Religio Medici Hydriotaphia And the Letter to a Friend
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* And we find a pass- Exccrantur royos, et damnanl ujaium iiepuUu7-am. "—Min. In Oct. 125 HYDRIOTAPHIA. age in Sidonius, which asserteth. That practice in France unto a lower account. And, perhaps, not folly disused till Christianity fully established, which gave the final extinction to these sepulclu-al bonfires. Whether they were the bones of men, or women, or children, no authentic decision from ancient custom in distinct places of burial. Although not improbably conjectured, that the double... sepulture, or burying-place of Abraham, had in it such intention. But from exility of bones, thinness of skulls, smallness of teeth, ribs, and thigh-bones, not improbable that many thereof were persons of minor age, or woman. Confirmable also from things contained in them. In most were found sub- stances resembling combs, plates like boxes, fastened with iron pins, and handsomely overwrought like the necks or bridges of musical instruments ; long brass plates overwTought like the handles of neat implements ; brazen nippers, to pull away hair ; and in one a kind of opal, yet maintaining a bluish colour.
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