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CONSTANTINOPLE. 
CHAP. 
IV. 
' . 
Oialcedon 
Maiden s 
Castle, or 
Tower of 
Leander, 
Chalcedon, of which city scarcely a trace 
J remains ; landing also upon the remarkable 
rock where the light-house is situate, called the 
Tower of Leander. The Turks call it Kez- 
calasiy the ^'Maidens Castle J' Possibly it may 
have been formerly used as a retreat for Nuns : 
but they relate one of their romantic traditions 
concerning a Princess , who secluded herself 
upon this rock, because it had been foretold 
that she should die by the bite of a serpent ; 
adding, that she ultimately encountered here 
the fate she sought to avoid. 
Sinus Bij- 
Kanlinus. 
The last excursion We made, before we took 
a final leave of Constantinople, was to the extre- 
mity of its beautiful hay, which at a very early 
period took the name of the promontory upon 
which Byzantium had been founded. Polyhius\ 
Conslantinnple,hy Dr. James DAU.\WAY,'(Lond.n97 ■) Also the pleasing- 
Voyage de la Propontide et du PontEuxin, en deux tomes 12ii»o. par 
Mons. Le Chevalier ; Paris, 1800. One of the hest works extant 
upon Turkey, is the foi/age an Levant, par Corneille Le Bruvn, 
4 tom.4t(). a Rouen, 1725. To enumerate others would he superfluous: 
the complete collection of authors, who have written upon the 
suhject, would constitute a lihrary. For an account of government, 
religion, manners, and customs, see the work of Paul Rvcaut, and 
the Tableau de V Empire Ottoman, par Muradgea D'Osson ; also the 
writings of De Tott, Sir James Porter, Thornton, &c. &c. 
(1) Polyh. Hist. lib. iv . c. 5. 
