It had been very difficult to have discover’d, either from the Situation of the _Forum_ of _Constantine_, or the Pillar of _Constantine_ still standing at _Constantinople_, or the _Description of the Wards_ (although it takes Notice of the Pillar of _Constantine_, and tells us, that the sixth Ward enters upon a short Plain, and that ’tis afterwards lengthen’d by a long Descent) whether the sixth _Ward_ had been on the North or the South Side of the City, unless the Author had added, that it reach’d from the _Forum_ of _Constantine_ down to Stairs from whence you sail over the _Sycæne_ Ferry. It was originally call’d the _Sycæne_ Ferry from _Syca_, but is now call’d _Galata_, or _Pera_, as will appear more fully, when I come to speak of it in the thirteenth _Ward_. That the fifth and sixth _Wards_ join’d together, I observ’d before from the Vicinity of the Dock, the Stairs of _Chalcedon_, the _Sycæne_ Stairs, and the _Bosphorian_ Port to each other. Having therefore discover’d the Situation of _Syca_, I take it for granted, that the Dock stood near a Plain on the Sea Shore, which was below the Foot of the second Hill, and that the Ferry Place from whence you passed over to _Syca_, is the same with that from whence you sail at present to _Galata_, and that the _Porphyry_ Pillar now standing, is the same with that mention’d by the Author of the _Description_, &c. and placed by him in the sixth _Ward_; though he takes no Notice in his Description of the sixth _Ward_, where he places the Senate-House, how near it stood to the _Forum_ or Pillar of _Constantine_. But I shall make it plain to the Reader from other Historians, in what follows, that the Senate-House stood on the North Side of the _Forum_ of _Constantine_, and that this _Ward_ stood partly on the Ridge of the second Hill, where the _Porphyry_ Pillar is now standing, as is also the Poultry Market, which the _Turks_ call _Taubasor_, or _Taouck Baser_, the Dyers Shops, the House of _Ænobarbus_, a _Turkish_ Admiral, and the Mosque of _Hali-Bassa_. Part of it spreads itself also over the right Side of the second Valley, and part of it covers a Plain near the Sea, below the Valley, and the Foot of the second Hill, which is much inhabited by the _Jews_. CHAP. III. _Of the_ Porphyry _Pillar, the_ Forum _of_ Constantine, _and the_ Palladium.