TO CONSTANTINOPLE. 
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hollowed ; and it now serves as a vase, near to 
the residence of the Dervish, who relates the 
idle superstitions of the country concerning the 
mountain, and the giant supposed to be there 
buried s . It is therefore evident, that a temple 
of considerable magnitude once stood in this 
situation; because the present inhabitants would 
never have been at the pains to convey such a 
mass of marble to this place®, although they may 
have thence removed all the other materials of 
the temple, by rolling them down the mountain. 
Upon this spot the author made a sketch of the 
opening into the Black Sea; shewing the European 
(5) The fables which have been related of the Giant and his sepul- 
chre had their origin in the annals of more remote history. They 
refer to the story of Amyous , king of Bithynia, (called by Valerius 
Flaccus, Argonaut, lib. iv. t'.20O. ‘the Giant.*) who was killed by Pollux, 
the son of Jupiter. His tomb is mentioned by antient authors ; and if 
tradition have preserved the memory of the place where it was situate, 
the origin of the temple will be thereby illustrated. 
(6) During a subsequent visit to the same place, the author wa3 
accompanied by Mons. Preaux, artist in the service of Mr. Spencer 
Smith, late Minister at the Porte. Mons. Preaux made a drawing of 
this Ionic capital ; which is now in Mr. Smith’s possession. Although 
the discovery of such a relic, so situate, may serve to prove the 
former existence of a temple there, it by no means necessarily follows 
that this was the temple of Jupiter Urius: the temples of Jupiter were 
generally, if not universally, constructed of the Doric order. At the 
same time, the text of Marcianus decidedly shews that Hieron was a 
name given to a whole district on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus, and 
not merely to a single temple. The temple of Jupiter Urius stood in 
the country called Hieron; as appears by the following passage of that 
author. Kut«i £«/{«»' Ii(« xx'acjuujy, iv £ yi£; 'urn Aii; Obelcu WftsxyttBo- 
pm;. Marc. Herac. p. 69. 
