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ture ; beneath these a bandage, which covered, all 

 parts of the body, like an infant in swaddling clothes ; 

 under this general bandage there was another, which 

 went particularly round the extremities, the hands and 

 legs ; the head was covered with two caps ; the feet 

 and hands were without any particular bandages ; 

 and the whole body was covered with an aromatic 

 Substance an inch thick. When these were removed 

 and the body exposed naked to view, nothing could be 

 more astonishing than the exact resemblance it bore to 

 a body that had been dead a day or two before. It 

 appeared well proportioned, except the head was very 

 large, and the feet small. The skin had ail the pli* 

 ancy, and colour of a body lately dead; the visage, 

 however was of a brownish hue. The belly yielded to 

 the touch ; all the joints were flexible, except those 

 of the legs and feet ; the fingers stretched forth of 

 themselves whew bent inwards. The nails still conti. 

 flued perfect ; and all the marks of the joints, both in 

 the fingers, the palms of the hands, and the soles of 

 the feet, remained perfectly visible. The bones of the 

 arms and legs were soft and pliant a those of the scull 

 preserved their rigidity ; the hair which only covered 

 ihe back of the head, was of a chesnut colour, and 

 about two inches long. The pericranium at top was 

 separated from the scull, by an incision, in order to 

 the introducing aromatics in the place of the braiu, 

 where they were found mixed with clay. The teeth, 

 the tongue, and the ears, were all preserved in perfect 

 form. The intestines were not taken out uf thebody t 

 but remained pliant and entire, as in a fresh subject^ 

 and the breast was made to rise and fall like a pair of 

 bellows. The embalming preparation had a very 

 strung and pungent smell, which the body preserved 

 for more than a month after it was exposed to the air. 

 Jf one touched either the mummy or any part of the 

 preparation, the hands smelt of it for several hours 

 after. This mummy, having remajned exposed for 

 some months, began to suffer some mutilations. A part 

 ef the skin of the forehead was cut off ; all its teeth 



