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a powerful influence in molding the people, and in inspiring them to prosecute 

 scientific investigations. 



I only wish to add, that it will afford me pleasure to assist any miners in 

 the State in securing analyses of alleged tin ore. Tin is now found in Alabama, 

 and it is probable that it also occurs in Texas, as miners generally believe. 



Very truly, John D. Parker. 



LETTER FROM SCHLIEMANN. 



Athens, January 20. — In a letter headed " The Archseological Discoveries 

 in the Levant," dated Athens, i8th ult., and published in the Times of the loth 

 inst., it is stated that "the resumption of my excavations at Hissarlik has failed 

 to develop anything confirmatory of my Ilian hypothesis, and that the famous 

 stratification of civilization which was supposed to testify to the extreme antiquity 

 of the city is shown to be untenable." The anonymous writer is evidently no 

 archseologist; moreover, he does not speak of my excavations from personal in- 

 spection, nor does he seem to have the slightest knowledge of what has been 

 written on the subject since August last. 



I excavated in 1882 for five months — namely, fropa March i till August i, 

 employing all the time 150 laborers, and aided by two of the most eminent archi- 

 tects of Europe, Mr. J. Hoffer of Vienna, and Dr. Wm. Dorpfield of Berlin, the 

 latter of v/hom superintended for four years the technical part of the excavations 

 of the German Empire at Olympia. Not only have these excavations been no 

 failure, but, on the contrary, they have yielded far more important results than 

 all my previous excavations at Hissarlik since 1870. The success of five prehis- 

 toric and two latter settlements, as given by me in "Ilios," is confirmed by my 

 architects (see Dr. Dorpfi eld's. letter in the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung of Sep-- 

 tember 29, 1882, and an extract of it in the Academy of October 14) who have, 

 however, proved to me that the enormous masses of calcined debris, which I had 

 attributed to the third city, really belong to the second city, which perished in 

 some fearful catastrophe, and which had on the hill of Hissarlik only its Perg- 

 amus, with five or six edifices of very large dimensions, while its lower city ex- 

 tended east, south and west on the plateau. 



We have excavated most carefully all the buildings of the Acropolis, among 

 which two, of very large proportions and with walls respectively i meter 45 and 

 I meter 25 thick, seem to us, for many reasons, to be temples. Nothing could 

 better prove the great antiquity of these buildings than the fact that they were 

 built of unbaked bricks, and that the walls had been baked in situ by huge mass- 

 es of wood piled upon both sides of each wall and kindled simultaneously; each 

 of these buildings has a vast vestibulum, and each of the front faces of the lateral 

 walls is provided with six vertical quadrangular beams, which stood on well- 

 polished bases, the lower part of which was preserved, though, of course, in a 

 calcined state. We, therefore, see that in these ancient Trojan temples the antoe 



