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what Dr. Middleton J obferved in the Mummy 
which was opened at Cambridge from the Me- 
moires of Count Caylus , in the 23d vol. of Acad, 
des Infcript. et Belles Lettres; and from this prefen t 
examination ; it appears, that various methods of em- 
balming were praddifed among the /Egyptians', and 
that they ufed different materials for this purpofe: and 
though Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus have giv- 
en us reafon to expert to find the bodies in a much 
more perfect ftate, than we ever do meet with 
them, yet, on the other hand, it is evident; from 
the foot of this Mummy which we examined, 
and from the account Monf. Rouelle and Count 
Caylus have given us in the above mentioned 
Memoires ; that all the flefhy parts were not always 
previoufly deftroyed. 
t Middleton’s works, vol. 4. Germana quaedam Antiquita- 
tis monumenta. 
II. The 
