Upcott's Collection._

_Tyburn Gallows._--No. 49. Connaught Square, is built on the spot
where this celebrated gallows stood; and, in the lease granted by
the Bishop of London, this is particularly mentioned.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

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SEWERAGE IN ETRURIA.

I have been particularly struck, in reading _The Cities and
Cemeteries of Etruria_, of George Dennis, by the great disparity
there appears between the ancient population of this country and the
present.

The ancient population appears, moreover, to have been located in
circumstances not by any means favourable to the health of the
people. Those cities surrounded by high walls, and entered by
singularly small gateways, must have been very badly ventilated, and
very unfavourable to health; and yet it is not reasonable to suppose
they could have been so unhealthy then as the author describes the
country at present to be. It is hardly possible to imagine so great
a people as the Etruscans, the wretched fever-stricken objects the
present inhabitants of the Maremna are described to be.

To what, then, can this great difference be ascribed? The Etruscans
appear to have taken very great pains with the drainage of their