Connecticut western news., 1891-10-22
view enough to fill the mind and shock the nerves and overwhelm ones entire

being.
 After looking around for awhile, and a kodak had pictured the group we descended The descent was more trying than the ascent, for climbing you need not see the depths beneath, but coming down it was impossible not to see the abyslns below But, two Arabs ahead to help us down and two Arabs to hold us back, we were lowered hand below hand until the ground was in- vitingly near, and amid the jargon of the Arabs we were safely landed. Then came one of the most wonderful feats of daring and agility. One of the Arabs solicited a dollar, saying he would run up and down the pyramid in seven minutes. We would rather have given him a dollar not to go, but this ascent and descent in seven minutes he was determined on and so by the watch in seven minutes he went to the top and was back again at the base. It was 8 'blooGcurdling spectacle.
 I said the dominant color of the pyra- mid was gray. but in certain lights it seems to shake off the gray of centuries and become blond and the silver turns to the golden. It covers thirteen acres of ground. What an antiquity It was at least two thousand years old when the baby Christ was carried with in sight of it by his fugitive parents, Joseph and Mary. The storms of forty centuries have drenched it, bombarded it, shadowed it, flashed upon it, but there it stands ready to take another forty centuries of atmospheric attack if the world should continue to exist.
 The oldest buildings of the earth are juniors to this great senior of the cen turies Herodotus says that for ten years preparations were being made for the building of this pyramid. It has eighty-two million one hundred and eleven thousand cubic feet of ma sorry. One hundred thousand work men at one time toiled in it's erection. To bring the stone from the quarries a causeway sixty feet wide was built. The top stones were lifted by machin- cry such as the world knows nothing of today. It is seven hundred and forty-six feet each side. of the square base. The structure is four hundred and fifty feet high, higher than the cathedrals of Cologne, Strasburg, Rouen, St. Peter's and St. Pauls. No surprise to me that it was put at | the head of the Seven Wonders of the | Worll. It has @ subterraneous room of red granite called the 'king's chamber" and another room called the ''queen's chamber" and the probability is that l there are other rooms yet unexplored. The evident design of the architect was to make these rooms as macces- sible as possible. After all the work of exploration and all the digging and blasting, if you would enter these sub l terraneous rooms you must go through d passage only three feet eleven inches | high and less than four feet wide. 1 THE GREAT KING TURNED TO DUST. 1 A sarcophagus of red granite stands | down under this mountain of masonry The sarcophagus could not have been carried in after the pyramid was built. | It must have been put there before the structure was reared. Probably in that sarcophagus once lay a wooden coffin containing a dead king, but time has | destroyed the coffin and destroyed the last vestige of human remains.
 For three thousand years this sepul- chral room was unopened, and would l have been until today probably un- opened had not @ superstitious impress sion got abroad that the heart of the I pyramid was filled with silver and gold and diamonds, and under Al Mamoun an excavating party went to work, and having bored and blasted through hundred feet of rock they found no opening ahead, and were about to give up the attempt when the workmen heard stone roll down into a seeming ly hollow place, and encouraged by that they resumed their work and came into the underground rooms.
 The disappointment of the workmen in finding the sarcophagus empty of all silver and gold and precious stones was SO great that they would have assas- sinated Al Ma,noun, who employed them, had he not hid in another part of the pyramid as much silver and gold as would pay them for their work at ordinary rate of wages and induced them there to dig till they, to their sur prise, came upon adequate compensa- ton.
 wonder not that this mountain of limestone and red granite has been the intelligent Christians in all ages Sir John Iierschel, the astronomer, said he thought it had astronomical signiti canoe. The wise men who acconpa- nied Napoleon's army into Egypt went into profound study of the pyramid. In 1865. Professor S,nyth and his wife lived ill the empty tombs near by the pyramid that they might be as contin- uously as possible close to the pyramid,
 which they were Investigating.
 The pyramid built more than four thousand years ago, being complete geometrical figure, wise men have con- cluded it must have been divinely con structed Man came through thou sands of years to fine architecture, to music to painting but this was perfect at the worlds start. and God must have directed it. All astronomers and geometricians and scientists say that it was scientifically and mathematically constructed before science and mathe- matics were born. From the inrcrip- tions on the pyramid, from it's propor- tions, from the points of the compass recognized in it's structure, from the direction in which it's tunnels run, from the relative position of the blocks that compose it, scientists, Christians and in fidels have demonstrated that the be- ing who planned this pyramid must l have known the worlds Sphericity. and