In case B B -we meet with a small coffin in a vaulted 

 coyer, containing- the mummy of a Greco-Egyptian 

 child. The body is covered with an external wrap- 

 per, with a representation of the deceased in a 



toga; the hair is crowned with a wreath, the feet 

 are in shoes, and tlie left hand is holding a branch 

 of laurel, whilst the other is raised. On the top of a 

 cover is a viper between two wreaths. The representa- 

 tion here given will serve to give a very faithful concep- 

 tion of the wonderfully exact preservation of the whole. 



In cases E E the mummies of the Ibis and the 

 Crocodile are intro- 

 duced to our notice. 

 The first we spoke 

 of at some lengtJi in 

 treating of its orni- 

 thological proper- 

 ties, and of the lat- 

 ter it Avill be only 

 necessary to add, 

 that the Egyptian crocodile formed one of the emblems 

 of Sevek, the Egyptian Chronos, or Saturn, and hence 



its deification. The otlier objects in this room, con- 

 sisting of ornaments, statues of deities, musical instru- 

 ments, 6ic. &c., are many of them deserving close in- 

 vestigation ; but the description, or even enumeration 

 of them all, would soon become as tedious as it would 

 be found unnecessary. Concluding then, as we com- 

 menced, with a description of mummies, it may be men- 

 tioned that, in some situations, the condiuons of the soil 

 and atmosphere, by the rapidity with which they permit 

 the drying of the animal tissues, are alone sufficient for the 

 preservation of the body in the form of a mummy. This 



