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The reverse is the plan proposed by the writer as a proper cut for this seal.

A plan proposed later by Lieutenant Totten has been sent us, but there was not time enough to have it cut for the present number. It has the same features as that proposed by the writer, but is better arranged and is accepted as superior, only, probably, excepting the limited number of steps, which should be just as many as existed in the Pyramid under the capstone. C. L.

These cuts of the United States seal have been furnished by the kindness of Lieutenant Totten, U. S. A., the author of 'An Important Question,' which all our members should own and read. The cut of obverse of the seal, to accompany Mr. Weldon's paper, was cut from the medal of the anniversary of the adoption of our seal issued by the government of the United States, hence should be authentic.

The reverse is the plan proposed by the writer as a proper cut for this seal.

A plan proposed later by Lieutenant Totten has been sent. us, but there was not time enough to have it cut for the present number. It has the same features as that proposed by the writer, but is better arranged and is accepted as superior, only, probably, excepting the limited number of steps, which should be just as many as existed in the Pyramid under the capstone. C. L.

THE GRAND GALLERY AND THE BASE OF THE GREAT PYRAMID.

In the INTERNATIONAL STANDARD, the American magazine of the International Institute for preserving and perfecting the Anglo-Saxon weights and measures, for July, 1884 (vol. ii., No. 2, pp. 226, 227), Mr. J. H. Dow writes thus: "Possibly a full mathematical demonstration of the superhuman perfection of the Great Pyramid record will very soon be revealed, through the relations of the grand gallery to the Pyramid base." I am very glad to be able to show that the length of the grand gallery is, in a wonderful manner, scientifically connected with the base of the Pyramid.

When the sloping floor of the grand gallery has risen 1-100,000th of the area of the 9131.055

square base of the Pyramid in inches,

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mencement at the north wall, its length: 1881.59 inches, which is the length of the floor line of the gallery between its north and south walls, as nearly as it will admit of exact measurement at the present day. This proves that the length of the grand gallery, as well as the length of the ante-chamber and king's chamber (and I may add, of the queen's chamber*), is connected with the Pyramid base, and therefore with the days in a solar year, because, as it is hardly necessary to add, a base-side of the Pyramid equals, in inches, the days in twenty-five solar years 365.2422 X 25 = 9131.055. In this connection the sum may be varied thus: The vertical height at the south wall of the apex of the geometrical triangle formed by the length of the inclined floor of the grand gallery equals 1-100,000th of the square of the days in twenty-five solar years = 833.762. The angle of inclination on which this calculation is based is 26° 18′ 10′′, which is, beyond doubt, the angle that was intended by the ancient builders.

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This theorem gives the same length for the grand gallery as is given by Mr. James Simpson in the Banner for March 19, 1879 (vol. iii., No. 116), amongst other excellent equations, in the following:

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Such simple and yet highly scientific evidence as this cannot be refuted. terous for opponents to say that it is the result of mere blind coincidence. The wonder is that these "scientific teachers can get so many to follow them thus blindly down the ruck of prejudice. Mr. R. A. Proctor has somewhere made a statement, I believe in his 'Myths and Marvels of Astronomy,' but I have not the book at hand at present to make the reference, to the effect that "the more coincidences brought forward connected with Pyramid mensurations the less he should think of them." This is tantamount to saying, that the greater the accumulation of proofs of the superhuman, scientific origin of the

*The length of the queen's chamber equals eleven-tenths of the width of the king's 206.066 X II chamber = 226.6726; and the length of the queen's chamber equals the 91.31055 X 22 diameter of a circle of equal area to the area of a square with a side 365.2422 X 55

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Great Pyramid, the less he (Mr. Proctor) would be ready to receive them. It is an axiom that a mathematical proposition proved in half a dozen different ways has more value than one proved once only, but when applied to the Pyramid, Mr. Proctor evidently thinks that this good old rule ought to be reversed.

NOTE. Since the above was written, I have noticed the following: A square with a side equal to the area of the square base of the Pyramid 9131.056 × 9131.056, has the

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same area as a circle with a diameter equal to 50,000 times the length of the grand galdery = 1881.5985 x 50,000.

LETTERS.

F. GASS.

LETTER FROM REV. H. G. WOOD.

SHARON, PA., July 14, 1885.

Dear Sir:-I have reached the conclusion, with very strong evidence, that the standard Memphis cubit, of which the Turin cubit is a specimen, was the cubit of the Pyramid, the Hebrew cubit, and the cubit of Ezekiel. The points which I think can be well sustained are:

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Ist. The whole length was 20.625 British inches, divided into 28.28 1/2 of 56.56 digits, and symbolized Jehovah, and might properly be called the mystical cubit. 2d. The double line at the twenty-fourth digit from the right hand indicated the secular cubit of 17.5 B. inches.

3d. The space of nine digits, between the fifteenth and twenty-fourth digits, equal to 6.56 inches, was the “span."

4th.

The four left hand digits made the "handbreadth" equal to 3% inches.

5th. The standard digit was .7292 inches.

6th. The palm was % of the twenty-four right hand digits or secular cubit.

7th. Ezekiel's cubit, of a cubit and a handbreadth, was 24 standard digits + the 4 longer digits at the left hand.

8th. The cubit to the knuckles or joint was the half of the double cubit of 41.25 inches, and the joint allowed the double cubit to be folded like our two-foot rule.

I find nothing in the Scriptures in conflict with these points, and I believe they are in harmony with the facts of antiquarian research.

Faithfully yours,

H. G. WOOD.

LETTER FROM R. COURTENAY.

TANNA, BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, 29, 4, '85.

Dear Sir:-I am most gratified at your asking me to become a member of the Institute. I have long been a student of the Pyramid, and I would gladly join you in resisting the introduction of the French system of weights and measures. But I would like to be

satisfied on one point: There is nothing that the profane Egyptologist more desires than to show that the Pyramid was the outcome of Egyptian idolatry, and that in it were embodied merely Egyptian ideas of that remote period. John Taylor and Professor C. Piazzi Smyth, on the contrary, lay as the very foundation stone of their theories that the Pyramid was in Egypt but not of Egypt. In his latest answer to Barnard, Professor Smyth writes regarding the inspiration under which it was built:

"In