Workmanship of niche, originally very good and true: the intended depth of it generally seems to have been 41 inches; but the stones which reach back to form this depth, penetrate some 35 inches still farther eastward into the masonry. A portion of the niche, just above a level bank or long shelf about 38 inches above the floor, reached much farther back still, say 100, with height of 40'; but all that part is now much disfigured by modern excavations. These are shown in the two following views of the Queen's chamber in Plate VIII.; where the arrangement of the roof and wall lining blocks is taken from Howard Vyse and Perring's views.

GRAND GALLERY.

FROM the larger space, and more numerous architectural features in the Grand Gallery over the simple passages, it requires much examination of the nature of each end, before attempting to measure the distance of one from the other. We shall also do well to look just now, only to the lower, or floor-ward portion of each end,-leaving everything with regard to the upper portions, whether of north or south ends, to a separate section for height.

Entering then the north end of Grand Gallery, by the first ascending passage, we enter there by a doorway 53.2 inches in vertical height (53.5, first measure, and 530, second measure), and 42.2 inches broad, i.e., where not broader on account of manifest injury; and these measures are taken on the north wall of Grand Gallery, which is vertical for a certain height upwards from the floor.

The breadth of that wall, or end of Gallery, is about 820 (81.7 to 83.0) inches, and the lower storey of Grand Gallery progresses always at that breadth, except in so far as its very lowest part is filled up on either side by the ramps or side-benches of stone; and these, for a vertical height of 23 inches, contract the breadth to about 420 inches, or the