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reliques, or to commemorate fo remarkable an 
event. 
July 9, 1749, having in the find place remov’d 
the body, half-cover’d with water and mud, to a con- 
venient part of the churchyard, diverted it of its cover- 
' ings, and wafh’d off the filth, I made an incifion 
thro' the integuments and mufcles of the left buttock, 
and found the membrana adipofa pretty near an inch 
thick ; its adeps of a pale yellow, very dry, hard, and 
friable, and the membranous parts, except the cellu- 
lar coat of the mufole, which was fcarce fenfibly al- 
tered, quite indiftindt. The water having probably 
made its way thro’ the vafa abjorbentia to the gluteus 
mdximus , its fafciculi were thin, pale, and flaccid, 
exhibiting the appearance of beef macerated in water ; 
but thofe of the medius and minimus, efpecially the 
latter, to which it had no accefs, with their proper 
moifture and foftnefs, ffill retained their natural ful- 
nefs, red colour, lfrength, and elarticity. 
In order, in the next place, to inform you of the 
rtate of the peritonaeum and abdominal vifcera , I made 
a crucial incifion thro’ the integuments and mufcles 
of the abdomen , carrying the longitudinal fedtion from 
the cartilago enfiformis to the os pubis , and the tranf- 
verfe from the right fide of the regio lumbar is thro’ 
the umbilicus to the left; and as the abdomen had 
been fo long expofed to the air, its integuments and 
mufcles, except the aponeurofes in immediate con- 
tad!: with the peritonaeum , which had undergone no 
material alteration, were grown very black, dry, 
hard, and like rotten timber void of fmell, and 
mouldering into duff. On dividing the peritoneum, 
which throughout its whole extent was of a natural 
K k colour. 
