Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1884 — The Egyptian Pyramids Dwarfed. [ARTICLE]

The Egyptian Pyramids Dwarfed.

The pyramid of Cheops is dwarfed by that near Magdalena, Mexico. The Chihuahua Enterprise says that it has a base of 1,350 feet, and is 750 feet i high. There is a winding roadway from the bottom leading up on an easy grade to the top, wide enough for car-

riages to pass over, said to be twentythree miles in length. The outer walla of the roadway are laid in solid masonry, huge blocks of granite in rubble work, and the circles are as uniform and the granite as regular as they could be made at this date by out best engineers. The wall is only occasionally exposed, being covered over with debris and earth, and in many places the sahuaro and other indigenous plants and trees have grown* up, giving the pyramid the appearance of a mountain.