The Views are accompanied with letter-press, describing the usages, customs, and opinions of the people, as ancillary to the pictorial representations; and a Map of the Bosphorus is added, pointing out localities, and directing attention to the spot on which the reality stood or still stands. To complete the whole, an historical sketch of the city from its foundation is annexed, with a chronological series of its Emperors and Sultans to the present day; thus combining a concise history of persons and events, with copious details of its several parts, and vivid and characteristic representations of its objects. ROBERT WALSH. LIST OF PLATES. VOL. I. Map of Constantinople To face i Constantinople from the Golden Horn Frontispiece 1 Fountain and Market Place of Tophana Vignette Title 7 Roumeli-Hissar, or, The Castle of Europe 9 The Great Cemetery of Scutari 12 The Cistern of Bin-bir-derek 14 The Solimanie, or Mosque of Sultan Soliman 16 Mosque of Sultan Achmet 18 Tophana, Entrance to Pera 20 Prison of the Seven Towers 22 Petit Champs des Morts 23 Reception-Room of the Seraglio 26 Brusa and Mount Olympus 28 Emir Sultan, Brusa 31 Guyuk-Suey−-Sweet Waters of Asia 32 The Bath 35 The Aurut Bazaar, or Slave Market 37 The Mosque of Yeni Jami 39 Baluk Hané 40 The Great Bazaar 41 The Atmeidan, or Hippodrome 44 The Mosque of Santa Sophia 45 Eyoub Sultan−-Fountain and Street of Tombs 48 Hunkair, or Unkiar Iskelessi 50 Entrance to the Bosphorus from the Black Sea 52 Pass in the Balkan Mountains−-by Haidhos 56 Route through the Balkan Mountains−-by Tâtar-Bazaar 57 The Barbyses, or Sweet Waters of Europe 57 Interior of a Turkish Caffinet 59 The Village of Babec 61 The Ruins of Ephesus 63 Greek Priest’s House near Yeni Kuey 65 The Acropolis at Sardis 66 Palais of Saïd Pasha 69 The Remains of Hierapolis 70 Philadelphia 71 Pass in the Balkan Mountains−-Bulgarian Side 73