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means of rosin. The skull was inclosed in a kind of cast of the same substance, 

 which could with difficulty be removed from it. It seemed also, to judge by its 

 weight, to be filled with rosin, which particularly appeared in the cavity between 

 the palate and the lower jaw. The rosin here having been gradually punched 

 out, not the least appearance of a tongue was discernible ; though some have 

 asserted to have found traces of it in mummies ; nor was any thing like the little 

 golden plate (the supposed naulus) to be here met with. There were no remains 

 whatever of the soft fleshy parts, of skin, tendons, &c. ; in short, nothing was 

 found but mere naked bones. The maxillae were sensibly prominent, but by no 

 means so much as in a true Guinea face ; and not more so than is often seen on 

 handsome negroes, and not seldom on European countenances. 



What appeared to me very remarkable, and has, as far as I can learn, never 

 yet been noticed, is 2 exterior artificial ears, made of cotton cloth and rosin, and 

 applied one on each side of the head. That on the right side was prominent; 

 but the other seemed to have been shoved from its proper place ; it was com- 

 pressed, and much disfigured. The cotton bandages on the remainder of the 

 body were loose, not glued together, and readily yielded to the pressure of 

 the hand. The great cavity of the trunk was filled with bundled rags, and dark 

 brown vegetable mould, in which however some pieces of rosin were here and 

 there discovered. But the inside of the thoracic cavity on both sides of the spine, 

 and the inner surface of the ossa ilium, were covered with a thick coat of rosin. 

 No idol, or any artificial symbol whatever, was found in the inside of this mum- 

 my. Nor did it contain any thing like an onion, such as have been now and then 

 found about the parts of generation, or under 1 of the foot-soles of mummies. 



The bones of the arms lay along the side of the body, in the same manner as 

 those of the Gottingen mummy, and the one at Leipzig, described by Kettner. 

 Whereas in the mummy at Gotha, described by Hertzog, the 2 at Breslau, that 

 were examined by Gryphius, another at Copenhagen, that was dissected by 

 Briinnich, and a 5th which belonged to the e. s., and has been described by Dr. 

 Hadley, in the Phil. Trans, the arms were found lying across over the breast. 

 On some of the bones of the arms, for instance on the left os humeri, was 

 found some glutinous rosin, which on being touched stained the fingers of a 

 dusky red greasy colour, and had a strong empyreumatic alkaline taste. In the 

 remainder of the body, the dry rosin was almost entirely covered or impregnated 

 with a saline crust, by which the thoracic vertebras in particular were much cor- 

 roded, and which had entirely stripped the intermediate corpora vertebrarum of 

 their periosteum. Circumstances did not allow me to make any experiments on 

 this salt ; but I have since obtained from my worthy friend John Hawkins, Esq, 

 F. B. s. some considerable pieces of mummies which he had bought of a drug- 

 gist at Constantinople, one of which was covered and impregnated with a saline 



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