slope west of it, all of which are indicated on Plan VIII.; in all of them I obtained the same results.
I also excavated the tumuli at the foot of Cape Sigeum attributed to Achilles and Patroclus, the tomb of Protesilaus[1] on the opposite shore of the Thracian Chersonesus, as well as the three tumuli on the high headland above In Tepeh. I excavated on the site of the small city, which I believe to be Gergis, on Mount Bali Dagh above Bounarbashi; in the ancient city called Eski Hissarlik opposite those heights, on the eastern bank of the Scamander, and further north-east in the ancient ruins on the Fulu Dagh or Mount Dedeh. I further excavated in the ancient cities on Mount Kurshunlu Tepeh[2] near Beiramich, at the foot of the range of Ida. I went thither on the 1st of July, accompanied by four mounted gendarmes, the Turkish delegate Moharrem Effendi, two workmen, who carried the baggage and the implements for excavating on pack-horses, and two servants, one of whom was Nicolaos.
We went by way of Chiblak, through the plain of Troy, to Bounarbashi. About a mile south of Chiblak, we passed four solitary columns of grey granite, which by their position form a regular quadrangle, about 100 m. long by 40 m. broad. These columns have often been mistaken by travellers for the remains of a large ancient temple, whilst in reality they mark the site of a comparatively recent Turkish sheep-fold or stable for sheep, to which they served as corners; they must have been brought hither from the lower city of Ilium, where similar granite columns abound. On a small hill close to Bounarbashi, and on the north-east side of it, we saw a number of similar granite columns, of which four also form a regular quadrangle; these columns have often been mistaken by
