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Egyptian mummies. . 
above the feet, is 5 ft. 2 in., 4ft. 11 -/q in., 3 ft. 8 Vo The 
case is now deposited at my house. 
When the .mummy came into m^y possession, it was pre- 
cisely in the state in which it was found when the case was 
first opened by Sir Archibald Edmondstone, covered with 
cerecloth and bandages most skilfully arranged, and applied 
with -a neatness and precision, that would baffle even the 
imitative power of the most adroit surgeon of the present day. 
There is no species of bandage which ancient or modern sur- 
gery has devised, described, or employed, that did not appear 
to have been used in securing the surface of the mummy from 
external air ; and these are repeated so many times, that on 
weighing the whole mass of them after their removal, they 
were found to weigh twenty-eight pounds avoirdupois. 
In unravelling these complicated envelopes in the presence 
of two or three medical friends, and Sir Archibald himself, 
we could not but be struck with the precision .with which 
the circular, the spiral, the uniting, the retaining, the ex- 
pellent, and the creeping roller had been applied. The neat- 
ness of the turns, and the jud'cious selection of their size, 
length, and forms, in order to adapt them to the different 
parts intended to be protected, and calculated so as to give 
to the whole an air of smoothness without a wrinkle, or the 
least appearance of slackness from the varying form of the 
limbs, were really surprising. We here met with the 
couvrechef, the scapularium, the 18-tailed bandage, the T ban- 
dage, as well as the linteum scissum, and capistrum. Nor were 
we less pleased to find the many pieces of r.eatly folded 
linen, placed like compresses, in all those parts of the body. 
