Vestiges of ancient manners and customs, discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily / By the Rev. John James Blunt.

  • Blunt, John J. (John James), 1794-1855.
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Vestiges of ancient manners and customs, discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily / By the Rev. John James Blunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    he has examined with characteristic learning and asperity, I have omitted, except in such cases as allowed further illustration, and where I thought that I had the means of affording it. And though it is true that these coincidences are some of the most striking and satis- factory, because the most obvious of all, yet has that distinguished writer left a plentiful gleaning to those who should come after him; particularly possessed as they now are of sources of informa- tion which were not open to him, the extensive excavations at Pompei and Herculaneum. 7 Having said this, I put myself into the hands of my reader; not indeed expect- ing that he can derive as much gratifi- cation from the perusal of my book as I have felt in collecting the materials for