is also a gentle Spring, which affords very good drinking Water. One of the Churches stood near the Sea-shore, the other near the_ Porta Aurea. _Both of them_, he adds, _were near the end of the City Walls, and were upon Occasion impregnable Fortresses to it_. From hence I would remark, that in the Time of _Justinian_, the Angle of the City, which they call the Angle of the seven Towers, was not within the City; but that the Land-wall from the _Porta Aurea_, straitned the Angle of the City into a more narrow Compass, as appears from the Situation of the Monastery of _Studius_, which stood upon a piece of Ground, which was formerly look’d upon to be in the Suburbs, but now stands further within the Walls, than the Angle of the seven Towers. He proceeds, and tells us, that _Justinian_, at a vast Expence, upon the Entrance of the _Porta Aurea_ on the right Hand, rebuilt the Temple of _Ja_, (which Time had wholly defac’d) for the Service of the True GOD. The Observation I would make from hence is, that the _Porta Aurea_ stood near the seventh Hill, call’d the _Xerolophon_, which is also confirm’d by _Zonaras_, who writes, That in the Time of _Leo_, many Churches and Houses, the Statue of _Arcadius_, plac’d upon a Pillar in the _Xerolophon_, and the Statue of _Theodosius_ the _Great_, placed upon the _Porta Aurea_, as also the City Walls, reaching to the Continent on the Field side, were overthrown by an Earthquake. _Cedrinus_ asserts, that the Statue of _Victory_, near the _Porta Aurea_, was overturn’d by the same Earthquake. Other Historians mention, that by the same Earthquake, which happen’d the Vᵗʰ of the _Calends_ of _November_, many sacred Buildings, and many others of common Use, with Multitudes of People, were destroy’d; and that the Statue of _Constantine_ the _Great_, which stood upon the Gate of _Attalus_, with the Gate it self, was demolish’d by it. It is therefore a great Mistake in those, who take the _Porta Aurea_ to be the same Gate which is now call’d _Oria_, and is seated in the Northern Part of the City, which, as I observ’d before, was called the Port of _Neorius_, since ’tis plain from what I have mentioned, that the _Porta Aurea_ was in the Western Part of the City. This is also evident from the _antient Description_ of the _Wards_ of _Constantinople_, which tells us, that the Length of the City, from the _Porta Aurea_ to the Sea-shore, in a direct Line, is fourteen Thousand and seventy five Feet. _Cedrinus_ takes Notice, that the Elephants stabled in the _Porta Aurea_, were much of that Kind, with which _Theodosius_ made his publick Entry into the City. ’Tis said that _Theodosius_ the _Less_ who built the Walls of the City as far as the _Blachernæ_, brought the Statues of those Elephants, which are plac’d upon the _Porta Aurea_, from the Temple of _Mars_ at _Athens_. _Cedrinus_ asserts, that _Philip_ King of _Macedon_ built the great Church of _Mocius_ the Martyr, and a Church to St. _Anne_ in a Place call’d _Secundus_.