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CHAPTER V.
VULCI.
TOUR TO MUSIGNANO, VULCI, AND PONTE LABADIA.
The attention of the curious in Etruscan antiquity
among our Roman friends had recently been turned
to the extraordinary discovery made about this
time by the Prince of Canino at Vulci, of tombs
containing a number of objects wholly Egyptian. The
connexion of the polished nations of remote anti-
quity with each other, is one of the most interesting
speculations of the present day; and each fresh dis-
covery leads us to suppose, that long before the peo-
ple of the ancient world were bound together under
the leaden yoke of universal empire, very distant
lands were intimately united by colonization, com-
merce, and political alliance.
In the Egyptian museum at Florence we saw a
small china vase, which we thought had just been
removed from a drawing-room chimney-piece, but
CHAPTER V.
VULCI.
TOUR TO MUSIGNANO, VULCI, AND PONTE LABADIA.
The attention of the curious in Etruscan antiquity
among our Roman friends had recently been turned
to the extraordinary discovery made about this
time by the Prince of Canino at Vulci, of tombs
containing a number of objects wholly Egyptian. The
connexion of the polished nations of remote anti-
quity with each other, is one of the most interesting
speculations of the present day; and each fresh dis-
covery leads us to suppose, that long before the peo-
ple of the ancient world were bound together under
the leaden yoke of universal empire, very distant
lands were intimately united by colonization, com-
merce, and political alliance.
In the Egyptian museum at Florence we saw a
small china vase, which we thought had just been
removed from a drawing-room chimney-piece, but