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refumed the diredlion of a human body 



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They embalmed the religion 



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body of the deceafed, in order to hinder its decay and putrefaction^ 

 and to prevent the tedious tranfmigration of the foul through, fo. 



many bodies of animals, and to facilitate its tranfition from one 

 human body (after the interval of 3^000 years) into anotlier. 

 This do<Ilrine has furniihed a hint for fixing with fbme 



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lity, the time of the departure of the fouls of the Taheiteans for 

 the 'Te'rala-te-rai ', it feems to me to take place when all the flefli- 



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is entirely decayed, and nothing but bones, are left. The difference, 

 between the do6lrin>e of Egypt and that of Taheitee is evident and- 

 needs no comment, but it appears that they agreed in thinking the. 

 foul to remain about the body as long as any fiefh continued 



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-* Herodbt. lib. ii. N^* 123}- 



f During all that time ui which the body was not decayed the Egyptians imagined the 



foul to remain near it. At Memphis efpecially was a lake between the burying place and 

 the city,, and clofe to it a fine green meadow, which was the Elysium: for fo Senius- 



remarks ad ^Eneid. vi, Vireta prvpe Memphin arnoeim funt^ in qui bus ^gyptiorum fcpulcra 



Junt^ hac Elyjios campos 'vocant. Palus props, efty loto Sif calamis plena^ l£ gra^o'.icr olet. Per 



hanc paludem n^eSiantur cadaveray.. hinc dixit Orpheus^ vchi per Achcrontem. Hc?n. 1. ^^ 



Odyjfea:^ uht hquiiur Proieus-: fed ie Elyjjum campum^ ^ idiimas-^tcrras Dil invnortaks 7n?Jent^ 



Uq. &c. Homer in the. Odylfey, n 13. callsitr ^ 



aa-^oh^.oy /\£»//,ic'yoC 



LiBu Je vuiSa-i '^'V^xii 



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A meadow full of. herbage^, where the foul lire 

 nd Llyfmm^ have 



The word 



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Ax^^ova-ix, 



their origin from words in the Egyptian language. 



which have 



feriiliiy^ grafs 



Near it were^the r,0\wQ itv\o^\ the ports or gate& 



T^ivntx^g TTtrpc^ or that part of the city 



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of Memphis called ia^a/iVy^^^ by Thucydides, libj. c. 104. The marais of the Taheiteans 

 are conflantly near the fea, in a pleafant fpot^ furrounded by verdure and fine fliady trees,. 



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