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The lower extremities were wrapped feparately in 
fillets to nearly their natural fize, and then bound 
together ; the interfaces being rammed full of pitched 
rags. 
On cutting through the fillets on the thighs, the 
bones were found inverted with a thin coat of 
pitch ; and the filleting was bound immediately on 
this. 
The tibia and fibula of each leg were found alfo 
wrapped in the fame manner ; and the bones in adlual 
contact with the pitch : excepting in one or two 
places, where the pitch was fo very thin, that the cloth 
appeared to adhere to the bone itfelf. 
The feet were filleted in the fame manner ; being 
firft bound feparately, and then wrapped together. 
The filleting had been by forne accident rubbed off the 
toes of the right foot ; and the nail of the great toe 
was found perfect : the laft joints of the bones of the 
jerter, toes had been broken away ; by which it ap- 
peared, that thefe bones had been penetrated and their 
cavities quite filled with pitch. The filleting about 
the heel had alfo been broken away, and the bones 
of the tarfus , and fome of the metatarfal bones had 
fallen out and were loft; leaving the remaining filleting 
like a kind of cafe. 
The fillets on the left foot were perfect ; except on 
the heel, and where they had been divided from thofe 
of the leg ; a fmall portion of the ten do A chillis ad- 
hered to the os calcis-y and fome of the ligaments to 
the afragalus. 
On cutting into the fillets on the foie of this foot, 
they were found to enclofe a bulbous root. The ap- 
pearance of this was very frefli ; and part of the thin 
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