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256 RUSELLiE. [chap. xliv.
furnished supplies to Scipio in the Second Punic War. It
sent him its quota in corn, and fir for ship-building.1 It
is afterwards mentioned among the Roman colonies in
Etruria.2 It continued to exist after the fall of the
Western Empire, and for ages was a bishop's see, till in
1138, its population had sunk so low, and the site was so
infested by robbers and outlaws, that its see and inhabi-
tants were tranferred to Grosseto, its modern representa-
tive.3 Since that time Rusellse has remained as it is now
seen—a wilderness of rocks and thickets—the haunt of
the fox and wild boar, of the serpent and lizard—visited
by none but the herdsman or shepherd, who lies the live-
long day stretched in vacancy on the sward, or turning a
wondering gaze on the stupendous ruins around him, of
whose origin and history he has not a conception.
1 Liv. XXVIII. 45. either this latter city could not have
2 Plin. III. 8. Ptol. p. 72, ed. Bert. been as unhealthy as at present, or
•3 Hepetti, II. pp. 526, 822. This Rusellee could not have been deserted
writer shows that at the period of the on account of malaria,
transfer of the bishopric to Grosseto,
furnished supplies to Scipio in the Second Punic War. It
sent him its quota in corn, and fir for ship-building.1 It
is afterwards mentioned among the Roman colonies in
Etruria.2 It continued to exist after the fall of the
Western Empire, and for ages was a bishop's see, till in
1138, its population had sunk so low, and the site was so
infested by robbers and outlaws, that its see and inhabi-
tants were tranferred to Grosseto, its modern representa-
tive.3 Since that time Rusellse has remained as it is now
seen—a wilderness of rocks and thickets—the haunt of
the fox and wild boar, of the serpent and lizard—visited
by none but the herdsman or shepherd, who lies the live-
long day stretched in vacancy on the sward, or turning a
wondering gaze on the stupendous ruins around him, of
whose origin and history he has not a conception.
1 Liv. XXVIII. 45. either this latter city could not have
2 Plin. III. 8. Ptol. p. 72, ed. Bert. been as unhealthy as at present, or
•3 Hepetti, II. pp. 526, 822. This Rusellee could not have been deserted
writer shows that at the period of the on account of malaria,
transfer of the bishopric to Grosseto,