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TROY AND ITS REMAINS.
[Appendix.
revealed, had been called of old. No one whose opinion
was worth regarding disputed their very high antiquity,
which implied the great age of the objects found. Apart
even from its traditional claim to be the Ilium of Homer,
the site lay in the track of the primitive migrations of
the Indo-European race from their cradle in the East to
their settlements in the West; and not of one migration
only, but of their passage to and fro between the shores of
Asia and of Europe ; as well as upon the path of their com-
merce and military expeditions, after they were settled in their
homes. For, lest we be misled by the arbitrary distinction
between the continents, which is stereotyped in the names
of Asia and Europe—that is, East and West—it must be
borne in mind that the Hellespont and Bosporus (as the
latter name expresses) were ferries rather than sundering
seas, and the islands of the yEgean were stepping-stones.
The close affinities of the early settlers on both shores had
long since been proved; and, in particular, the presence of
the great Pelasgo-Hellenic or Graeco-Italic family had been
traced on both. The very ancient habitation of the north-
western parts of Asia Minor by the Ionians—the oriental
name of the whole Hellenic race—long before their tradi-
tional colonization from the peninsula of Hellas—had been
maintained by Ernst Curtius twenty years ago,* and more
fully established by recent Egyptologers f—thus confirming
the most ancient ethnic record, that the Isles of the Gentiles
were divided among the families of the Sons of Javan.%
* Curtius, Die lonier vor der Wanderung, Berlin, 1855.
t Chabas, Etudes sur I'Antiquite historique, Paris, 1872, p. 190.
% Genesis x. 4, 5. The essential letters of the Hebrew name (|*
are identical with the Greek ION (Ion), and both are equivalent to the
Yavanas, the " younger race " of the old Aryan traditions, who migrated
to the West, while the elder branch remained in the East. On the
whole subject the Editor may be permitted to refer to the Students
Ancient History of the East, especially to Chapter XX., on the Nations
of Asia Minor, which contains a discussion of the Hellenic affinities of
the Phrygians and Trojans in particular.
[Appendix.
revealed, had been called of old. No one whose opinion
was worth regarding disputed their very high antiquity,
which implied the great age of the objects found. Apart
even from its traditional claim to be the Ilium of Homer,
the site lay in the track of the primitive migrations of
the Indo-European race from their cradle in the East to
their settlements in the West; and not of one migration
only, but of their passage to and fro between the shores of
Asia and of Europe ; as well as upon the path of their com-
merce and military expeditions, after they were settled in their
homes. For, lest we be misled by the arbitrary distinction
between the continents, which is stereotyped in the names
of Asia and Europe—that is, East and West—it must be
borne in mind that the Hellespont and Bosporus (as the
latter name expresses) were ferries rather than sundering
seas, and the islands of the yEgean were stepping-stones.
The close affinities of the early settlers on both shores had
long since been proved; and, in particular, the presence of
the great Pelasgo-Hellenic or Graeco-Italic family had been
traced on both. The very ancient habitation of the north-
western parts of Asia Minor by the Ionians—the oriental
name of the whole Hellenic race—long before their tradi-
tional colonization from the peninsula of Hellas—had been
maintained by Ernst Curtius twenty years ago,* and more
fully established by recent Egyptologers f—thus confirming
the most ancient ethnic record, that the Isles of the Gentiles
were divided among the families of the Sons of Javan.%
* Curtius, Die lonier vor der Wanderung, Berlin, 1855.
t Chabas, Etudes sur I'Antiquite historique, Paris, 1872, p. 190.
% Genesis x. 4, 5. The essential letters of the Hebrew name (|*
are identical with the Greek ION (Ion), and both are equivalent to the
Yavanas, the " younger race " of the old Aryan traditions, who migrated
to the West, while the elder branch remained in the East. On the
whole subject the Editor may be permitted to refer to the Students
Ancient History of the East, especially to Chapter XX., on the Nations
of Asia Minor, which contains a discussion of the Hellenic affinities of
the Phrygians and Trojans in particular.