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- Number of workmen
- Discoveries at 2 to 4 meters deep
- Greek coins
- Remarkable terra-cottas with small stamps, probably Ex votos
- These cease, and are succeeded by the whorls
- Bones of sharks, shells of mussels and oysters, and pottery
- Three Greek Inscriptions
- The splendid panoramic view from Hissarlik
- The Plain of Troy and the heroic tumuli
- Thymbria: Mr. Frank Calvert's Museum
- The mound of Chanai Tépé
- The Scamander and its ancient bed
- Valley of the Simoïs, and ruins of Ophrynium.
On the Hill of Hissarlik, October 26th, 1871.
Since my report of the 18th I have continued the excavations with the utmost energy, with, on an average, 80 workmen, and I have to-day reached an average depth of 4 meters (13 feet). At a depth of 6 feet I discovered a well, covered with a very large stone, and filled with rubbish. Its depth I have not been able to ascertain; it belongs to the Roman period, as is proved by the cement with which the stones are joined together. Ruins of buildings, consisting of hewn stones joined or not joined by cement, I only find at about a depth of 2 meters (6½ feet). In the layers of débris between 2 and 4 meters deep (6½ to 13 feet), I find scarcely any stones, and to my delight the huge blocks of stone no longer occur at all. Medals belonging to Ilium and to the first and second centuries before Christ, and the first two centuries after Christ, as well as coins of Alexandria Troas and Sigeum, the age of which I do not know, were found almost immediately below the surface, and only in some few cases as deep as 1 meter (3¼ feet). By far the greater number of the Ilian coins bear the image of Minerva, of Faustina the elder, of Marcus Aurelius, of Faustina the younger, of