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the fluid pitch had miffed, it was quite bare. The 
pitch, which flopped up the foramen cccipitale , had 
on it the impreffion of one of the vertebrae of the 
neck ; and externally about the foramen adhered a 
confiderable quantity of pitch. 
The outward painted covering being removed, 
nothing but linnen fillets were to be feen : which en- 
clofed the whole Mummy. 
Thefe fillets were of different breadths; the greater 
part about an inch and a half, thofe about the feet 
much broader : they were torn longitudinally ; thofe 
few that had a felvage having it on one fide only ; the 
uppermofl fillets were of a degree of finenefs nearly 
equal to what is now fold in the fhops for 2 s. 4 d. 
per yard, under the name of long lawn ; and were 
woven fomething after the manner of Ruflia-fheet- 
ing : the fillets were of a brown colour, and in fome 
meafure rotten. Thefe outward fillets feemed to owe 
their colour to having been fleeped in fome gummy 
folution ; as the inner ones were in pitch. 
The fillets immediately under the painted covering 
lay in a tranfverfe direction ; under thefe, which were 
many double, they lay oblique, diagonally from the 
fhoulders to the ilia. Under thefe the fillets were 
broader, fome nearly three inches ; and lay longitu- 
dinally from the neck to the feet, and alfo from the 
fhoulders down the fides; on which there was a re- 
markable thicknefs of thefe longitudinal fillets : un- 
der thefe they were again tranfverfe, and under thefe 
again oblique. 
The fillets in general externally did not adhere to 
each other ; but, though pieces of a confiderable length 
could be taken off intire, yet (from the great age) 
fo 
