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Constantinople, only seven are now remaining. The chap. 
site of the two temples erected by Justinian^ as 
safe-guards of the city^; one towards the PrO' 
pontis, and the other where the wall joins the 
Port) may still be ascertained, by their remains: 
but these have almost disappeared. Nearly 
opposite to the Heptapyrgium there is a fountain^ 
still held sacred by the Greeks^ and called 
Balucli, which marks the spot formerly occupied 
by the Church of the Firgin Mary. 
Our other rambles served to fill our journals 
with many notes, which we shall not introduce, 
because they relate to objects often described 
by former travellers *. We visited the site of 
(3) Vide Proco;)/uni, lib.i. de ^dijiciis Justinian, torn. II. cap. 5. 
p. 16. Paris, 1663. 
(4) The Reader is particularly referred to all that Gyllius has 
written upon the subject of Constantinople and its environs. (De 
Bosp. Thrac. et De Tnpog. Constantinop. apud Gronov. Thesaur. 
Grac. Antiq. iW. VI. L. Bat. 1699.) Gyllius was sent by the 
French Government, under Francis the First, into the Levant, to 
collect MSS.; where, being forgotten by its Ministers, he was in 
danger of starving, and enlisted himself into the Turkish service. 
Afterwards he fled to Rome, and published his Travels. The 
valuable work of the French architect Grelot, (r«?t'.?, I68O,) will 
be particularly useful, for its account of the Mosques, and for views 
of these buildings; also the Travels of Piefro Della Valle, 
{T'iaggt, ^c. Roma, 1662. 4 torn, in 4to.) and the Iniperium Orientnle 
of Anselm Banduri, (2 torn, folio, Paris, 1711.) Among more 
recent publications, the useful Topographical Description of 
S 2 Conftan'inople, 
