GENERAL STATEMENT OF CONTENTS. 
and modern history of Rhodosto — Inhospitable appearance 
of Thrace — Thracian and Trojan Barrmvs — Eski EregH — 
Sit2iation of Perinthus — Heraclea — Inscription — Macrontl- 
chos — Curious anecdote of a Swallow — Selymbria — Roman 
marks of distance-— Crevatis — BuyAkTchekmadji — Kutchuk 
Tchekmadj'i — Arrival at Constantinople — Behaviour of the 
Populace — Soros of Atracian Marble — Pera. 
CHAP. IV. 
P. 133. 
CONSTANTINOPLE. 
Circumstances that prevented the Author' s departure — Dangerous 
influence of the climate — Unhealthy state of the English at 
Fera— Rats and Cats — Society of Vera. — Spies — Etiquette — 
Evening Assemblies — State of the Turkish Government — 
Persons who farm the Dirt of the City — Diamonds — Other 
precious stones — Vasa murrhina — Bazar for the Pataal 
Tash, or Keff-kill — Localities of this mineral — Manner of 
collecting it — Drug-market — Shops for Stationary and 
Bookbinding — Tobacconists — Tchibouque Manufactories — 
Manner of visiting the City — Last visit to Sancta Sophia — 
Further account of that edifice — Cisterna maxima — Gyllius 
— Basilica — Aqueduct of the Roman Emperors — Porta 
Aurea — Description of the JVall of Theodosius — Antient 
Cyclopean IVdlls of Byzantium — Mohammed's Breach by 
the Caranow-Ga^e— Chalcedon — Maidens Castle, or Tower 
of Leander — Sinus Byzantinus — Cause qf its erroneous 
■ appellation of The Golden Horn — Jewish depravity — Cyat- 
Kkdnah — INIarcidum Mare. 
