Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . by Mr. Frank Calvert, who discovered them. I give here an extract from the speech which Professor Yirchow madeon his return to Berlin from his expedition to the Troacl, before theBerlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology, and Pre-historic Archaeology,on the 20th of June, 1879 : — That part of the citadel-hill of Hissarlik in which the calcined ruinsof the burnt city were found had at the time
Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . by Mr. Frank Calvert, who discovered them. I give here an extract from the speech which Professor Yirchow madeon his return to Berlin from his expedition to the Troacl, before theBerlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology, and Pre-historic Archaeology,on the 20th of June, 1879 : — That part of the citadel-hill of Hissarlik in which the calcined ruinsof the burnt city were found had at the time of my departure from theTroad been cleared away, in a considerable number of places, down to thevirgin soil. At one place we reached the rock itself, on which the mostancient city had been built. In the midst of the great trench Schliemannhad left standing a mighty block, which, as long as it holds together, willindicate to visitors the original level of the surface. It forms a largequadrangular column, which rises between 8 and 9 metres (26 ft. 4 in. to29 ft. 7 in.) above the level of the ground on which the town-chiefs housestands. But below this latter level one may dig 6, 8, nay 10 metres. (19 ft. 9 in., 26 ft. 4 in., or 32 ft. 10 in.), before penetrating through allthe layers of ruin. Thus the aggregate depth of all the strata of debris, 62 NARRATIVE OF WORK AT TROY. [IXTEOD. from the surface to the rock itself, amounts to nearly 20 metres (66 ft.).The whole of this depth consists of the remains of ancient is nothing in or about it which could give the impression of havingbelonged to anything else. Its situation is as follows: on the last spur of a tertiary mountain-ridge, which projects from the volcanic mountains on the east towards theScamander, and rises perhaps 100 ft. above the plain, there has beenheaped up a series of layers of debris, in which it is easy to recognize thestratification of the settlements which have succeeded each other. Thesemas
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