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nowned Arch-bijhop vjher, took the height of the P(?/^ at Con- 
Jtantinople with a brafs fextant of above 4. feet radius^ and found 
it to be but 41. degrees. 6'. but by theoblervation we made in 
our Court-yard at Per a with a very good ^^uadrant we found it 
but 40. degrees and j-g. minutes of North Latitude. 
There is no place between the Pr6i/)ow^/i and the walls of the 
City, except juit at the Seraglio-point, which may be two hun- 
dred paces in length ; where they have raifed on a platform a 
battery for great guns : but from the point to the end of the Ha- 
ven Weft, the fpace to the gates is unequal in fome places about 
twenty paces broad, in others three or tour times as many more. 
Thediftance between Confiantinople and Chalcedon upon the 
oppofite Bithynian fhore may be about three or four miles. 
In the walls are engraven the names of feveralEmperours, 
who raigned toward the declenfion of the Gr^rmw Empire, as 
T^heophilus, Michael, Bafilins , Conjiantiniis Porphyro^enitus , by 
whofe care, and at whofe expenfe the feveral breaches caufed 
in them by the Sea or by earth-quakes were repaired. 
Kumkapi or the fand gate lies toward the Pro/(>«^^ ; this the 
Greeks call in their vulgar language KoyJhcr^ht , Contofcalium ^ or 
the little fcale or landing place. Here formerly was an Arfenal 
for Gallies and other fmall veflels ; it being a convenient paf- 
fage over Sea. Over this Gate was anciently engraven a curious 
iafcriptioii ftill preferved in that excellent coUedion publifiied 
by ^ Gr uterus. - 
Jedicula K^pi.ox the Gate of the feven towers, fd called from 
its neernefs to that Acropolis , is that, I guefs, which the Greeks , 
formerly called or the Golden Gate, and by fome late^ 
Latme writers Chry/ea , in Lmtprandus ^ Care a, hy ^ mi&^keei^' 
ther of the tranfcriber or printer, for Aurea, for fo certainly 
it muftbe mended. Over this Gate was this infcription, 
Htec loca Theudojius decor at pofi. fata Tyranniy 
Aurea fedagerit, qui port am cmjlruit aura,' 
cited by in his notes upon '' Sidonim. This Gate is in 
, ,.;:.ov/ , ' ^ - ' " 
h Pag. i^^; Num. 3, / Pag, 121. 
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