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the twelfth Regionj and wa.^ alio called e^r^r^e from its beaotifat 
and curious ftriiitiire. 
The Gun gate formerly called- gate » not becaufe-it 
leads towards the continent of ot Th -ac&^ bot from 
^Sv^omantis.whtXQ. the laftXiidftiaE Emperor v/as killed at 
theaflault, which the T^^r.^x made to force their way iato the 
City by it. " . 
Near Adrianople gate is a fair large MeJ?/^ called JM-haJfa^ 
upon a hill accounted the higheft 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 v/ali about ' eighteen paces 
over. 
The place, where the Lyons, Leopards , and.fuch like wild 
creatures are kept, ( where I faw alfo feveral Jack^.is) v/as 
formerly, as the Greeks told me, a Chrittian Church dedica- - 
ted to iifir/fii^/ci or theBieffed Virgin, wlieie this- verfe is ftiil le- 
gible , 
There is no tide or running back of the water on any fide of 
the Bofporus into the black Sea, as' ^ fome have imagined, whofe 
miftake might poffibly arife hence , that the wind being at 
North", and blowing hard, the current fets more violently at 
fuch times againft the feveral headlands jetting out into the 
channel, which admits of feveral turnings, aodfo the waters 
are forced back to fome little diftance: or elfe becaufe v/hen 
the South-wind frefhens and grows boifterous, it makes a high 
rolling Sea in the Propontts zndi Bofporus , and being contrary 
to the current, gives a check to it, fo that it becomes lefs ien- 
fible, and is eafily ftemmed. Where it is narroweft, the di- 
ftance feems to the eye to be fcarce a mile over from one fhcre 
to another^ where broadeft, not much above a mile and a 
halfe, unlefs where it runs into the deep bay es, which by rea- 
foil of their fliallov/nefs only harbour boats. 
K Vid. Hiftoriam Politicam Conftantinopoleos apud Crufium in Turco-Gra.'rii-^ v^as- 9. 
/ This was an old error ; for thus writes Diony^ius Byz.antinus in his lirrle \-^oek oi . -e 
Z z ' The 
