The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-11-21
FUIT ILIUM.

l.
D. orally looked upon as the site o
Sacred Ilium' was Bounarbashi anC
- the rocky height of Bali Dagh tha
'e lies behind that Turkish village
Two springs near the village had
been fixed upoa as the two springs
one hot, the other of cold water. that
Homer speaks of. On my first visit
to Bounarbashi L found there was
u not less than thirty -four springs in
n the immediate vicinity, all close to-
n gether, and as the Turks call the
J site of these springs the Kirk Clos,
: or the place of the thirty eyes,
g there are probably some that did
{ not find. Another discrepancy is the
S fact that Bounarbashi is eight miles
from the Hellespont, and Homer To-
Gates Troy at three miles from the
: sea. Nor could Achilles have pur-
? sued Hector in plain around the
walls of the city if Troy stood on
the rocky height of Bah,-Dagh. l
made some excavation there in 1868,
but found nothing to which an arch
aIc origin could be assigned.
"On examining the plain of Troy
the only place that / could find that
full " answered to Homers descrip-
ton of Sacred Ilium' was an impos-
ing position and strong natural for
tification now called the Hill of His
sarlik. According to Homer Sacred
Ilium was city that stool in plain
three miles from the Hellespont. 1t
was acity of great power and wealth,
and after having withstood a ten |
years siege by the allied Grecian |
kings was captured by strategem,
totally destroyed and its Inhabitants
m assacred, carried off into slavery
or driven into exile! If any great
city ever stood in the plain of Troy
its site must have been selected on
account of certain natural features
and no point presented such features
to the same extent as Hisslarik, and
besides tits just three miles from the
Hellespont. / accordingly determ-
ined to look for the site of Sacred
llium at Hissarlik. / can now assert
without fear of contradiction, that
my excavations at that point have
proved that at remote antiquity
there existed there a large city,
whose inhabitants had naade some +,
progress in the arts, as they were ,
acquainted with the art OF working .
in the precious metals and in bronze;
that this city was totally DESTROYED !
by sudden and fearful catastrophe !
and that in every particular it an ,
swers TO the Homeric description of
sacred Ilium. Everything that l ]
discovered confirms all that can be !
regarded as historical in the 1liad.S ,
L also found many articles in the I
precious metals at Troy and I have !
a house at Athens filled with enough !
of all sorts to stock sew
eral museums. / have built house
expressly to hold my collections, and I
they aresointeresting that they have n
been the direct cause of drawing q
largo number of strangers to Ath- +
ems for the sole purpose Of visiting
them. 1t is not true that I ever of I
tered my collection for sale. / do "
not sell anything that l find The h
treasures found at Mycen@ L have n
presented to the Greek Government, h
md they are now in the public mu- 6,
scum at Athens, but / have never a
'old anything that l fourd during Fl
ny explosations." h
THE EXPLORERS FAMILY. +,
In reply to a question sis to what b
)art of the world he considered his d
lome, the doctor replied: h" L was NJ
'orn in Germany, am naturalized b,
American since 1850 and own pro- 7
'erty in indianapolis, Indiana. 1t in
las been fourteen years since l was &C
ast ia the United States. My wife h,
} Greek lady and we new consider ci
hat our home is at Athens, where b.
have built house and where /
ave resided when not in the Troad
still retain my nationally as an is
american citizen and intend to con- sil
niue to do so, but / do not contem- dI
late an early return to my native
ountry." tb
At this point a handsome girl of co
welve or fourteen years of age-a ha
erfect specimen of the Greek type
beauty-joined us, whom the doc nj
or introduced as Mademoiselle An n
romache. "My other child bv nv a. a.
scond wife," he added, sis boy. to -
Thom have given the name of Ag-
memnon. have two other chill WI
rem by my first wife, but; thew are "a
rown up and are not with me. Nv "
lmily accompanied me to the Troad nc
nd remained the whole time that p
" explorations continued. / built ca
alf dozen frame houses for my m.
slf and my workmen, of whom | lly
ad sometimes as many as one hun. m;
red in my employ. There is no u,
,wn or village anywhere near His ar,
lrlik, but our way of living there fin
as not at all different from the way air
{ living at Athens, and that is the OBJ
le same as everywhere ese in Eu-
,pe. We did not get fresh beet sa,
Tery day, as there were no butch, ass
s handy. / had to purchase nv Wi
eef, mutton and veal alive and have ;ts
lem slaughtered and dressed by
y men. We had also, and for the c.,
me reason, to bake our bread. but IUl
! the whole, our life was perfect L.,
European one l leave early next II II
eek for Athens, where I will re. -
ain for at least year to come
80 n ~
tsWush you'd take fhesf, nala ;,gl