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CHAPTER XIV.
Return to Troy to take plans and photographs — Damage to retaining
walls — The unfaithfulness of the watchman — Stones carried off for
a neighbouring church and houses — Injury by rain — Works for
security during the winter — Opening up of a retaining wall on the
side of the hill, probably built to support the temple of Athena —
Supposed debris of that temple — Drain belonging to it — Doric
style of the temple proved by the block of Triglyphs — Temple of
Apollo also on the Pergamus.
Athens, September 28th, 1872.
I wrote my last memoir on the 14th of last month, and
on the 10th of this month, accompanied by my wife and
Sisilas the land-surveyor, I returned to Troy in order to
make ~a new plan of the Pergamus, which contains the most
exact picture of my excavations, as well as of the depth
in which the remains of immortal fame were discovered
by me. I also took the photographer Siebrecht from the
Dardanelles with me, in order to have photographs taken
of my excavations, of two of the four springs situated on
the north side of Ilium, of Ilium's Great Tower and the
Plain of Troy, as well as of the Hellespont as seen from
this monument.
To my horror, upon arriving there, I found that the
watchman whom I had left in charge had been faithless,
and that an immense number of large hewn stones dug
out of my excavations, with which I had erected walls in
several places in order to prevent the winter rains from
washing away the dibris which we had pulled down, had
been carried off. The man excused himself by saying that
the stones had been used for a good purpose, namely for
CHAPTER XIV.
Return to Troy to take plans and photographs — Damage to retaining
walls — The unfaithfulness of the watchman — Stones carried off for
a neighbouring church and houses — Injury by rain — Works for
security during the winter — Opening up of a retaining wall on the
side of the hill, probably built to support the temple of Athena —
Supposed debris of that temple — Drain belonging to it — Doric
style of the temple proved by the block of Triglyphs — Temple of
Apollo also on the Pergamus.
Athens, September 28th, 1872.
I wrote my last memoir on the 14th of last month, and
on the 10th of this month, accompanied by my wife and
Sisilas the land-surveyor, I returned to Troy in order to
make ~a new plan of the Pergamus, which contains the most
exact picture of my excavations, as well as of the depth
in which the remains of immortal fame were discovered
by me. I also took the photographer Siebrecht from the
Dardanelles with me, in order to have photographs taken
of my excavations, of two of the four springs situated on
the north side of Ilium, of Ilium's Great Tower and the
Plain of Troy, as well as of the Hellespont as seen from
this monument.
To my horror, upon arriving there, I found that the
watchman whom I had left in charge had been faithless,
and that an immense number of large hewn stones dug
out of my excavations, with which I had erected walls in
several places in order to prevent the winter rains from
washing away the dibris which we had pulled down, had
been carried off. The man excused himself by saying that
the stones had been used for a good purpose, namely for