That the ninth _Ward_ was situate behind the third Hill, partly on the Clifts which lye under the Ridge of it, and partly on those which lye at the Bottom of it, and partly on the Shore of the _Propontis_, extending itself as far as the Gardens call’d _Blanchæ_; I am convinced, among other Authorities, principally by the Author _of the Description_, &c. who says, that the ninth _Ward_ is all a Declivity, and bounded by the Sea, as also from the Account he gives of the eighth _Ward_, which as it is not terminated on the Side of the _Taurus_, by any Part of the Sea, I have Reason to believe, took up the Plain on the Top of the third Hill, but not the Descents below it, and that the ninth _Ward_ lies partly under the eighth, on that Side of it, which extends from the _Taurus_ Southward towards the Sea of the _Propontis_, and was partly situate also on the two Declivities; one of which descends from the _Taurus_ to South, South-west, the other from the Houses of the _Janizaries_ to the South. You may also discover by the Situation of the Temple of _Concord_, where the ninth _Ward_ stood, which though it be not expressly declared by the Author _of the Description_; yet Reason, and the Authority of other Writers, will lead us into that Discovery. For _Evagrius_, describing the Fire which happen’d in _Leo_’s Time, says, that it raged in a frightful Manner on the North Side of the City, from the _Bosphorian_ Haven to the old Temple of _Apollo_; on the South, from the Port of _Julian_, to the Houses seated at a small Distance from the Temple of _Concord_; and in the Middle Part of the City, from the _Forum_ of _Constantine_ to the _Taurus_; and farther, that it extended itself in Length to the Distance of five Furlongs. From hence it is discoverable, that the Fire destroy’d all that Part of the ninth _Ward_, through which you may draw a strait Line from the _Taurus_ to the _Propontis_. And this would evidently appear to any one, who would walk the five Furlongs from the _Forum_ of _Constantine_ to the _Forum_ of _Taurus_, and there fix a Mark, and should afterwards walk Westward from the Port of _Julian_, through the Plain on the Sea Shore, to the Distance of five Furlongs more, and should there fix another Mark, and should compare that Mark with another fix’d at the _Taurus_, he would vary very little as to the Situation of the Temple of _Concord_. But that, and the Church of St. _Thomas_ the _Apostle_ are now entirely in Ruins. If we consider the Rules generally observed in Architecture, ’tis reasonable to believe, that the Granaries of _Theodosius_ stood near the Port of _Theodosius_, which was situate in the Gardens now call’d _Blanchæ_. There was no Port either in the eighth or ninth _Ward_, but in that Part of the twelfth _Ward_ which adjoins to the ninth, is the Port of _Theodosius_, of which I shall speak more largely hereafter. Above the _Blanchæ_ to the North, there stands a Temple upon an Eminence, call’d