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TOUR
TO
THE SEPULCHRES OF ETRURIA
IN 1839.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
I have been persuaded by my friends to write a short
account of the extant remains of Etruria, and why we
went to visit her sepulchres, as a sort of introduc-
tion to the Tour itself, on account of the very little
that is as yet known in England upon the subject,
and as a guide to explain why we thought or ex-
pected such and such things at each particular
place, and what other people should look for and
may hope to find at the same. I am the more in-
duced to comply with this request, because no one
has felt more acutely than myself the pain of going
through a museum, or visiting a ruin, wholly igno-
rant of its objects and history, with an uncommu-
nicative and learned person, or with a party of
the initiated who talk to one another in a sort of
free masonry, and who, even when most willing
to instruct, generally suppose a vast deal of pre-
vious knowledge in the person they address—hence
V B
TO
THE SEPULCHRES OF ETRURIA
IN 1839.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
I have been persuaded by my friends to write a short
account of the extant remains of Etruria, and why we
went to visit her sepulchres, as a sort of introduc-
tion to the Tour itself, on account of the very little
that is as yet known in England upon the subject,
and as a guide to explain why we thought or ex-
pected such and such things at each particular
place, and what other people should look for and
may hope to find at the same. I am the more in-
duced to comply with this request, because no one
has felt more acutely than myself the pain of going
through a museum, or visiting a ruin, wholly igno-
rant of its objects and history, with an uncommu-
nicative and learned person, or with a party of
the initiated who talk to one another in a sort of
free masonry, and who, even when most willing
to instruct, generally suppose a vast deal of pre-
vious knowledge in the person they address—hence
V B