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rally pentagons or hexagons more or less regular) 
so carefully hewn and fitted to each other, as to 
form, externally, a perfectly smooth surface.— 
These are now commonly called Pelasgic, and 
may be seen in their greatest perfection, in par- 
ticular portions of the walls at Gortys and Mycene, 
in Greece; and at Norba, Segm, Cora, Alatri, 
and various other aneient situations in Italy. 
III. The third style is distinguished by the 
blocks of which it is composed being mostly paral- 
lelopipeds, or regular cubes, and being arranged 
in horizontal courses, which is rarely the case 
either in the amorphous or the polygonal construc- 
tions. This style is termed Héruscan, and is 
chiefly to be met with in the ancient Htruria, viz. 
at Volterra, Fiesole, Cortona, and many other 
places between the Arno and the T%ber. 
Two questions now arise : 
I. Are these styles really so separate and dis- 
tinct that we must attribute them to different 
nations, or different ages ? 
If. To whom are they to be attributed, and why 
have they received their present names ? 
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