1 48 Cyras- Garden^ Or 



ftxmre, and therefore not unaptly com 

 pared unto a Net: We (ball not affirm 

 that from fuch grounds, the Egyptian 

 Embalmers imitated this texture yet in 

 their linnen folds the fame is ftill obfer- 

 vable among their neatcft Mummies, in 

 the figures of ifts and Ofyris^ and the 

 Tutelary fpirits in the Bembine Table. 

 Nor is it to be over-looked how Orw % 

 the Hicroglyphick of the world is de- 

 (bribed in a Net-work covering, from 

 the (houlder to the foot. And (not 

 to enlarge upon thecruciated character 

 of Trwmtgiflus t or handed crofles, fo 

 often occurring in the Needles of Pkd- 

 r*ob, and Obelisks of Antiquity ) the 

 Status lfi\c^ Teraphims, and little I- 

 dokj found about the Mummies , do 

 make a decuflation or Jtcobs Crofle, with 

 their armes, like that on the head of - 

 fhraim and UVanaffes 5 and this Je- 

 cuffts is al/b graphically dcfcribed be 

 tween them. 



This Reticulate or Nf t-work was alfo 

 confidcr able in the inward parts of man, 

 not only from the firft fubtegmcn or 

 \varpofhisformacion, but in thenetty 



