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have formed one whole, for they are built opposite each other on lofty heights rising almost perpendicularly from the river, and in this situation they completely dominated the road which leads from the valley of the Scamander into the interior of Asia Minor.

§ III. Excavations on the Fulu Dagh, or Mount Dedeh.—I also explored the ancient settlement on a hill called Fulu Dagh or Mount Dedeh,^[1] about 1½ mile to the northeast of Eski Hissarlik, where I found, at a distance of about fifty mètres from each other, two concentric circles of fortification walls, of which the inner is sixty mètres in diameter; but all the walls have fallen and are shapeless heaps of ruins. I found there only some very rude unglazed and unpainted wheel-made pottery, which is thoroughly baked and has a dull-red brick colour. As before mentioned, a very similar rude red pottery occurs also in the débris of Ilium below the Macedonian stratum; we may, therefore, probably be right in attributing to it the same age which we found for the coarse, almost unbaked, wheel-made pottery of the Bali Dagh. This is the more likely, as I found among the Fulu Dagh terra-cottas a certain number of fragments of the latter kind. The altitude of the Fulu Dagh is 68 m.

§ IV. Ruins on the Kurshunlu Tepeh.—As before mentioned, I also explored the Kurshunlu Tepeh, which means "leaden hill," and is situated on the right bank of the Scamander, at a short distance from Mount Ida. At the foot of the Kurshunlu Tepeh lies the miserable Turkish village of Oba Kioi (altitude 244 mètres). In the walls of the village houses may be seen well-wrought marble slabs and fragments of Doric entablatures. The summit of Kurshunlu Tepeh has an altitude of 345 mètres,