World, you saw your favourite God offering to you his Crowns, a happy Presage of Length of Days, and a Life extended beyond that of_ Nestor. _You saw him, you gazed on his Features, and beheld your own Likeness in him; who, as the ancient Poets have sung, deserv’d the Empire of the World. That auspicious Period of Time seems to be now come, since you, like that God, are gay and youthful; like him salutary; like him a personable and a beautiful Prince._ If the _Turk_, whom I employ’d to climb the Pedestal, had follow’d my Directions, (while I was obliged to appear a mere accidental Spectator) and held his Pearch true, I had discover’d the lowest Stone of the _Shaft_, from a Notch he had cut in it, to have been nine Foot and four Digits high; and the _Tore_, which projected six Digits beyond it, to have been a Foot and a half broad, I mean the _Tore_ at the Foot of the _Shaft_, so that every Stone was ten Foot nine Inches high. The Height therefore of all the eight Stones was about eighty six Foot and nine Inches. The whole Pillar was lengthen’d besides with an _Abacus_ placed on the uppermost Stone, and below with a _Pedestal_ and its _Cornice_, and four Marble Steps at the Bottom. The lowermost of these Steps is a Foot and six Digits high; the second of the same Height; the third and fourth, each of them a Foot and a half. There is no Discovery can be made, from what has been said, where this prodigious Column, or rather where this _Colossus_ stood. For since neither _Procopius_, nor any other Historian of those Times, takes any Notice of the _Forum_ call’d Πλακότον, where _Zonaras_, and other modern Writers say it was erected, I was in some Suspence, whether or no this was not the same with the _Forum_ of _Constantine_. For it seem’d very probable to me, that _Constantine_ had herein follow’d the Example of _Trajan_, in setting up his Statue in the _Forum_, which went by his own Name. But I was soon clear’d of this Difficulty, by the Authority of _Socrates_, (the Author _of the Dissensions among Christians_,) who writes, that they are one and the same Place; and that _Arius_, when he came near where the _Forum_ of _Constantine_ stood, expired with the falling of the Guts. But this is no less evident, if it be consider’d where the _Palladium_ of _Minerva_ stood; which, as _Zonaras_ says, was convey’d by the Command of _Constantine_ from _Troy_ to the _Placotum_, and as _Procopius_ adds, into the _Forum_ of _Constantine_. _The_ Hirpines, says he, _report, that_ Diomedes _met_ Æneas _coming out of_ Troy, _and that in Conformity to the Answer of the Oracle, he gave him the Image of_ Minerva, _which he, with the Assistance of_ Ulysses, _had formerly brought from_ Troy, _when they went thither to consult the Oracle, how_ Troy _might be taken. They add farther, that_ Diomedes _being indisposed, and consulting the Oracle concerning his Recovery, it was foretold by it, that he would never be well, till he had given that Image to_ Æneas.