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are two edifices on the north side, of which we shall call the larger one A, the smaller one B. The layer of calcined ruins and débris, which, as I have stated, is in general but insignificant in the second city and frequently only 0.20 m. deep, is in these two edifices considerably deeper, but only for the reason that the brick walls of A are 1.45 m. thick, those of B 1.25 m., and consequently these walls could not be so easily destroyed, and necessarily produced a much larger quantity of débris. The part of the walls of these edifices still standing is 1.50 m. high.
To the edifice A belong the three blocks of bricks marked H on Plan III. in Ilios, in which my former collaborator, M. Burnouf, had erroneously seen the remains of the great city wall. These two large edifices of the second, the burnt city, are most probably temples: we infer this in the first place from their ground plan, because they have only one hall in the breadth; secondly, from the proportionately considerable thickness of the walls; thirdly, from the circumstance, that they stand parallel and near each other, being only separated by a corridor 0.50 m. broad; for if they had been dwelling-houses they would probably have had one common wall—a thing never found yet in ancient temples. Both are built of bricks, which—like the above-mentioned fortification-wall of the second city—have only been baked after the walls had been completely built up. The ground being level here, the walls could be baked both on the exterior and interior sides, but the effect of the fire of the wood-piles simultaneously kindled on both sides of the walls was further considerably increased by the holes which had been provided in them in all directions. Some of these holes go right through the wall; others, which may rather be called grooves, are arranged lengthwise in the external sides of the walls, as represented by the woodcut No. 20. In the temple A they may be seen on the external sides of the wall in each fourth course of bricks, in such a manner that the lowest groove was immediately