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124 FIESOLE. [chap, xxxviii.
along the brow of the hill, till in the Borgo Unto, a
suburb on the east of the ancient city, you find them turn
at right angles and tend southward. On your way up the
hill from the Borgo Unto to S. Polinari, you cross some
basaltic pavement, and just beyond it, in a portion of
the wall where very massive blocks are laid on very
shallow ones, you may observe the site of a gate now
blocked up, but indicated by the pavement leading up to
it. Beyond this is a long line of the ancient masonry,
more irregular and less massive, tending westward, and
terminating at some quarries ; then after a wide gap you
meet the wall again, and trace it down the steep to the
modern road where you first descried it.3 Westward of
this there are said to be some fragments below the height
of San Francesco, but I never could find them, though
I have traced them up the same hill on the opposite or
northern side. Pew will think themselves repaid for their
fatigue in tracing out the entire line of walls, over the
broken ground, and through the vineyards and olive-groves
on the slopes; unless the visitor wish to verify for himself
the extent and outline of the city, he may well rest content
with seeing that part of the wall first described, which is
by far the finest and best preserved portion of the whole.
The extent of the walls in their original state was not
great—less than two miles in circuit.4 FsbsuIsb was, there-
3 There are said on this side of the work, give widely different measure-
city to be traces of a gate, which, from ments, Fsesulse being much superior in
one of the lintels still standing, must size to the last two, but smaller than
have been of Egyptian form, narrowing the first. In fact his plan represents it
upwards, like the doorways of the as about 8800 feet in circumference, or
Etruscan tombs. Ann. Instit. 1835, just 1| English mile. Niebuhr (I. p.
P- 14- ]21j Eng. trans.) was therefore misin-
* So says Micali (Ant. Pop. Ital. II. formed when he said that the walls,
p. 209), who classes it with Rusellse, theatre, and other ruins of Fsesute dis-
Populonia and Cosa; but the plans of play a greatness not inferior to that of
the said cities which he attaches to his any other Etruscan city. He inclines
along the brow of the hill, till in the Borgo Unto, a
suburb on the east of the ancient city, you find them turn
at right angles and tend southward. On your way up the
hill from the Borgo Unto to S. Polinari, you cross some
basaltic pavement, and just beyond it, in a portion of
the wall where very massive blocks are laid on very
shallow ones, you may observe the site of a gate now
blocked up, but indicated by the pavement leading up to
it. Beyond this is a long line of the ancient masonry,
more irregular and less massive, tending westward, and
terminating at some quarries ; then after a wide gap you
meet the wall again, and trace it down the steep to the
modern road where you first descried it.3 Westward of
this there are said to be some fragments below the height
of San Francesco, but I never could find them, though
I have traced them up the same hill on the opposite or
northern side. Pew will think themselves repaid for their
fatigue in tracing out the entire line of walls, over the
broken ground, and through the vineyards and olive-groves
on the slopes; unless the visitor wish to verify for himself
the extent and outline of the city, he may well rest content
with seeing that part of the wall first described, which is
by far the finest and best preserved portion of the whole.
The extent of the walls in their original state was not
great—less than two miles in circuit.4 FsbsuIsb was, there-
3 There are said on this side of the work, give widely different measure-
city to be traces of a gate, which, from ments, Fsesulse being much superior in
one of the lintels still standing, must size to the last two, but smaller than
have been of Egyptian form, narrowing the first. In fact his plan represents it
upwards, like the doorways of the as about 8800 feet in circumference, or
Etruscan tombs. Ann. Instit. 1835, just 1| English mile. Niebuhr (I. p.
P- 14- ]21j Eng. trans.) was therefore misin-
* So says Micali (Ant. Pop. Ital. II. formed when he said that the walls,
p. 209), who classes it with Rusellse, theatre, and other ruins of Fsesute dis-
Populonia and Cosa; but the plans of play a greatness not inferior to that of
the said cities which he attaches to his any other Etruscan city. He inclines