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In spite of the most eager researches, we have not been able to find out the course of the wall c on the north-east side. But, from the direction of the layers of débris in the trench S S, my architects ascertained with certainty, that the older Acropolis-wall of the second city lay more to the west than the prolongation of the later wall b, and consequently the new citadel wall was intended for extending the Acropolis on the east side. We have further brought to light in a southerly and easterly direction the wall b, which, as above mentioned, belongs to the second period of the second city. All the walls of the first period of the second city are marked on Plan VII. by a black tint, those of the second period have a red colouring. I give under No. 15 (p. 55), a view of the continuation of the wall (see Plan VII., OZ), on the west side of the south-west gate. Here it is built at an ascending angle of 60°; it has a slanting height of 9 mètres, and a perpendicular height of 7.50 m. On the north side, this substruction of the great Acropolis-wall consisted of much larger blocks, some of which were as much as 1 mètre in ength and breadth. But I had to destroy it on this side in 1872, in excavating my great northern trench. The course of the whole Acropolis-wall formed a regular rectilinear polygon, the projecting corners of which were fortified with towers. These towers stood, approximately, at equal distances of a little more than 50 mètres; in which measure we must certainly recognize the number of 100 ancient Trojan cubits, though the precise length of the Trojan cubit is unknown to us. From the analogy of the oriental and the Egyptian cubit it may, however, be fixed at a little more than 0.50 m. I call particular attention to the fact, that on this computation the gate RC and FM is exactly 10 cubits broad; the vestibulum of the edifice A, precisely 20 cubits both in length and breadth. The form of the projecting towers cannot now be exactly determined, there being only left on the east, south, south-west, and west sides, some remains