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III SanBa Sophia there are pillars fo great, that a man can 
fcarce fathom them at twice. At the end of the Gallery, that 
joy ns the other two, each about thirty of my paces wide, there 
is a piece of tranfparent Marble, two or three Jnches thick. In 
the North gallery upon the pavement is a reddifli fort of a mar- 
ble ftone, brought, as the Turks and Chrijiians relate, from 'Pale- 
jiine^ on which they fable, that the Blefled Virgin ufed to waili 
the linnen of our Saviour. 
I obferved but one ftep from the body of the Church to the 
'Bema or place where the Altar formerly fioode 
^r:Q,2it Mo [ch 2X Chafim-ba^a oil F era to the weft was 
formerly a Church dedicated to St. Theodojia. 
Gianghir^ a Mofch fo called upon a hill at Fondaclee'nt^t Top- 
hana. 
In Conflantinople there are feveral narrow ftreets of trade , 
clofedup with fheds and pent-houfes, which I fuppofe were in 
ufe before the Greeks loft their Empire^ and are the fame with 
t\\t <TU7:^<^t }{cf2 (p^c^M J)>o^i in Chryfalorm his Epiftle. But be- 
fides thefe places, feveral trades have their diftant quarters. The 
ftreets are raifed for the moft part on each fide for the greater 
convenience. 
Not far from Suleimania is the houfe of the Jga or Gene- 
ral of the ^ani'^aries^ which fo often changes its matters. 
Fotnpeys pillar, as the Franks erroneoufly call it, is of the Cq- 
rinthian order, curioufly wrought, about eighteen foot in 
height and three in diameter. 
Bejhiktajh , a village within three or four miles of Confiantwo- 
J?/^ towards the Bofporm^ where liesburyed the famous pyrate 
Ariadin,yf]\om the Chrijiian writers call Barbarojfa, who built 
here a handfome Mofch, having two rows of pillars at the en- 
trance. The Captain Bapi ufually, before he puts to fea with 
hisArmataof Gallies, vifits the Tomb of this fortunate robber, 
who had made feveral thoufand Chrifiians Haves, and makes his 
prayers at the neighbouring Church for the good fuccefe of his 
expedition. 
m Pag. 119. 
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