184 CONSTANTINOPLE. 
CHAP, and a half from Buzantium, we came to the 
IV, 
^. ■ confluence of two small rivers, the Cydaris 
and the Barbyses', abounding with innume- 
rable fishes ^ and giving to this part of the 
bay the name of Sweet, or Fresh TVaters. Here 
we landed, to view a sort of public garden, 
laid out in the French taste ; a wretched imita- 
tion of our Fnuxhall. Tlie place is called, 
from the modern name of the Barbyses, 
r>/at Kyat \Khanah, because a paper-mill once 
stood near its mouth. The plan of this 
garden was given by a French ambassador to 
Sultan Achmed the Third: nothing can be more 
wretched; nor would it be worth a moment's 
notice, if it did not serve to mark the earliest 
disposition to imitate foreign manners on the part 
of the Turks; a disposition since betrayed in 
other objects of more importance, and which 
recently led to the alarming consequences of 
the Nizami Djedid. The whole extremity of the 
Byzantine hay was antiently, as it is now, notori- 
ous for the mephitic exhalations of the marshes 
(1) " Postqiiam sinus inflexus ad septentriones, quarto flexu 
mediocri accepto, finitur ostiis Cydari, et Barbyss." Vide Gyllmm, 
de Bosp. Thrac. lib. i. c. 5. vpud Gronov. Grac. Antiq. Thesaur. 
vol. VI. p. 3117. L.Bat.XGdd. 
(2) " Tanta est in l)ac palude pisciviai copia, ut quoties quis japuara 
reseraverit, ex eaque calathum aut sportam denaiserit vacuam, paulo 
post retrahat piscium pleiiam." Ibid. lib. ij. cap. 2. p. 3124. 
