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 . burnt city, thrown from within into and before the gate. This debris con-sists for the most part of ashes and calcined stones from the neighbouringhouses. This mass of burnt debris covered the gate, and increased thecity considerably to the this accumulation the newsettlers built, to the rightand left from the points A andb (No. 185), houses the wallsof which may still be seenin the ma
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 . burnt city, thrown from within into and before the gate. This debris con-sists for the most part of ashes and calcined stones from the neighbouringhouses. This mass of burnt debris covered the gate, and increased thecity considerably to the this accumulation the newsettlers built, to the rightand left from the points A andb (No. 185), houses the wallsof which may still be seenin the massive block of debrisin front of the Theform of the strata of debris before the gate shows a depression, which goes far to prove that theinhabitants of the fourth city continued to go in and out by the verysame road. But this is not at all surprising, because the roads to thecountry commenced and ended at this point. The engraving No. 186 represents the north-west angle of the greatwall built by the second settlers, and which continued to be used by the Debris at N. W. angle- Pavement of l7ie daleNo. 185. Debris of the Burnt City at the fcetom of the exiNo. 186. Walls and accumulation of debris, angle. inhabitants of the third, the burnt city, as the substruction for their brickwork of defence. The reader will be astonished to see in this wall apassage filled with clay cakes, which could have no other object than toconsolidate it. To the left of the wall are slanting layers of debris, whichdescend at an angle of exactly 45°, and of which a small portion close tothe wall contains fragments of pottery peculiar to the second city, andmust, consequently, belong to it. Then follow the slanting strata ofdebris of the third, the burnt city, which visitors recognize at a glance bytheir calcined condition. All these layers of debris are very compact, andalmost as hard as limestone. The great Hellenic wall, which we seeto the left, could therefore be erected upon them
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