Dennis, George: The cities and cemeteries of Etruria: in two volumes (Band 2) (London, 1848)

ETRUSCAN WALLS OF POPULONIA.

CHAPTER XLIII.

POPULONIA—POPULONIA,

Pioxima securum reserat Populonia litus
Qua naturalem ducit in arva sinum......

Agnosci nequeunt sevi monimenta prioris
Grandia consumpsit moenia ternpus edax.

Sola manent interceptis vestigia minis ;
Ruderibus latis tecta sepulta jacent.—Rutiuus.

So long they traveile'd with little ease,

Till that at last they to a castle came,

Built on a rocke adjoyning to the seas;

It was an auncient worke of antique fame

And wondrous strong by nature and by skilful frame.

Spenser.

He who would drive from Campiglia to Populonia must
make a wide circuit by the Torre di San Vincenzio. I
chose the direct track, which is practicable only on foot or
horseback, and entered the jungle which stretches from