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fhining fkin came off with a flake of the dry brittle 
filleting, with which it had been bound down ; it 
leemed to have been in contadt with the flefli : 
the bafe of the root lay towards the heel. [Vide 
Tab. L] 
This difcovery immediately brought to mind a 
paffage in Profpcr Alpinus *, and gave fome ap- 
pearance of probability to a relation, which, as 
he himfelf infinuates, might give great reafon to 
doubt his veracity. Speaking of the ftone image 
of a fcarabceus , which was found in the bread; of a 
Mummy he adds : £C lucre dibile didlu, rami rorifma- 
<c rini qui una cum idolo inventi fuerunt , folia ufque 
<{ adeo viridia et recent i a vifa fuerunt , ut ed die a 
“ plant d decerpti et pojiti apparuerint .” 
The fillets were removed from this foot with great 
care ; they were much impregnated with pitch, ex- 
cepting about the toes ; where the feveral folds unit- 
ed into one mafs, being cut through, yielded to the 
knife like a very tough wax. The toes being care- 
fully laid bare, the nails were found perfedfc upon 
them all; fome of them retaining areddifli hue, as 
if they had been painted ; the ikin alio, and even the 
fine fpiral lines on it, were ftill very vilible on the un- 
der part of the great toe, and of the three next ad^ 
joining toes. Where the fkin of the toes was de- 
'ffroyed, there appeared a pitchy mafs, refembling 
in form the flelhy fubfiance ; though fomewhat 
fhrunk from its original bulk. The natural form 
of the flefli was preferved alfo on the under part 
of the foot; near the bales of the toes. On the 
*735 
* Profper Alpinus rerum iEgyptiarum, &c; cum notis Veflingii, 
pag. 36. 
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