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322 TROY AND ITS REMAINS. [Chap. XXIII.
Troy, June 17th, 1873.
Since my report of the 10th of last month I have been
especially anxious to hasten the great excavation on the
north-west side of the hill, and for this purpose I have made
a deep cutting on the west side also, in which, unfortunately,
I came obliquely upon the enclosing wall of Lysimachus,
which is 13 feet high and 10 feet thick. I was therefore
compelled to break out from this wall a double quantity of
stones in order to gain an entrance ; but I again came upon
the ruins of colossal buildings of the Hellenic and pre-
Hellenic periods, so that this excavation can only proceed
slowly. Here, at a distance of 69 feet from the declivity
of the hill, at a depth of 20 feet, I met with an ancient
enclosure 5 feet high, and with a projecting battlement. It
is not connected with the wall which runs out from the
Soean Gate in a north-westerly direction, and, on account of
its very different structure and small height, it must belong
to a post-Trojan period. In any case, however, it is much
older than the Greek colony, because it is built of stones
and earth, and because I found by the side of it several
marble idols of the tutelar goddess of Ilium. I am, un-
fortunately, obliged to break down a portion of this wall to
a length of 17J feet, in order to proceed further, but I have
left standing nearly 8 feet of the part I have excavated,
so that the wall may be examined. Behind it I found a
level place paved partly with large flags of stone, partly
with stones more or less hewn, and after this a wall of
fortification 20 feet high and 5 feet thick, built of large
stones and earth ; it runs below my wooden house, but
6i feet above the Trojan city wall which proceeds from
the Scasan Gate.
In the new large excavation on the north-west side,
which is connected with the one I have just been describing,
I have convinced myself that the splendid wall of large
hewn stones, which I uncovered in April 1870, belongs to
Troy, June 17th, 1873.
Since my report of the 10th of last month I have been
especially anxious to hasten the great excavation on the
north-west side of the hill, and for this purpose I have made
a deep cutting on the west side also, in which, unfortunately,
I came obliquely upon the enclosing wall of Lysimachus,
which is 13 feet high and 10 feet thick. I was therefore
compelled to break out from this wall a double quantity of
stones in order to gain an entrance ; but I again came upon
the ruins of colossal buildings of the Hellenic and pre-
Hellenic periods, so that this excavation can only proceed
slowly. Here, at a distance of 69 feet from the declivity
of the hill, at a depth of 20 feet, I met with an ancient
enclosure 5 feet high, and with a projecting battlement. It
is not connected with the wall which runs out from the
Soean Gate in a north-westerly direction, and, on account of
its very different structure and small height, it must belong
to a post-Trojan period. In any case, however, it is much
older than the Greek colony, because it is built of stones
and earth, and because I found by the side of it several
marble idols of the tutelar goddess of Ilium. I am, un-
fortunately, obliged to break down a portion of this wall to
a length of 17J feet, in order to proceed further, but I have
left standing nearly 8 feet of the part I have excavated,
so that the wall may be examined. Behind it I found a
level place paved partly with large flags of stone, partly
with stones more or less hewn, and after this a wall of
fortification 20 feet high and 5 feet thick, built of large
stones and earth ; it runs below my wooden house, but
6i feet above the Trojan city wall which proceeds from
the Scasan Gate.
In the new large excavation on the north-west side,
which is connected with the one I have just been describing,
I have convinced myself that the splendid wall of large
hewn stones, which I uncovered in April 1870, belongs to