call Ὡραῖα, and since by a Corruption of Language _Porta Neoria_, or at least not far from it. There is at present between the Seas and the _Porta Neoria_, a broad Space of Land, a Market of Merchandize and Sea Goods, which the _Turks_ call _Siphont_, or _Tsiphont_, because the _Jews_ inhabit it. It adjoins to the _Stairs_ or _Landing-place_ of _Chalcedon_, from whence they daily sail to _Scutarieum_, or _Scutaricum_, anciently call’d _Chrysopolis_, a Mart-Town, and a Port of _Chalcedon_. Near the _Stairs_ of _Chalcedon_ is the _Ferry_, whence you cross the Water to _Galata_. It was formerly called the _Sycæne Ferry_, and is placed in the _Description of the Wards_, near the _Bosphorian Haven_, or _Dock_. But the Situation of these Places seems to be somewhat chang’d, by reason of some Granaries built there, (which are removed farther into the City) or for the greater Enlargement of the Precinct of the _Seraglio_, or because they are fallen to Decay, and filled up with Earth. For at that Time, when _Philip_ of _Macedon_ undermin’d the Town, ’tis very probable that there was no Port built in that Place, which by the _Byzantians_ was afterwards call’d the _Phosphorion_. There was no building a Haven there, because of the Rising of the Springs, but the _Bosphorian_ Haven was built afterwards in another Place. And this is no more than what is said of the Dock, or the _Neorium_, which they tell you was enclosed by _Constans_, and was made a Market of Merchandize, and other naval Affairs. This Market was afterwards kept near the Port of _Julian_. Some Historians write, that _Leontius_ the Emperor, who reign’d after _Justin_, order’d the Dock to be cleansed. Others write, that there was erected, at the _Neorium_, the Figure of a large Ox in Brass, which much resembled the _Brazen Bull_. This Figure was set up in the eleventh _Ward_, which, as some modern Writers would persuade you, bellow’d once a Year, which portended great Mischief and Detriment to the City. But this I look upon to be a Fable taken out of _Callimachus_ and _Pindar_, who tell you, that upon the Mountain of _Artabyris_ in _Rhodes_, there are brazen Bulls that used to bellow upon any Calamity impending the City. There is nothing remaining of this Haven, where the Dock was at present. I gather from the Situation of the _Bosphorian_ Port, and the Stairs of _Chalcedon_, that the fifth _Ward_ stood on the Side of the second Hill, and in a Plain below it; where were also the _Bagnio’s_ of _Honorius_, the _Prytaneum_, the _Bagnio’s_ of _Eudoxia_, the Granaries of _Valentinian_ and _Constantius_, the _Thebean_ Obelisk, the _Bosphorian_ Port, the Stairs of _Chalcedon_, the Cistern of _Theodosius_, and the _Strategium_, in which was the _Forum_ of _Theodosius_. _Justinian_ in his _Constitutions_ takes Notice of the _Bagnio_ of _Achilles_ in a Letter, thus: _Our Imperial Will and Pleasure is, that the leaden Pipes, conducting the Water to