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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.785#0005
PREFACE.
This work is the fruit of several tours made in Etruria
between the years 1842 and 1847. It has been written
under the impression that the Antiquities of that land,
which have excited intense interest in Italy and Germany
during the last twenty or thirty years, deserve more
attention than ; they have hitherto received from the
British public ; especially from those swarms of our coun-
trymen who annually traverse that classic region in their
migrations between Florence and Rome. A few Eng-
lishmen, eminent for rank or acquirements, have long
been practically acquainted with the subject—but till the
appearance of Mrs. Hamilton Gray's work on " The
Sepulchres of Etruria" the public at large was in a state
of profound ignorance or indifference. That lady is
deserving of all praise for having first introduced Etruria
to the notice of her countrymen, and for having, by the
This work is the fruit of several tours made in Etruria
between the years 1842 and 1847. It has been written
under the impression that the Antiquities of that land,
which have excited intense interest in Italy and Germany
during the last twenty or thirty years, deserve more
attention than ; they have hitherto received from the
British public ; especially from those swarms of our coun-
trymen who annually traverse that classic region in their
migrations between Florence and Rome. A few Eng-
lishmen, eminent for rank or acquirements, have long
been practically acquainted with the subject—but till the
appearance of Mrs. Hamilton Gray's work on " The
Sepulchres of Etruria" the public at large was in a state
of profound ignorance or indifference. That lady is
deserving of all praise for having first introduced Etruria
to the notice of her countrymen, and for having, by the