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The cavities of many of the bones, on being bro- 
ken, were found quite full of this fubftance : the me- 
tacarpal bones were fo 3 as were the radii, and many 
others: the ribs, as was before mentioned, were impreg- 
nated with it 3 and fo burned, as to be with difficulty 
diftinguifhed from it : in which ftate alfo, were the 
vertebra and the bones of the, pelvis. 
The pitch had alfo penetrated into the cellular part 
of the head of the thigh bone 5 the fmall bones of the 
toes were quite full : but it had not entered into all 
the metatarfal bones. 
From experiment it has been found ; that, bones 
and flefh being boiled in common pitch, it will per- 
vade the fubftandl and fill the cavities of the former : 
and the latter will be fo impregnated with it, as to be 
reduced to an uniform black brittle mafs 3 not in the 
left refembling flefh. 
This treatment however will not account for the 
ftate, in which this Mummy was found 3 for, if the 
flefh had not been previously removed, though its 
appearance would have been entirely changed, yet 
the filleting could never have been found in contadl 
with the bones. 
From this laft circumftance it is moft likely that 
the body, excepting the feet, had been reduced to a 
fkeleton, before it was laid up 3 it is alfo pretty certain, 
that it muft have been kept fome time in boiling 
pitch 3 both before and after fome of the layers of the 
innermoft filleting were laid on. 
The feet feem to have been fwathed, at left in part, , 
before they were committed to the hot pitch : and 
this feems to have pervaded the bandages, the flefh 
and the bones, 
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