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OF clay and stone, he struck another
strata OF rubbish, and came upon
houses OF unburnt brick, and implements md
weapons Of copper. Below this stratum, he IN
earthed huge blocks Of stone. Working his
way slowly through the rubbish, he camo upon
q magnificent bas-role{, representing Apollo,
with an inscription OF tho t;mo Of the Roman
Emperor, Antoninus Plus. Still deeper he
found a wall seven feet in thickness and ten in
height, built Of large stones Joined with clay,
which he thinks is either tho substructure of
some Trojan temple or the wall OF circum7.lla-
tion, which Homer snys Was thrown up by Nep-
tune and Apollo. Continuing his researches,
he at last came upon colossal structure Of solid
masonry, forty feet in thickness and twenty feet
in height, built upon the primitive rock,
which the Doctor conjectures may have
been one Of the toSers on the
walls Of Troy, and possibly that from which An
dromnche saw the death Of Hector. It is 80 dif-
ferent in character and structure from anything
it belongs to the age Of tradition, Among these
ruins he found several live toads, whom the Doc
tor believes to be contemporaries Of Helen and
Andromache, and whom he regarded with pro-
found interest On that account. Doubtless, the
good Doctor implorcu them to tell him something
about that ten years siege, which they had wit
messed. How funny Seems the hand-span OF
man compared with these old venerable oldcroak-
ers of mythology, who hoped about in the gar
dens Of Helen 5000 years ago! In the rubbish
Immediately above the ancient city, he found
pottery OF many varieties and great beauty, Close
~ resembling the EtruBcan torra-cottas, copper
nails, lamps, and urns, the workmanship
Of which indicates people Of higher civilization
site Of Troy. An emblem resembling the cross,
with the ends crotcheted at right angles with
the limbs, Was found upon nearly all the pot
te1y, and also the sun, both Of which are we'll
known emblems Of the Aryan race. The ruins
found in the various strata would seem to indi-
cato that the race following the ancient. .Trojans
WAS Aryan, in 8 high state Of civilization. Then
followed numerous other races, each being less
and less civilized, and finally at the" surface
appear clear traces Of Greek occupation.
The paper On "Troy," in Chambers Ency-
clopGdia, concludes thus "Upon tho whole,
it does not seem at all likely that
tho exact site OF Troy ever will be ascertained,
unless, perhaps, @ systematic excavation Of the
plateau above Burnabaslli, vigorously prosecuted
by aome of the European Governments, should
lead to the disentombment Of some old stone
witnesses, by which the men who held kingly
rule in this district at the time Of Saul and Da-
Tid may yet speak an Intelligent word to the
less hopeless, certainly have occurred" The
suggestion made in tho Encyclopedia has been
followed sooner than any one expected. The
*;plateau above Burnabashi j" has been excavated
by the enterprise and from the private fortunes
Of one man, and the stone wit
,nesses are already telling their clo-
quent story to the men OF the
nineteenth century. Dr. Schliemann has de-
voted much time and money in making these
excavations, and now appeals for help. He do
neryes thai help. He has discovered tho great
City Of Troy juSt where Homer located it, and
he has found the evidences that it WIS destroyed
by frts az is stated in the Post Homeric poems,
in adj fition to numerous archmolog ical facts Of
the highest importance, His industry and skill
should be rewarded by furnishing him liberal
means to go on with his work.