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Learning it demonstrates a Greatnes of Soul, no es aduanta ous to thei own Characters, than beneficiat to the Sciences whicli are bl est,ith their enti venin and extensive Influence Formnowledile and Virrue are so separabie, that whateve promote the ne, must necessarii produce the othen et sicli is the un-

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ample Fortune and distinguish'd Birth, and lino nothingo the genuine Pleasure that follows the delightful an iself-rewardin Pursuits of an intesilent in d Tis no there re surpri ging That Literature and the Sciences mouid appi themselves o Personages h standsorti, as illustrious Exception to this to generat a Depra-vity. Nor is it tot wonder' at that among the s Eminent of the Learned even Person os meaner Abilities, satiraeste by the Suns hine hicli diffuse it et ove thewhol Wori of Science, rom the Countenance of the Trudi reat mouldie ambitious to mingle thei humbleo serinys.f ENCE, IR, arises the Liberi tinei presumingio helter the foliore in Essa under OUR Name notinduced by the orth of the Performance, but the Nature of the Subjeest. TAΑΥ ou a long live them Eoae As of this Age, and continue o do Honou to the exalted Station towhicli ou own erit has alsed ou is the sincere

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uears vii thout corrupting. of this sortis Timber ali the ooden Monuments of the 'νst an are made, an ali the Loculi or Cossin o Mummi es that have

eve been brought into Europe , as are the vi αδειγμα α B ρων ξυλινα, as Herodotus calis them, or ooden Patern for embal ming the Dead allo the Cases ot quare Boxes, hichiel With in them the embaline Animal s. Al the Joining of thi Cossin a te by ins of Wood, et intomoles o receive them so that the uppe and loruer Paris unite; hereb sonae imagine, that at the Time os embal minit his Mummy the gutians ei ther ne iam the se of Iron orci the did, Nerea a id to userit, est hercby the wood Inould e corrupted. TH totai Length of the Cadaver is iveaee two Inches. The Length of the Cossin together illi the Basemen that supporta it, Si Fcet three Inches iis Breadth, me urin cros the Shoulders, ne oot leven Inches. HAv1 No no describe the alter of hich this Cossin is made and iis Di mensions is ex is to e considere themaniae in hic licit is patiated, and the Figures represented thereon. TM Custom DP A1NT1No the o FFIN of the Dead Was peculia to the

ancient O,ptians and Ethiopians, frona hicli Iast Peopte the sentians se em toliave earne the Art, amely by rst Hai stering the ood ver then layinionWater colours, much in the a me ma a patiat in in Fresco; hicli liquid Colouis, insinuated into the Bod of the laister, lis ecam in a manne inseparable the oneston the ther.

Noru that this Custo Oftainting the Post T AIT of the cceased pon a round of Pla iste rem aliae among the Ethiopians, as et a QVtians, ill the Time o Cambrses' invading tho countries, is plain rom Herodotus, Who, Thesia p. 168 speaking of theam basia dors senti that Monarch into Ethiopia fiays, mong

TR s Passages, with thers, hicli might e quotcd a re sussicient for urpresum ing that he Face aintc o the Cossin, like hos perhaps of ait ther Mummies, was originali designe to represent the ps IGIΕ of the embal med Person illiin it There has heen a card fixe to the hi of the Person repre sente on his Cossin though themole, into hich a Pe of V ood has cen et, ni appears. The FACE, then, of this Munam is both sngula an curious, havingaeatures trul Q Uttan much like those of a Negro, ut the Complection

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uuir Rpn hy lites Ne a conjecture the Decea sed to have been an nuMEAN Bochar says the eis is se calle by reason of the red- coloured Inhabitanis, ιλ. the Idumeans, vilio live o iis Coasts of this Colour Historians aster Uphon to have been vi here fore thos Red Men in the most ancient Wars of any, ct ec Osris an Typhon, ere sacrifice at the Tom of the formet. for Osris vias of a pilac Colour. WA A, novi foliovis in eourse, is olive a Description, and to offer an Explana tionis the G11 Ε an ORNAMEN Tipa intedin the Loculas orco u of this Mummy, hicli a not ni give Light into any articular relatin to thesentian Mythology, ut confirm and illustrate severat Pauages in ancient Authors Fins τι on the o of the os sin the whole of whicli exhibit me Form os an embal med an ove themead not to e seen but in a Vievi above, siainted a Female Figure With a Corona Cr Diadem mund heres ad lyinion her Back, with her Face turne sideways an die Arms extendes in cachiani in holds,hat appear; tobe a Sichie, Which hali e describe in another Place; unde her Arms are Win divide into Kre Row of lumes, of two kind of Colours hue and I bigreen the extrem Paris of her Bod are naked, ut tom et ais downward thecis cloathed in areen arment Do the sic Head, and oinest it, rises a round Tutulas, on hicli is place a Globe aintcii reen, iacircled, ascit Uere Vithii a Ringis yelloruis listit Colour TMI Figure stem evidenti to represent sis exhibitin her combine Properati es in Nature, of hicli sine vias the Goddesi forat in by the Tutultis o Turreton hermead me physicali symboliae the artha the Globe of a grecia Colourbein also nother Symbol thereos Secondo the Ring of Light encircling the Globe represent mos probabi the Phase of the Ne Moon, and heus her the Moon allo hicli in Particular has a stron Amnit Uith the Description thali Apuleius ives of I s, at the time that Goddes appetae in a pompo mannerto him in a Vision, heni says P Corona multformis, variis soribus ubi nem destrinxerat berticem cujus media quidem super frontem plana rotmiditas in modum peculi, et immo argumentum Lunae candi u lumen emicabat. V Asto the cs of the Lody Ciet the extendet Arms and Wings, ct hali endea; obirio explain the Mean in thereos; very oon in another Place. The est te verth uppe Par of the Head frona hence two appet hanido nisi the Breas cive the Shouldors patiate with alternate Stripes of yello and ce blue. W1TH N the ins Soee bolo themech, unde the Lappeis, FI v Tu pr

