CHAPTER XI.

_On the Hill of Hissarlik, July 13th, 1872._

Increase of men and machinery and cost on the works: but slow progress--Continued hurricane on “the windy Ilium” (Ἴλιος ἠνεμόεσσα)--The great platform proves too high--New cutting--Excavation of the temple--Objects found--Greek statuettes in terra-cotta--Many whorls with 卐 and suns--Wheel-shaped whorls with simple patterns in the lowest strata--Terra-cotta balls with suns and stars--Use of the whorls as amulets or coins discussed--Little bowls, probably lamps--Other articles of pottery--Funnels--A terra-cotta bell--Various beautiful terra-cottas--Attempts at forgery by the workmen--Mode of naming the men--The springs in front of Ilium--Question of Homer’s hot and cold spring--Course of the Simoïs--The tomb of Batiea or Myrina identified with the Pacha Tépé--Theatre of Lysimachus--Heat and wind--Plague of insects and scorpions--Konstantinos Kolobos, a native genius without feet 184