178 CONSTANTINOPLE. 
CHAP, of those also by whom it was dismantled'." 
IV. "^ 
^ -,, > There are now no suburbs on the land side. 
Af>ham- The breach made in the tuall on this side, by 
Breach hy Mohammeci, at the capture of the city in 1453, 
Gate*"""" niay undoubtedly be pointed out. It is par- 
ticularly conspicuous near to a gate which 
occurs before arriving at the Gate of Adria- 
nople, in going from the Heptapyrgium towards 
the Bay of the Golden Horn. This gate is 
now called Top Kapou, or Cannon-Gate ; 
the words Kapou, and Kapoussi, signifying no- 
thing more than a gate or place of entrance ; as 
Selivri Kapoussi, the Gate of Selivrea; Yeni 
Kapoussi, the New Gate, &c.* And, as if 
Providence had designed that the hand of 
Nature should point out to future ages the place 
whence its dreadful visitation was poured upon 
this devoted city, trees of the most venerable 
age, self-sown, in the breach, have here taken 
root, and serve to mark the spot where the 
last of the Palceologi gloriously fell. Of eight- 
teen gates that once existed on this side of 
(1) "Et< yovv xiu ¥vy roc, fjtitoyru. ahrtu i^umx za) Xf/'v^ara Hifri, 
6avfAd,X,'.iv Ifl-Ti xa} Tti» Te;^;v»v rSiv t«v a^x^'' »aTa(r*tt/a«-a»Ta», xa) rnn ifX't' 
ruv lari^ov Kufrt^tiKOTaii. Herodian. in Sever, Hist, lib, iii. 
(5) See the Chart of Constantinople, by Kanffer, at engraved for this 
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