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of the tower-like spurs (G M, o w, O, p, and p w on Plan VII.), on which the towers proper stood, but probably most of them were quadrangular.

I may mention here that the wall of the Homeric Troy was likewise provided with numerous towers.^[1] With the exception of the wall c, we found all these substruction walls still crowned with brick walls, more or less preserved, and we may assume with certainty that all of these belonged to the second city, and that they had merely been repaired by the third settlers. This appears the more certain, as on the east side the brick wall of the second city is for the most part in an admirable state of preservation, and still about 2.50 m. high. The third settlers, consequently, needed only to repair the upper part of the destroyed Acropolis-wall in some places, in order to be able to use the wall again. For this reason we may consider it also certain, that the great treasure found by me at the place Δ,^[2] at the end of May 1873, was contained in the brick-débris of the second city; the more so as, by excavating the substruction wall to its foundations, we have brought to light, precisely in this place, a tower of the second city (p on Plan VII.). It is even possible that the brick-débris, in which the great treasure was found, was the real brick wall. I call particular attention to the fact, that for a layman it is next to impossible to distinguish what is Trojan brick-débris and what Trojan brick-masonry, and thus it may be that what I called "red and calcined ruins" was really a brick wall. Nay, it is even in the highest degree probable that the whole space between the western city wall (O Z on Plan VII.) and the large house of the third settlement, marked H S, (which, on account of the wealth found near