lies in the bottom of a bay about fourfcore miles homCori' 
fiantimple,9,nd is the fcale or landing place for Prufafiom 
which it may be about twelve miles; in the middle way 
to which is thtV illsLge Mouffanpoula. 
' Prufa, now called by the TurJ^ Burjia, the cheif City 
of Bithynia, is feated at the foot partly, and partly upon 
the rifing of the mount Olympus, which is one of the high- 
eft hills of the leffer Afia. Its top is covered with fnow 
for nine or ten months of the year, feveral ftreams of wa- 
ter flowing down the hill continually, accounted very 
unwholefome from the fnow mixed with it. In the up- 
per part of the City to the northweft lyes the Seraglio, 
which is walled round:,- but the Emperors not refiding 
here fince their acquifts m Thrace, or fcarce making vifits 
to thislmperial City, and none of their Ions living here 
of late, according to the former policy of the Turkjjh 
fimperors, who did not permit their fons, when grown 
up, to be near them, but lent them to fome honourable 
emploiment, accompanied with a Bafla and Cadi to in- 
ftruil them in the arts of War and Government^ it lyes 
now negleded and difpoyled of all its ornaments. 
In this part alfo are the Sepulchers of 6^yw^w, the found- 
er of the family, which now reigns, and \i\s{onVrchan, 
who took the City, near a Mofch, formerly a Chr?ftian 
Church dedicated to St. John, and where was formerly a 
Convent of Religious, built by Conflantinus Iconomachus ^ 
where I faw the figure of a Cro sftill remaining upon the 
wall* HerehangsupaDrumm of avaftbignels, fuch as 
they carry upon the backs of Camels, and I fuppole is one 
of thofe, which they ufed in the taking of the place. 
In the lower part, near the bottom of .the hill, Mora 
the fecorid, the Father oi Mahomet the Qreat^ lyes buried : 
near wheteunto was formerly the .MetrOpblitical Church 
of tht Holy Jpoftles. The Be^eften, or Exchange feems 
to be much better and larger than the great one at Con- 
fiantmople, as are the feveral Caravanferais built for the 
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