the _Forum_ of _Constantine_ to the Ferry against _Sycæ_, which is now call’d the Ferry of _Pera_, or _Galata_. As I would pay a just Regard to the Authorities of some more modern Historians, I hall produce several Testimonies from them. They assert, that _Absimarus_, the Commander in Chief of the Forces which besieg’d _Constantinople_, harbour’d in the Port of _Sycæ_ against the City. _Evagrius_ writes, that the Heads of _Longinus_, and _Theodorus_, stuck upon Poles, were sent to _Constantinople_ by _Johannes_ a _Scythian_, and by the Emperor’s Command were fix’d upon the Shore of _Sycæ_, opposite to _Constantinople_; a pleasant Spectacle to the Inhabitants of the City! He adds further, That _Vitalianus_ made an Incursion as far as _Sycæ_, and that when he came to an Anchor there, the Emperor _Anastasius_ sent _Marinus_ an _Assyrian_ Admiral to fight him. Both Fleets prepare for the Engagement; the one facing _Constantinople_, the other _Sycæ_. For some Time they kept their Stations; after some small Skirmishes, and Attacks on both Sides, the Fight began near the Places call’d the _Vitharia_. _Vitalianus_ having lost most of his Men, was forced to bear off, so that there was not the least Appearance of an Enemy in all the _Bosporus_. Nor am I induc’d to change my Opinion by the Authority of _Strabo_, who seems to place _Sycæ_ at some Distance from the Bay. _The_ Bosporus, says he, _straitning it self from the Promontory into the Measure of five_ Stadia, _or Furlongs, widens at the Harbour plac’d below_ Sycæ _into thirty Furlongs, and from_ Sycæ _to the_ Chrysoceras _it contracts it self again into five Furlongs_. Nor would this Opinion any ways contradict what I have said before, if my Author had meant by the _Ceras_ of the _Byzantians_, what _Pliny_ ’tis plain did, _viz._ the _Bosporian Promontory_ where _Byzantium_ stood. But _Strabo_ immediately subjoins, that the _Ceras_ was a Bay which was sixty Furlongs in length; and therefore it appears to me, that the Mistake lies either in _Cod. Strabon._ or in the Historian himself, as is fully evident from the Authority of _Dionysius_, a very ancient Writer of the History of _Constantinople_, which was his Native Place. This Author has recorded it, that _Sycodes_, or _Sycæ_, is the same Place near the Bay call’d _Ceras_, where _Galata_ stands at present, as I have more evidently shewn in my _Treatise of the Bosporus_. The People of _Pera_ therefore are grosly in the wrong, when they tell us, that _Pera_ was first built by the _Genoese_; when it is plain that _Pera_ was built long before they were suppos’d either to have purchas’d the Town, or to have receiv’d it as a Reward of their Sea-Services, from some Emperor of _Constantinople_; since _Justinian_ places _Sycæ_ within the Walls of the City, and _Agathius_ assures us, it was enclosed with Walls, when he writes, that the People of _Constantinople_ were in such a Consternation upon the Approach of the Enemy, that the Forces