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Dr. Blumenbach's Observations 
The great cavity of the trunk was filled with bundled rags, 
and dark brown vegetable mould, in which, however, some 
pieces of rosin were here and there discovered. But the in- 
side of the thoracic cavity on both sides of the spine, and the 
inner surface of the ossa ilium, were covered with a thick coat 
of rosin. . 
No idol, or any artificial symbol whatever, was found in the 
inside of this mummy. Nor did it contain any thing like an 
onion, such as have been now and then found about the parts 
of generation, or under one of the foot-soles of mummies. 
The bones of the arms lay along the side of the body, in the 
same manner as those of the Gottingen mummy, and the one 
at Leipzig, described by Kettner. Whereas in the mummy 
at Gotha, described by Hertzog, the two at Breslau, that 
were examined by Gryphius, another at Copenhagen, that 
was dissected by Brunnich, and a fifth which belonged to 
the Royal Society, and has been described by Dr. Hadley in 
the Philosophical Transactions, the arms were found lying 
across over the breast. 
On some of the bones of the arms, for instance on the left 
os humeri, was found some glutinous rosin, which on being 
touched stained the fingers of a dusky red greasy colour, and 
had a strong empyreumatic alkaline taste. In the remainder 
of the body, the dry rosin was almost entirely covered or im- 
pregnated with a saline crust, by which the thoracic vertebra 
in particular were much corroded, and which had entirely 
stripped the intermediate corpora vertebrarum of their perios- 
teum. 
Circumstances did not allow me to make any experiments 
on this salt; but I have since obtained from my worthy friend 
