Indian, holding up the hand, as en garde against the lama, points to the name of contrayerva, as implying, in the Spanish language a counterpoison.

is a copy upon a reduced scale, of another painting, taken from plate 138 of Denon, and by him stated also to have been found "dans l' enveloppe d'une Momie. The seated figure, from his face being composed of a hawk's bill, from the graduated (wgav,) hook in one of his hands (with

reference probably to the river Oronooko or Oronoque) and the flagellum, or 73⁄4, or symbol of the plague or pestilence in the other, and from several other indices which I pass over, I take to represent South America; while the female figure, I apprehend represents Cochin China, presenting to him in a flowerpot an assemblage of pieces of stick-lac. This last conclusion I come to from the following indications, first, that her face (in the original at least) resembles the south-westward outline of the country of Cochin-China; that her hands would come up naturally to the attitudes of those in the figure, if one of them be ascribed to the country of Malay, and the other to the island of Sumatra, the former holding the flower-pot, as formed by the Gulf of Siam and the rivers that fall into it; and that her robe as of a spotted leopard-skin, is referable to the Indian seas as studded with a multitude of islands: for all which vide the map; while the spectacles at her

de (at the same time that, being found within a mummy they prove the vast antiquity of the invention of them) prove also by a reference to the

groupe of islands called Lunettes, or the Spectacles, in the immediate vicinity of Cochin China, that this last country is in question; which is again further proved by the branches of the Talipot-tree, which tree is, in a peculiar manner of the growth of that country. Finally, the great letter T, or the toth, on which those objects rest, may be conceived to point to the everduring efficacy of the gum-lac, in resisting the effects of the American fevers.

In addition to the instances given above, the remains of Egyptian antiquity that have a bearing upon my subject I conceive to be very numerous, and proceed therefore to the notice of others. The following is an extract, concerning the mummies found in the catacombs of Egypt, from a translation of Thevenot's Travels to the Levant; upon one of the coffins was represented in figures, the manner of embalming the bodies. There is a long table, shaped like a lion, on the back of which the body that is to be embalmed is laid at length, and hard by there is a man, with a knife in his hand, opening the body. The man hath a vizard

mask on, shaped like the beak of a sparrow-hawk, as was the custom for embalmers, that they might not breathe in the corruption which oftentimes evaporated out of the dead bodies. On the table also stand four vessels, without handles, wherein the necessary drugs are kept, both for embalming, as balm, cedria, &c. and for wrapping up and in. crustation of the body, as bitumen and other things. On the inside of this coffin was the figure of a naked maid, with her arms stretched out." There is a considerable resemblance between the coffin, or mummy, thus described, and the upper compartment of the Cambridge mummy which, in plate VI. annexed, is re-engraved from Dr. Conyers Middleton's Antiquitatis Monumenta; and as the Doctor says of it in p. 256" Mumiæ hujus figura eadem prorsus est, ac reliquarum omnium, quas in libris passim descriptas videmus," the explanation of it may be capable of an application, possibly, to other mummies found in the same place.

It may be proper, however, previous to the attempt at such explanation, to give that learned writer's

own account (p. 263) of the painting upon this mummy; "In hac tabula (plate No. I. of pl. vi.) integumenti mumiæ exterioris particulam, variis figuris ornatam, cernimus; quæ de pectore cadaveris ad genua pertinuerat; quæque a pulvere ac sordibus purgata, coloribus adhuc vividis et quasi recentibus nitescit. In summâ picturæ parte, cadaveris secandi et condiendi ratio a pictore quodammodo adumbrata est: in qua tamen Anubis, Ægyptiorum Deus, capite canino, medici partes agere, et secandi munus obire videtur. A sinistro cadaveris latere, ut Diodorus scribit, loco prius a scriba juxta ilia designato, carnem lapide acuto Æthiopico secare, vel lege vel more constitutum erat atque in hac positura Anubis, manu jam ad secandum sublata, depictus est.

"Sed et mensa quoque, cui cadaver impositum est, itemque vascula ista infra mensam posita, in Deorum item formas, Canopi et Cercopitheci, efficta esse apparent: quibus figura etiam muliebris, hinc et inde adjuncta, Isim fortasse ipsam, quasi operis totius præsiden, denotat. Qua quidem figurarum designatione, hanc cadavera con