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The day broke beautifully clear and bright. The drive from the Valentine House to the Cemetery, at seven o'clock this morning, showed the neighboring hills wrapped in a shroud of white hard snow. The sharp wind which came whistling through the leafless branches of the bare gaunt trees, seemed to urge on the horses which dashed up Gallows Hill at their fastest pace. Already there Colonel Olcots was preparing for the great event of the day; trankincense, myrrn, accacia cinnamon and other fragrant spices were put into the breast of the late Baron and scattered profusely over the body. | The day broke beautifully clear and bright. The drive from the Valentine House to the Cemetery, at seven o'clock this morning, showed the neighboring hills wrapped in a shroud of white hard snow. The sharp wind which came whistling through the leafless branches of the bare gaunt trees, seemed to urge on the horses which dashed up Gallows Hill at their fastest pace. Already there Colonel Olcots was preparing for the great event of the day; trankincense, myrrn, accacia cinnamon and other fragrant spices were put into the breast of the late Baron and scattered profusely over the body. | ||
There had been a great shrinkage of the body, the weight of which, estimated by several of the physicians, was nearly 100 pounds, while the Baron in his lifetime weighed abous 190 pounds. The corpse which was slid into the reto* only weighed a little over ninety pounds. The jaw had not dropped, as in the case of a skeleton, and the cavities of the checks were still filled in by dark flesh, but there was a skeleton look about the eyes ; the globes having collapsed and the fluids transuded, only two horrid blank cavities were left, with the exception of the membranes, which upon a close inspection were found to have been preserved in a dry siate. The head was scantlly covered with dry, dusty gray hair, which also surrounded the lower jaw and neck. The fatty matter the nose, which was very large, having disappeared, left only the bones and cartilage, cevered by dried inlegument the shrunken and blackened lips were | There had been a great shrinkage of the body, the weight of which, estimated by several of the physicians, was nearly 100 pounds, while the Baron in his lifetime weighed abous 190 pounds. The corpse which was slid into the {{Style S-Lost|reto*}} only weighed a little over ninety pounds. The jaw had not dropped, as in the case of a skeleton, and the cavities of the checks were still filled in by dark flesh, but there was a skeleton look about the eyes ; the globes having collapsed and the fluids transuded, only two horrid blank cavities were left, with the exception of the membranes, which upon a close inspection were found to have been preserved in a dry siate. The head was scantlly covered with dry, dusty gray hair, which also surrounded the lower jaw and neck. The fatty matter the nose, which was very large, having disappeared, left only the bones and cartilage, cevered by dried inlegument the shrunken and blackened lips were | ||
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