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systematic. In order to find the great temple there he sunk trial 

 pits for six years before he identified the sacred precincts, and dug 

 for three or four months longer before he found the temple itself. 

 More systematic digging would have found the temple sooner. And 

 when he had found the temple, deeply embedded in a marsh, he 

 dumped a considerable part of the earth which he removed from the 

 temple upon the spot where we may believe the great altar to have 

 stood. So the British Museum plans this year to resume those old 

 excavations and to complete them according to modern methods. 

 Similarly, at Delos, the French excavated buildings here and there, 

 leaving between them in many cases spaces of unexcavated ground, 

 with the result that the visitor has no connected view of the sacred 

 precinct of Apollo as a whole. Here, too, because of the lack of a 

 systematic and generous plan at the first, much of the earth has been 

 moved twice, and part of it, I am told, three times. That the French 

 expect to resume these excavations this year I have already stated. 

 The early parties for the conduct of excavations and explorations in 

 many cases were not well equipped with specialists, though these 

 generally were not entirely lacking, as they were in the cases of 

 Schliemann, di Cesnola, and Wood. The French seem to have been 

 the first to send out companies for the purpose of investigating not 

 only the "antiquities" and monuments of the country, but also its 

 topography. The American excavations at Argive Harseum had a 

 trained architect, but such a specialist is needed urgently also for the 

 American excavations at Corinth, and has been needed in a less 

 degree in the minor excavations as at Eretria and Sicyon. 



Present Excavations in Greece. 



At present excavations on Greek lands are carried on as follows, 

 in addition to several minor excavations of the Greeks themselves : 



Corinth : The American School at Athens. 



Argos : Mr. Vollgraff , supported by a Hollander. 



Tegea : To be resumed by the French. 



Pergamo?i : The German Institute, under Dr. Dorpfeld. 



Ephesus : (The Temple of Artemis.) Resumed by the British 



Museum. 

 Ephesus: (The City.) The Austrian Institute. 

 Miletus : The Berlin Museum, under Dr. Schrader. 



