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back of the toes appeared feveral of the extenfor 
tendons. 
The root juft mentioned was bound to the foot by 
thefilleting that inverted the metatarfal bones; nomore 
of this filleting was cut away, than was juft fufficient 
to fhew, without removing from its place, a fubftance 
which had been prelerved in fo extraordinary a 
manner. 
On cutting away the fillets which covered the tar - 
Jus, the bones adhered ftrongly together ; and were 
covered with hard pitch : with which they Teemed 
thoroughly impregnated. • 
On cutting away this outward pitch, there appeared 
very diftindtly the tendons of the peroncus anticus 
and pojiicus , the tendons of the extenfor digitorum 
longus , and the tendon of the tibialis anticus ; and be- 
fides thefe a confiderable portion of the ligaments of 
the tarfus. 
On examining the cafe formed by the pitch and 
fillets, which had covered the right foot, and out of 
which the bones had been taken ; there was a very 
plain mould left, in which there had been enclofed 
another root fimilar to that we difeovered in the left 
foot; and in which fome of the external fhining fkin of 
the root ftill remained. 
During this whole examination, if we except 
•what was difeovered in the feet, there were not found 
the left remains of any of the foft parts. 
All the bones of the trunk were bedded in a mafs 
of pitch ; and thofe of the limbs were covered with a 
thin coat of it, and then fwathed in the fillets : which 
(as has been mentioned) in fome placeswhere the 
pitch was very thin, feemed to adhere to the bone 
..itfelf. 
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