The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-03

are feet ia diameter and ten feet u
length. others Of lesser height and
length. The view from the top DIS loses
. very great contrast; the ARID desert
and the greenest verdure OF Nile land
The second pyramid cot thepLrou IS
45o feet in height and 700 feet square
at the base, at the top il is covered with
cement OF ground brick and mortar
These two pyramids were once covered
over y tn this Stucco. and hierogiyphlcs
written on the greater part. lso said
relating the history OF the times, even
giving the quantity of onions. lettuce
Cucumbers aud radishes consumed by
the builders, but the stucco remaining
on this pyramid discIoses nothing of the
sort. II took 90 Years with 300 GOO
men to build the pyramid OF 'Chcops. >
The third one Is 204 feet high aud
$50 feet square at the base, was called
the red pyramid. because il was covered
with red granite, nearly all the granite
is removed, vet enough remains TO show
the peculiar manner OF splitting this
stone: groove.s cut three inches wide.
by three inches. deep and OF Y shape,
IN which were placed dry wood, which
when wet, swelled and split the rock.
Occasionally to save labor. they did not
cut continuous groove, but left baulks
III il When not particular whether the
stone split straight or not, only one
groove was cut at the top: but when
they wished to make a square end, they
cut grooves on three or four sides OF the
block: these stones were | feet squire of
hard red granite. We saw the same
grooves in tho great obclisk they left at
Assouan as if unable or unwilling to
move it, they intended to cut 1t up. The
rock around these pyramids IS honey
coined with tombs.
THE DURHAM BULL.
We were amazed to behold on the
North side. lust above the entrance TO
this pyramid, the we'll known Black
wells Durham Bull. This Bull VAS II
least one hundred feet in length from
tin To tip, painted red, and il seemed to
Us as if all the great APIS Bulls OF old
which the Egyptians worshipped. were
rVsurrCcted and cons olidated into this
great one; it was at least forty feet in
height and well proportioued, aud we
thought that tie old religion OF liull
wors hip was revived in the worship of
VI tlltS lOttlli nun VI i'Ittt n
wells.
In fact we were told that the heather
true descendants OF the ancient
Egyptian race) held their weekly pray
er meetings every Friday under the
shadow. Of this Bovinn trns"" aud in
stead of burning Eas ster1 incense IN their
worship as Of old, they were now rails
inc around him a mighty cloud of fra
grant smoke from Blackwell's Durham
Bull Tobacco If this bull should ever
die, the ingenuity of the modern Copts
Will never enable them to build a sarco-
phagus of sufficient size to hold his 81
gantic mummicd remains. but they Will
have the consolation Of knowing, that
he VIII, as he cannot be buried within a
mausoleum, have, as long, as the pyra-
md- endure, a resting place on them.
Ancient writer's say that they were
built, by the heavy stones being carried
up sloping embankment OF earth, and
that when completed that the earth was
removed. 1t has also been suggested
that the shells lime. and sand, which
compose the stones Of the pyramids
were carried up III loose state, mixed
with water and poured into moulds, and
that when hardened, the mOulds were
removed This latter cannot be, as the
stoaes show stratifcation and unbroken
shells and fossils, whereas at Port Said
where we saw the artificial stone in large
blocks, made for large mole or break
water, there was no stratlficatlop, ana
nearly All the shells were broken. How
ever. both of these ideas are proven to
be erroneous The stones were raised
by machinery from one step to another,
as we have llus strations showing the kind
of machinery used What subject for a
painter, The building Of the Pyram ids. )"
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