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XXVI. An Account of fome fubterraneous 
Apartments , with Etrufcan Inf cript ions and 
Paintings , di/covered at Civita Turchino 
77Z Italy [Tab. VII. VIII. IX.] : Commu - 
nicated from Jofeph Wilcox, £/y; F. S. A . 
Charles Morron, M. Z). £. R, S . 
Read March 17, Ivita Turchino, about three miles 
! 7 6 3 * to the north of Corneto, is an hill 
of an oblong form, the fummit of which is almoft 
one continued plain. From the quantities of medals, 
intaglio’s, fragments of infcriptions, &c. that are oc- 
cafionally found here, this is believed to be the very 
fpot, where the powerful and mofl ancient city of 
Tarquinii once flood : tho’ at prefent it is only one con- 
tinued field of corn. On the fouth-eafl fide of it runs 
the ridge of an hill, which unites it to Corneto. This 
ridge is at leafl three or four miles in length, and al- 
mofl entirely covered by feveral hundreds of artifici- 
al hillocks, which are called, by the inhabitants, 
Monti Roffi. About twelve of thefe hillocks have 
at different times been opened ; and in every one of 
them have been found feveral fubterranean apartments 
cut out of the folid rock. Thefe apartments are of 
various forms and dimenfions : fome confifl of a large 
outer room, and a fmall one within j others of a fmall 
room at the firfl entrance, and a larger one within : 
others are fupported by a column of the folid rock, 
left in the centre, with openings on every part, from 
twenty to thirty feet. The entrance to them all is 
by a door of about five feet in height, by two feet 
