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of the earHefl pieces, or weights, ever ufed in Italy, 
or but little poherior to them. Father Gori (7) Teems 
to be of the fame fentiments with me, in this parti- 
cular; and neither Sig. (8) Olivieri, nor any other 
writer, has invalidated, or difproved, what has been 
advanced on this head, by that celebrated author. 
That the weight here confidered is to be affigned to 
a maritime town, the concha marina, or fea-fhell, Irre- 
fragably proves. I Thould therefore, with the very learn- 
ed Sig. Olivieri, rather attribute it to Volterra, than to 
Velitr£e(9), at prefent called Velletri, as Father Gori 
(10) Teems to have done. For Velitras was a town of 
Latium, and much leTs confiderable than the city of 
Volterra; which (ij) was the moil: ancient city of Etru- 
ria, the Teat of a lucumo, and one of the moTt conlider- 
able places in T uTcany. It was alTo a maritime city ( 1 2), 
(7) Anton. Francifc, Gof. MuJ, Etrufc. Vol. II. p. 419,.'' 
«t alib. Florentine, vi 737. 
■ (8) Sig. Oliver, Una Letera, In Pefaro, i757." 
(g) Annib. degli Abati Olivieri, in Efame della Controverfia' 
htteraria^ fopra il Miijeo Etrufcoy /lampaia- negli Opufcoli Jdentificiy 
Tom. XXI. et ubi fup. p. 43. , The old Etrufcan word 
VELATRI, FELATRI, or FELATERI, feems^tohave beer» 
tolerably well preferved in the name of Monte Veltrajo, or 
Fcltraio, a mountain in the territory of Volterra, and about cv.'o 
miles from that city. This, as I apprehend, may be conftdered 
as an additional argument in fupport of Sig. Olivieri’s and. 
Monfignore Mario Guarnacci’s opinion. Noti-zie Iftorich. della 
iltta d'l Volterra^ oper. del Sig: Lorenz. Aul. Cecin. dal Cava/, 
Fjamin. Dal Borgo, p. 44.J 49.^ In Pifa, 1798. Monfig. Mar. 
Guarnacci, in Origin, Italich, In Lucca, 1767. 
(10) Anton. Francifc. Gor. Muf, Etrujc. Vol. II. p. 427. - 
(11) Chrift pb. Cellar. Geogr. 4 nt. Lib. II. c. ix. fedt. 2. 
p, 573, 574. Llpl'iae, 1731. Vid. etiam Tho. Dempft. De Eiriir, 
Regal, et Anton. P'ranaic. Gbr. Muf. Etrufc, palT, . 
(tg) Strab. Lib. V, p. 223. Lutetiae Paniiorum, i620» 
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