In the last country, there are several natron lakes, a little to the north of Zucatecas, as well as in many other provinces.
According to Laugier, the Egyptian natron consists of carbonate of soda 22.
There are natron lakes also in Hungary, which afford in summer a white saline efflorescent crust of carbonate of soda, mixed with a little sulphate.
In Columbia, 48 miles from Merida, native mineral natron is dug up from the bottom of lakes in large quantities, under the name of Urao.
North-west of Kilimanjaro is a sheet of water known as the Natron Lake from the mineral alkali it contains.
Even natron and oils were left, so that it might re-embalm itself, if the worms came to life in its members.
May not natron have been a fixed alkali, or has the native carbonate of soda more caustic and antiseptic properties than the usual carbonate of soda of commerce, which plainly cannot be intended?
The natron also dissolves the flesh, so that nothing remains but the skin and bones.
This being done, they salt the body, keeping it in natron seventy days, to which period they are strictly confined.
Rouyer writes: "The natron would be used just as it was got from many of the lakes of Egypt, where it is found abundantly in the form of carbonate of soda.
This being done, they salt the body, keeping it in natron during seventy days, to which period they are strictly confined.
The mummy was then steeped in natron for 70 days, and wrapped up in linen cemented by gums, and set upright in a wooden coffin against the walls of the house or tomb.
The second process consisted in injecting into the body cedar oil, soaking it in a solution of natron for 70 days, which eventually destroyed everything but the skin and bones.
Mourad had selected the Natron Lakes for his place of rendezvous.
Those who have visited the natron lakes of Lower Egypt (three days' journey to the south-west of Cairo), declare that there is evidence that the brine and the saline deposits have been worked more or less continuously from Roman times.
The natronis still extracted from the lakes by the fellahin in the dry season.
From this passage we learn at least that the natron of the salt lakes was in early days applied to practical ends.
The natron was probably first exported for the use of the soap-makers.
In other instances the impure alkaline carbonates were found ready at hand--as in the case of the natron deposits not far from Cairo.
There at least fuel would be more abundant, and there a supply of soda was at hand in the ashes of marine plants, even if the natron of the adjacent salt lakes was not yet used for the purpose.
It was here, perhaps, that the natron of El-Kab was first employed to preserve the dead body from decay, and that Horus was supposed to be entombed, like Osiris at Abydos.
The corpse was treated with natron and asphalt, and wound in a copious swathing of linen bandage, with a mask of linen and stucco on the face.
The first is that of the natron lakes already mentioned.
A chain ofnatron lakes (seven in number) lies in a valley in the western desert, 70 to 90 m.
Then it will be fitting to beat this Hemti for a trifle ofnatron and a trifle of salt; if he is commanded to pay for it, he will pay for it.
The natron or soda, which is procured in the neighbourhood, is found alone in the ground.
They extend for five days' march or more, but are nothing in comparison with those in the direction of the Natron Lakes: so one of their guides told them.
When sewn up the corpse was next pickled in a bath of natron for seventy days, and then meticulously bandaged with linen which had been dipped in some adhesive substance.
Much of this is converted into natron by the organic matter in the soil, and forms a white crust on the earth.
In the month of March, 1837, I left Cairo for the purpose of visiting the Coptic monasteries in the neighbourhood of the Natron lakes, which are situated in the desert to the north-west of Cairo, on the western side of the Nile.
Fronto retired to the valleys of the Natron lakes with seventy brethren in his company.
The natron was used as before; and after the customary days were passed, the injected fluid was withdrawn, and with it came the entrails.
In the third style, that adopted by the poor, the natron application was almost the only one used; the body lay for seventy days in this alkaline solution, and was then accounted fit for preservation.
The natron is also a source of profitable exportation.
This would point to its being on the road to the oasis of the Natron Lakes, which would be the natural course for a body of men needing water supply.
The preparation of the bodies of the poorest consisted simply in placing them in natron for seventy days, after a previous rinsing of the abdomen with "syrmaea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "natron" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
