The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-23

Schlienaun.
DR.. Schliemann, after an Interrupt
ton Of I've years and bali. resumed,
Sept. 80 last, his search for the buried
Troy. He is obliged to give the lmps-
risl Museum at COnstantinople two.
thirds of the discoveries, and to bear oil
the expenses, now amounting TO g..
500 month. A delegate Of the Tur-
kish Government is on the spot, and .
guard of ten gendarmes is furnished.
At Hissarlik, where all the excavations
have been made, DR.. S. traces the re
mains of no fewer than four pre-his.
toric cities which had been built on the
same site, and the second of these is, be
maintains, the Homeric Troy. He ex.
poets, before the season Of operation
closes, to bring to light the whole west
ern and northern part of the circuit
wall, the construction of which Homer
ascribss to Posseidon and Apollo (Iliad
vii. 453), as well as all that RENAME OF
the prehistoric mansion Immediately to
the northwest and west of the great
gate, which he attributes to the ancient
towns King, because it is the largest
and best built house in the city. In It
wero found hundreds of remarkable
objects, and close to it the treasure now
exhibited in the South kensington
Museum. The walls of this mansion
are at q depth OF about twenty. eight
feet below the surface of tho hill, and
precisely like the cycIorean walls Of
the Royal Palace ut Myccu~, and the
cyclopesn houses at Tirynis. They can
only have served as sub structures to y
stately and very elevated wooden build
ing, for otherwise there is no way Of
explaining the hugo masses of red,
black and yellow wood ashes, in:ermix-
cd with charcoal, by which they are
covered to depth OF nine to ten feet.
Among these ashes the doctor has re-
Gently found q red handmade vase,
containing. among other things, twenty
gold earrings, four gold hairpins, .
large number of gold beads, bracelet Of
electrum, fragments of necklaces.
Most remarkable among the new dis
coveries is n well-preserved distaf of
wood, eleven feet long. with the thread
charred black ~ coal. At this depth
of twenty eight feet, curious objects OF
various kinds are constantly being On.
esrthed. Three gates before the pre-.
historic mansion have been laid open,
varying in breadth respectively from
ten to seventeen and one.fourth feet.
Unfortunately tho approach OF winter,
which 10 severe in that region, will sus
pend further excavations until spring.
The sealous antiquarian 10 sure that,
eventually, he will be able TO prove TO
tho most skeptical that he hes struck the
site of the city Of Priam, and to more
fully identity the ruins with the local..
ties described by Homer.
Although the date Of the
Trojan war can be fixed with some ap-
proach to accuracy, there 10 . vast Pc
Rod OF time deeper in the womb Of ages,
beyond the roach Of chronology. 1t il
only Of late years that We have begun
10 form some idea Of the immense
lapse of time from the creation to the
present day. The ancienis carried hu-
man annals back into ages that We take
no account Of. The Egyptian priests
reckoned the time from the reign OF
HELMS TO Alexander 1t about 5000
vears. Cicero speaks Of the memorable
of the Babylonians - embracing . Pc
nod OF 100000 years, and PIiny cites
Ephenes as saying that they were IN
Of astronomical observations
Inscribed on baked bricks, extending
,eer 10000 years. The Chinese and
aindoo cosmogonists claim fabulous
antiquity almost beyond calculation. II
9 obvious that the ancient nations had
10 belief or tradition that they were |
living in the worlds youth.-PhiisdeI- |
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