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Dr. Granville’s essay on 
discrepancy. With respect to the state of integrity of the 
mummy itself, it is mentioned by Professor Heyne, that not 
only had the viscera been removed, but that the muscles 
also, and every soft part, had been taken away by accurate 
dissection, made with some sharp instrument ; for nothing 
was found to intervene between the dry substance of the 
bones and the bandages. 
It is needless in this place to advert in a particular manner 
to the writings of older authors, who have more frequently 
indulged in conjectures than adhered to facts. They have 
treated the obscure, yet interesting subject of Egyptian 
mummies, with more erudition than discrimination, and have 
not removed the difficulties by which it is surrounded. Much 
curious information, however, may be collected from their 
works, especially from those of Kircher, Pietro della 
Valle, Greenhill, Pocock, Bremond, Mallet, Dr. Mid- 
dleton, and others. 
The temporary occupation of Egypt by the French army 
offered a wide field of observation to the antiquarians and the 
men of science of that nation, the fruits of whose labours 
have been inserted in a splendid work which must be fami- 
liar to the Fellows of this Society. Among the many objects 
of research to be found in that work, it appears that that of 
mummies engaged the attention of several very competent 
individuals, such as Denon, Jomard, Larrey and Royer. 
These gentlemen directed their inquiries to the number 
of those preparations to be found in the many excava- 
tions they visited, to their state of preservation, and to the 
probable method by which they had been embalmed. The 
number of mummies discovered by them was prodigious, 
