HE Mummy, which is the fubjeft of the fol- 
lowing pages, is the firft article in Dr. Grew’s 
Catalogue of the rarities of the Royal Society. He 
informs us, that it was a prefent from Henry Duke 
of Norfolk ; and was an entire one, taken out of the 
Royal Pyramids. He then proceeds to defcribe the 
manner, in which the feveral parts were wrapped up ; 
but this he has not done exa&ly : as mod of thefe 
very parts had evidently never been opened, till we 
examined them : and were then found in a very dif- 
ferent date from that in which they are reprefented 
bv him. 
This Mummy had been greatly injured, before it 
came into our hands ; the head had been taken off 
from the body; and the wrappers, with which 
they had been united, having been dedroyed, the 
cavity of the thorax was found open towards the neck: 
and part of the upper crud, with the clavicles, hav- 
ing been alfo broken away, the heads of the ofj'a 
humeri prefented themfelves covered with a thin 
coat of pitch. 
The feet alfo had been broken off from the legs ; 
and were fixed, by wires, to the end of the wooden 
cafe in which the Mummy lay. 
The outward painted covering, which reached from 
the upper part of the ched nearly to the bottom of 
the legs ; had been removed and fadened on again by a 
great number of ordinary nails, driven up to the head 
into the fubdance of the Mummy. This had mod pro- 
bably been done by thofe, who had orders fome years 
fince to repair it ; and by this, and by the manner in 
which they had fadened on the feet, they feem to 
have done their work in a mod clumfy manner. 
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