. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the 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. ble. Alanguage is the growth of circumstances. Nocircumstances could be less alike than thosewhich environed Indo-Europeans when they wereAsiatics and when they became Europeans. Asthey passed from their first country to theirlast all must have been tempting them to forgettheir early language and to frame their tonguesto a new speech. Gradually, it might have been Chap. VII.] IMPLEMENTS OF
. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the 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. ble. Alanguage is the growth of circumstances. Nocircumstances could be less alike than thosewhich environed Indo-Europeans when they wereAsiatics and when they became Europeans. Asthey passed from their first country to theirlast all must have been tempting them to forgettheir early language and to frame their tonguesto a new speech. Gradually, it might have been Chap. VII.] IMPLEMENTS OF STONE. 451 I which similar saddle-querns are found, I mayadd the Italian terramare^ and Holyhead* inEngland. No. 679 is a large piece of granite,flat on the lower side, with a large holethrough the centre. The hole is too largefor us to suppose that the stone could, bymeans of a wooden handle, have been usedas an upper millstone; I rather think thatit served as a support for vases with convexbottoms. Similar to this are the stone discs,which are plentiful in the four lowest pre-historic cities ; they are of course quiteround, and have a large hole through thecentre. No. 680 marks a massive hammer of. No. 679. rerluiattd Object of Granite.(About 1: 5 actual size. Depth, 33 ft.) expected, first one turn of , one tonewould have dropped away, and then another,till nothing of the old survived. On the con-trary, they brought with them, wherever theirlot was cast on this wide world, their vocabularyalmost intact. So careful were they to losenothing that, though everything counselledchange, so delicate a thing as an accent on acouple of numerals has withstood what mighthave seemed the irrepressible genius of Atticand Doric and Ionic Greek. If they couldtransport their Aryan speech to the banks of theEhone, they might, yet more easily, urges Pro-fessor Miiller, transport a few fragments ofstone. They might as easily, he might haveproceeded to argue, transport the undefinedin
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