OF REMOTE AGES. 343 
Etruria and Magna Grecia. If, therefore, the 
Polygonal style is to be attributed to them, how 
is it that we find it in Latium alone? This, how- 
ever, is a subject on which it is far easier to over- 
throw hypotheses, than to construct them; and I 
have no conjecture to substitute for the one which 
I am indisposed to admit. 
Il1.—The third style of ancient Mural Archi- 
tecture, which is distinguished by the vast unce- 
mented masses of which it is composed, being 
arranged in horizontal courses, there is no reason 
to doubt, was the work of the Etruscans, whose 
name it bears ;* a people who come almost within 
the range of history, and of whose early profici- 
ency, both in the useful and the fine arts, we 
have ample proof in the remains which have come 
down to us. ‘The best, and, I believe, the only 
specimens of this order now extant, are to be 
found within the limits of Etruria, and may be 
examined to advantage at Volterra, Fiesole, Cor- 
tona, Populonia and Roselle.; There is another 
style, which is often called Htruscan, but which 
is evidently of more modern date, and is distin- 
guished from the zsodomon, or regular masonry 
* Micali, I. c.10. II. ec. 25. 
+ Drawing X. 
