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 THE TROJAN PLAIN OF HOMERIC STORY, LOOKING NORTHWEST FROM TROY TOWARD 



THE DARDANELLES 



"Wall of Priam." It was meant to stand 

 throughout the ages, whoever was its 

 builder, and one ardently wishes to give 

 the credit for its construction to those 

 times. It is a noble wall, well pointed, 

 well laid, well preserved, capable yet of 

 withstanding such assaults as when 



"Ajax strives some stone's vast weight to 



throw." 



From its corner overlooking the plain 

 of Simois an outside stairway descends 



toward the river, possiblv a later feature. 

 Could this have been the corner of the 

 wall where stood the Screan Gate ; where 

 the venerable Father Priam brought the 

 beautiful Helen in order to show her the 

 enemy, her own countrymen and kindred, 

 on the plain below ; where heppinted out 

 the leaders, naming them individually? — 

 "and there is iMenelaus, thy former hus- 

 band." It may well have been the same, 

 and romance at least will have it so. 



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