Abstract
At the conclusion of the first part of this memoir, I stated that, besides the operations at Heliopolis therein described, researches on a more extensive scale had subsequently been undertaken in the district of ancient Memphis and in the valley on the western To mark the depth from the surface of the ground to the lowest part of the pedestal; To ascertain carefully the nature of the ground on which the pedestal rests; To continue the sinking of the shaft, so long as the soil passed through should consist of alluvial deposit; If no pedestal were found, that the shaft should be made close to the statue, and that a specimen of each variety of soil passed through should be carefully preserved.
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