CYCLOPIAN, PELASGIC, AND ETRUSCAN 
REMAINS, 
OR 
REMARKS ON THE 
MURAL ARCHITECTURE 
OF REMOTE AGES. 
By WILLIAM RATHBONE GREG, Esg. 
(Read February 20, 1838.) 
“ There is given 
Unto the things of earth, which time hath bent, 
A spirit’s feeling ;—and where he hath leant 
His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power 
And magic in the ruined battlement, 
For which the palace of the present hour 
Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.” 
Childe Harold IV. 
There are two kinds of topics for research ;— 
that which, though it has the past for its subject, 
has the future for its object and its end; and that 
which relates to so remote and dim a portion of 
the past, that it cannot, by any possibility, be 
