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 . right of the Camels is the old bed of the Scamauder. To face page 103. • OF TROY, FROM THE HILL OF HISSARLIK. T Ida Mount Garararm (Kaz Dagh).. pie. To face ^itge 103 U OF TROY. FROM THE HILL OF HISSARLIK. § V.] PANOEAMIC VIEW OF THE PLAIN OF TROY. LOu and pasture-lands are greener than those of the neighbouring countriesof Europe, and the fertility of its soil is by no means inferior to that o
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 . right of the Camels is the old bed of the Scamauder. To face page 103. • OF TROY, FROM THE HILL OF HISSARLIK. T Ida Mount Garararm (Kaz Dagh).. pie. To face ^itge 103 U OF TROY. FROM THE HILL OF HISSARLIK. § V.] PANOEAMIC VIEW OF THE PLAIN OF TROY. LOu and pasture-lands are greener than those of the neighbouring countriesof Europe, and the fertility of its soil is by no means inferior to that ofthe rest of Asia : add to this that it has neither the rigorous winters ofthe former nor the scorching heat of the latter. What is missing hereis man. Desunt manus poscentibus arvis! The want of population haschanged these very blessings into as many misfortunes; nay, this wantof men is the cause of those pestilential miasmata which have renderedendemic in this country the sickness represented by Homer under theimage of the arrows cast by the wrath of Apollo. The aspect of thecountry is in the highest degree picturesque: sometimes it reminds anEnglishman of the landscapes of his own country. This resemblance isdue as much to the form of the fields enclosed by verdant hedges, as tothe trees which are scattered here and there without sy
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