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 KNIGHTLY EFFKJIES AT SANDWICH AM) ASH. 205 Mr. Layard suggests, " were probably fastened to a sliirt of felt or coarse linen." (Nineveh, ii. 335.) Of the scale-armour worn by the Egyj)tians a remnant lias been found, and is preserved at Cairo, in the collection of Dr. Abbott. It has been figured in the supei-b work of Prisse d' Avenues (PI. 46), and again in the Revue Archeo- lofjifjne (ii. 735). Our cut is from the plate in the former volume. In the latter, it is described as " un^ fragment de cuirasse formee d'ecailles de bronze superposees et cousues sur du cuir, et tout-a-fait semblables a cellcs qui sent pcintes dans une des petites salles du tombeau de Ramses-Mciamoun et dans d'autres hypogees. Chacune de ces ecailles, qui a environ 35 millimetres de hauteur sur 20 de largeur, est