"at the first" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 66",
          "text": "Professor Flinders Petrie, although doubtful at the first, has for many years assigned the deposits in which they were found to the time of the XIIth Dynasty.",
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  "word": "at the first"
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