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of material submitted to the inventor of the townsite in advance of publication , by his collaborator. It may be that my report to the Academy being written in French , has misled you. I send you here ( Annexe II ) a résumé written in English which will be included in my volume. Perhaps after perusal you will agree that even if I had wished to do so , I could not have referred to your curator's unpublished essai without rejecting his main conclusions. I tabulate in the attached Annexe I , the decisive points of both conclusions which show how far they differ and where is agreement. Fire on floor V and earthquake. – You will see in my book, that there is ample evidence of fire on mainfloor V of my building (18) that I did not need your curator's information on this point. Years before your curator joined me at Enkomi, I have found evidence of this fire and have refered to it in my first stratigraphical propositions at the end of the latest Bronze Age level , anterior to the first Iron Age level (now floor IV ) and published this evidence. Your curator has therefore no ground for complaining that he was deprived of a discovery of his. It is hard for me to be asked to "share now" a view of the curator on matters of earthquake levels after having published th some years ago a
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