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wealth of a people by the size and value of their coins,^[1] the Cebrenians must have been a very poor people, and this seems also to be confirmed by the rudeness of their pottery. But, in spite of their extreme poverty, they were far more advanced in the art of coining than even the most civilized nations of our time; nay, the fineness of the representation of the Apollo-heads, even on their smallest bronze coins, has hardly ever yet been equalled even by the best American or English gold coins.

From the Acropolis of Cebrené the traveller sees, beyond. the heights which encompass the valley of Beiramich on the north side, the islands of Imbros and Samothrace, and to the left the vast Aegean Sea, from which the pyramidal Mount Athos rises majestically in the distance.

§ VII. Results of the Explorations in 1882.—Now to recapitulate the results of my five months' Trojan campaign of 1882: I have proved that in a remote antiquity there was in the plain of Troy a large city, destroyed of old by a fearful catastrophe, which had on the hill of Hissarlik only its Acropolis, with its temples and a few other large edifices, whilst its lower city extended in an easterly, southerly, and westerly direction, on the site of the later Ilium; and that, consequently, this city answers perfectly to the Homeric description of the site of sacred Ilios. I have further once more brought to naught the pretensions of the small city on the Bali Dagh behind Bounarbashi to be the site of Troy, inasmuch as I have shown that it belongs to a much later time, and that it cannot be separated from the strongly fortified city on Eski Hissarlik, which, at a distance of only a few hundred yards from it, crowns a lofty hill on the