upper Galleries for the Women, the whole Roof, the same Walls and Pillars, the same Dimensions of the Church, as originally beautify’d and adorn’d, are still in Being. There are indeed some Flaws in the Building, occasion’d by those who opposed the setting up of Images in the Church. In short, the whole, and every part of it, is to be seen at present; and it is despoiled of nothing, except a little of the Metal-work, which shews itself in great abundance through the whole Church. The _Sanctum Sanctorum_, formerly holy and unpolluted, into which the Priests only were suffer’d to enter, is yet standing, though there is nothing remaining of the Jewels and precious Stones which adorn’d it, as having been plunder’d by its sacrilegious Enemies. That inimitable Table, given to the Church by its Founder _Justinian_, made of the different Materials of Gold, Silver, all Kinds of Wood, costly Stones, which either the Sea or the whole World could produce, and which was embellish’d and enrich’d with infinite Offerings of Emperors, Popes, Princes, and Ladies of the first Quality; among whom was _Pulcheria_, the Daughter of _Arcadius_, and Sister of _Theodosius the Less_, is at present despoil’d of all its fine Decorations. _Sozomen_ tells us, that this Table was a very beautiful and surprizing Ornament to the Church, which was endow’d with very ample Donations, the _Mahometan_ Priests being now in Possession of them. They have eleven hundred Shops and publick Houses, situate in the best Markets of the City, which pay them a constant Revenue or Rent, without any Deductions, for their Maintenance and Support. CHAP. V. _Of the Statues discover’d on one Side of the Church of St._ Sophia. On the Side of the Church of St. _Sophia_, says _Suidas_, were discovered more than seventy Statues of the _Grecian_ Deities, the Figures of the twelve Signs of the _Zodiack_, and no less than eighty Statues of Christian Princes and Emperors, which, when _Justinian_ had commanded to be placed in several Parts of the City, he built the great Church. I could give the Reader an Account of the Names of these Deities from an unknown Author, who has wrote a Treatise of _Constantinople_, and the adjacent Countrey; but I have found him faulty in so many of his Narrations, that I cannot depend upon his Authority. CHAP. VI. _Of the_ Pharo _on the Promontory_ Ceras, _and the_ Mangana.