134 CONSTANTINOPLE. 
account of that edifice — Chterna maxima — Gyllius — 
Basilica — Aqueduct of the Roman Emperors — Porta 
Aurea — Description of the Wall of Thto^o^m& — Antient 
Cyclopean Walls of Byza.ntmm-' Mohammed's breach 
ly the Cannon- Gate — Chalcedon— Maiden's Castle, 
or Tower of Leander — Sinus Byzantinus — Cause of its 
erroneous appellation of The Golden Horn — Jewish 
depravity — Cyat-Khdnah -^ Marcidum Mare, 
thor's de 
parture. 
CHAP. JVJLany things conspired to detain us in Con- 
V., y. ) stantinople, from January until the beginning of 
stanc"™hat ^pnl. The rcbcl troops of Hachi Pasha then 
the7u-^'^ occupied all the district north of the city ; and 
it was necessary to wait until they retired to 
the vicinity of Yassy. A journey over-land is 
moreover impracticable, until the snow melts 
upon Mount H^mus. Add to this, the inevi- 
table consequence of ill health among English- 
Dangerous ^^w* who, iu such a climatc, venture to live too 
oSr*^^ much as they would do in their own country, 
climate, upon a meat diet with beer and wine, however 
abstemiously used. There was hardly one of 
our countrymen, then resident in the Capital, 
who did not experience occasional attacks of 
intermittent fever. The author was brought 
to the point of death by a quinsey, so alarming 
as to occasion a locked jaw ; and the disorder 
would have terminated his existence, had it 
