The Antiquities of Constantinople With a Description of Its Situation, the Conveniencies of Its Port, Its Publick Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and Other Curiosities of That City

I had been at a Loss to discover the eleventh _Ward_, (which, tho’ the _ancient Description_ of the _Wards_ mentions to have been wider in Compass than the Tenth, and in no Part...

Having describ’d the Figure and Extent of the City, and having particularized the Situation of the _seven Hills_, I shall proceed to consider what Buildings and Monuments _Const...

It is recorded by _Stephanus_ and _Pausanias_, that _Byzantium_, now call’d _Constantinople_, was first founded by _Byzas_ the Son of _Neptune_ and _Ceroessa_, or by a Person na...

It was impossible for me to discover from the _Ancient Description of the Wards_, that the fifth _Ward_ stood on the North Side of the second Hill, and in a Plain at the Bottom...

Constantinople is situated after such a Manner in a _Peninsula_, that ’tis scarce bounded by the Continent; for on three Sides ’tis inclosed by the Sea. Nor is it only well fort...

XXV. _Of the_ Lausus, _and its Statues_; viz. _a_ Venus _of_ Cnidos, _a_ Juno _of_ Samos, _a_ Minerva _of_ Lindia, _a winged_ Cupid, _a_ Jupiter Olympius, _a_ Saturn, Unicorns,...

VI. _Of the Street call’d_ Taurus, _of the_ Forum, _and Pillar of_ Theodosius, _which had winding Stairs within it; of the_ Tetrapylum, _the_ Pyramidical _Engine of the Winds, o...