It's only about three feet over.

Wait till I've lit another match.

Yes," he said as the light flashed up, "it's just as wide as it is across.

I believe that originally the place was quite dark, and this hole was a pitfall for the enemies who attacked.

There, come on." It was easy enough to spring over, and the next minute Briggs followed, and we continued our way down a narrow passage whose roof was open to the sky at the end of a couple of dozen yards, so that there was no risk of our stumbling upon a pitfall; and, after passing along this passage for a time in a curve, we came upon what seemed to be its termination in a doorway, still pretty square, but whose top was so low that we had to stoop to enter a kind of building or room of a peculiar shape, wider at one end than at the other, in which there was a rough erection; while at one corner, some ten yards away, there was another doorway leading, probably, to another passage.
"Why, it must be a temple," I said, "and that built-up place was the altar." "Does look like it," said Denham thoughtfully.
"You gentlemen know best, I dessay," said the Sergeant; "but it strikes me that this here was a palace, and the bit we're in was kitchen." "Nonsense," said Denham.