and tall, made of _Arabian_ Marble, and curiously wrought. Below the _Base_ of the _Pedestal_ was lay’d an Earthen Pipe which convey’d Water into a Cistern made of Brick, whose Roof also, which is Brick-work, is supported with twenty square Brick Pillars. A little above the Cistern there was formerly a Court belonging to a _Christian Church_, which the _Turks_ demolish’d, to repair and beautify their own Houses. On that Side of the Hill which extends itself Westward, there stands a Mosque, whose _Vestibule_ is supported with twelve Pillars, six of which are of _Arabian_ Marble. Above this Mosque there stands another, which is also supported with Pillars, and was formerly a Church dedicated to St. _Theodorus_. This however is not the same Church which _Procopius_ says _Justinian_ built in a Place call’d _Rhessium_. There is another Christian Church, now a Mosque, standing between the _Seraglio_, and the Tomb which the Emperor _Solyman_ built for his Son _Mahomet_, which is incrusted with several Kinds of Marble, curiously variegated. CHAP. VII. _Of the eighth_ Ward, _and the Hind-part of the third Hill_. I cannot find by the _Ancient Description of the Wards_, that the eighth _Ward_ was situate on the South Side of the third Hill, though it says, that the eighth _Ward_, on the Side of the _Taurus_, is not bounded by the Sea, and may be look’d upon to be rather a narrow than a broad Piece of Ground, though this Defect is sufficiently amended by its great Length. For by this Description of it, I am left altogether in Suspence, whether it lye North or South. But I discover the Situation of the eighth _Ward_ from hence, that the Author _of the Description_ tells us, that it contained part of the _Forum_ of _Constantine_, and a _Portico_ on the left Side of it, as far as the _Taurus_, and that the seventh _Ward_ stretch’d itself from the right Hand of the Pillar of _Constantine_, to the _Forum_ of _Theodosius_. I observe from these Authorities, that part of the _Promontory_, which reaches from Sea to Sea, situate between the _Porphyry_ Pillar and the _Taurus_, was divided into the North and South Side, and that the _Portico’s_ on the right and left extending themselves from the Pillar of _Constantine_ to the _Taurus_, parted the seventh and eighth _Ward_, the former of which contain’d the right Hand _Portico’s_, and the latter, the left. There’s nothing to be seen of these _Portico’s_ at present, but only the broad Way which runs from the Church of St. _Sophia_ to the Land-Wall. This _Ward_ contains also the _Capitol_, and the _Basilica_ of _Theodosius_ both of which, ’tis very probable, stood near the Pillar and _Forum_ of _Theodosius_. It is no less evident from _Zonaras_ and _Cedrinus_, that the Fire in _Leo_’s Time consumed the Senate-House, built for the Dispatch of publick Business by the great Council of the Empire, and for the Conveniency of the Emperor, when _Consul_, to preside over them. This Senate-House, as