New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-06-30

the benches of the theater he thought Of the poet
loycus wac, having landed at the port KenciTe,
intending to witness the games was murdered ON
the road by robbers, and IN diving said to have
Invoked llock of cranes flying above him to ayenge
his death. The murdcrers themselves went TO the
theater. and were dis. 0vered by their trepdatiOn
and EXPLANATIONS ut the sight of the cranes which
they Thought had come 10 betray their secret. But
there arc no cranes in Greece argued Scnllemann,
and the mountains before me are called 'Gerania,'
the mountains OF tine cranes. Surely lbycus must
have called upon them as witressesD The theory is
certainly ingenious.
SEARCHING FOR THE PLAIN OF TROY.
Proceeding to Athens, Sahliemann, on Aug. s,
1865, arrived ut Constantnople. Going Mt once TO
the Dardanees, lac took horse to Bounarbaschi,
which ever since 1887 has had the honor Of being
considered the site of Prians Troy. 1t is a mscr-
able village, numbering twonty-three houses. of
which fifteen are Turkish and eight Albanian. Great
was Schliemann's emotion on behodng the immense
Trojan plain, but the moment he investigated he
doubted. The plain seemed long, and the site too
far from the sea. Then, when he examined the
soil and found no trace whatever of tiles or
pottery, doubts increased only to be doubled on
visiting the springs at the foot of the hill on which
Bounarbaschi is situated. These springs are sup
posed to be two of the Scamander spoken Of
in the ODD book of the Iliad.' Instead of two
springs, one Of boiling and the other of icy cold
water there are 40 springs all Of 63l2o Fahrenheit.
As all but one of these springs come from one fall,
Schemann thinks it impossible that their tempera-
ture should ever have varied, and why should Homer
sDccify two springs when there are fortyl Every
detail in Homer points to the great river that flows
through the Trojan plain being the ancient Seam
ander Moreover. the Greek army went three and
four times from their camps the lleespont to the
walls Of Troy and back again in a Gay. Consequently
the distance could not have exceeded three miles,
whereas BounarbascLi is nine miles from the
don Nv
Srhiemann set five men to work with pickaXes and
shoves. In Bounarbaschi, beyond TIE village, near
the springs, he found nothing but soil untouched by
the hand of man. There was complete absence Of
pottery, that everlasting inde5tructiblc witness of
ancient habtltiOn. At the extremity Of the village
nights he found a small citadel with an
insignificant accumulation of rubbish, the
average depth of which did not exceed
one foot. The potsherds were Hellenic Of
the second OF third century b. c. Schliemann claims
that this little citadel Is the town of Gcrgis de-
stroyed by Alfalfa. Digging hls way along he visited
the spot which Dcmetrius of Skepsis and Strab0.
who followed the formers theory without personal
investigation, declared to be the site OF Troy 1t
was easily recOgniz Il By the distances given. Sche-
mann was rewarded by glimpse of some pottery
not half foot deep. The long pr jecting hight,
which Demctrius may have Thought to nave ludl-
Gated wall, IS composed of pure gravel sand.
thus SAYS Schliemanu, | plowed to the nigh
plateau of lissarllk. and after attentive eXamni-
ton became convinced tldI ancient Troy Hdu Dtti
baptised Iium No,um 1,l25 years after its entire
destruction, 700 b. &. This is unique III history.
In TINS conviction do not stand alone; although
| most scholars hold different theories This site is
strewn with the debris of beautiful sculpture and
fragments of Greek pottery:
The moment the traveller puts his foot on the
plain of Troy he is struck by the magnificent pO-
st,on Of tine hill of llisslrlik, which seems des-
tined by nature to hc the site OF a great city.
Well fortified it would command the entire
PLAN. In all the country round IT has no
| pt al Npli.Ruguu
having 10 fTnan he returned TO Paris, wrote
book in French on his travels, and for
wardcd scientific dissertation III Greek 10 tue
University OF Rostock. for which he received the
diploma OF LID. lie Is much more huent IN Greek
than IN Latin. -
York as most of his Investments are American.
There ne remained until September, lo69 In
March, 1870, ne returned 20 the TToad, and having
Obtained a lrnau iron COnsiantInOple, made some
small excavations. On Mount Hissarlk he sank
shafts aud found an accumulation OF doDrls SIX Ieet
deep. Forced to deSst on account of the refusal OF
the prOprieors TO sell the land, he once more DeOok
himself to Pans not being able 10 secure the anl
al any price re applied 90 Sayei fasila, lurEiSll
Niul,.cr OF Public distraction, who oXprOpu1tcd
the land and gave hnn irman. Thus illed he
worked large scale IN lS1l, and became pos
scsscd Of tue idea that oue-lal oil Mount ls>aglIk-
lu2 feet highs artificial soil. Here AcrXeS, be-
fore invading Greece, sacrificed LOO oxen t. th3
lnan Minerva. Here also Alexander the Great
made sacrifices, and taking some Trojan sword,
which had been preserved IN the temple caused
tncin 70 be carried before him IN his b&,tlcs -Four
mines from llissarllk is the tombof Achilles around
which Alexander ran naked three times. goriying
his hero, and rejoicing that hc shOud nave had 50
great poet to pcipetuate ills exploits
THE ATuENEAN ACROPoLIs.
Fever breaking ont IN 1872, Schilcmann was
obliged 10 desst for fear of the miasma but IN 1913
he was able to proceed more satisfactorily, and IN
1874 published Troy and its Remains" wherein
he summed up the result of his labors.
Obtaining permission from the Greek Government
in February, 1874, to cxcayate Mykcn@, Schliemann
sank thrty-four shafts in the Acropols TO study us
underground topography, and found that the iye
ROYAL tom5s must necessarily be- if ut all, on the
first western terrace, in immediate proximity to the
Lion Gate. Owing however, to a lawsuit with Iur-
KEY he was forced to postpone his investigations,
and returned To Athens, wnere he spent the year III
| taking down a great quadranguar tower Dulll Dy
Acciauolo in the fifteenth century. 1t was icm-
| nant of the Frpksh possession ana dishOhOr 10
! the AcropOhs. He breathed more freely When he
had spent 1000 francs in eyeing 1t to the ground
The whole Greek nation reioced at the demolition,
but the thousands Of owls that had built their nests
! in the tower held an indignant mass meeting, and
with piercing cries protested against being turned
ont of thcr ancestral hauuts. he tower was nuilI
! Of La ge blocks belonging 10 ancient monuments Oh
| the AcrOpOs. Research ut lf9pyiea prouuceu susnt
rc,ults lhe sculpture found IS M the museum III
| Athens In 1879 >chlcmann made snort visits 10
| France. England, Sweden, Denmark, and Gernany,
and examined their museums. ON gong 'aier 10
| Itaiv Sicnor Ronghi Minister of Public Instruction,
! decircd that ho should investigate the island OF
| Move near Marsala, Sicily, and the nearest point
| 10 Carthage. The ancient creek aulhof Ioi3$enus
! writes that the Carthagnians had a telegraph be-
tween this coast and their city, employing sort ?l
telescope or doptra; but this SchIieman asserts Is
utterly impossible as the distance lsIoo hlicH' anu
both hores are so low rs 10 render signals positively
useless. "While in the Gulf Of Me&lco saw the
volcano OF Orizaba at dis tance Oh a. miles say
/ lsstf na n.
! HE topography of Carthage and Sicily cannot have
Chan otd consequently the curve Of the globe rem