LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET
In Memory
OF
THOSE HOSPITABLE DOORS
WHICH
THE ETRUSCAN LION GUARDS
This Gate
OF AN ETRUSCAN TOMB
Is Dedicated
TO
MY DEAR FRIENDS
THE STORYS
NOTE.
It is needless to recall to the scholar, but it may be as well to tell the general reader, that the 'golden warrior' stretched on a couch of rock, who vanished as the air entered the long-closed tomb, was thus found by Avvolta in the famous tumuli of the Montarozzi opened in the year 1823.