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which appear not to have been disturbed ; and to the state of 
the mouth, which was as carefully examined as circumstances 
would admit, without destroying the contour and general 
appearance of the face. The tongue is preserved, and neither 
above nor below it was there found any coin or piece of 
metal, as recorded of some of the mummies, but a lump of 
rags dipped in pitch. The teeth, as I before remarked, are 
perfectly white and intact ; nor did I observe that peculiar 
cylindrical form of the incisores which has been assumed by 
some naturalists, as one of the characters of the head in the 
Ethiopian race. 
In order to complete the present essay on Egyptian mum- 
mies, I must now trouble the Society with the farther details 
of my observations on the age of the female under our con- 
sideration, and on the disease of which I conceive her to have 
died, as deduced from the examination of the parts. When 
we reflect for a moment, that the individual in question, 
according to the more generally received opinion respecting 
the antiquity of mummies found in the hypogei of Thebes, 
had probably lived upwards of three thousand years ago,* 
it will bespeak a very extraordinary power of preserva- 
tion in the mode of embalming then practised, in some cases 
at least, to be able to say, that the female of which we are 
speaking, died at an age between fifty and fifty-five years ; 
that she had borne children ; and that the disease which 
appears to have destroyed her was ovarian dropsy attended 
with structural derangement of the uterine system generally. 
■* Consult Mons. Jomard’s Memoir on the antiquity of the hypogei at Thebes, 
Mons. Royer on the art of embalming, and the recent publications of Monsieur 
ClIAMPOLlION. 
