Excerpt from The Topography of Rome and Its Vicinity, Vol. 1 of 2
The impossibility of procuring information from existing maps or books, respecting those places which existed contemporaneously with early Rome, or previous to its foundation, was the first inducement to examine the country; a map of the Roman territory, under the kings, being all that was at first intended.
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