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that the Boffhorus was fro!zen over in the time 

 of Achmed^ and that a Hare was courfed over 

 it. It hapned thus, that upon a thaw huge 

 cakes bf Ice came floating down the Danube 

 into the black Sea, and were driven by the 

 current into the Bofphorus^ whereupon the re- 

 turn of the froft, they were fixed fo hard that 

 it became paflable. In the year 1669 there 

 was Ice in the Haven to the great amazement 

 of the Turks ^ and fome were fo frighted at 

 this unufual accident, that they look't upon 

 it as a difmal prodigy, and concluded, that 

 the World would be at an end that Year^ 

 The jiguglia or Obelisk in the Hippodrome is 

 betwixt fifty and fixty Foot high. 



The Hiftorical Pillar in bajfo relievo^ raifed 

 in honour of the Emperors Arcadius and 

 norius^ may be in height about an hundred 

 feven and forty feet. 



Alexim Comnenm lies buried in the Patriar- 

 chal Church againft the wall, and his daugh* 

 ter Anna Comnena^ the Hiftorian, who lived 

 about the year of Chrift 1 1 1 7. They pretend 

 to fliew there the reliques of St. Anaftafia^ 

 whofufFeredMartyrdom under the Emperor 

 Valerianus^ and of St. Euphemia^ Virgin and 

 Martyr, who loft her life moft glorioufly for 

 ChriJFls holy religion at Chakedon unde DtO" 

 clefian. 



In Sancla Sophia th^re are pillars lb great,that 

 a Man can fcarce fathom them at twice. At . 

 the end of the Gallery, that joins the other 

 two, each about thirty of my paces wide, 

 there is a piece of tranfparent Marble, two 

 or three Inches thick. In the Korth gallery 

 upon the Pavement is a reddifli fort of a Mar- 

 ble 



