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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

Each individual quarter or ' insula' of the Palace seems in fact to have
had a drainage system of its own, standing in a tributary relation to the
great main channels.

An important system, of which many remains have been preserved, was
that of the Domestic Quarter and its borders.

Fig. 170. View showing Part of Stone Drain uncovered, below N. Entrance, Knossos.

The general arrangements of its original drainage1 are shown by
Mr. Doll's Plans and Sections, Fig. 171. a, b, c. The main conduit formed a
complete circuit consisting of a Northern and a Southern branch, which both
descended from a water-shed in what was later the S.E. corner of the Hall
of the Colonnades. The channel, moreover, that resulted from the con-

1 We shall see (Vol. II) that in Late Minoan times a radical change took place in a part of
this system.