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vi PEEFACE.
graces of her style and power of her imagination, rendered
a subject so proverbially dry and uninviting as Antiquity,
not only palatable but highly attractive. Her work,
however, is far from satisfactory, as all who have used it
as a Guide will confess; for there are many sites of high
interest which she has not described, and on some of those
of which she has treated many remarkable monuments
have been subsequently discovered. It is to supply such
deficiencies that I offer these volumes to the public. The
interest and curiosity that lady has aroused in the
mysterious race to which Italy is indebted for her early
civilization, I hope to extend and further to gratify.
The primary object of this work is to serve as a Guide
to those who would become personally acquainted with
the extant remains of Etruscan civilization. The matter
therefore is so arranged that the traveller may readily
ascertain what monuments he will find on any particular
site. I have deemed it advisable to add succinct notices
of the history of each city, so far as it may be learnt from
ancient writers, with a view to impart interest to the
traveller's visit, as well as to give the book some value to
those who would use it, not as a Hand-book, but as a work
of classical and antiquarian reference. Yet as the former
is its primary character, the traveller's wants and conr
graces of her style and power of her imagination, rendered
a subject so proverbially dry and uninviting as Antiquity,
not only palatable but highly attractive. Her work,
however, is far from satisfactory, as all who have used it
as a Guide will confess; for there are many sites of high
interest which she has not described, and on some of those
of which she has treated many remarkable monuments
have been subsequently discovered. It is to supply such
deficiencies that I offer these volumes to the public. The
interest and curiosity that lady has aroused in the
mysterious race to which Italy is indebted for her early
civilization, I hope to extend and further to gratify.
The primary object of this work is to serve as a Guide
to those who would become personally acquainted with
the extant remains of Etruscan civilization. The matter
therefore is so arranged that the traveller may readily
ascertain what monuments he will find on any particular
site. I have deemed it advisable to add succinct notices
of the history of each city, so far as it may be learnt from
ancient writers, with a view to impart interest to the
traveller's visit, as well as to give the book some value to
those who would use it, not as a Hand-book, but as a work
of classical and antiquarian reference. Yet as the former
is its primary character, the traveller's wants and conr