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THE MOUNTAINS OF ASIA IMINOR 



on that last terrible night of destruction. 

 One instinctively looks for the gap in the 

 wall through which the wooden horse 

 was introduced (oh, crafty Ulysses!), 

 but he looks in vain. Earthenware cis- 

 terns of some 20 gallons capacity, for 

 holding oil or wine, were built into the 

 walls, while bits of iridescent glass, pieces 

 of pottery, cobblestones, and clay were 

 filled in around them. Corners of ma- 

 sonry formed by the intersection of in- 



terior walls were left standing by the ex- 

 cavators as not worth removing, and 

 these are now crowned by tufts of 

 stunted trees standing lonely to the view 

 as one looks off toward Tenedos. 



But there is still left one precious bit 

 of Homeric architecture, if the archaeolo- 

 gists are correct, raising its crown as 

 high as any of the walls of subsecjuent 

 date. It is part of a bastion facing to- 

 ward the Hill of Ilium and known as the 



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