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Title: The cities and cemeteries of Etruria
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Dennis, George, 1814-1898
Subjects: Tombs
Publisher: London Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ut 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 of iron ore; and the town itself, the court of the exiledEmperor, is visible on a rock jutting into the bay.8 The finest portions of the Etruscan walls lie on this westernside of Populonia, and from the magnitude of the masonry areappropriately termed I Massi. They are represented in theannexed woodcut. They are formed of blocks, less rectangular,
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ETRU?CAN WALLS OF POPULONIA. perhaps, than those of Volterra, but laid horizontally, though.with little regularity. More care seems to have been bestowedon smoothing the surface of the masonry than on its arrange-ment ; and it is often vain to attempt to count the number of 8 Portoferrajo is 20 miles from Popu-lonia, but the ueaiest point of Elba is notmore than 15 miles. He who would crossto that island must do so from Follonica orPiombino—better from the latter, fromwhich it is only 8 miles distant, andwhence there is a regular communication.As the island belonged to the Etruscans,remains of that people may be expected toexist there, but I have never heard of suchbeing discovered ; and I have had no op-portunity of visiting it for personal research.Sir Richard C. Iloarc describes some ancientremains at Le Grotte, opposite Portofer-rajo, and on Capo Castello, where they arecalled the Palazzo della llegina dellElba,—he considers both to be of the same date, and his description see

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