The _Antient Description of the Wards_ tells us, that the Situation of the seventh _Ward_, in Comparison with the sixth, is more upon the Level, altho’ at the Extremity of one of its Sides, it falls with a greater Declivity into the Sea; and from hence I concluded, that there could be little Difficulty in discovering where this _Ward_ stood. But this Description of it is not peculiar to it, but common also to other _Wards_. For as to what the Author adds, that this _Ward_ stretches it self with very long _Portico’s_ from the _Right Hand_ of the Pillar of _Constantine_, to the _Forum_ of _Theodosius_; as it does also on the other Side of it down to the Sea-Shore, extended in the same Manner: I could make no more Observations from this Account of it, than I could from the Buildings which are mentioned to be contained in it, since the very Remembrance of them is entirely lost. I therefore considered with my self, what the Author might probably be understood to mean by the _Right Hand_ of the Pillar of _Constantine_. In this Difficulty I had Recourse to _Livy_, who says, that _Romulus_ has determined all the _Wards_, which reach from East to West, to be the Right Hand _Wards_, and all the _Wards_ which extended from South to North to be Left Hand _Wards_. But I could not explain the Difficulty this Way; for by this Means I had made this _Ward_ to stretch it self Southward; whereas I shall shew plainly in another Place, that it extended it self to the North. Nor could the _Geographical_ Method give me any Light into this Matter; for when these Gentlemen take the Altitude of the Pole, they look full North, so that the East lies directly on their Right Hand. _Varro_, who has defined to an Exactness the four Parts of the Heavens, following the _Astrological Scheme_, has given me some Insight into this Matter: He tells us, that the South lies directly before us, and the North behind us, so that the East lies to the left Hand, and the West to the Right. I judged by this Division of the Heavens into four Parts, that the seventh _Ward_ was situate Westward of the Pillar of _Constantine_; and yet was in Suspence, whether the Author _of the Description_ followed the Division of _Romulus_, or that of the _Astrologers_. I was therefore under greater Hesitation than I was before, till after a diligent Enquiry I made a Discovery where the Column of _Theodosius_ stood, and of some Footsteps of the Churches of _Anastasia_ and _Hirena_, by which I perceived that the seventh _Ward_ descended from the Top of the _Promontory_ down to the Bay, and that this Author had described its Situation more distinctly, had he told us, that as you go from East to West, the seventh _Ward_ extends it self on the right Hand, from the Pillar of _Constantine_, to the _Forum_ of _Theodosius_. In this _Ward_ antiently were erected several fine Buildings, which stood on the same Ground where the most famous Place of Merchandize in the City, by the _Turks_ called