 | Benjamin Silliman - England - 1812 - 376 pages
...accumulates and becomes stagnant. We visited the library of Trinity College. It contains about 30,000 volumes, arranged in recesses resembling alcoves,...is black, and curled, is undecayed, and perfectly co. vers the head ; the skin is unbroken, and covers the body and limbs completely ; it is of a dirty,... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - England - 1817 - 318 pages
...Egyptian mummy in very fine preservation, the outside being curiously gilt and painted ; an ibis; and the dried body of one of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Madeira Islands, in appearance like dried seal-skin: the countenance is shrivelled, and the features thrown into the... | |
 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1820 - 782 pages
..."Egyptian mummy in very fine preservation, with the outside curiously gilt and painted ; an ibis ; and the dried body of one of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Madeira Islands. r.MAvciii. COLLEGE was erected on the site of a Dominican priory, founded about the year 12SO. The... | |
 | Cambridge (England) - 1824 - 174 pages
...been the largest eVer seen in England ; an Egyptian mummy in very fitte preservation; an ibis ; and a dried body of one of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Madeira Mandi, &e. These remainis of what 28 once was human, with the mummy and the ibis, were presented by... | |
 | 1825 - 162 pages
...have been the largest ever seen in England ; an Egyptian mummy in very fine preservation, an ibis, and a dried body of one of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Madeira islands : these remains of what once was human, toge52 ther with other curiosities, were presented by one of... | |
 | Cambridge (England) - 1830 - 350 pages
...Egyptian mummy, in very fine preservation, the outside being curiously gilt and painted; an Ibis; and the dried body of one of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Madeira islands, in appearance like dried seal-skin ; the countenance is shrivelled, and the features thrown into the... | |
 | Cambridge (England) - 1837 - 318 pages
...Egyptian mummy, in very fine preservation, the outside being curiously gilt and painted; an ibis; and the dried body of one of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Madeira islands, in appearance like dried seal-skin.f These, with the ibis, the mummy, and other curiosities brought... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...an Egyptian mummy, in very fine preservation, the outside being curiously gilt and painted ; and the dried body of one of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Madeira islands, in appearance like dried seal-skin. There are also some other curiosities, brought from the South Sea... | |
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Newmarket; an Egyptian mummy, in very fine preservation, the outside being curiously gilt and painted; an ibis; and the dried body of one of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Madeira islands, in appearance like dried... 