[Footnote 249: "The western side," observes Professor Smyth, "of the coffer is, through almost its entire length, rather lower than the other three, and these have _grooves_ inside, or the remains of grooves once cut into them, about an inch or two below their summits, and on a level with the western edge; _in fact_, to _admit a sliding sarcophagus cover or lid_; and there were the remains of three fixing pin-holes on the western side, for fastening such cover into its place." (Vol. i. p. 85.)] [Footnote 250: For age, etc., of Al Hakm, see Dr. Rieu in APPENDIX No. III.; and Jomard on length of the Sarcophagus, No. IV.] [Footnote 251: In the original Arabic, the expression is "birdlike (or hieroglyphic) characters writ with a reed."] [Footnote 252: See Greaves' _Works_, vol. i. p. 61 and p. 115. In Colonel Vyse's works are adduced other Arabian authors who allude to this discovery of a body with golden armour, etc., etc., in the sarcophagus of the King's Chamber; as Alkaisi, who testifies that "he himself saw the case (the cartonage or mummy-case) from which the body had been taken, and that it stood at the door of the King's Palace at Cairo, in the year 511" A.H. (See _The Pyramids of Gizeh_, vol. ii. p. 334). See also to the same effect _Abon Szalt_, p. 357; and Ben Abd Al Rahman, as cited in the _Description de l'Egypte_, vol. ii. p. 191. "It may be remarked," observes Dr. Sprenger in Colonel Vyse's work, "that the Arabian authors have given the same accounts of the pyramids, with little or no variation, for above a thousand years." (Vol. ii. p. 328.) See further APPENDIX, p. 270.] [Footnote 253: See APPENDIX, No. VII.] [Footnote 254: Our great Scottish architect, Mr. Bryce, believes that, with these data given, any well-informed master-mason or clerk of works could have drawn or planned and superintended the building.] [Footnote 255: See Newton's _Essay_, in Professor Smyth's work, vol. ii. 360; and Sir Henry James' masterly _Memorandum on the Length of the cubit of Memphis_, in APPENDIX, No. V.] [Footnote 256: Sir Isaac Newton says--"In the precise determination of the cubit of Memphis, I should choose to pitch upon the length of the chamber in the middle of the pyramid." Greaves gives this length 34.38 = 20 cubits of 20.628 inches.] [Footnote 257: Yet this, the Memphian cubit, "need not" (somewhat mysteriously adds Professor Smyth), "and actually is not, by any means the same as the cubit _typified_ in the more concealed and _symbolised_ metrological system of the Great Pyramid."]