And thus having given the Reader some Account of the Front or fore-part of the _Promontory_, I shall now give him a short Description of the back-side of it, which faces the Sea. Behind the second and third Hills there are two lesser Hills, which hang over the _Propontis_. Between these Hills descends a hollow Valley. These Hills stand in the Middle of the Valley. That which lies Eastward, as well as that which lies to the West, exalts itself to the Height of more than two hundred Paces. At the End of the Valley, between these Hills, is a well built Harbour enclosed with a Wall. ’Tis seated upon the Plain on the Shore, near that part of the Sea which runs up to the Front of the _Hippodrom_. The Mouth of this Harbour is three hundred Paces in Breadth. From the Bay call’d _Cornu_, the Breadth crossing the Hill to the _Propontis_, widens to the Distance of two Miles. CHAP. X. _Of the second Valley, which divides the second from the third Hill._ That Valley which divides the second from the third Hill, begins at the _Promontory_, and ends in the Plain adjoining to the Sea. It contains in it the Fish-Market and the Ferry, whence you cross the Water to _Syca_. From hence to the Entrance of the Valley, a Plain expands itself to the Breadth of four hundred Paces so much upon the Level, that the Water falls from thence into the Bay with almost an imperceptible Descent. When it has contracted itself into the narrow Compass of two hundred Paces in Breadth, it gradually straightens itself into a less, even to the Middle of the Valley, where ’tis but fifty Paces in Breadth, and afterwards is no broader than the _common Way_. ’Tis above six hundred Paces in Length, three hundred of which are almost upon a Level, the other three hundred upon the Descent. It rises easily to that part of the _Promontory_, where the second and third Hills join. In the lowermost part of the Valley runs the _broad Way_ that faces _Galata_. This Way, on both Sides of it, is full of Merchants Houses, cover’d with a kind of transparent Slat, which have here and there a small Casement. The Merchants of _Galata_ frequent the grand _Bezestan_, or Place of _Exchange_. ’Tis situate partly on the Head of the Valley, and partly on an Eminence of the third Hill. In the Year of our Lord 1546 it was wholly burnt to the Ground, except two _Basilica’s_ roof’d with Brick-work, which were lock’d up every Night, and their Windows secured by Iron Bars, when the Fire was over. I was allowed after the Fire to view their grand _Forum_. I found it lie so much upon the Level, that it had but a small Ascent either from the West to the East, or from the South to the North. I observed that it stood upon more than five Furlongs of Ground; on the highest part of it, which lies to the East, I was permitted to see a _Nymphæum_, adorn’d with five and forty Marble Pillars, which supported a Brick Roof. The old _Basilica_, of which I could have no Prospect before, by