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Europe, without having an opportunity of detecting defacements which have pro- 
bably escaped the notice of its curators. In the case of undated monuments, these 
defacements, and the restorations by which they have sometimes been followed, 
will often be quite sufficient to determine the age of the monument; in all cases, 
they are extremely interesting, as testing the accuracy of past discoveries, and 
exercising the student in a branch of investigation which he may have an oppor- 
tunity of employing with profit at a future period. 
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