The Great Pyramid.

THE SQUARING OE THE CIRCLE is a mathematical problem that has taxed the efforts of the most advanced scholars Europe has produced , and yet the Great Pyramid , in the most definite form , sokes this problem , and , in order to fully establish the matter beyond doubt , repeats the solution . The discovery was first made by Mr . John Taylor , Avho mathematically proA'ed that the . Great Pyramid , in its original condition , was , when its sides Avere continued to " the summit , in a point , —that its centred , vertical height then ivasto twice the breadth of its square baseas nearly as can be expressed by good

monu-, , mental work , as the diameter to the circumference of a circle . " This solution of the celebrated problem is not to be found in any other building in the world , and to confirm the mathematical fact , the Architect duplicated the evidence , by the construction of the " area " form of the problem in the compartments of the interior , which in each case gives the same result . THE METROLOGY , of the Great Pyramid is an important subject . It is Avritten

, "Just balances , just Aveig hts , a just ephah , and a just hin , shall ye have . " Metrology has occupied the attention of the learned in all ages . Later efforts in connection Avith the subject are not the least interesting . The efforts of French savants some eighty years ago , to set aside this and other equally important systems , we have always regarded as inimical to human progress . We fully agree Avith Professor Piazzi Smyth , that the French metrical system ought never to he entertained by Great Britain . The

Great Pyramid ' s divinely appointed standard of measures will make man ' s \ A ' , orks upon the earth harmonious \ A * ith the scale on which God created the earth , or rather , ordained it to be during the human period . It will also elucidate facts in every branch of science , Avhile that of others only leads to error and confusion . Capacity , AA'eight , linear and surface measure , are more accurately determined by the Great Pyramid than by any other source . The scientific features of the King ' s Chamber , by its position in the building , marks it out as specialladapted for registering the standard of

y measures , seeing that it is free from atmospheric change , and gives a mean temperature of 50 ° P . = 68 Far ., which is the mean temperature of all the man-inhabited parts of the earth ' s-surface , and the most suitable for human development . The internal construction will form part of our future consideration , as we proceed with the lessons it teaches on History and Prophecy . Within the King ' s Chamber is found the only piece of furniture ( if such it may be called ) that the building contains . It is knoAvn as

the " COEPEB , " and is regarded as a standard of Aveight , and capacity measure . Its interior capacity is four times that of the " British Quarter , " equal to the " HebreAv Laver , " and the " Old Saxon Chaldron , " being close upon 71 , 250 Pyramid inches . Its exterior is double the interior capacity . The length of its sides is , to its height , as the circumference of a circle is to its diameter , —thereby " squaring the circle , " which is in harmony with the theorem of the external proportions of the Pyramid . The Aveight measure of the coffer is one ton , or twenty-five million Pyramid grains .

THE DIAMETER AND CIRCUMFERENCE OE THE EARTH are plainly set forth in the Great Pyramid by the following facts : —The built size of the Pyramid bears a remarkable proportion to the created size of the natural earth . A band of the width of the Great Pyramid base-breadth , encircling the earth , contains 100 , 000 , 000 , 000 square feet . Expressed in Pyramid inches , the equatorial diameter , as given by Colonel Clarke , are 501 , 577 , 000 , and 501 , 730 , 000 . From these Ave compute the equatorial circumference , b multi

y plying them by tr or 3-14159 , etc ., of the Great Pyramid . Reduce them to Pyramid feet , by dividing them by 12 , and next multiply by the Pyramid basehreadth , in Pyramid feet , viz ., 9 ' 4 i- ° ^ = 760 ' 921 , Ave then obtain the following results , —the smaller equatorial diameter " gives 99 , 919 , 000 , 000 , and the larger equatorial diameter 99 , 949 , 000 , 000 ; both of them hoAvever requiring a small addition , at present not known to science exactly , for the amount of matter , as in continents above the sealevel .

THE EARTH ' S MEAN DENSITY AND TEMPERATURE are recorded in the Kin g ' s Chamber . Ihe Great P yramid being erected in a latitude of 30 ° , and in a temperature of one-fifth , it was essentially necessary that it should have the elevation which the inspired Architect selected . Taking ihe barometric pressure of the King ' s Chamber at 30 Pyramid