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guifh the head and feet. The corpfe was wrapped 

 round with two or three large layers of cere-cloth, 

 fo exactly applied to the parts, that the piece, which 

 covered the face, retained the 'exact impreffion of 

 the eyes and nofe. The dura mater was entire. The 

 brain was of a dark auh colour, with fome remaining 

 appearance of the medullary part. The coats of the 

 eye were ftill whole, and had not totally Ion: their 

 gliftening appearance. There was about half a pint 

 of a bloody-black water in the thorax ; and a mafs 

 that feemed to be part of the lungs. The pericar- 

 dium and diaphragm were quite entire. The abdo- 

 minal vifcera had been taken out very clean, and the 

 integuments and mufcles (luck very clofe to the ver- 

 tebrae of the back. This cavity looked frefher than 

 that of the thorax. I cut into the pfoas magnus, 

 where there were evident marks of red mufcular fibres. 

 The other mufcles had loft all their red colour, and 

 were become of a dark brown. The tendons were 

 ilill ftrong, and retained their natural appearance. 

 The hands, which are preferved in fpirits, retain the 

 nail*. There were fome very fmall holes in the 

 coffin, out of which had run fome bloody water, of 

 an offenfive fmell. All the principal blood- vefTels 

 muff, have been cut through, in taking out the ab- 

 dominal vifcera : and if no ligature was made upon 

 the vefTels, their contents would efcape, particularly 

 as affilfed by the prefTure of the cere-cloth, which is 

 of con fiderable weight, and, doubtlefs, put on hot. 

 This fluid running out of the coffin, upon its being 

 moved, might occafion the fufpicion of the body 

 being put in pickle." 



Thus 



