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Dr. Granville’s es^ay on 
The first, or inner case, too, of those mummies is covered 
with a kind of paper, on which the figures and hieroglyphics 
are painted with much greater brilliancy of colour. Similar 
remarks apply to the mummy presented to the Hunterian 
Museum at Glasgow, by Mr, Heywood, a Smyrna merchant, 
the second or inner case of which is said to be of wonderful 
beauty and brilliancy. 
The single case of the mummy which I am about to de- 
scribe, appears to be made of sycamore wood, two inches in 
thickness, consisting oh two equal portions (anterior and 
posterior, as the case is made to stand on its feet) fastened 
together by pegs of the same material. It is covered, inside 
and out, with a kind of shell, or coat of plaster, or lime, of 
considerable thickness. Externally, this coat is painted with 
symbols and hieroglyphics running in horizontal and longi- 
tudinal lines laid on a deep orange ground, the whole being 
highly varnished. Internally, the surface is divided into hori- 
zontal broad stripes, except at the sides, where the stripes 
run in a perpendicular direction. These stripes are alter- 
nately white and yellow, and on both are inscribed hiero- 
glyphic characters an inch in length, constituting, to all 
appearance, one continued composition ; probably a prayer,’ 
or invocation for the dead ; or the biographical record of the 
individual contained within the case. 
The form of the case is that known to belong to most of the 
Egyptian mummies brought to Europe, and will be better 
understood by inspection of Plate XVIII. fig. i. It mea- 
sures six feet five-tenths of an inch in its greatest length ; 
and its circumference taken at three different points, the supe- 
rior or shoulders, the central, and the inferior, immediately 
