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tisfactory account of one Troja or Ilium at least, if it was 

 not also the Homeric one. 



2. An illustration of the mythology of primitive Rome, by 

 comparing it with the oldest fragments of the Cumrian 

 system, with a satisfactory explanation of the fable of the 

 Wolf and Eagle, the Sus alba, and other matters which 

 have hitherto baffled the learned. 



3. An illustration of the system of the Agricultural Repub- 

 lics of ancient Italy, of which Rome was one, by a refe- 

 rence to the Welsh Laws, where much valuable information 

 on the constitution of society in south-western Europe, 

 during the Saturnian Age, is to be found. 



Desiderata for a further prosecution of the subject : 

 Vocabularies of the languages spoken among the hills of Um- 

 bria, Rhaetia, Liguria, the Maritime Alps, and Auvergne. 



vol.. xui. taut ii. 4 c 



