divided each of them with Valleys. And therefore to proceed regularly, I shall first give the Reader a Description of the right Side of the _Promontory_, with its Hills and Vales, and then take Notice of the left Side of it, which stands behind them. CHAP. VI. _Of the Situation of all the Parts of the City describ’d._ The first Part of the Breadth of the _Promontory_ is the Front of it, which opening to the Distance of a thousand Paces Eastwards adjoins to the Chaps of the _Bosporus_. For this Sea winds round the Back of the _Promontory_ in such a Manner, that from the Point where the _Bosporus_ is divided, to the Bay called _Ceras_, and the Land’s Point of that Sea, it extends itself from North to South to the Distance of fourteen Furlongs; and from thence to a farther Distance of four Furlongs, it winds round from the South-east to the South-South-west, even to the Mouth of the _Propontis_, which joining with the _Bosporus_, winds round the City to South-west, to the Distance of two Miles more. This Side of the Hill is bounded at the Bottom of it with a Plain of the same Breadth with itself, which is two hundred Paces. There rise upon the Plain some lesser Hills, which are not above four hundred Paces in Height. On the Top of the left Side of these Hills stands the _Hippodrom_; on the right Side, which faces the South-west, is the Palace of the _Grand Seignor_. I might not improperly call it the Front of the _Promontory_, as being almost of an equal Ascent in all its Parts, having a Plain running along it, of an equal Length with itself; besides, it adjoins to the first Hill: I say, for these Reasons I might call it a part of the first Hill; but to understand it more distinctly, I shall treat of it by itself. CHAP. VII. _Of the first Hill, of the Palace of the Grand Seignor, of the Church of St._ Sophia, _and the_ Hippodrom.