The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-12-14
Interesting Statistics.

The Great Pyramid OF Egypt is the largest
building ever erected by man. Its base
covers thirteen acres of ground and when
1t was finished with all It's polished Write
marble custng intact, 1t was nearly I'VE
hundred feet in height.
The questions have often been asked,
"Mho built 1t and why was 1t built" 10
the first question l will say l don't Know.
The second is another matter Men have
taken to measuring it. and they haye
found that its height is to twice its base as
the diameter OF a circle Is to its clrcum-
ference. That points TO u scientific object
1t has number OF narrow hlantinS pas
-sages through ii, about three and II half
feet square. lined with polished white mar
BILE whose object has not been explained
have surinised that the frat descending
passage running down rs 1t does through
the Pyramid down into tho earth and
pointing as it also does 10 the North Pole,
symbolized u measure of tho earth. It's dl-
rect length has boon measured, but the
results do not agree. But from Others
measured by Col. Howard Vyse, l mako
by angular calculation of 1t to be 4lS5. 50
inches. Please note those figures. The
earth has been measured very accurately
of late years, and from tho Russian, In
dian and Peruvian arcs, NJ. Schubert has
calculated tho diameter of the Equator to
same figures here used us feet are used in
the Pyramid rs inches. That Is one inch
to ten thousand feet, and the axis of this
tube Is the l2)0OOth part of the diameter of
the Equator exactly. And whoever placed
that measure in the Pyramid used our feet
and our inches just as we have them to-
day.
All, yes, they will say quite coincidence.
] will show you another. This number,
d la. L. AL 20 no
And what of that. You know that there
are 36isslays in n year. That il, Providence
has divided the ehrth's orbit into so many
day parts. Aud if So there are in tho d.
alnetcr of the orbit il6 26 day parts. That
is one yard of tho tube to one day part
This connects our yard with time, the
sidoral day the most accurate thing vet
measured by man.
Qnite a coincidence. I will show you
another Tho base Of tho Pyramid meaa.
u-cd on to pofits polished white marble
pavement was 9l31 G6o4 inches in length.
There is no necessary connection be,
tween tho length OF his base and that of
the inclined tube. They:might have mado
the tube larger or shorter. but they didn't.
Now ~ we have tho diameter Of the earth
in feet, wo can find its circumference
taking the ri at three, one, four ono six
which the Ancients did. Then the
Dnsc or me fyramlu VIII ulVlue eQualIy
and without remainder into the crcum-
ferenoe Of the Equator l72SOo times. Its
therefore Il measure OF the circumference
OF the earth as tho inclined tube is OF Its
diameter. A remarkable coincidence.
But the facs that tho number of day
Parts in tho earth's orbit 365 2i24l6 will
divide evenly and without remainder into
tho circumference of the Equator is no co .
incidence but tho hand of inc Creator
Then why should we give up our yard
for the French metre, when the yard is
more evenly Garth commensurate and has
remained uncnaneed from the first.
b find further that the other passages OF
the Pyramid will give approximately the
diameter of tho Sun, Noon and six other
planets including Saturn.
W. f. QUINBY.