of _Justinian_ were obliged to climb the Walls of _Sycæ_, to make a more vigorous Defence. _Sycæ_, by _Stephanus_, is call’d a City, as it is also by some modern Writers; but more antient Authors, who liv’d before _Galata_ was taken by the _Genoese_, call it the Cittadel of _Galata_. They tell us farther, that a Fleet of the _Saracens_ was station’d from the _Magnaura_ to the _Cyclobion_; and that after it had continu’d two Days in that Station, Part of it was driven by a Storm to the Cittadel of _Galata_, as far as the _Clydion_, where the Emperor of _Constantinople_ destroy’d it, from _Acropolis_, with liquid Fire. _Zonaras_ writes, that when _Michael_ the Emperor was besieged both by Sea and Land, he was so terribly distrest, that he was forc’d to lay a Boom across the Sea from _Acropolis_, to a small Town on the opposite Shore. There is at this Day a Gate at _Galata_, which is call’d the _Boom-Gate_. ’Tis however beyond Dispute, that _Galata_ was more than once enlarg’d by the _Genoese_: This appears from the Walls, which at several Times they have built about it, being fortified on the East by Double, and on the West by Treble Walls, denoting the gradual Increase of the Town. You may see at present the antient _Sycæ_, enclos’d in the middle of _Galata_, situate against the sixth _Ward_, and the _Sycene_ Ferry, all built on the Side of a Hill, just as ’tis represented in the _Antient Description_ of the _Wards_, except one broad Piece of Ground, which lies upon a Level on the Shore at the Foot of the Hill. This Tract of Land was at least a hundred _Roman_ Paces broad. For at present, between the Hill and the Bay, there is a Plain to be seen of an equal, if not of a larger Breadth; because, in such a Length of Time, it is widen’d, as may be observ’d daily, by the Abundance of Filth and Nastiness, which is cast about it. To make it subside at the Bottom, the Inhabitants have fix’d wooden Troughs upon Piles, which they drive into the Earth by an Engine, much like a Rammer. By this Means the Plain upon the Shore is enlarg’d, and made more commodious for Havens. But that the Reader may understand more perfectly where the _Sycene Ward_ stood formerly, I will describe the Situation of _Galata_, as it stands at present. CHAP. XI. _A Description of_ Galata; _of the Temples of_ Amphiaraus, Diana, _and_ Venus; _of the Theatre of_ Sycæ, _and the_ Forum _of_ Honorius.