Before revision: In fact, the Gozitan historian Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis had already described the catacombs to include only one passageway, the only one of many that remained by the mid-eighteenth century.
After revision: The site, however, had been in a poor state of conservation for centuries: The Gozitan historian Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis had already described the catacombs to include only one passageway, the only one of many that remained by the mid-eighteenth century.