The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . Ined. p. 348, ctseq. tav. 54. Muller, Etrusk. I. pp. 323,330 ; Mionnet, Med. Ant. I. pp. 101-2 ;Suppl. I. pp. 199-203 ; Sestini, II. p. 5 ; Millingen, Numis. , p. 163 et seq.; cf. Capranesi, 1840, p. 204 ; Abeken, Mittelitalien,taf. 11. 1-3. 9 Pindar, Pyth. XII. 28. 1 This cut is taken from a vase of Chiusi,but it is characteristic of the EtruscanGorgoneion. The Gorgons head, according to the Ophic doctrines, was a symbol of thelunar disk. Epigenes, ap. Clem. V. p. 676, ed. Potter. A singular opinion has been
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . Ined. p. 348, ctseq. tav. 54. Muller, Etrusk. I. pp. 323,330 ; Mionnet, Med. Ant. I. pp. 101-2 ;Suppl. I. pp. 199-203 ; Sestini, II. p. 5 ; Millingen, Numis. , p. 163 et seq.; cf. Capranesi, 1840, p. 204 ; Abeken, Mittelitalien,taf. 11. 1-3. 9 Pindar, Pyth. XII. 28. 1 This cut is taken from a vase of Chiusi,but it is characteristic of the EtruscanGorgoneion. The Gorgons head, according to the Ophic doctrines, was a symbol of thelunar disk. Epigenes, ap. Clem. V. p. 676, ed. Potter. A singular opinion has been broached byDr. Levezow of Berlin—that the type ofthe Gorgon of antiquity was nothing butan ape or ourang-outang, seen on theAfrican coast by some early Greek orPhoenician mariner ; and that its ferociousair, its horrible tusks, its features and formcaricaturing humanity, seized on his imagi-nation, which reproduced the monster inthe series of his myths. See a review ofLevezows work by the Due de Luynes,Ann. Inst. 1834, pp. ETRUSCAN WALLS OP CHAPTER XLVII. KOSELLE.—RUSELLJ8. Jam silvje steriles, et putres robore trunciAssaraci pressere doraos, et templa Deorum,Jam lassa radice tenent, ac tota tegunturPergama dumetis ; et jam pericre ruinse.—Lucak. From Follonica to Grosseto by railroad, there are 42 kilo-metres or 25 miles. There is a track along the coast direct toCastiglion della Pescaja, leaving the Torre di Troja, the TrajanusTortus of antiquity,1 to the right. The rail-road leaves the coastat Follonica, and runs inland for half the way through a longbarren valley, between heights covered with brushwood, on whichto the right stand the villages of Scarlino, Gavorrano, Caldanaand Giuncarico. At the foot of the heights, below Gavorrano, isthe station of Potassa, with its Locanda, nine miles from Giuncarico, the scenery begins to improve, and Colonnadi Buriano on a wooded height three miles to the right, is a pic-turesque feature in th
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