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 . th only pickaxes, wooden shovels,baskets, and eight wheelbarrows. § IV. Second Years Work at Hissarlik : returned to Hissarlik with my wife at the end of March 1872,and resumed the excavations with 100 workmen. But I was soon ableto increase the number of my labourers to 130, and had often even150 men at work. I was now well prepared for the work, having been 22 NAREATIVE OF WORK AT TROY
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 . th only pickaxes, wooden shovels,baskets, and eight wheelbarrows. § IV. Second Years Work at Hissarlik : returned to Hissarlik with my wife at the end of March 1872,and resumed the excavations with 100 workmen. But I was soon ableto increase the number of my labourers to 130, and had often even150 men at work. I was now well prepared for the work, having been 22 NAREATIVE OF WORK AT TROY. [Introd. provided by my honoured friends, Messrs. John Henry Schroder & London, with the very best English wheelbarrows, pickaxes, andspades, and having also procured three overseers and an engineer, Laurent, to make the maps and plans. The last received monthly£20, the overseers £6 each, and my servant £7 4s.; whilst the dailywages of my common labourers were 1 fr. 80 c, or about 18 pencesterling. I now built on the top of Hissarlik a wooden house, with threerooms and a magazine, kitchen, &c, and covered the buildings withwaterproof felt to protect them from the No. 1. Troy as seen from Kuum Kioi, ia June 1879. On the steep northern slope of Hissarlik, which rises at an angleof 45°, and at a perpendicular depth of 46^ ft. below the surface, Idug out a platform 233 ft. wide, and found there an immense number ofpoisonous snakes; among them remarkably numerous specimens of thesmall brown adder called antelion (avrrjkiov), which is hardly thickerthan an earthworm, and gets its name from the vulgar belief, that theperson bitten by it only survives till sunset. I first struck the rock at a depth of about S3 ft. below the surface ofthe hill, and found the lowest stratum of artificial soil to consist of verycompact debris of houses, as hard as stone, and house-walls of smallpieces of unwrought or very rudely cut limestone, put together so thatthe joint betwe
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