[175] Barker.—The same is mentioned by Captain Burr, in reference to the Indian followers who had attended him to the temple of Isis.
[176] Mr. Greaves’s diagonal, in proportion to his base of 694 feet, is 991 feet nearly; the half of which is 495½ feet, for the height of the Pyramid; for as the radius is to the tangent of 45°, so is half the diameter to half the diagonal, or 7 to 10, or 706 to 1000. Say, 7 : 10 :: 694 : 991⁄2 = 495½.—Dissertation upon the Pyramids.
[177] Schindl.
[178] Gen. xlvii.
[179] Hist. Christ. des Indes, p. 429.
[180] Lib. ii. p. 4.
[181] πυρ, generally rendered fire, is not so, however, in the true import of the word, but the Sun; fire is only a secondary sense of it.
[182] Barker.
[183] Ibid.
[184] Gen. xlvi. 34.