Another less expensive method of embalming was, by injecting into all the cavities of the body, a certain dissolvent; which being suffered to run off after a proper time, carried with it whatever was contained therein liquified; and then the body, thus purged, being dried by the nitrous process as before, the operation was closed by swathing, &c. By the third and lowest method of embalming, which was only in use among the poor, they drenched the body with injections, and then dried it with nitre. The Egyptians had a custom among them of pledging the dead bodies of their parents and kindred, as a security for the payment of their debts, and whoever neglected to redeem them was held in the utmost abhorrence, and denied the rights of burial themselves. They paid extravagant honours to their deceased ancestors: and there are at this day to be seen in Egypt pompous subterranean edifices, called by the Greeks Hypogees, representing towns or habitations under ground, in which there are streets or passages of communication from one to another, that the dead might have as free intercourse as when alive. FINIS. INDEX A. PAGE. Athens, Law there to prevent premature interment, 3 Asia, Dead bodies kept there several days before burial, 10 Abbé Provost, remarkable circumstance attending, 24 Ackland, Sir Hugh, and his Brandy footman, Story of, 28 Acilius Aviola, burnt to death, for want of being first examined, 60 Armenius Erus, returns to life, after being apparently dead, 69 Alexander, Dr. Story related by, 69 Aberdeen, remarkable affair happened there, 115 Ancients, remarkable Tombs and Lamps of, 121 Atestes, a Town in Italy, Lamp found there that had been burning 1500 years, 130 Austin, St., Lamp mentioned by him that continued burning 1050 years, 133 Addison, Mr., his story of the Rosicrucian Lamp, 134 Alice Hackney, her body found perfect after 175 years interment, 136 Arthur, King and his wife, their bodies found after 600 years burial, 138 B. Boy, remarkable recovery of after being laid out for dead, 20 Benedictus, Alexander, his story of a Lady buried alive, 31 Baldock, Master, resuscitated, after apparent death, 65 Burying in churches and confined church-yards, danger of, 96 Buchan, Dr., his observations on burying in the midst of Cities, 116 Baptistæ Portæ, account by, of a burning Lamp, secreted before the advent of Christ, 129 Braybrook, Robert, his body found after 262 years interment, 137 Brydone, Mr., his account of a remarkable burying-place near Palermo, 140 Body found in a Vault, curious particulars of, ib. Bononiæ, Church of, a perfect body found there, 150 years after burial, 149 Body buried sixty two Olympiads, described by Pausanius, 150 C.