Identifier: lifeworkatgreatp03smyt (find matches)
Title: Life and work at the Great Pyramid during the months of January, February, March, and April, A.D. 1865 : with a discussion of the facts ascertained
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Smyth, C. Piazzi (Charles Piazzi), 1819-1900
Subjects: Pyramids Excavations (Archaeology) Pyramids of Giza (Egypt) Great Pyramid (Egypt)
Publisher: Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the eminentphilological critic. His asserted historical work hasno contemporary monument to confirm, and hascommon sense against it. While, on the other side,there are the natural facts, that the long valley ofthe Natron lakes is, according to Sir Gardner Wil-kinson, more than fifty feet below the level of theNile-bank on their latitude parallel ;^ and thoughnearly thirty miles therefrom in a direct line, yetexperiences an annual rise and fall of the water inthese lakes, dependent apparently upon the infiltra-tion of the Nile inundation through the strata ofthe intervening hills,—a slow process, occupyingthree months of time, or causing the lakes to be thatlength of time behind the river. (See Plate xi.) ^ * According to a rough observation, I calculate the bank of the * Nile at Teranek to be about fifty-eight feet above the valley of * Zakeek, or eighty-six feet above the surface of the Natron lakes.—Sir Gardner Wilkinson, Murrays Handbook for Egypt, p. 226. London,1858. Ynl III.
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