124 Rev.J. J. Conybeare on Mumia. [Feb. 



the produce of the different copper mining districts of the king- 

 dom, in the 12 months ending in June, 1822, was as follows : 



Cornwall 9331 tons. 



Devonshire 537 



Staffordshire. 38 



Anglesea 738 



Other parts of North Wales .... 55 



Scotland 11 



Ireland 738 



11042* 



purchased by the following companies : 



Vivian and Sons 2145 tons. 



Williams, Grenfells, and Co 2103 



Daniell and Co 1639 



Crown Company . 1257 



Birmingham Company 1042 



English Company 616 



Fox, Williams, and Co 580 



Freeman and Co 504 



Mines Royal Company 320 



Rose Company 98 



Anglesea Company, smelted .... 738 



11042* 



Article VI. 



Examination of ' Mumia, fyc. By the Rev. J.J. Conybeare, MGS. 

 (To the Editor of the Annals of Philosophy.) 



MY DEAR SIR, Bath Easton, Jan. 14, 1823. 



It is well known that the substance found in the interior of 

 Egyptian mummies, and thence termed mumia, once obtained 

 not only a place, but a high reputation, in the Materia Medica, 

 Its use was not entirely exploded so late as the days of Neuman, 

 who justly ridicules the folly of such as believed it possessed of 

 any virtues beyond those of other and cleaner preparations of a 

 resinous and aromatic nature. Neuman too, was, as far as I am 

 aware, the last person who subjected it to chemical examination. 



* There is an error in this account ; the amount is 1 1 448, instead of 1 1 042. — Ed it, 



