Vol. Ill* ]}SfcellMea Cunofa. 4^ 



alfo called fi^c^J^ from its beautiful and curious 

 ftrufture. 



The Gun gate formerly called Roman gate^ 

 ,flot becaufe it leads towards the continent of 

 Romania or Thrace^ but from ^ St. R&mmm^ 

 where the lafl: Chriftian Emperor was killed 

 at the aflault which the Tvrh made to force 

 their Way into the City by it. ^ 



Kear Adriano^^le gate is a fair large Mofch 

 called Ali-^^ffa^ upon a hill accounted the high- 

 eft in the City. 



The diftance between tower and tower in 

 the upper wall to the landward may be about 

 ninety of my paces, the fpace between that 

 and the fecond wall about eighteen paces over. 



The place, where the Lyons^ Leopards^ and 

 fuch like wild creatures are kept, (where I 

 faw alfo feveral Jackalls) was formerly, as 

 the Greeh told me, a Chriftian Church dedi- 

 cated to Uctvctyicf. or the Blefled Virgin, where 

 this Verfe is ftill legible. 



There is no tide or running back of the wa- 

 ter on any fide of the JBofphorm into the black 

 Sea, as 1 fome have imagined, whofe miftake 

 might poffibly arife hence, that the wind be- 

 ing at North, and blowing hard, the current 

 fets more violently at fuch times againft the 

 feveral headlands jetting out into the chan- 

 nel, which admits of feveral turnings, and 



I Vid. Hiftoriam Poiiticam Conftantinopoleos apnd 

 Crufium in Turco-Graecia, pag* 9. 



TThis was an old error ; for thus writes Dionyfius 

 Eyzantinus in his little Book of the Bolphorus. 



