_Jedicula Kapi_, or the Gate of the seven Towers, so called from its nearness to that _Acropolis_, is that, I guess, which the _Greeks_ formerly called χρυσῆ or the Golden Gate, and by some late _Latin_ Writers _Chrysea_, in _Luitprandus_, _Carea_, by a mistake either of the Transcriber or Printer, for _Aurea_, for so certainly it must be mended. Over this Gate was this inscription, _Hæc loca Theudosius decorat post fata Tyranni, Aurea secla gerit, qui portam construit auro._ cited by _Sirmond_ in his notes upon[10]_Sidonius_. This Gate is in the twelfth Region, and was also called ὡραῖα from its beautiful and curious structure. The Gun gate formerly called Roman gate, not because it leads towards the continent of _Romania_ or _Thrace_, but from[11]St. _Romanus_, where the last Christian Emperor was killed at the assault which the _Turks_ made to force their Way into the City by it. Near _Adrianople_ gate is a fair large _Mosch_ called _Ali-bassa_, upon a hill accounted the highest in the City. The distance between tower and tower in the upper wall to the landward may be about ninety of my paces; the space between that and the second wall about eighteen paces over. The place, where the _Lyons_, _Leopards_, and such like wild creatures are kept, (where I saw also several _Jackalls_) was formerly, as the _Greeks_ told me, a Christian Church dedicated to Παναγία or the Blessed Virgin, where this Verse is still legible, Κατὰ Σκυθῶν ἔπνευσας θερμὸν ἐν μάχαις. There is no tide or running back of the water on any side of the _Bosphorus_ into the black Sea, as[12]some have imagined, whose mistake might possibly arise hence, that the wind being at North, and blowing hard, the current sets more violently at such times against the several headlands jetting out into the channel, which admits of several turnings, and so the waters are forced back to some little distance: or else because when the South-wind freshens and grows boisterous, it makes a high rolling Sea in the _Propontis_ and _Bosphorous_, and being contrary to the current, gives a check to it, so that it becomes less sensible, and is easily stemmed. Where it is narrowest, the distance seems to the eye to be scarce a mile over from one shore to another; where broadest, not much above a mile and a half, unless where it runs into the deep Bays, which by reason of their shallowness only harbour Boats. The channel certainly is natural and not cut by art, as some have idly fansied, not considering, how the _Euxine_ Sea should discharge it self otherwise of those great quantities of waters, poured into it by the _Ister_ and _Tanais_, now called _Don_, and the other Rivers, whereby it becomes less salt, even very sensibly to the taste, than several parts of the _Mediterranean_.