174 Andrew Stuart on the ancient 
gil be looked at. Virg, X. 388.—X. 402.—-VI. 505—X IT. 
456.—V. 646.—III. 108.—X. 399.—also the name Rhesus 
given by Homer to the Thacian King whose horses Ulisses 
carried away at the seige of Troy. 
It would extend this paper beyond its due limits to support 
the conjecture which I have formed of the history of the 
Etruscans previous to their irruption into Italy at the period 
fixed by Mr. Freret of 1000 years before the Birth of our 
Saviour. It may be permitted however to state generally 
that a more minute examination of their history will probably 
lead us tothe conclusion that they came from the antient 
Thrace, and that in the great displacement of nations which 
took place at the seige of Troy they were propelled in the in- 
terval between these two epochs (an interval of about 186 
years) into Italy. 
Mr. Niebuhr does not seem to have read Bryant nor to have 
been acquainted with the original sources of information which 
he refersto, when he excludes so dogmatically the name of 
Tyrhenians without condescending to assign any reason for 
the exclusion of one of the names by which they seem to 
have been known throughout the whole of antiquity. 
There isa number of monuments and of inscriptions in the 
Etruscan tongue, published by the learned men of Italy—Of 
these inscriptions Mr. Freret again informs us some are in 
Latin others in Etruscan Letters. ‘These latter are the in an- 
cient letters conveyed into Greece and Iberia by the Pheni« 
cians, and are still to be found on the ancient Spanish coins. 
They resemble, as published by Count Lastanosa much the 
Samaritan Letters but have little likeness to the letters seen 
upon the medals of Tyre, Sidon and Cadiz. 
Those in Latin letters are as unintelligible as the others— 
and all the researches into lheir meaning have hitherto in a 
great degree failed. Still, Mr. Neibuhr is in an error when 
he says in a note to his chapter upon the ancient Etruscans, 
that there are only two words of this tongue, the import of 
which is known, There 
