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Show on all four ides, 775 feet and, when it wa · built, its height was 481 feet. llerodotu inform u that it required 100,000 men 20 ·car to complete this wonderful work, and some idea of the amount of stone 1:equirccl in its construction may be had by remembering that Stoddard say ''That 85,000,000 cubic f .... et of solid masonry are here piled together, or enough material to build a vvall ten feet high and eig-hteen inches thick around the entire frontier of France. · And thi is the monument, or the burial place, of Cheops, whose empty and broken red granite sarcophagus measuring 7Y6 x3;4x3.YJ feet lies herein. The other two Pyramids here were built by succeeding- Kings after the pattern of the one already imperfectly de cribed, though not quite so large. Thu the tra\·eler looks upon and touches and a cends, if l1e desires. human product that have been standing the gnaw-ings of the teeth of time for more than 5500 year K ot far a way from the Pyramids is the Sphinx, ubmerged to it shoulders in that vast and fathomless . ea of sand. Th' Sphinx, the olcle" t product of humankind and built more than 6000 years a~· o when m n were willing to undertake mighty tasks and vven: p . ' ' . cd f that faith and patience that father e\·ery great undertaking. The Sphinx eems to he the head of a man joined to the body of a great lion; and some have thought that there wa-, once an altar between its strong front limb" before which the multitude of , un wor hipers b wed in humble adoration. Hut wh~tever might have been the object of its rcction. there it remains, the most fascinating ancl my terious and the oleic t among the relics oi human genius, bearing its silent te. timony of a religion and a literature P<1gc Twenty-five |