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perfect, his beard strong, and about a J- of an inch long, the hair of his head 

 short, his skin hard and of a tanned-leather colour, pretty much the same as 

 the liquor and earth they lay in. The woman, by some rude people had been 

 taken out of the ground, to which one may well impute her greater decay ; one 

 leg was off, the flesh decayed, the bone sound, the flesh of one hand decayed, 

 the bone sound ; on her face, the upper lip and the tip of her nose decayed, 

 but no where else. Her hair was long and springy, like that of a living person. 

 They were afterwards buried in Hope church, where viewing them some time 

 after, it was found they were entirely consumed. 



They had lain about a yard deep in the soil or moist moss, but without any 

 water in the place. When their stockings were drawn off, the man's legs, 

 which had never been uncovered before, were quite fair ; the flesh, when 

 pressed with the finger, pitted a little, and the joints played freely, and without 

 the least stiffness : the other parts were much decayed : what was left of their 

 clothes (for people had cut away the greatest part as a curiosity) was firm and 

 good ; the woman had on a piece of new serge, which seemed never the worse. 



yin Account, by Dr. Richard Middleton Massey, of a Book, entitled Locu- 

 pletissimi Reruni Naluralium Thesauri accurata De.scriptio, i^c. Vol. I. 

 Amstel. 1734, in Fol. An exact Description of the principal Curiosities of 

 Nature, in the large Museum of Albertus Seba, F. R. S. Vol. I. Amsterdam, 

 1734. N° 434, p. 415. 



This magnificent work is to consist of 4 large folio volumes. The ingenious, 

 curious, and diligent collector, takes in all parts of natural history, and gives 

 descriptions and figures of things scarcely ever seen or heard of before in Europe, 

 which he has collected from all parts of the world, at great charge and industry. 



The first volume contains I 1 ] plates, besides the author's portrait, and the 

 decorations curiously engraven. He begins with the anatomy and skeletons of 

 several fruits, leaves, and roots : the method of performing which, is printed 

 in the Phil. Trans. N°4l6. He then gives a description of several curious 

 exotic plants, with a particular account of the zagoe amboynensium, morus 

 papyrifera, &c. After these follow a great variety of different sorts of animals 

 from all parts of the world. A description of the pipal, a sort of toad, whose 

 young are produced on the back of the female. An account of the transfor- 

 mation of frogs from fishes, and back again from frogs to fishes. Several kinds 

 of scarce lizards, iguanas, chamaeleons, &c. A dragon or basilisk from 

 America, with about 50 several sorts of serpents. 



