. 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. end the site for building upon. Besides, in the great confla-gration large masses of crumbling bricks and other ruins must have fallenfrom the tumbling towers or houses with which the walls were sur-mounted, and perhaps still larger masses of debris of the burnt city wereshot on the slope by the new settlers. For all these reasons the ruins anddebris of the third, the burat city, extend fo
. 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. end the site for building upon. Besides, in the great confla-gration large masses of crumbling bricks and other ruins must have fallenfrom the tumbling towers or houses with which the walls were sur-mounted, and perhaps still larger masses of debris of the burnt city wereshot on the slope by the new settlers. For all these reasons the ruins anddebris of the third, the burat city, extend for some distance, and sometimesfor more than 60 ft. beyond its walls. But the quantity of debris andrubbish shot on the slope by the people of the four subsequent towns, andconsequently the increase in width of the hill of Hissarlik, has been soenormous, that even if we sank a shaft 100 ft. deep on the brink of thepresent north-eastern, northern, or north-western slope, we should find nodebris at all of the burnt city ; nay, we should probably find there nothingelse than debris and ruins of the upper or Hellenic city. I cannot, Ithink, illustrate this better than by the accompanying engraving No. 189,. No. 189. Mound of dibris c of Plan I. (of Troy), forming the east side of the great northern trench. This engravinsrepresents it-iwest side. A marlcs the present .-lope of the hill. The layers of debris to Ihe left appear to datefrom the construction of the marble t( mple. The upper house-walls, as well as those near the slope, likewisebelong to Novum Ilium. These walls have given way under the lateral pressure of the cUbris. The stones inthe middle appear to have formed the floor of a large room. which represents the mound of debris (c on Plan I., of Troy), whichvisitors see to the east in entering my great trench from the north. Chap. VIL] POTTERY, CHIEFLY HAND-MADE. 329 A marks the slope to the north. The whole upper portion of this moundas well as the upper walls and the layer
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