Note 1 — INTRODUCTORY LECTURE ON ARCHÆOLOGY.

Perhaps it would be more correct to say ‘by its contemporary sensible monuments,’ so as to exclude later copies of ancient writings, or the monumenta litterarum, which fall more especially to the province of the scholar. A MS. of Aristotle of the thirteenth century is an archæological monument of that century only; it is a literary monument of the fourth century B.C. But a Greek epigram or epitaph which occurs on a sepulchral monument of the same or any other century B.C. is an archæological as well as a literary monument of that century.