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… of the front row of rooms; that the later floors succeeded each other normally with the exception of floor I which is separated from its predecessor by a thick layer of debris indicating a catastrophe.
Section BB (Pl. V,2) is parallel to the preceding; it includes room XII and passes through the second inner group of rooms in the South Building i.e. room VI A ( which was originally a dinstinct room but was later incorporated with room VI, rooms VII and VIII and through the area west of the latter room. The layer overlying floor II in room XII contains burnt matter which must be connected with the catastrophe noticed on the previous section. It will be noticed that the floor of room XII on which the catastophe occurred is given number II although it is the first encountered. The reason for this is that floor I, which is seen in other parts of the building and postdated the catastrophe, does not occur here. I considered it would be preferable to give all the floors on which the catastrophe is noticeable, the same number II even if floor I does not occur above it. The absence of floor
Handwritten: signature, illegible handwritten annotation in the margin at bottom right
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain