his Sermons preached in this Church had revived the _Constitutions_ and _Decrees_ of the Council of _Nice_; or whether, as he adds, it went by that Name, because a Woman big with Child, falling from the upper Gallery, and dying upon the Spot, was restored to Life again by the joint Prayers of the Congregation then present, I shall not determine. However ’tis plain from this Passage of _Sozomen_, that those Historians are grievously in the wrong, who say, that this Church was built in Memory of St. _Anastasia_, a _Roman_ Saint. In my Treatise of the _Thracian Bosporus_, I have shewn, that on the North Side of the third Hill there rise some Rocks from the lowermost Eminencies of it, which were call’d _Scironides_, by those who first transplanted a Colony from _Megara_ and _Corinth_, to _Byzantium_. These Rocks were so call’d, because of the Resemblance they bear to the _Scironides_, which grow between _Corinth_ and _Megara_. I shall take the Freedom here just to mention what’s worth observing on the third Hill. On the Top of it stands the Tomb of _Bajazet_ the Emperor, near a _Caravansera_, and a large Mosque which was built by him, after the Likeness of the Church of St. _Sophia_, which is roof’d with Brick-work, and cover’d with Lead. It has a large Porch or _Vestibule_, pav’d with white Marble, and is surrounded with four _Portico’s_, which are supported with Columns of the choicest Marble. In the Middle of it is a fine Fountain, which falls into a large Bason, which emits the falling Water through several little Cocks. The Mosque and _Vestibule_ is surrounded on three Sides with a large _Area_, which is enclosed partly with Walls, and partly with a _Caravansera_; and on the fourth Side ’tis encompass’d with a Garden adjoining, in the Middle of which is the Tomb of _Bajazet_, in a small Edifice built in a cylindrick Form. On the Top of the third Hill stands the _Seraglio_, where the Emperor’s Concubines constantly reside; ’tis enclos’d with a high Wall, which, at my first Arrival at _Constantinople_, was more than two Miles in Compass. The present Emperor _Solyman_ has taken up a Place in the Middle of this Precinct, where he is laying a Foundation for a _Caravansera_, and his future Sepulchre, which are now building with the most elegant Marble, brought from several Parts of the _Turkish_ Dominions, so that you may see infinite Kinds of it lying about the Building, not lately dug out of the Quarry, but such as for many Ages has been used in the Palaces of several Princes and Emperors, not only at _Byzantium_, but in _Greece_, and all _Ægypt_. In the seventh _Ward_ I saw three ancient Cisterns, not taken Notice of in the _Description of the Wards_; one in the _Forum_ of _Taurus_, another between the Tomb of _Bajazet_ and the _Bezestan_, both of which are supported with Marble Pillars. The third was built on a Clift of the third Hill, which faced the North, of which there are yet remaining six _Corinthian_ Pillars, very large