The New York herald., 1872-12-21
its position is most imposing, and it overlooks
the plain In all directions


the plain in all directions
ITS FoRMER STATE.
From the masses of stones found on the south
side OF the monument, have no doubt that 1t was
once much higher than now For the preservation
ruins OF Troy itself-which covered 1t completely
which ruins are peculiar and cannot be mistaken
same site. Doubtless whatever part Of the tower
thrust Itself above the general level of the ruined
were OF different character and customs, and has
neither walls nor fortifcatlOns.
That this kind Of architecture-stones Joined
cyclopean appears to be pr proved by the fact that
low three layers OF volcanic ashes os feet in
thickness, which were thrown out by an immense
more than fifteen hundred years before Christ.
TRACES OF THE PEOPLE, UTENSILS, &C.
now TO tell Of the Objects found in tie
different layers % Of rubbish which are calculated to
ceeded one another here through twenty centuries,
and shall begin with those left by the earliest In.
habitants the Troans), who built on the primitive
until the beginning OF our era, and
they naye o oa
and "carousels," with and without ornaments
Some similar terracottas, without ornamentation,
are in the museum In Athens, and two ornamented
ones which are found In the terra maris OF Italy,
are in the Museum OF Parma, but these are the
Here find them by thousands, and about half are
ornamented These terracottas are nom two to
hole through the middle Those found az hesSs
OF two metres above the virgin soil represent the
sun with his rays-sometimes stars are inter-
mingled with the rays-or the sun In the centre OF
cross. Copper nails seventeen centimetres long
were found on the virgin soil. There was NO trace
are a sufcient evidence that the people
knew and worked the metal copper, and
small saw OF t four and ha to s
Of lava So centimetres long by II broad,
halves. With little exception ali the terrscotta
vessels found In the layers Of rubbish Of the
gether. Everything in the nature of pottery was
apparently destroyed by the huge stones that fell
% IN the ruin: But possess oil the piece, Of some
these shall be able to reconstruct have also
great part OF black double goblet; but OF dozen
Gent to show what they were. % without exec exception
all the terracottas Of the Trojans OF which have
found pieces, and particularly the black nrns
bowls with a tube on each side, the very small
round black pots which represent the human face
as the larger vessels and bowls with tubes on each
side for suspension and sometimes with three feet
all attest
Of their possessors; and one sees At glance That
nom those whose traces are In the ruins at depth
call the attention Of archaologsts to the great
semblance between the black Trojan bowls, plates,
paes although % Whenever osSsn sSs Trojan terrs
cottas are ornamented, and whatever
the ornamentatlon may be, IL Is
always entirely different from the ornamentation
OF Elruscan pottery, because in the Trojan articles
the ornamentation is always engraved; cut in
while the ware was still soft and unburnt and the
cut lines filled with white substance. Many ves-
sells are ornamented inside and out.
THE TROJAN PALACES AND DWELLINGS
in which these splendid terracottas were used
were OF great size, because in their walls belonged
oil the immense masses OF hewn and unhewn |
stones which cover these fragments In layers OF |
from four to six metres In thickness The edinces |
built OF stones joined with clay, were are crumbed
together In terrible c0nnagration, as Is evident
BY the calcination OF stones and rubbish and all the
houses contained was either crushed or burned.
On the primitive soil | also found a Trojan /
lamp consisting OF O small round bowl Az CEN
tlmetres in diameter, with four feet, each OF /
them with q hole, and NTH foot In the middle, |
without q hole. Thus the lamp could be suspended |
or placed on table. With the immediate success
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