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tbs Notice of the Gentlemen here prcfent : 
efpecially, as it will appear thereby, that the feveral 
Accounts hitherto given of it are not very accurate, 
or, at the beft, convey but a very impeded Idea of 
the Truth. 
The following Paffage occurs in the Journal-Book 
of the Society , for the 17th Day of April 1689: 
et Mr. Henfoaw related, that he had fcen, in the Villa 
ic Ludovifia at Rome , the Body of a Man incrufted 
Cl with a fort of a white Marble or Alabafter Cafe, 
* 4 fuppofed to have been a Man frozen in the Alps> 
u and after, in long Procefs of Time, this Incrufla- 
“ tion to have grown upon him j and that one of 
<c his Arms was broken off, purpofely to Chew, that 
<£ it was no Impofition.” 
Mr. Richard LaJJels, in his Travels to It aly^ printed 
at Paris 1670. pag. 180. tells us, that in the leffer 
Cafna, belonging to the Ludovijian Villa , he faw, 
ec in a great fquare Box lined with Velvet, the Body 
£c of a petrified Man, that is, a Man turned into 
“ Stone; one Piece of the Leg (broken off to affine 
u an Embaffador doubting of the Verity of the Thing) 
tc fhewed plainly both the Bone and the Scone crufted 
“ over it. The Head and the other Parts lie jumbled 
“ up together in the Box/' 
Father Athanafius Kircher fays, in his Mundus Sub- 
terraneus , l.viii. chap. 2. “ Spedlatur et hie Rom re in 
11 horti Ludovifiani palatio , corpus hitmanum totum 
<e in faxum conajerfum , ojjibus adhuc integris , at la - 
£l pideo cortice obduffiis.” And in the following 
Page he gives an impeded Sketch of the fame thing, 
under the Title of “ Sceleton humani corporis in 
u faxum converfum , ex palatio Pinciano principis 
li Ludovifiid This Sketch, however impeded, gives 
a 
