A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners held forth in about two thousand examples wherein is presented as Gods wonderful mercies to the one, so his severe judgments against the other collected out of the most classique authors both ancient and modern with some late examples observed by my self : whereunto are added the wonders of nature and the rare ... / by Sa. Clark ...

The Egyptian Mummi's described.

Not far from this Pyramid in Egypt are the Mummi's [ 5] which were the graves of the ancient Egyptians into which are descents not unlike to the narrow mouths of Wells, some neer ten fathoms deep leading into long vaults hewen out of the Rock with pillars of the same. Between every Arch lie the corpses rank'd one by another of all sizes, which are innumerable, shrowded in a number of folds of Linnen, and swa∣thed with bands of the same, the breasts of divers being stained with Hierogliphical Characters: The

Linnen being pulled off, the bodies appear solid, uncorrupt, and perfect in all their dimensions; whereof the musculous parts are of a brown colour, hard as stone-pitch, and hath in Physick the like ope∣ration, onely more sovereign. To keep these from putrefactions, they drew the brains out at the no∣strils with an iron instrument, replenishing the head with preservative spices: then cutting up the belly with an AEthiopian stone, they took forth the bowels, cleansed the inside with Wine, and so stuf∣fing it with a composition of Myrrhe, Cassia, and other odours they closed it up again: The like the poorer sort effected with Bitumen fetched from the Lake of Asphaltites in Jury, whereby they have been preserved till this day, having lyen there for about three thousand years.