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PREFACE. ix
The drawings of masonry, tombs, and other local
remains have been mostly made by myself with the
camera lucida. Those of portable monuments are gene-
rally copied from various works little known in England.
Most of the plans .of ancient sites are also borrowed, but
two have been made by myself, and though laying no
claim to scientific precision, will be found sufficiently
accurate for the purposes of the tourist. The general
Map of Etruria has been formed principally from Segato's
Map of Tuscany, aided by Gell's and Westphal's Cam-
pagna di Roma, and by the official maps of the Pontifical
State.
My chief aim throughout this work has been truth and
accuracy. At least half of the manuscript has been written
in Italy, and the greater part of it has been verified by
subsequent visits to the scenes described. Notwithstanding,
the book has, doubtless, its share of errors and imperfec-
tions. Those who take it up for mere amusement will think
I have said too much, the scholar and antiquary that I
have said too little, on the subjects treated,—on the one
hand I may be accused of superficiality, on the other of
prolixity and dulness. To all I make my apology in the
words of Pliny—Res ardna, vetustis novitatem dare, novis
auctoritatem, obsoletis nitorem, obscuris lucem, fastiditis
The drawings of masonry, tombs, and other local
remains have been mostly made by myself with the
camera lucida. Those of portable monuments are gene-
rally copied from various works little known in England.
Most of the plans .of ancient sites are also borrowed, but
two have been made by myself, and though laying no
claim to scientific precision, will be found sufficiently
accurate for the purposes of the tourist. The general
Map of Etruria has been formed principally from Segato's
Map of Tuscany, aided by Gell's and Westphal's Cam-
pagna di Roma, and by the official maps of the Pontifical
State.
My chief aim throughout this work has been truth and
accuracy. At least half of the manuscript has been written
in Italy, and the greater part of it has been verified by
subsequent visits to the scenes described. Notwithstanding,
the book has, doubtless, its share of errors and imperfec-
tions. Those who take it up for mere amusement will think
I have said too much, the scholar and antiquary that I
have said too little, on the subjects treated,—on the one
hand I may be accused of superficiality, on the other of
prolixity and dulness. To all I make my apology in the
words of Pliny—Res ardna, vetustis novitatem dare, novis
auctoritatem, obsoletis nitorem, obscuris lucem, fastiditis