1 _The outward Porch._ 2 _The inward Porch._ 3 _The 2 Doors of the outward Porch._ 4 _The 5 Doors of the inward Porch._ 5 _The 8 principal Pillars._ 6 _The Centre._ 7 _The Holy Doors._ 8 _The Holy Table._] [Illustration: _The whole view of the Church of_ Sancta Sophia _from Du Fresne Lib. 3. Pag. 5_. _J. Tinney Sculp._] [Illustration: _The outside Prospect of the Church of_ Sancta Sophia _from Du Fresne Lib. 3. Pag. 1_. _J. Tinney Sculp._] [Illustration: _The inside Prospect of the Church of_ Sancta Sophia _from Du Fresne Lib. 3. Pag. 1_. _J. Tinney Sculp._] [Illustration: _The Plan of the Church of the Apostles. Lib. 4. Cap. 2._ _aa. Propilæum or Church porch._ _b. The Nave, or body of the Church._ _cccc. The circuit of the Chancel._ _d. The holy Table._ _e. The holy Chair._] [Illustration: _The_ Hippodrom _with the_ Thebean Obelisk _and_ Engines _by which it was erected_. _From Sʳ. G. Wheler._] [Illustration: _The Serpentine Pillar. Lib. 2. Cap. 13._ _The Porphyry Pillar. Lib. 3. Cap. 3._ _The Pillar of the Empʳ._ Marcian. _Lib. 4. Cap. 8_. _From Sʳ. G. Wheler._] [Illustration: THE HISTORICAL PILLAR _from Du Fresne Lib. 1 Pag. 79._ _J. Tinney Sculp._] [Illustration: _The SERRAGLIO POINT of_ CONSTANTINOPLE. A _The Entrance into yᵉ. Serraglio from yᵉ. City._ B _Lodging for the Guards._ C _The great Hall for publick Audience._ D _The Grand Signors Lodgings._ E _The Womens Lodgings._ F _Pleasure Houses._ G _The Grand Signors Barge-houses._ H _Part of Constantinople called Balat._ I _The Entrance into the Serraglio from Sea._ K _Sancta Sophia now yᵉ. Grand Signors Mosque._ L _Part of Asia Shoar._ M _The Bosporus wᶜʰ. divides Europe from Asia._ _From B. Randolph._] [Illustration: Page Header Decoration] _APPENDIX._ _The following Piece was communicated to me by a Gentleman of the University of_ Oxford, _who had copy’d it from the latter End of the Second Book of_ Nicetas Choniat, Concerning the Destruction of Constantinople. _I had no sooner perus’d it, but I found it so curious in it self, and so well suited to the Subject of my Author, that I perceiv’d the Obligations I was under for that Favour; and judg’d it worthy of a Translation. I would only farther advertise the Reader, that the following Passage is not to be met with in any of the Printed Copies of_ Choniat, _but is a Transcript from him in that Part of his Book, where he writes, concerning the Statues of_ Constantinople, _which the_ Romans, _when they took that City, caused to be melted down, and coyn’d. The Passage may be found in a_ MS. Cod. Bodl. fol. 447. _l._ 25. _and runs thus_: * * * * *