First Sentence

"THE important researches of General Cesnola in Cyprus resulted in obtaining a collection of sculptured objects, which considerably enlarged the range of pre-historic Art; and of implements and utensils, exhibiting so extensive an use of uncombined copper, and so clear and wide an application of that metal to cutting purposes, as at once to suggest a modification of the theories of those who, in arranging what may be termed their metallic periods, assume that the age of bronze invariably came in immediate succession to the age of stone."