curious Pieces of Brass Workmanship to be demolished, and new cast into his own Statue. Among these was a famous Statue of _Constantine the Great_, which, with other Statues, made a large _Equestrian_ Statue, which was gilded, dignified with his own Name and Title, and placed on the same Pillar, where before had stood the Statue of _Theodosius_. I would observe here by the By, that the Street called the _Taurus_ was the same Place, where the Pillar of _Theodosius_ stood; and from hence I would observe farther, that the seventh _Ward_ stood on the Top and Sides of the third Hill. And although the seventh _Ward_ does not contain the _Forum_ of _Theodosius_, yet it is not improbable that it was but at a small Distance from it, not only if we consider how exactly _Constantinople_ emulated _Old Rome_; but also, if any Dependence may be had on the Authority of _Evagrius_, who asserts, that the Fire which happened in the Reign of _Leo_, burnt down all the Edifices from the _Forum_ of _Constantine_, to the _Forum_ of _Taurus_. _An antient Native of_ Constantinople _informed me, that in his Time the_ Forum _of_ Taurus, _and the Pillar of_ Theodosius _stood in the same Place, and that it was like the_ Hippodrom, _full of wild and uncultivated Trees. And because it was only a Shelter for Thieves and Robbers, the Emperor_ Mahomet, _who took the City, voluntarily bestowed the Ground on those who would build upon it_. That the _Forum Pistorium_, or Bread-market, stood on Part of the Ground of the _Forum_ of _Theodosius_, or at least was very near to it, I conjecture from _Zonaras_, who says, that as the Emperor _Nicephorus Phocas_ was coming out of his Palace, situate at the _Golden Fountain_, and near the _Porta Aurea_, the People pursued him grievously with Railery and Invective from the _Forum Pistorium_, as far as the Pillar of _Constantine_. The _unknown Author_ of the History of _Constantinople_ is of the same Opinion, as to the Situation of the _Taurus_, and the Pillar, and tells us, _That the Pillar stood in a paved Court, near the_ Forum Pistorium; and adds, _that in the same Place there was a square Building, with four Gates, and four_ Portico’s _round it, which he calls the_ Tetrapylum, _which before was called_ Quatrivium. _Cedrinus_ places the _Tetrapylum_ not far from the _Forum_ of _Taurus_, when he tells us, that the Fire in _Leo_’s Time, destroyed two large Churches, adorned with all Kinds of curious Stones; one not far from the _Tetrapylum_, the other adjoining to the _Forum_ of _Taurus_. The same Author, speaking of another Fire, which happened in the same Emperor’s Reign, writes, that it consumed all the Buildings from the _Tetrapylum_, covered with Plates of Brass, to the Church. The Author of the _Description of the Wards_ writes, that there was in _Constantinople_ one gilded _Tetrapylum_, but does not mention in what _Ward_ it stood. _Johannes_ the _Rhetorician_ (as he is cited by