The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . iquity stands alone in this opinion. It was pro- —tot sevis incorruptum. bably this same tower which was standing 2 Mela. II. 4. Plin. III. 8. Ptolemy in the time of Kutilius, four centuries(p. 68, ed. Bert.) even calls it a city. later, who speaks of a beacon-tower on the 3 Kutil. Itin. I. 401-412. See the fortifications, instead of a Pharos built asheading to this Chapter. usual on the mole ; so that a double pur- 4 Micali, Ant. Pop. Ital. I. p. 150. pose was served (I. 403-8)— Kepetti, IV. p. «j80. Castellum geminos hominum fundavit in6 See Bull. Inst.
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . iquity stands alone in this opinion. It was pro- —tot sevis incorruptum. bably this same tower which was standing 2 Mela. II. 4. Plin. III. 8. Ptolemy in the time of Kutilius, four centuries(p. 68, ed. Bert.) even calls it a city. later, who speaks of a beacon-tower on the 3 Kutil. Itin. I. 401-412. See the fortifications, instead of a Pharos built asheading to this Chapter. usual on the mole ; so that a double pur- 4 Micali, Ant. Pop. Ital. I. p. 150. pose was served (I. 403-8)— Kepetti, IV. p. «j80. Castellum geminos hominum fundavit in6 See Bull. Inst. 1843, p. 150, for an usus> account of this mosaic from the pen of Presidium terris, indiciumque who mentions the various fish CHAP. XLVI.] THE SPECULAR MOUNT. 217 and even the snowy Apennines above the Gulf of Spezia may hedescried in clear weather. As the eye sweeps round the horizonof waters, it meets the steep rock of Gorgona, then the largerand nearer island of Capraja, and, if the weather be very clear,. TOISES FRANCAISES PLAN OP POPULONIA. a. Line of the Etruscan walls. 1). Concamerationes with six vaults. c. Modern village. d. Torre di Baratti. e. Mosaic pavement. /. Church of S. Cerbone. <j. Ancient remains, marking the site of the Perennial fountain. the mountain-crests of Corsica beyond. But those of Sardiniaare not visible, though Strabo has recorded his experience to thecontrary, and Macaulay, on his authority, has sung of sea-girt Populonia,Whose sentinels descrySardinias snowy mountain-topsFringing the southern sky. Even were the distance not too great, the broad mass of Elbawhich fills the south-western horizon, would effectually concealthem from the view. That island rises in a long line of darkpeaks, the loftiest of which on the right is Monte Campana; andthe highest at the other end of the range, is crowned by the townof Eio. Midway lies the Bay of Portoferrajo, so called from its 218 POPULONIA. [chap. xlvi. shipments
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