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Primitive Greece : Mvcenian Art. The position of Hissarlik and the ruins it carries have been amply described ; hence there is no occasion for going into any great detail for the present. It is hard to grasp how Tshiblak could ever have entered into the debate. The village rises on the slope of the plateau, some three kilometres from the Scamander, its back is turned to the sea, e.g. to the north, and from it a side view only of the valley can be obtained. A town situated at this point could only have been approached by climbing steepy slopes, for which there is no authority in the narrative of the Epic, where the battles are described as perpetu- ally surging from (iie plain up to the walls of the beleaguered city. We may, then, rule Tshiblak out of court.' ^ Dr. E. D. Clarke {Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa, London 1812), and after him P. Barker Webb {Topographie de la Troade, Paris 1844), tried to show that the Homeric city had been in the neighbourhood of Tshiblak. !n looking over my notes (July 1856), taken during my first visit to the Troad, I find the following : " Webb places Troy south-east of Tshiblak Kioi, at a point which on his map looks like an isolated bill. It is not so in reality ; the plateau is connected with that of Novum Ilium by slightly undulated ground,