The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-03 00:00:00

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MEDIC
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One of the most perfect specimens of a mummy will be given
ever exhibited in this country was opened to the
public at No. 22, in the ilaymarke!, on Saturday,
and where we believe it is to continue as au exhi-
bition. The high and sharp forehead, the outline of
the head, with the conformation of the jaws, and P
the process of the teeth, clearly show that this human r,
being was not of any African race, whilst the nose i
would almost as equally strongly indicate it to have t,
been neither Roman nor Grecian. The whole form
leads to a supposition of its being of one of the
Asiatic races. •
The figure is about five feet eight in length. The
thorax is capacious, and though of course the viscera •
and the contents of the vessels had been extracted,
the abdominal muscles are perfect ; the right eye ap-
pears to have been allowed to remain in the head, ;
and, what is singular, there seems to have been some
extravasated blood left under the thumb-nail of the
left hand. The figure is entirely stripped of its
sereclothes, and whilst it presents nothing indelicate
to the senses, it must inspire even the most dull
with reflections upon the sad delusions—the nothing-
ness, as Lord Byron termed it—of our poor, and
fragile, and transitory nature, compared to the
stream of agee, and to the perpetual flux and reflux
of theories and speculative opinions by which man
inspires himself with hopes sad visions to allay the
restless miseries and to prolong the fleeting happi-
ness of life. The notion of the resurrection of the
body, or at least of the safety of the soul whilst the
body was preserved, stimulated the Egyptians to a
discovery of a method of embalming, which sets at
defiance our infinite superiority of chymical science.
In the mummy now exhibiting, the muscles ap-
pear like hard black leather. They are distinctly
marked, and in one or two places where the epider-
mis and cuticle are rubbed of, what had been flesh
now seems to be a sort of woolly shreds, or glossy
yellowish fibres. The hair is of a reddish brown.
The reticule of the cuticle, or outer skin, is coarse ;
the teeth are remarkably well shaped and white; and
there is apparently a gold substance upon several
parts of the face and body. Whether this be a re-
flection from gelatinous matter, or the liquids imper-
fectly extracted in the process of embalming, and
now indurated, or whether, as some have maintained,
gold was used in embalming a regal corpse, it is now
impossible to ascertain. The sight, however, is
curious in every respect, though we suspect that
from our increased intercourse with the north-eastern
parts of Africa, mummies will soon become too
numerous in this country to be valuable speculations
as public shows. We observed in the room the
following certificate :—" I am happy to bear my tes-
timony as to the reality and curiosity of the Egyp-
tian mummy, seen yesterday by Dr. Granville and
myself. It is an extremely tine specimen of the
wonderful art of the ancients, in the preservation of
the human body from putrefaction and decay,
" T. PETTIGREW.
" Saville-row, December 28."

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WAKEFIELD CORN 1, -Dec. 31.
There is a very short supply of all Grain fresh up to this da) 's On the
market, the canals havng been closed by frost for the last f.r
or six (lays. The ruck of every article nere is very trifling, and
what few sales have been made to-day are at last week's prices.
The buyers generally arc ant sufficiently needy to ha,ie recourse
to land carriage, and prefer waiting till next week, when. if the
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