_Treatise_, entitled, an _Antient Description of_ Constantinople. I am surprized that _Procopius_, who was so exact in describing so many Buildings of the City, never mentions them, since they are taken Notice of by _Justinian_ in his _Constitutions_. There’s a Church situate on the seventh Hill, between the Palace of _Constantine_, and the _Adrianopolitan Gate_, which though for many Ages it stood within the Walls, yet on three Sides of it, it formerly stood without the Walls of the City, as it was customary to build the _Greek_ Churches. There’s a _Portico_ runs round it. The Walls of it within are incrusted with square Pieces of several Kinds of Marble, the _Fissures_ of which are covered from Top to Bottom with _Modules_ of _Astragals_, some of which are adorned with Berries, and others are work’d round without them. Above these _Incrustations_ rise three _Fasciæ_, and three Ornaments resembling an _Astragal_, two of which are round, and the uppermost of them is of a square Figure. Higher yet are three _Fasciæ_, above these are the _Dentils_, and over the _Dentils_, a _Corinthian Foliage_. It will evidently appear from what I shall mention hereafter, that the Suburbs called the _Hepdomum_, were in the fourteenth _Ward_ of the City, where also stood a Palace. There remains at present, out of many antient Palaces, not so much as the Name of one of them, except that seated on the seventh Hill, which is called the Palace of _Constantine_, besides a few Pillars, and a _Cistern_ in which the Grand _Signor_’s Elephants are stabled. In the Plain upon the Shore, situate at the Foot of the sixth Hill Eastward, is the _Palatine_ Gate called _Cynegion_. Without the Gate is a fine Growth of Plane-Trees. Near the Gate, within the Wall, were formerly three large Arches, now fill’d up, through which the Inhabitants used to sail their Three-oar’d Galleys, into a Creek built within the City for the Conveniency of the neighbouring Palace. This Creek is now entirely ruin’d, and turn’d into a Garden. The _Cynegion_, according to modern Writers, is a Place of some Note, so that even _Suidas_ himself thought it not impertinent to insert in his _Lexicon_ the following Story. _Criminals_, says he, _condemned to dye were thrown into the_ Cynegion, _which was adorned with some Statues_. Theodorus, _the Town-Clerk, going thither with_ Imerius _Keeper of the Records, saw a short, but a very thick Statue. Look upon the Man, says_ Imerius, _meaning himself, who built the_ Cynegion. _I returned in Answer, that_ Maximinus _built it, and that_ Aristides _measured out the Ground; when immediately one of its Pillars fell, which crushed_ Imerius _to Pieces, so that he died on the Spot. Being terrified at the Sight, I hastened to the Church, where I told what had happened. I attested the Fact with an Oath to those who questioned the Relation. Some of the Emperor’s Domesticks and Servants, when their Attendance was over, walked with me to the Place. Being