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distance to the point L, only Lydian terra-cottas, such as are described in Chapter X. of Ilios, and pottery of the fifth and fourth settlements, but none at all of the three lowest cities. In the other half of the trench we found, beneath the débris of the fourth settlement, deep layers of débris of bricks falling off from the brick wall of the second citadel (N N on Plan VII.) to the east, which must have originated at a time when the second and the fourth cities had been destroyed. Of this brick wall, which here forms a tower (G M on Plan VII.), I give a detailed account in the description of the second city. Below the slanting layers of débris of bricks I found a layer of natural soil, o 50 m. deep, which had evidently been dug away from another place and had been shot here. We found this layer of natural soil on the whole south and east sides of the Acropolis: it was most likely dug up and shot here by the second settlers when they levelled the ground for the foundations of this brick wall, which, as we shall see in the following pages, belongs to the second period in the history of their town. This is the more probable, as below this natural soil we found a layer of débris of baked bricks, which seems to have been derived from the destruction of the citadel-wall of the first period, which was more to the west. Still deeper, down to the rock, we found pottery of the first and second cities.
Another of my larger works was to excavate, as far down as the house-ruins of the second city, the whole part of the earthblock D (on Plan I. in Ilios), which extends between the south-western extremity of the trench W and L (see Plan I. in Ilios). Here, too, the enormous foundations of the Hellenic or Roman edifices gave us most trouble; below them we brought to light, in regular succession, the foundations, with part of the house-walls, of the fifth, fourth, and third settlements, all of which we had unfortunately to remove. The masonry of these three cities did not differ much from each other, consisting of crude