A NEW VIEW OF THE PYRAMIDS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1712, 17 June 1884, Page 3

A NEW VIEW OF THE PYRAMIDS.

in ingenious theory of the Pyramids bus been recently advanced by Mr F. Cope Whitehousp, a distinguished American " savant" and explorer. In a recent lecture before the New York Academy of Scienceshe explained, with the aid of diagrams, photographs, and the lantern, the views which he first stated at the York meeting of the British Association in 1881. His general theory is that the limestono hills which once filled the Nile Valley south and west of Cairo, that, lie has thoroughly explored, were "weathered . into fantastic shapes, to which horizontal strata gave an artificial appearance and pyramidal summits. These rocks were mined out like coal and salt, . The inferior material was cut into blocks, lowered from above, and pushed into place to build the pyranddy Mr Whitehouse contends that , jffleoughtnot to impute folly without "'clear proof, and that we may safely assume the simplest methods for accomplishing great engineering works by the ancient Egyptians. He utterly rejects " the sepulchral theory,"