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or ' resting time' called out at once . While my workmen were eating and resting I cut out the treasure with a great knife , not without the greatest effort and the most terrible risk of my life , for the great wall of the old fortress which I had to undermine threatened every moment to fall doivn upon me . But the sight of so many objects , of which each alone is of inestimable worth

for science , made me foolhardy , and I thought of no danger . The carrying off , however , of the treasure would have been impossible without the help of my dear wife , who stood by ready to pack up the objects as I cut them out in her shawl and to take them away . "

Then follows a list of the objects . First , a great copper shield with a boss , then a copper kettle , and other copper objects , all hearing witness of the fury of the flames . Then a round bottle of the finest gold , weighing about 15 oz ., then a cup of the

same metal , weighing about 8 oz ,, and next the finest of these golden objects , a cup in thc shape of a ship , with two great handles ; on one side it has a larger , on the other a smaller mouth , out of which to drink . The use of this may have beenas an Athenian

, arclueologist believes , that the licpior might be first tasted out of the smaller mouth before offering it to any guest whom it was intended to honour , and who would drink out of the larger mouth . We pass over

Herr Schhemanns assertion that in this cup ive see Homer's A « rag a [ uj > _ KvireXXov and proceed to remark that this large golden cup , ivhich weighs rather more than 20 oz ., is cast , and that the large but not solid handles are soldered on to it . On the other handthe other golden cups and bottles are

, beaten out with the hammer . Besides these golden objects , the treasure consisted of some curious blades of beaten silver and two objects which Herr Schliemann calls silver talents . In addition to these , there were several silver cups and vases , one of

gold alloyed with 20 per cent , of silver , all showing the action of tho flames , from ivhich , however , the golden objects seem luckily to have more or less escaped . These with several copper lanccheads and knives , complete King Priam ' s treasurewith one

, or two remarkable exceptions to be mentioned presently . This mingled mass of half fused and twisted gold and silver and copper was found together in the shape of a square mass , and the precious objects

werein some cases packed inside each other ; hi which Herr Schliemann sees proof that they had all been crammed into a square wooden box , of ivhich close by he found the massive copper key , though of course the box itself had perished . His

conclusion is that some member of Priam's family packed the treasure in a chest on that awful night when Troy fell , and , having got so far as the Avail , Avas either killed or forced to drop his burden , Avhich was there and then covered Avith red ashes and ruins from

four feet and a half to six feet thick , Avhich Avere heaped in that one night of conflagration , over the site of the doA r oted city . " That , " says Herr Schliemann , " tins treasure Avas packed up hi the greatest

haste is shown by the contents of the greatest silver vase , in which I found , quite at the bottom , two splendid golden diadems , a fillet for the head , and four most gorgeous and artistic pendants for earrings . On them lay fifty-six golden earrings and 4 , 750

little golden rings , perforated prisms , and dice , together with golden buttons and other 2 Ji'ecious things ivhich belonged to other ornaments . After these came six golden bracelets , and quite at the top of all in tho silver vasethe two small golden

, cups . " These diadems were the remarkable exceptions to which ive alluded above , and with them the tale of what Herr Schliemann calls King Priam's treasure is complete .

We think that there can be no doubt but that Dr . Schliemann has found the very locale of "Ilium , " and that these interesting " souvenirs " of that famous city are incontestably Trojan . We also agree with him that in the two rivers he successfully identifies the well-known Simois and Scamander .

We do not , however , feel bound to agree with Dr . Schliemann as to all his conclusions , some of ivhich are probably contestable and certainl y immature . Even supposing that he is correct in asserting that the whole of

Troy which has been excavated ( he has himself excavated two-thirds ) makes Troy to be less , than we understood it to be by Homer ' s description , it has yet to be proved that the poet is substantially wrong . Troy may have been the great