The _Antient Description of the Wards of the City_ takes Notice, that _Galata_ was formerly a Part of the City. The Thirteenth _Ward_ of _New Rome_, says the Author, is the _Sycene Ward_, which is divided from it by a narrow Bay, and preserves an Intercourse with it, by Boats and Shipping. It is seated on the Side of a Hill, except a broad Tract of Land at the Foot of it, which lies upon the Level. _Stephanus_ says, that the Town of _Sycæ_ was situated against _New Rome_, and that it was call’d in his Time _Sycæ Justinianæ_, but does not give the Reason why it was call’d so. Probably it was, because _Justinian_ either repair’d or rebuilt it; for which Reasons principally Cities frequently change their Names. I wonder that _Procopius_ never took Notice of this Place, since he has given us an exact Description of all the Edifices of the Bay, call’d the _Chrysoceras_, which were either built or repair’d by him; unless perhaps the Mistake be in _Procopius_, by inserting the Word _Jucundianæ_ instead of _Justinianæ_, when he tells us, that _Justinian_ rebuilt the Palaces of the Suburbs in the _Chalcopratia_, as also in the Place call’d _Sycæ Jucundianæ_. If the Fault be not in _Procopius_, ’tis an Errour of _Stephanus_, who writes _Justinianæ_ for _Jucundianæ_. But ’tis plain, that _Stephanus_ wrote long before the Time of _Justinian_; so that if there be any Blunder, ’tis none of _Stephanus_, but _Hermolaus_, a Grammarian of _Constantinople_, who abridg’d the Commentaries of _Stephanus_, and dedicated them to _Justinian_. If I might give my Opinion, I should rather call it _Sycæ Justinianæ_, than _Jucundianæ_, because it appears to me it should be so, not only by comparing some Books of _Procopius_ and _Justinian_ which have been publish’d, but also by the Authorities of several MSS. _Justinian_ asserts in his _Constitutions_, _That ’tis agreeable to Equity, if a Corpse be carried to the Grave to a great Distance, that the Deacons attending it, should have some Acknowledgment_. He subjoyns a little after, _That he is of the same Opinion, if the Corpse be bury’d within the new Walls of the City or this Side of the_ Sycæ Justinianæ. This is but a small Procession, and it requires not much Time or Pains to walk thither; _but_, says he, _if the Body be carried beyond the Walls of this flourishing City, or beyond any other Stairs, than those which lead to_ Sycæ——There’s no Occasion to add what follows. I would only have the Reader observe, that the Word πέρασμα which the _Latins_ interpret _Terminus_, or a Boundary, signifies properly _Trajectus_, a Ferry, or the _Stairs_ from whence you sail from one Place to another. ’Tis evident, from what I have quoted, that the Town call’d _Sycæ_ is on the other side of the Bay facing _Constantinople_, altho’ _Stephanus_ has not declar’d against what Part of the City it lies. I observe notwithstanding from the _Treatise_ above mention’d, that the sixth _Ward_ reach’d from