the same Authors add, had twelve Pillars curiously variegated, made of _Trojan_ Marble, which were twenty five Foot high, the Roof of it being supported with four Arches. This House, according to these Writers, was about two hundred and forty Foot long, and a hundred and fifty Foot broad. I am inclin’d to believe, from what I have mention’d upon this Occasion, that it was either the _Capitol_, or the _Basilica_ of _Theodosius_. For it is plain from modern _Historians_, that these two Structures, by whomsoever they were rebuilt after the Fire, lost their Names, and they tell us, that in the _Taurus_ there was a Palace, and a Place for the Entertainment of Strangers. And these Authorities are strengthen’d by some ancient People of _Constantinople_, who attest, that in their Remembrance, near the _Mint-House_, where they now coin their Money, there stood a spacious Palace, inhabited, as some say, by _Mahomet_ who took the City, before he built the great enclosed Palace which stands upon the first Hill, and that some of the _Sultans_ have since beautified their Palaces out of the Ruins of the former. The Place of Entertainment, or rather the Church, which stood to the South-west of the _Taurus_, I saw entirely demolish’d, and the Pillars of it carried off, to build a _Caravansera_, which the Emperor _Solyman_ erected in Memory of his Son, whom he dearly lov’d. I leave it to the _Greek_ Priests to make the Enquiry, whether this was not the same with the Church of St. _Paul_, which stood in the seventh _Ward_, though I could never yet meet with one of them, who could give me Insight into this Matter. CHAP. VIII. _Of the ninth Ward; of the Temple of_ Concord; _of the Granaries of_ Alexandria _and_ Theodosius; _of the Baths of_ Anastasia, _of the House of_ Craterus; _of the_ Modius, _and the Temple of the_ Sun _and_ Moon.