A CURIOUS SIGHT AT PALERMO.
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"AMONG the remarkable objects in the vi.
cinitv of Palermo poinled out to strangers. they
fail not to singularize Il conrcm Of CapuchinS,
at a small distance from the town, llie beau tu.
gardens of which serve as public walk You
are shewn under the taorlck vault divided into
four great galleries. into which the light is admit
ted by windows cut out at the top Of each exire-
nifty. In this vault are preserved, not in hesh


but in skin and bone, all tie Capnchias who have
died in the convent since its foundation, as well
as the bodies Of several persons from the city
There are here private tombs belonging to opu-
lent families, who even after death ds,lain to be
confounded with the vulgar part ofmanknd. 1t
is said that in oder to secure the preservation of


those bodies, they are prepared by being gradual
ly dried before a slow fire so as to consume the
flesh without greatly iniuring the skin. When
perfectly dry, they are invested with the Capu.
chin habit, and placed upright on tables, dspos.
ed step above ep along the sides of the vault,
the head, the arms, and the feet are left naked


A preservation Ike this is norrid. The skin dis.
coIored, dry, and as ifit had been tanned, nay
torn in some places, is glewed close to the bone


1t is easy to imagine. from the different grlmaces
of this numerous assembage Of Aeshless figures.