-a-Half.
You can get Boys Suit
From Five Dollars upwards
You can get Children's Play Suits
From Three Dollars upwards.
You can get good Business Suits
OF fancy Cassmeres, very low.
You can get Dress Suits and Clothing,
ofevery kind, uneqnaled in quality---an
You can get an immense assortment
To select from, at the very lowest prices,
at BENNETT b CO., Tower HALL, 5ls Mark
ST., Philadelphia. Halfway between Fifth al
Sixth Streets.
Reading Room.
An persons favorable to organizing free rca
ing room in the town of Middletown, are co
nestly requested 10 meet in the office of J. Tho
Budd, Esq, on Monday evening next, 18th ins
at o'clock.
j. r. Hail. N. Buwis, Il. G. Matae
W., H. Lingo, J. Mead, 5. B. Kelley
A.G. Cox, ii. A. Wood p. d. Riley,
SIN. Reynolds, j. 7. Budd, j. B. Roberts
p. Reynolds, John Patton, NJ. N. Wilt
j. B. Clarkson, d. l.. Dnnning, J. M. Cox.
G.E. Hukill, Jno. Chamberlin.