Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. There are a large number of excellent works on Historical Architecture, and many of us have bought books with the hope of abstracting from them, in the few hours at our disposal, something that may help guide us to the Stones Age. But we find the subject treated so learnedly or so controversially, or our progress so encumbered with technical terms, that we are, as it were, drowned before we have entered the water.