Anniversary Address. XXXV. 
To state it shortly, he claimed to have discovered the remains of 
five cities, one above another, the second from the bottom being the 
city described by Homer, and the fifth being the Greek city known as 
Ilium, built shortly after the founding of Rome. He admitted that 
the ruins of the fire-destroyed city which he identified with Troy, 
hardly corresponded with the palaces “ with polished corridors 
adorned,” described in the Iliad, but replied that the destruction took 
place long before Homer was born, and the description was added to 
by tradition and poetic license, The same spots were investigated 
last September by Mr. Jebb, Professor of Greek at the Glasgow 
University, and formerly Public Orator at Cambridge, and he has 
come to the conclusion that Dr. Schliemann’s view—that he has dis- 
covered the very City of Priam, and proved that the Iliad was based 
upon real facts; that [ium did really exist, and that Homer, even 
although he exaggerates, nevertheless sings of events that actually 
happened— must be definitely abandoned. 
He admits, however, that the ruins of the five cities described by 
Schliemann exist ; that one, or perhaps two of them, represents the 
Greek Colony of Ilium, and that the earliest, or possibly the earliest 
two—if we may distinguish between the city destroyed by fire and an 
earlier settlement—dates from pre-Hellenic times; that this may have 
been the town the siege of which gave rise to the poetic legend of 
Homer. But he contends that neither the ruins themselves, nor the 
surroundings, correspond with the poet’s description ; and arrives at 
the somewhat unsatisfactory conclusion, “ that the Homeric data are 
essentially irreconcilable with each other, being, in fact, derived partly 
from Bunárbashi, and partly from Hissarlik.” He adds that, in his 
belief, * Bunárbashi was the place where the oldest legends or lays, 
local to the Troad, placed Troy,” and that “ Hissarlik may have been 
the centre around which poets of the Ionian epic school grouped 
incidents or traits which they added të the original nucleus.” 
I may remark, however, that this is just the opposite to the order 
in which legends would seem likely to grow. I should rather have 
expected that the story would have been originally told about the city 
which was burnt, and afterwards, when the site was forgotten, have 
been transferred to some neighbouring locality where the surroundings 
are more imposing or romantic. 
It must, at any rate, be admitted, that the discoveries of Dr, 
Schliemann, both in the way of ruined walls and buildings which he 
has found, and of pottery, jewellery, wrought metals, and armour 
which he has collected, are amongst the most valuable of the many 
additions that have been made in recent years to our knowledge of 
archeology, although he has probably gone too far in identifying the 
