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operators could have contrived to remove every vestige of the 

 membranes investing the brain, one of which is known to adhere 

 firmly in most subjects to the inner surface of the superior 

 cranial bones. There can scarcely be a doubt but that some 

 injection had been thrown into the cavity in question, to clear 

 it out in so perfect a manner ; for no instrument could have 

 effected such a purpose. A black resinous substance, but in a 

 small quantity, was found adhering to the inner surface of the 

 occipital bone, which must have been thrown in quite hot, as it 

 had penetrated through, and burnt partially, the superior part of 

 the lambdoidal suture through which the liquid escaped, so as 

 to be now seen extravasated under the scalp. But how this 

 liquid resin was thrown in, and for what purpose, it is not easy 

 to conjecture. It could only have been made to penetrate 

 through the opening which had previously been made in the 

 ethmoid bone, to extract the brain ; and if so, it is difficult to 

 conceive in what manner it was made to reach the spot it now 

 occupies without having adhered to any other intermediate por- 

 tion of the cranium. It was remarked, at the time of opening 

 the head, that its inner surface was studded with small crystals 

 of what appeared to be an animal substance, resembling s^ea^^ne. 



" The last observation I have to make on the structural con- 

 dition of this mummy, refers to the state of the eyes, which 

 appear not to have been disturbed ; and to the state of the 

 mouth, which was as carefully examined as circumstances 

 would admit, without destroying the contour and general 

 appearance of the face. The tongue is preserved, and neither 

 above nor below it was there found any coin or piece of metal, 

 as recorded of some of the mummies, but a lump of rags dipped 

 in pitch. The teeth, as I before remarked, are perfectly white 

 and intact ; nor did I observe that peculiar cylindrical form of 

 the incisores which has been assumed by some naturalists, as 

 one of the characters of the head in the Ethiopian race." 



The following is Dr. Granville's account of the process fol- 

 lowed by the Egyptian artists in the preparation of a mummy; 

 as deduced by him with great accuracy, from the results of his 

 examination of the specimen just described. 



"A. Immediately after death the body was committed to the 

 care of the embalmers, when, in the majority of cases, the 

 viscera of the abdomen, either wholly, or partially, were forth- 

 with removed ; in some cases through an incision on the one 

 side of the abdomen, as stated by Herodotus, and as proved by 

 some of the mummies examined ; and in others through the 

 anus, in which latter case, the extremity of the rectum was pre- 

 viously disengaged from its attachments all round by the knife, 

 and the intestines imperfectly extracted. The cavity of the 

 thorax in the most perfect specimens was not disturbed. 



" B. The head was emptied, in all instances, of its contents, 

 either through the nostrils, by breaking through the superior 



