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Chap. XI. 1872.] " ILIUM THE WINDY." 185
are drawn by two men and pushed by a third. The same
gentleman also sent me 20 wheel-barrows, so that I- now
work with 10 man-carts and 88 wheel-barrows. In addi-
tion to these I keep six more carts with horses, each of
which costs 5 francs a day, so that the total cost of my
excavations amounts to more than 400 francs (16/.) a
day. Besides battering-rams, chains, and windlasses, my
implements consist of 24 large iron levers, 108 spades, and
103 pickaxes, all of the best English manufacture. From
sunrise to sunset all are busily at work, for I have three
capital foremen, and my wife and I are always present at
the works. But for all this I do not think that I now
remove more than 400 cubic yards of dSbris in a day, for
the distance is always increasing, and in several places it
is already more than 262 feet. Besides this, the continual
hurricane from the north, which drives the dust into
our eyes and blinds us, is exceedingly disturbing. This
perpetual high wind is perhaps explained by the fact that
the Sea of Marmora, with the Black Sea behind it, is con-
nected with the iEgean Sea by a strait comparatively so
narrow. Now, as such perpetual high winds are unknown
in any other part of the world, Homer must have lived in
the Plain of Troy, otherwise he would not have so often
given to his TXios the appropriate epithet of " rfvejioeacra "
(the " windy " or " stormy"), which he gives to no other
place.
As I have already said, at a perpendicular depth of 12
meters (39J feet) below the summit of the hill (on the
site of what is probably the temple built by Lysimachus)
I have dug a platform, 102 feet broad below and 112 feet
wide at the top: it already extends to a length of 82 feet.
But to my great alarm I find that I have made it at least
5 meters (i6i feet) too high; for, in spite of the great
depth and the great distance from the declivity of the hill,
' am here still in the debris of the Greek colony, whereas
°n the northern declivity of the hill I generally reached the
are drawn by two men and pushed by a third. The same
gentleman also sent me 20 wheel-barrows, so that I- now
work with 10 man-carts and 88 wheel-barrows. In addi-
tion to these I keep six more carts with horses, each of
which costs 5 francs a day, so that the total cost of my
excavations amounts to more than 400 francs (16/.) a
day. Besides battering-rams, chains, and windlasses, my
implements consist of 24 large iron levers, 108 spades, and
103 pickaxes, all of the best English manufacture. From
sunrise to sunset all are busily at work, for I have three
capital foremen, and my wife and I are always present at
the works. But for all this I do not think that I now
remove more than 400 cubic yards of dSbris in a day, for
the distance is always increasing, and in several places it
is already more than 262 feet. Besides this, the continual
hurricane from the north, which drives the dust into
our eyes and blinds us, is exceedingly disturbing. This
perpetual high wind is perhaps explained by the fact that
the Sea of Marmora, with the Black Sea behind it, is con-
nected with the iEgean Sea by a strait comparatively so
narrow. Now, as such perpetual high winds are unknown
in any other part of the world, Homer must have lived in
the Plain of Troy, otherwise he would not have so often
given to his TXios the appropriate epithet of " rfvejioeacra "
(the " windy " or " stormy"), which he gives to no other
place.
As I have already said, at a perpendicular depth of 12
meters (39J feet) below the summit of the hill (on the
site of what is probably the temple built by Lysimachus)
I have dug a platform, 102 feet broad below and 112 feet
wide at the top: it already extends to a length of 82 feet.
But to my great alarm I find that I have made it at least
5 meters (i6i feet) too high; for, in spite of the great
depth and the great distance from the declivity of the hill,
' am here still in the debris of the Greek colony, whereas
°n the northern declivity of the hill I generally reached the