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Xill. An Essay on Egyptian Mummies ; with observations on 
the art of embalming among the ancient Egyptians, By 
A. B. Granville, M. D ; F. R. S ; F. L. S ; F. G. S'; 
M. R. I. one of His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence's 
Physicians in Ordinary ^ &c. &c. 
Read April 14, 1825. 
Xn the year 1821, Sir Archibald Edmonstone, whose 
interesting work on two of the Oaies of Upper Egypt has 
been so favourably received by the public, presented me 
with a mummy, which he had purchased at Gournou, on the 
24th of March, 1819, from one of the inhabitants of the 
sepulchral excavations on the side of the mountain, at the 
back of which are the celebrated tombs of the kings of 
Thebes. It cost about four dollars. There was no outer case 
to it ; and it is difficult to conceive how the beauty and per- 
fect condition of the surface of the single case in which the 
mummy was inclosed, could have been so well preserved 
without any external covering. It appears from Sir Archi- 
bald's testimony, confirmed by my own observations, that 
the mummies which have a second, or an outer case, like the 
one bought at the same time by Sir Archibald Edmond- 
stone's fellow traveller, Mr. Hoghton, and now lying un- 
opened at his seat near Preston, in Lancashire, have been 
folded, externally, with greater c: re than tlie one about to 
be described ; and that the outward folds are ornamented 
with variegated stripes of linen. These observations accord 
with those made by Jomard and Royer. 
