Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-08-18

eurable IN abundace, but they too numerous 10
prove curious, and they had certainly no beauty
tract We to be purchasers. Signor Pccnini had found
on mummy some bracelets. about an inch wide, Of
small coored beads which were remarkable. from re
sembng much the fashion OF the present day. vet.
from the absence Of all device, not nearly pretty
The beads which OF coral COMEDIAN garne,s
,hys,s and virehed porcelain OF bright blue colour,
strung together, and separated at every inch by
order to keep the bracelets na on the arm-The Sig
nor thought them very hsldsome; but they appeared TO
me oil no value except Tor ihe antiquity. During the
many years he had resided Tbebes, he lad only dis
covered one mummy likely to Indemnify him far the
aoour oil excavation. Passing through his miserable
Kitchen the shelves OF which also made of ancient
collins, we entered tomb, where lay the mummy in
question, supposed 10 he that of high priest. was
placed in stone case The lid Of which removed,
and enclosed in three collins, each having gilt mask
at the upper end The entire lii oIie last coffin
also covered with gliding, in vivid preservation, and the
| bod; was wrapped in a Carmen, curously wrought
with gold lace, and apparently ola tough texture The
whole figure seemed fresh il had been prepared
a few months before. but the envelopement remained
unolled Signor Piccnini said 1ie might obtain five
hundred dollars for this mummy at Alexandria; but he
consdered II oil such value, that Ia. thought OF taking Il
himself 10 Tuscany. Whether not this appreciation
was TO excite the cupidiy Of purchasers. pretend not
TO determine. The mountains in this neghborhood
called GOornoo have for centuries been the cemeteries
for the dead and notwithstanding the havoc, which du.
ring years has been made amongst them, their
tents appear inexhaustble. II wonld scarcely he au
exaggrAiion TO say, the mountains merely roots
over the masses OF puJnmss within them. The coffin
serve as Gro wool to the whole aeighborhool: I saw
nothing else burnt AZ first did not relish the idea OF
my dinner being dressed with this resurrection wood
particularly two three of the coffin lids. which, as
said before were in the shape of human figures
were usually 10 be seen standing upright against the
tree where the cook performing hi.
ing with their large eyes If in establishment, at the
new world upon which they had opened. The collins
were usually made OF sycamore wood which may
IN some degree 10 account for the almost total exnc
ton ofthat tree in Upper Egypt that under which
my tent was pitched being the only in the neigh.
oourhooh. This extinction, perhaps. may also he
planned by the increasing arditv othe soil IA
Gus pits full OF mumInes have been discovered in the
heart OF the mounains without collins end merely EN-.
bam-d, II may be inferred that these were the bodies
oil the poorer clssses who could not afford that expen-
sive mode OF interment."
The holiday for boys and girls and busy men. have
commenced. The hot month of August is emptying
our city OF lite accustomed inhabitants and filling It's
hotels and public houses with visitors from other re
gions lying in like manner from the heats and
nes' oil home, to the greater heats aud sameness of
Ballston AMI Saratoga. of the Falls and the Lakes
Newport and Ndh0nt Steamboats, that go ike Tho
wind, and 10 the travellers almost free and unpaid
d'mnish distances and expenseso hat all travel
and oil do travel. Nine hundred persons il is said
were conveyed same day lsst week at trip by the
North America! Let the quiet inert reader who an
hors Gin hot weather. motion as much as nature does
vacuum, and who may he sitting in large room
with high ceilings, duly darkened, only TO ADM,
crepuscular light, and enjoying the freshness which
arises from little clothing, and the exclusion of hot
sun and hotter ar-let such reader only transport
him or herself, the mey be- in fancy--if the
effort be not loo violent for confort-to this same boa,
cutting the waters of the Hudson under bronr sun
and ireighted with such quantum Of human caloric
Nine hundred generators OF hearall wedgei together
like tn plates Of galvanic battery and like them
each adding 10 the nenseness of the general result,
In very truth pleasure At This rate anil relaxation be-
come labors, comnareh with which those Of the abiei
hercules, or the real ones OF the present "reorms
are light and iriing The sufferers however on these
delightful excursions at least lay up this eonsoa
lion, that in thus circulating from place 10 place, is
impossible Tor even the least curious or inqusve per
sons, not 10 acquire information or make some ac
quainiances, which 10 dispel preudices, and
bind together by kindly fceAgs. the jewellers upon
the most distant points of, our immense republic Let
ia conclude, therefore, with Candide. that ..this
the bes, OF all possible warlis-and in the sam.
strain tha, the North America is the best OF all possible
steamboats, and he month of August the httest OF n
possible months for relaxation and much locOmotiop
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