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volume of some 600 pages on the subject, and being the first archaeologist to have established systematically the existence of these levels and their significance for stratigraphical and chronological research. There was probably an earthquake level before the time of my building 18 and of that in which you have found the statue (see Strat. Comp.). There is one after that as conditions in your building and in mine now suggest. There have been others later (Salamine historical earthquake), Cyprus lying on the mainline followed by sismic disturbances from India over the Near East, to the Mediterranean (eastern) and Italia - Portugal. After having been put by me in a ready made nest found by the French Arch. Mission at Enkomi, in which he has now only to pick some of the eggs, your curator, I dare say, could be expected to be more grateful and certainly more cautious in defining the limits of his scientific property. Confidence destroyed. — You have gone in your letter so far as to insinuate that the general director of the Enkomi excavation has taken advantage of material made available to him for comment in accordance with agreed terms of the combined expedition. This has, I am very sorry to say, destroyed the base of mutual confidence and friendship on which our combined work could prosper and develop.
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