Note 235 — IS THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZEH A METROLOGICAL MONUMENT?

Colonel Pownall, while describing in 1770 the barrow of New Grange, in Ireland, to the London Society of Antiquaries, speaks of it as "a pyramid of stone." "This pyramid," he observes, "was encircled at its base with a number of enormous unhewn stones," etc. "The pyramid, in its present state, is but a ruin of what it was," etc. etc. See Archæologia, vol. vi. p. 254; and Higgins' Celtic Druids, p. 40, etc.