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dently been fir ft wrapped feparately, then laid up in 
the pofition in which we found them, and the hol- 
lows which they formed filled up with pieces of 
pitched cloth. 
In the cavity of the thorax there was alfo a confi- 
derable quantity of crumbled pitch and fplinters of 
dry bone ; and, as in the progrefs of this examination 
we continually found, that fome of the bones did, 
as we laid them bare, feparate into fuch fplinters ; it 
is very probable, that this appearance was owing to 
the Mummy’s having been handled in a rough man- 
ner, and much fhaken by the perfons who had dri- 
ven it full of nails, when they were employed to re- 
pair the outfide of it. 
On our firff opening a way into the thorax , we 
imagined the ribs were deftroyed ; but, upon a more 
accurate examination, they were found entire ; but fo 
bedded in the pitch, and fo black, and burned into 
the mafs, as to make it difficult to diftinguifh thefe 
very different fubftances from each other. 
The bones of the fpine and of the -pelvis were 
in the fame ffate with the ribs; only rather more 
burned. 
There was a confiderable thicknefs of hard folid 
pitch lining the cavity of the thorax ; this had been 
evidently liquified, and poured in ; and retained that 
gloffy appearance on its furface, which is obferva- 
ble on pitch that is fuffered to cool without being 
diffnrbed. 
On breaking through this hard cruft of pitch, to 
examine the vertebra and the ribs, the pitch, which 
was under this cruft and neareft to the bones, was 
crumbly and foft ; and, on being expofed to the air, 
grew perfectly moift, in a very fhort time. 
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