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The Primitive Structures. 73
fundamental work, ascribed to this early architect, must be identified with one
of the Primitive structural strata, not with the Croesus temple, which rests in
all its central portion, not on the marsh, but on earlier structures.
On the whole, therefore, with clue allowance made for the necessary-
inexactitude of literary statements made about structures, which had disap-
peared some centuries previously, there is remarkable correspondence beween
what the authorities would lead us to expect in the matter of Primitive
structural remains and what has actually been found by excavation.
fundamental work, ascribed to this early architect, must be identified with one
of the Primitive structural strata, not with the Croesus temple, which rests in
all its central portion, not on the marsh, but on earlier structures.
On the whole, therefore, with clue allowance made for the necessary-
inexactitude of literary statements made about structures, which had disap-
peared some centuries previously, there is remarkable correspondence beween
what the authorities would lead us to expect in the matter of Primitive
structural remains and what has actually been found by excavation.