. Up hill and down dale in ancient Etruria. in Etruscan tombs uponthe mainland upon that narrow dusty road which wetraversed when driving from the Railway Station. Itis possible that the Etruscans may have been herebefore they built their great City of Cosa somefive miles away, yet it is not very probable. It ispossible also that they may have built the Tombsreferred to after they were in possession of I think it more probable that it was the Racethat built the Pelasgian walls which occupied Orbe-tello, and that Race to be also responsible for theadjacent tombs. Shall we hazard anothe
. Up hill and down dale in ancient Etruria. in Etruscan tombs uponthe mainland upon that narrow dusty road which wetraversed when driving from the Railway Station. Itis possible that the Etruscans may have been herebefore they built their great City of Cosa somefive miles away, yet it is not very probable. It ispossible also that they may have built the Tombsreferred to after they were in possession of I think it more probable that it was the Racethat built the Pelasgian walls which occupied Orbe-tello, and that Race to be also responsible for theadjacent tombs. Shall we hazard another conjectureand suggest that the Etruscans may have been herefor a very short time, and then scared away bythe pestilential air of the lagoon went off and erectedCosa upon a more salubrious site, for the Etruscanswere nothing if not hygienic. Cosa, or rather Cusa, as the Etruscans wouldhave called her, or Cossa, as Strabo and other writersof old time called her (Ansedonia is her presentappellation), occupies a hill 600 feet in height about. COSA 181 five miles to the South-East of Orbetello. A verymodest height that, in comparison with the grandpromontory of Monte Argentario, but sufficiently highto give the City a distinctive and prominent character,and above all to place her far above the malariouszone. You can either row across the lagoon ordrive to the ancient site. It is more convenientto take the latter course, for thus you can be putdown at the base of the isolated hill on which theCity stands. Some sort of guide to the ruins willeasily jbe found here. It is on the Civita VecchiaRoad, and therefore fairly frequented by the in-habitants of the district. Without some oneacquainted with the paths through the copsesthrough which you thread your way, you mightpossibly get on the wrong track. The willingcountryman who presented himself was quite com-petent not to do that, and conducted us to a singu-larly well preserved paved road « leading directlyto one of the gates of the
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