From what has been wrote upon this Subject, the Reader may learn how renown’d _Constantinople_ has been for its Monuments of Antiquity. It would take up another Volume, to enlarge upon the Publick Buildings of the _Mahometans_ at present, and to explain for what Uses they were intended. I shall just touch upon a few Things, which are the most remarkable. The City, as it now stands, contains more than three hundred Mosques, the most magnificent of which were built by their Emperors and _Basha’s_, and are all cover’d at Top with Lead and Marble, adorn’d with Marble Columns, the Plunder and Sacrilege of Christian Churches, as these were before beautify’d with the Spoils of the Heathen Temples. It has above a hundred publick and private _Bagnio’s_, fifty of which are very spatious, and of two Lengths, much like those I have describ’d, built by their Emperour _Mahomet_. Their _Caravansera’s_, and publick Inns, are much above a Hundred; the most famous of which, in the Middle of their Court-yard, are furnish’d with Fountains of Water, brought from the Fields adjoyning to the City. Their Emperors have peculiarly distinguish’d themselves in this Respect. Thus does _Eusebius_ enlarge in the Praise of _Constantine_: In the middle of their _Fora_, says he, you may see their Fountains adorn’d with the Emblems of a good _Pastor_, well known to those who understand the Sacred Writings; namely, the History of _Daniel_ and the _Lyons_ figur’d in Brass, and shining with Plates of Gold. _Valens_, and _Andronicus_, at a vast Expence made Rivers, at a remote Distance, tributary to the Town; partly by directing their Courses under Arches, at this Time appearing above Ground, and partly by Channels dug under it. Several other Emperors, with no less Cost, made themselves Fish-ponds, and subterraneous Lakes, by after Ages call’d _Cisterns_, in every Ward of the City, and that principally to supply them with Water in Case of a Siege. But the Enemies of _Constantinople_ lie at present at such a Distance from them, that they have either entirely ruin’d their _Cisterns_, or converted them to another Use. I shall take no Notice of the stately Houses of their Noblemen and _Basha’s_, nor of the Grand _Signor_’s Palace, which spreading it self all over old _Byzantium_, is constantly supply’d with Rivers, which flow in upon it, from distant Parts of the Neighbouring Countrey. I pass by their Lakes and Conduits, seated in every Part of the City, which serve them not only with Water to drink, but likewise carry off the Filth of it into the Sea, and wash away those Impurities of the Town, which clog and encumber the Air, and for which great Cities are generally look’d upon as unwholsome. I shall not mention at present, that almost all the Buildings of _Constantinople_ are low, and made out of the Ruines, which the Fire and Earthquakes had spar’d; that many of them are not two Story high, rebuilt with rough Stones, or with burnt, and sometimes unburnt Bricks.