P/on. 



fuch as declined burning or Funerall 

 Urnes, affefied Coffins of Clay, accor 

 ding to the mode of Pythagoras, a way 

 preferred by Farro> But the fpirit of great 

 ones was above thefe circumfcriptions , 

 affe&ing copper, filver, gold, and?*r- 

 fbyrie Urnes, wherein Severn lay, after 

 a ferious view and fen te nee on that 

 which (hould contain him d Some of 

 thefe Urnes were thought to have been 

 filvered over, from fparkliogs in (everal 

 pots, with fmall Tinfcll parcels ; uncer 

 tain whether from the earth, or the firft 

 mixture in them * 



Among thefe Urnes we could obtain 

 no good account of their coverings^ On 

 ly one feemcd arched over with fome 

 kinde of brickwork. Of thofe found at 

 Euxton fome were covered with flints, 

 fome in other parts with tiles, thofe at 

 Yarmouth Cafter, were clofed with Romane 

 bricks. And fome have proper earthen 

 covers adapted and fitted to them. But 

 in the H0mertca&Urt\e ofPatroclw^ what 

 ever was the folid Tegument, we finde 

 the immediate covering to be a purple 

 peece of ftlk .- And fuch as had no co 



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