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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.6095#0126
ioS A TOUR THROUGH
vast subterraneous apartment, divided into
large commodious galleries, the walls on
each side of which are hollowed into a
variety of niches, as if intended for a great
collection of siatues ; these niches, inslead
of statues, are all filled with dead bodies,
set upright upon their legs, and fixed by
the back to the inside of the nich : their
number is about three hundred : they are
all dressed in the clothes they usuaily wore,
and form a most respectable and venerable
assembly. The {kin and muscles, by a
certain preparation, become as dry and
hard as a piece of stock-sish ; and although
many of them have been here upwards
of two hundred and fifty years, yet none
are reduced to skeletons ; the muscles,
indeed, in some appear to be a good deal
more shrunk than in others; probably
because these persons had been more ex-
tenuated at the time of their death.
Here
vast subterraneous apartment, divided into
large commodious galleries, the walls on
each side of which are hollowed into a
variety of niches, as if intended for a great
collection of siatues ; these niches, inslead
of statues, are all filled with dead bodies,
set upright upon their legs, and fixed by
the back to the inside of the nich : their
number is about three hundred : they are
all dressed in the clothes they usuaily wore,
and form a most respectable and venerable
assembly. The {kin and muscles, by a
certain preparation, become as dry and
hard as a piece of stock-sish ; and although
many of them have been here upwards
of two hundred and fifty years, yet none
are reduced to skeletons ; the muscles,
indeed, in some appear to be a good deal
more shrunk than in others; probably
because these persons had been more ex-
tenuated at the time of their death.
Here