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bones of an ordinary skull. To other parts of the skull adhered several folds of 

 pitched linen ; which together were near half an inch in thickness : on removing 

 them they were found to have been in actual contact with the bone; so that the 

 integuments must have been taken away, before the wrappers were at first 

 applied. The under jaw was lost ; and the superior maxillary, sphenoidal and 

 ethmoidal bones were broken away ; the foramen occipitale was stopped up with 

 pitch, with which also the inner part of the skull was lined ; this seemed to 

 have been poured in at the foramen, and made to apj^ly to the several parts of 

 the inside of the skull, by turning the head in different directions ; the wave of 

 the melted pitch from such motion appearing very plain. The inside of the 

 skull was in many places covered very thinly ; and in some few, which the fluid 

 pitch had missed, it was quite bare. The pitch which stopped up the foramen 

 occipitale, had on it the impression of one of the vertebrae of the neck ; and 

 externally about the foramen adhered a considerable quantity of pitch. 



The outer painted covering being removed, nothing but linen fillets were to 

 be seen, which enclosed the whole mummy. These -fillets were of different 

 breadths; the greater part about an inch and a half; those about the feet much 

 broader : they were torn longitudinally ; those few that had a selvage, having it on 

 one side only ; the uppermost fillets were of a degree of fineness nearly equal to 

 what is now sold in the shops for 2s. 4d. per yard, under the name of long 

 ilawn ; and were woven something after the manner of Russia-sheeting : the 

 fillets were of a brown colour, and in some measure rotten. These outer fillets 

 seemed to owe their colour to having been steeped in some gummy solution ; as 

 the inner ones were in pitch. The fillets immediately under the painted cover- 

 ing lay in a transverse direction ; under these, which were many double, they 

 lay oblique, diagonally from the shoulders to the ilia. Under these the fillets 

 were broader, some nearly 3 inches ; and lay longitudinally from the neck to the 

 feet and also from the shoulders down the sides ; on which there was a remark- 

 able thickness of these longitudinal fillets : under these they were again trans- 

 .verse and under these again oblique. The fillets in general externally did not 

 adhere to each other ; but though pieces of a considerable length could be taken 

 off entire, yet, from the great age, so tender was the texture of the cloth, that 

 it was impossible regularly to unroll them. As the outer fillets were removed, 

 .those that next presented themselves had been evidently steeped in pitch, and 

 were in general coarser, in fokis, and more irregulaily laid on ; as the) were 

 more distant from the surface. The inner filleting of all was so impregnated 

 with pitch, as to form with it one hard black brittle mass ; and had been burned 

 nearly to a coal. On breaking this, it appeared in many places as if filled with 

 a white efflorescence ; like that observable on the outside of pyrites which have 

 been exposed to the air. This efiiorescence however had nothing saline to the 



