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 . ratum, upon which are builtthe houses of the following city. Close to the gate we see the ruins ofhouses founded on a single layer of stones ; in this way the large house4close to the entry of the citadel has partly been built. The site of the city was raised on an average 2 to 3 m. (6 ft. 8 in. to10 ft.) by the conflagration ; it was also considerably enlarged in all direc-tions by the enormou
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 . ratum, upon which are builtthe houses of the following city. Close to the gate we see the ruins ofhouses founded on a single layer of stones ; in this way the large house4close to the entry of the citadel has partly been built. The site of the city was raised on an average 2 to 3 m. (6 ft. 8 in. to10 ft.) by the conflagration ; it was also considerably enlarged in all direc-tions by the enormous masses of ruins and debris thrown down from thewalls. What remained of the brick walls and the houses was buried in thenew soil, which was composed for the most part of ashes and bricks, and ofobjects broken or defaced by the fire. This new soil is often consolidatedby clay cakes (gaieties), or by a judicious employment of the materialswhich lay on the surface. On it was built the Fourth City. I call the par-ticular attention of visitors to the enormous mass of debris of the third, the 3 Marked t on Plan III. (Section X-Y). See engraving No. 188, p. 325. Chap. VII.] EEMA1NS OF GREAT WALLS. 311. 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 bu
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