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The moft probable Account of this laft Method that 
pan be collected from the Writers who have treated 
of the Subject, is, that when the Soul was depart¬ 
ed, the Brains were firft extracted, and the Corpfo 
vifcerated in a very curious Manner, without in¬ 
juring the outward Surface of the Body, which was 
thoroughly well cleanied.- They next proceeded to 
fill all the Cavities with bitumenous and aromatic 
Subftances properly prepared and mixed: On this 
Occafion particularly the moft precious and coftly 
Gums were ufed ; a Liquid having been in the mean 
time prepared, in which a great Quantity of the 
above Subdances had been difl'olved,they next boiled 
the Body therein, that the moft remote Part of every 
Mufcle might be ftrongly impregnated with the em¬ 
balming Quality. Nothing now remained but to 
dry the Body, (the Method of doing which is not 
with Certainty known) and wrap it round with 
Bandages of Linen Cloth, and the Bark Papyrus, 
filling up the hollow Parts, and fometimes the Ca¬ 
vity of the Belly, with final! earthen Figures, in the 
Form of Mummies, but with the Head of Oftris 
or Ifis , and impreffed with various Hieroglyphics, or 
having on them the Figures of Beetles, which they 
fuperflitioufly thought were Protestors of the Dead 
( Prophylafferia). Having thus finifhed their Work, 
they depofited it in the Coffin, which had before 
been excavated in the Form of the Mummy to 
receive it. 
The Face of the Mummy here preferved is co¬ 
vered with a gilded Mafk •, near its Feet is a Skull, 
and feveral Bones, viz. Feet and Hands, taken 
from a broken Mummy, which ffiews the State in 
which thefe embalmed Bodies are preferved from 
Decay. Over its Head are fome of thofe fmall 
earthen Idols, which are already mentioned to be 
put 