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foris of PRECIous ToNEs, Emeralds, Sapphircs, and Rubies. THEs hein the magnificent ornament of the Ephod o Breast-plate three of them ma he reckoned SYMBOLICA L the otherii ne merci ORNAMENTAL O the Symbolicat ornaments are thos of the SE COND, o URTH and EI GHTH Rcivis the Lilies like Roses Thest indecd wer topical o semianiore in the Nile for Herodotus, describing the Vegetabies of that River says, g

Nummu stem to allude to the Productions of thei deine River, rought to, iurit by the radian Heat an Ener g of thei chie God Ossiris o the uia. Tn Secon kind of Symboli eat ornament may be hos in the HIRD, 1 PTM,s EVENTH, and TENTA Rows Cta green caves of a moderate readth, longon Proportion and endinet in a Potnt in the Formis a Tongue These, as is hin red, may be imagine to represent the Leaves of the EusE A Whicli Plant, say bylo tarch, amo at the other in Egypt was m a particula manne consecrate to

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this Figure of I scis a compotin Symbolis the arth, as comprigini illi in it licsour Elemenis, neem ascit e re potnted oti by the Colours for the middie Parto hercis covere mitti Green, hich may allude to the Gras and Trees and thergreen egetabies, with in the Temperate an Torri Lones, and whichia notver improperi be called the naiddie Par of the Earth. Secondi y by representingthe Extremities of hermodyma hed this also a best symbolige the extreme Paris of the Earthaoward the oles, hicli in es c are barreu and nati s so that upon this Figure of the Earth the Egyptians seem Vith great Proprie ty, to potnt out thenatural Siluation, and vegetative Productio of the Lones, a the are care io, orfarther remove stoin the Sun. illi regat to the three o sis lumes, thesesccm to represent the other three Elements the tippe and lorueris ecpilue, the Air, hecausi the arthribove an belo is surrounde by the blue Air; the iddie RO pale Green the Mater, that eing the natural Colour of the ea audiastly the lar Globeso the Head of the emale the Sura, or the Element of Vire. As to the dark coloured Hair of this emate, fio in do 'er Nec and Should eis, Apuleius in the Vision he had of I sis, at ready mcntionea, describes herHai in the eryciam maniae ascit is on Our Mummy, heia' says, ibid. p. a s 8.

Pam primum crines uberrimi prolixique is sensim intorti per disina colu pa F, upers, molliter defluebant i Porphyry et iis into the Physical caning of his

dark- coloured Hair, nam ely that it symboliZc themiaskillines of the ira here- fore, is, might stippos the et Iovi or illuminate Spaces bet cen the Plumes rosymboli Ze the Sola Light then his cmale Figure is a Physical Symbo o Earth. Hir, ater, ire, Lehi, and war nes in line, o ex cry thinivisibi e or hic hrelates to the terraqueous Globe.

V A nex appears clo the emale alrcad described, is an intire symbo lica Picture, et deservin the Attention of the Curious. J A Whol seem a twosold Representation O DE ATH and IUD GMENT. To expres Teath, the have patiate a Cadaver, stretched ut On a hic o Necro

phoreion, a the Gree s called ii, and whicli is in the hape of a Lion; on the outet Side stand a Figure, drcs d in a plai ted arment, human except th Head, hichis that of the Ibis, in his est Hand he holdsis olden Cup, and illi his right scem to potn to ard the est Side of the Cadaver. Novi it is evident that the ancient semitans on the Deceas of thei Friends, use to de live the Corps into themand of certa in Em balineis, hos Busines Wasto persor that Tec Tiodorus Lys. in Aster the Relations of the Deceat ed

FnoM his Passage it a be conjecture that the Figure o our unam in theplaited arment, ruith the Cup. c. is herest represent his o chi fEmbal mer, homo Clemens Alexandrinus calis , the Adorner, ho, he says, bear in his an a Cha for Libation, callud αλνriem No the Figure nisu Munim an wers in ver respect to the Descriptionbothis Diodorus an Clemens for the se, is o Cuprior Libation plaint ap- pcar in his est Hand, and with regis to his potnting ut ho much of the est

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