^76 J)r, Granville's essay on 
tuitously during the operation, by workmen who had been 
employing a large quantity of the same ornaments in pre- 
paring some more costly mummy, such as is described by 
JoMard. It will be recollected, that this gentleman found 
some mummies in which glass bugles and beads in profusion, 
disposed in a sort of trellis-work, imbedded on bituminous 
substance, had been fixed here and there, over the surface 
of the body, in obedience, no doubt, to instructions received 
to that effect from the opulent surviving relatives. I am the 
more inclined to adopt the above conjecture with regard to 
the presence of the few beads and bugles found in my 
mummy, from the circumstance of my having found, like- 
wise, a portion of reddish clay with characters painted on it, 
(either a fragment of the wall of the chamber in which the 
embalmers were at work, or of some case belonging to ano- 
ther mummy ) placed in such a manner as to act as a compress 
on the inside of the left leg in contact with the skin Here 
it served to fill up a hollow which it accurately fitted ; thus 
keeping the bandage, which passed over it, perfectly tight, 
but which would otherwise have been slack. This instance 
of indifference in the choice of materials to produce a parti- 
cular end, on the part of the embalmers, would, in my opi- 
nion, account also for the accidental presence of the beads ; 
and renders it unnecessary to seek for any learned or recon- 
dite explanation of their object. 
Following up my description of the external appearances 
of our mummy, I have to remark that the inferior extremi- 
ties were brought together in close contact at the knees and 
feet, which latter were kept in that position by a contrivance 
similar to that which obtains to this very day in most parts 
