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This whole external covering of the forepart of the 
Mummy confuted of feveral folds of broad pieces of 
linnen cloth ; made to adhere together by fome vifcous 
matter, which had not yet lod its property: and the 
whole had received an additional degree of drength and 
iubftance from the coat of paint laid on. The figures, 
which were not entirely defaced, were fo much of the 
lame kind with thole which the writers on this fubjedt 
have defcribed, as to make any account of them here 
needlefs : and, indeed, they were all fo much injured, 
as to render a particular defcription of them very 
difficult, if not impoffible. 
There were not the led remains of hair or inte- 
guments, on any part of the head ; fome parts of the 
ikull were quite bare; particularly about the tempo- 
ral bones: which had the natural poliffi, and appeared 
in every refpedt like the bones of an ordinary fkull. 
To other parts of the fkull adhered feveral folds of 
pitched linnen; which together were near half an inch 
in thicknefs: on removing them, they were found to 
have been in actual contact with the bone; fo that 
the integuments mud have been taken away, before 
the wrappers were at hrd applied. 
The under jaw was lod : and the fuperior maxillary, 
fphenoi'dal and ethmoidal bones w 7 ere broken away ; 
the j or amen occipitale was dopped up with pitch, with 
which alio the inner part of the fkull was lined; this 
leemed to have been poured in at the Joramen y and 
made to apply to the feveral parts of the infide of the 
fkull, by turning the head in different directions; the 
wave of the melted pitch from fuch motion appear- 
ing very plain. The infide of the fkull was in many 
places covered very thinly; and, in fome few, which 
