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(1891) [MARC] Author: Hans Mattson
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294.2 Story of an Emigrant.

daughter Mirrhis, who afterward became his queen, the
same who found Moses as an infant floating in the Nile.

Their bodies—ves, even their features—were well preserved.
Thev lie in coffins of wood, which show skilled workmanship,
the corners being carefully dovetailed together. Even their
shrouds and ornaments of flowers and herbs show plainly

RAMSES II.

that the style of dressing the dead among the Egyptians
four thousand years ago was very much the same as it is
now with us.

When I stood among the ruins of Pompeii or of the tower

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