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lier body to be placed. in this vault unintcrred, in the 

 apprehension that her relations would cause it tq be 

 brought over to her native country. They say it has 

 lain here two hundred and fifty years. Though the 

 muscular skin is totally dried in every part, yet so 

 little are the features of the face sunk or changed', 

 that nothing is more certain than that she was young, 

 and even beautiful. It IN a small countenance, round 

 in its contour : the cartilage of the nose and the nos. 

 trils, have undergone no alteration : her teeth are all 

 firm in the sockets, but the lips are drawn away from 

 over them. The cheeks are shrunk in, but yet less 

 than I ever remember to have set n in embalmed bo- 

 dies. The hair of her head is at this time more than 

 eighteen inches long, very thick, and so fast, that I 

 Beavi d the corpse out of the coffer by it : the colour 

 is a light brown, and I cut off a small lock, which is 

 as fresh and glossy as that of a living person. lhat 

 this lady was of high rank seems evident from the 

 extreme fineness ot the linen which covers her body. 

 The landlord of the inn, who was with me, said, he 

 remembered it for forty years past ; during which time 

 there is not the least perceptible alteration in it - 

 In another coffer is fehe body of a workman, who is 

 said to have tumbled off the church, and was killed 

 by the falL His features evince this most forcibly. 

 Extreme agony is marked in them : his mouth is wide 

 open^ and bis eyelids the same ; the eyes are dried 

 up. His breast is unnaturally distended, and his 

 whole frame betrays a violent death. A little child 

 who died in the sniall pox is still more remarkable. 

 The marks of the pustules, which have broken the 

 skin on his hands and head, are very discernible; 

 though one should suppose that a body which died of 

 such a distemper, must contain in a high degree the 

 seeds of putrefaction. The two other corpses are not 

 less extraordinary. There are in this vault likewise 



turkeys, hawks, weasels, and other animals, which 

 have been hung up here, some, time immemorial, some 

 ^tery iately, and are in the most complete preservation; 



