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134 TROY AND ITS REMAINS. [Chap. IX.
If it reaches to or even approaches the primary soil, then
I shall reverently preserve it. (See No. 25 on Plan II.)
It is a very remarkable fact, that this is the first wall built
of large stones that 1 have hitherto found at the depth
of from 10 to 16 meters (33 to 524 feet).* I cannot
explain this, considering the colossal masses of loose stones
which lie irregularly beside one another (especially at a
depth of from 36 to 524 feet), in any other way than by
supposing that the houses of the Trojans were built of
blocks of limestone joined with clay, and consequently easily
destroyed. If my excavations are not interrupted by any
accident, I hope, in this at all events, to make some interest-
ing discoveries very soon, with respect to this question.
Unfortunately during the last twelve days I have not
been able to pull down much of the lower firm earth-wall,
for, in order to avoid fatal accidents, I have had to occupy
myself especially in making and enlarging the side terraces.
I have now, however, procured enormous iron levers of
nearly 10 feet in length and 6 inches in circumference,
and I thus hope henceforth to be able at once to break
down, by means of windlasses, the hardest of the earth-
walls, which are 10 feet thick, 66 broad, and from 16 to
26 feet high. In the small portion of the earth-wall pulled
down during these last days, I repeatedly found the most
irrefutable proofs of a higher civilization ; but I will only
mention one of these, a fragment of a brilliant dark grey
vessel which I have at present lying before me, found at a
depth of 15 meters (49 feet). It may probably have been
nearly 2 feet in diameter, and it has decorations both outside
and inside, which consist of engraved horizontal and undu-
lating lines. The former are arranged in three sets in
stripes of five lines, and the lowest space is adorned with
eight and the following with five undulating lines, which
are probably meant to represent the waves of the sea ; of the
That is, belonging to the lowest stratum.
If it reaches to or even approaches the primary soil, then
I shall reverently preserve it. (See No. 25 on Plan II.)
It is a very remarkable fact, that this is the first wall built
of large stones that 1 have hitherto found at the depth
of from 10 to 16 meters (33 to 524 feet).* I cannot
explain this, considering the colossal masses of loose stones
which lie irregularly beside one another (especially at a
depth of from 36 to 524 feet), in any other way than by
supposing that the houses of the Trojans were built of
blocks of limestone joined with clay, and consequently easily
destroyed. If my excavations are not interrupted by any
accident, I hope, in this at all events, to make some interest-
ing discoveries very soon, with respect to this question.
Unfortunately during the last twelve days I have not
been able to pull down much of the lower firm earth-wall,
for, in order to avoid fatal accidents, I have had to occupy
myself especially in making and enlarging the side terraces.
I have now, however, procured enormous iron levers of
nearly 10 feet in length and 6 inches in circumference,
and I thus hope henceforth to be able at once to break
down, by means of windlasses, the hardest of the earth-
walls, which are 10 feet thick, 66 broad, and from 16 to
26 feet high. In the small portion of the earth-wall pulled
down during these last days, I repeatedly found the most
irrefutable proofs of a higher civilization ; but I will only
mention one of these, a fragment of a brilliant dark grey
vessel which I have at present lying before me, found at a
depth of 15 meters (49 feet). It may probably have been
nearly 2 feet in diameter, and it has decorations both outside
and inside, which consist of engraved horizontal and undu-
lating lines. The former are arranged in three sets in
stripes of five lines, and the lowest space is adorned with
eight and the following with five undulating lines, which
are probably meant to represent the waves of the sea ; of the
That is, belonging to the lowest stratum.