The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-11-21
LONG LOST CITIES.
DR.. SGhhGmanH and his Explorations.
WHAT HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED.
The HOmeric Account of the
Trojan War The
Site of Troy.
NufrrsPondrnce FhlIadeIphia Times.
PARIS, October 25.


! weather, which kept us in doors a
ter an excellent dinner at which th
piece de resistance was a good t;
chicken, stuffed with fresh trufflt
and washed down with some Chat
eau la Rose of 1872, as good a re
wine as ever came up out of the Me
doc country, when suddenly m
friend from the Gulf of Paria CAV
a start and said: " There's a maj
whom you ought tc interview. -
(Which one, and why so 2" Task
ed.
" The elderly gentleman with tn
thin gray hair and stubby mustache
and because il is DIR. Henry Schlie
mann, the man who has dug up anC
discovered so many long lost cities.
""The excavator of the Troad, a:
he calls himself" remarked the gen,
tleman from Texas.
L made my excuses, stepped into
the salon de lecture, and, introduc.
ing myself to DIR. Schliemann, ask
ed him if he would let me interview
him for The Times.
Willingly" was the polite reply
Of the famous excavator, and in a
few'moments We were deep in the
archaeology of ancient Greece. "Mv
exploration of the Troad is entirely
completed and the results Of my last
years work there will soon appear
In volume now in press. This work
forms large volume of 500 pages.
with $50 wood cuts and 4 maps. Its
title is Troja' and it contains a full
account of my latest and final re-
searches on the site of HOmer's an
cient Troy, of those made in 1882,
and L have added to them an ac-
count Of a journey made in the
Iroad during the preceding year.
'Troad' will appear simultaneously
in England and the United States
on the 10th of November. This
work, along with 'Mycene, publish
ed in 1878; Ilios, published in 1881.
and 'OrchOmenos, published last
year, contains the full narrative of
all my researches, excavations and
discoveries in the places mentioned
Oy Homer in his epic account of the
siege and destruction of Sacred H.
um. The last named work was
published as a volume only in Ger
many. In England it has only ap-
oeaIed as a magazine article and it |
las not appeared in the United |
states. The present year l have de- |
7oted to writing the volume now in
press. My plans for the future in
.lude explorations in the island of
Crete and perhaps one or two 9th
r points that are famous in the ear
y history of Greece, but before |
Undertake anything new in that line
intend to take at least one years
est from work of any sort. :"
WHAT SCHLIEMANN HAS DONE.
In reply to my request for some
Information as to the results of his
ltest excavations on the site of an
lent Troy, DIR. Schliemann said
Like all the explorations and
excavations that l have made dur
ag the last twelve years, those of
Which 1 give an account in Troia
7ere directed towards one end. that
t ascertaining how far the Homer
account of the Trojan war was
'unded upon historical facts. MANY
cholars have considered the whole
the lliad as myth, but always
that Homer had merely
iven a poetic dress and celor to the
istory of the people to which he
elonged. Homer mentions three
tiles IN his account of the Trojan
Ilios, or Troy, and
'rchomenos. The site of the first
amed has always been known, and |
lore than one Greek author speaks
1t. Pausanias speaks of having
cen shown there the tombs of Az
memnen and his companions as :
nong the sights of the place and
the treasures they contained. For :
!ore than two thousand years trav- .
ers were shown certain ruins near
hat was once the gate of the citv :
nd had been told that thew were
lese tombs. When l visited NY 3
mae for the first time in 1868 | be
me satisfied that Pausanias had 4
zen wrongly interpreted by mod :
n scholars and that he had inten- 4
I'd to say that he had seen these !
mbs in the acropolis and not in Z
10 lower town. / set forth this :
cory in book, Ithica, the Polo y
'nnesus and Troy, published in o
'6S in Germany and France. and i :
i've my reasons, which were that :
Q ruins shown as the royal tombs q
d not agree either in appearance e
location with those described bv h
ausanias, and of course / was Il
lghed at by all the areheologists. n
1876 / found the tomb of Aga 8,
emnon and his companions in the o
act place where / had said that IL
ey must be looked for, that is. at "
g foot of the rock on which the m
'ropolis stood. / not only found
ese tombs, but / found the treas
g chambers Pausanias had spoken :.
as being a part of it, and in il 4
mense treasures-gold crowns, ear =
gs, bracelets and ornaments of ~
sorts. The weightof gold | found %
; over 10 pounds troy. The site
Orehomenos was unknown until ed
ound it, which / did by following th
indications given by Homer; or, p
least, my excavations have prov "a
that n city once existed on the dl
It L had fixed upon. Here / found oil
treasures in the precious metals.
found great many archeol- tic
cal relics Of all sorts and, among NJ
er things, a subterranean cham vo
almost in tact, with ceiling in ! an
ved stone that - as magnificent a pIi
cimen Of archaic art as has ever an an
q discovered. n, G