reason of the Shops and publick Houses, the Fire had lain open to my View. I observed farther, that it had two additional Buildings like Wings, joining to the main Building, each of which was divided into sixty Apartments, which were all arched, and over the Roof cover’d with Lead, as their Shops and Places of publick Entertainment are. The inward Chambers of these Apartments, for Privacy, are always lock’d, and are secured by an Iron Door. The _Basilica_ itself consists of fifteen large Apartments, in the Figure of a _Dome_, has four Doors, and is supported by eight Pillars; the Roof is Brick-work, and leaded at Top. The new _Basilica_ is supported with twelve Pillars built of a square Stone; four Arches bear upon these Pillars, which support twenty small Roofs, built in the Form of a _Dome_. There stand round about sixty Merchants Warehouses, or Shops with arch’d Roofs. Within the _Basilica_ there are two hundred and twenty more of these Warehouses, which are made after the following Manner. Round the Walls of the _Basilica_ are built abundance of very broad Pews, where the Merchants expose their Goods to Sale, which they take out of Presses, (when they would shew them to their Chapmen) which have Boxes of Drawers in them, the Masters always sitting before them. These Presses are fasten’d to the Wall, have two Folding Doors, and are removable at Pleasure. CHAP. XI. _Of the third Hill._ The third Hill is bounded on each Side by two Valleys: That which lies to the East, divides it from the second Hill, the Western Valley divides it from the fourth. The Ridge of this Hill is above a thousand Paces in Length. It shoots from the Top of the _Promontory_ Southward, Northward to the Bay of _Ceras_, almost in an equal Height. The second Hill on the contrary falls with a surprizing Descent, from the utmost Height of the _Promontory_, to the lowest Plain on the Bay Shore. The third Hill, at the Top of it is a Level of a great Length. It extends itself at the Foot of it, more by three hundred Paces to the North, than the Foot of the second Hill. It is not in all Places of an equal Breadth; at the Top of the _Promontory_ itself ’tis every way about eight hundred Paces. Here ’tis that the _Seraglio_ stands. On that part of the Plain which lies to the East, stands the Merchants _Forum_, a _Caravansera_, and the Sepulchre of _Bajazet_ the Emperor. On the South Side of it is an open _Area_, round which stand the Booksellers Shops. On that part of it which lies Northward, stand the Works which the Emperour _Solyman_ is now building, namely his Tomb, a _Caravansera_, and a magnificent and expensive Mosque. They are built not only upon the natural Situation of the Ground there, but also upon artificial Foundations. This Hill, on three Sides of it, descends upon three lesser Hills. For on that Side of it which lies Eastward, where stands the Tower of _Hirena_, a small Hill jets out into the second Valley.