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at the Casa Spada ruins of ancient baths. Terni
has an excellent inn, and, with its falls and ruins, will
occupy a day.
FALEEIA.
By this I mean Civita Castellana, a most romantic
and picturesque place, but not a very good inn. It
will occupy a day, being full of antiquities, and pro-
bably coeval with Agylla. There are numerous
Etruscan tombs beyond Ponte del Terrano, and the
valley Dei tre Cammini is full of them. There is a
portion of old wall beneath the post-house, and
good guides may be got here; but by far the best
guide that I know to Civita Castellana, Nepi, Sutri,
Albano, and Tusculum, is the excellent work of Sir
W. Gell.
At Nepi there is a fine specimen of Etruscan wall,
and there have been many tombs opened and ran-
sacked. We twice spent some hours there, but the
inn is very comfortless.
Sutri possesses many remains of Etruscan walls,
many cavern sepulchres, particularly one with a
pillar in it, called "the Grotta of Orlando," and an
amphitheatre hewn out of the tufo rock. In the
valley near the Porta Romana, at a little distance
from the town, is a ridge of rocks upon the right,
hollowed into sepulchres which have once been
fronted with stone and ornamented; but all these
ornaments have been destroyed, and little now is to
be seen excepting so many caverns. Sutri has not,
however, been much explored. The inhabitants
at the Casa Spada ruins of ancient baths. Terni
has an excellent inn, and, with its falls and ruins, will
occupy a day.
FALEEIA.
By this I mean Civita Castellana, a most romantic
and picturesque place, but not a very good inn. It
will occupy a day, being full of antiquities, and pro-
bably coeval with Agylla. There are numerous
Etruscan tombs beyond Ponte del Terrano, and the
valley Dei tre Cammini is full of them. There is a
portion of old wall beneath the post-house, and
good guides may be got here; but by far the best
guide that I know to Civita Castellana, Nepi, Sutri,
Albano, and Tusculum, is the excellent work of Sir
W. Gell.
At Nepi there is a fine specimen of Etruscan wall,
and there have been many tombs opened and ran-
sacked. We twice spent some hours there, but the
inn is very comfortless.
Sutri possesses many remains of Etruscan walls,
many cavern sepulchres, particularly one with a
pillar in it, called "the Grotta of Orlando," and an
amphitheatre hewn out of the tufo rock. In the
valley near the Porta Romana, at a little distance
from the town, is a ridge of rocks upon the right,
hollowed into sepulchres which have once been
fronted with stone and ornamented; but all these
ornaments have been destroyed, and little now is to
be seen excepting so many caverns. Sutri has not,
however, been much explored. The inhabitants