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Troy. 211 uncovered by Schliemann in 1873, has had the attention of the world drawn to it, because the explorer identified it with the "palace of Priam" (Figs. 58, 59). But if the mythical cycle of which Troy is the centre may be evoked in connection with Hissarlik, we shall presently show that it is rather referable to the second city than the earliest village ; it is quite possible, how- ever, that these ruins are what remains of the chiefs house who, a century mayhap after what we would willingly call the sack Fig. 58. — View or Ihe principal edifice of (he third of Troy, ruled over the population established on this spot. The plan of its main apartments, in all essentials, is that of buildings in which we have recognized a. lordly mansion. Like these, it has a vestibule four metres twenty-three centimetres deep by nine metres ten centimetres wide, opening into a hall, in length eleven metres fifty-five centimetres. To the right of this vast apartment appear traces as of foundations ; are these some sort of stylobate, and was the hall, inside, divided into three naves by a double row of columns ? The marks left on the ground are too evanescent to permit us to dogmatize on