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all parts of the body, like an infant in swaddling 

 clothes; still under this general bandage there 

 was another, which went particularly round the 

 extremities, the hands, and the 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 sub- 

 stance, an inch thick. When these were remov- 

 ed, and the body exposed naked to view, nothing 

 could be more astonishing than the preservation 

 of the whole, and the exact resemblance it bore 

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

 It appeared well proportioned, except that the 

 head was rather large, and the feet small. The 

 skin had all the pliancy and colour of a body 

 lately dead ; the visage, however, was of a brown- 

 ish 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 

 when bent inwards. The nails still continued 

 entire ; 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 ; but, 

 on the contrary, those of the skull preserved their 

 rigidity : the hair, which only covered the back 

 of the head, was of a chesnut colour, and about 

 two inches long. The pericranium at top was 

 separated from the skull, by an incision, in order 

 to open it for the introducing proper aromatics in 

 the place of the brain, where they were found 

 mixed with clay. The teeth, the tongue, and the 

 ears, were all preserved in perfect form. The 



