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Ronax Corps decayed in few 

 dayes, while the P&jiato bodies remain* 

 ed dry and uncorrupced. Bodies in the 

 feme ground d o not uniformly diflblve* 

 jnor bones equally moulder ) whereof 

 in the opprobrious difea ft weexpeft no 

 long duration* The body of the Mar* 

 qaefle of Dor/tt feemed found and hand- 

 fomely cereclothed 5 that after feventy 

 jdght years was found uncoirupted c f a X/ 

 Common Tombs prefcrve not beyond whofebo- 

 powder : A firmer confiftence and com- 

 jpaRCof pans might be e%peded from A- 

 |refa(3:ion 5 deep buriall o r charcoal* The 

 greateft Antiquities of mortall bodies cutting o- 

 may remain in putrified bones ^ where* pen ot the 

 oft chough we take not in the pHlar of ^4$ 

 fats wife, or Metamorphofis of or/rfi- lea and 



fome may be older then Pyramids^ 

 o the putrified Reliques of the general! 



undation* When Alexander opened 

 he Tomb of Cyrxs, the remaining bones 



ifcovered his proportion, whereof ur* proporti- 

 jnall fragments afford but a bad conje* ^^ 



pure^ and have this difad vantage of like an 



ordinary 

 jccrps newly to be interred. BMOJ defcriptof letceperfrin* J In his 



Vftp of Ruffia, 



E grave 



