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 Primitive Greece : Mvcenian Art. that the several levels were carefully noted down, are not fusaioles, cones, and cylinders, owing to their shape and lightness, of the kind that are most easily displaced and rolled down with the soil, whilst this was being tumbled about in every direction ? ' Lastly, it is important not to lose sight of the conditions under which the new inhabitants established themselves on the mound after the fall of the citadel, when the aspect it offered was an uneven, broken surface. Here rugosities proclaimed the site of the main buildings, there chasms marked that of ancient courts and thoroughfares. The men who were induced to fix their FIG. 56. — Fusaioles. From the original pieces. domicile on the fortress-hill, because of its natural advantages, did nothing to alter its configuration, and left it exactly as they had found it. Accordingly, some of their houses almost rest on the regular soil of the previous settlement ; whilst others have no better foundations than heaps of potsherds, and thus tower metres high above their nearest neighbours. It may well happen 1 See above, p. 173.