166 CONSTANTINOPLE. 
CHAP, by once more seeinsc this celebrated Mosque 
IV, 
_' was the same that we have before described'. 
There is so much of littleness and bad taste in 
the patch-work of its interior decorations, and 
of confusion in the piles and buttresses about it 
when viewed externally^, that we hardly con- 
sidered it more worth visiting than some of the 
other mosques of Constantinople ; for example, the 
superb Mosque of Sultan Solyman, or that of 
Sultan Achmed near the Hippodrome, which, al- 
though constructed contrary to the sound rules 
of architecture, is nevertheless, without excep- 
tion, the finest building the Turks ever raised'. 
" Renversez, 6 Grand Dieu, sous les p'.eds de Loiiis, 
L'orgueil des Tyrans de Bysauce, 
Qu'ils tombeut k I'^clat des foudres de la France 
Aussi-tost frappez qu'^blouis ; 
Afin qu'ayant reduit ce qui vous est rebelle, 
Et par vous et pour vous dtant victorieux, 
11 detruise I'erreur de ce peuple infidelle, 
Et fasse fleurir au lieu d'elle 
De vos divines Loix le cuite glorieux." 
Ou the other hand, the Turks in their prayers, as translated by Pall 
Lucas {Voyage en Turquie, torn. I. p. 84. Amst. 1744.), keep au 
even pace with their Chiistian enemies. " loignez, 6 grand Dieu, a 
I'oppressiou des Infidelles, la desolation, et la ruine entiere de toule& 
lews villes. Araen." 
(1) See Vol. III. of these Travels, Chap. II. Octavo Edition. 
(2) See the Vignette to this Chapter. 
(3) It is situate upon the eastern side of the Hippodrome, in the 
middle of a spacious area, which is nearly square ; and separated' 
from that part of the antient Hippodrome, now called y^t Meidan by 
the 
