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TUSCANIA. 323
One is " Eca suth inesl," or Rest in peace—Adieu
in peace.
Campanari had another large cavern-tomb in
his garden partially fitted up, and in a style dis-
tinct from any of those already mentioned. He
was very unwilling that I should go into it, because
it was not entirely furnished and arranged; but I
thought it very well worth the trouble, though I
can give no description of it, having a confused
jumble in my head of large stone sarcophagi with
inscriptions, bronze shields, wheels, jars, strange
instruments for uses stranger still, bassi relievi, and
I know not what besides. There were quantities of
large white rabbits running about in it, which
frightened me by jumping out unexpectedly from
where I stood. I asked Campanari how he could
allow these animals to be there, which gave me the
idea of vermin, and he said that he thought them
appropriate, for that they were animals which
loved sepulchres, and were constantly found about
the graves. Above, below, and around, in Cam-
panari's garden, were lines of sculptured coffins,
funereal vases, and broken marbles. Many of the
figures had the head and face very finely executed,
and the rest of the person. finished in the most
hasty and slovenly manner, and many had the
front only finished, and the back left smooth to
be placed against the wall. I saw most strange
positions and most extraordinarily distorted, elon-
gated, or curtailed hands and feet; but in all, the
One is " Eca suth inesl," or Rest in peace—Adieu
in peace.
Campanari had another large cavern-tomb in
his garden partially fitted up, and in a style dis-
tinct from any of those already mentioned. He
was very unwilling that I should go into it, because
it was not entirely furnished and arranged; but I
thought it very well worth the trouble, though I
can give no description of it, having a confused
jumble in my head of large stone sarcophagi with
inscriptions, bronze shields, wheels, jars, strange
instruments for uses stranger still, bassi relievi, and
I know not what besides. There were quantities of
large white rabbits running about in it, which
frightened me by jumping out unexpectedly from
where I stood. I asked Campanari how he could
allow these animals to be there, which gave me the
idea of vermin, and he said that he thought them
appropriate, for that they were animals which
loved sepulchres, and were constantly found about
the graves. Above, below, and around, in Cam-
panari's garden, were lines of sculptured coffins,
funereal vases, and broken marbles. Many of the
figures had the head and face very finely executed,
and the rest of the person. finished in the most
hasty and slovenly manner, and many had the
front only finished, and the back left smooth to
be placed against the wall. I saw most strange
positions and most extraordinarily distorted, elon-
gated, or curtailed hands and feet; but in all, the