_Ammianus Marcellinus_ writes, that there was built near the Promontory _Ceras_, a high Watch-Tower, which was call’d _Pharos_, and was a Guide to the Ships at a great Distance. The Situation of this _Pharos_, in all Probability, was near the Church of St. _Sophia_. For from what Part of the City could it spread a more convenient and diffusive Light to those who sail’d out of the _Bosporus_ and the _Propontis_? _Dionysius_ calls it the _Bosporian Promontory_, and tells us, that _Io_, the Daughter of _Inachus_, provoked by _Juno_’s Resentment against her, passed over from thence into _Asia_. The Place call’d the _Mangana_ was their Armoury, where they kept their Ordnance. It stood in the Imperial Precinct, or by it, near the Chops of the _Bosporus_. The Emperor _Constantine_, Surnamed _Monomachus_, built a handsome and large Monastery, which is also call’d _Mangana_, in Honour of the noble _Martyr_ St. _George_. _Alexius Comnenus_, when he was ill of the Gout, was carry’d to the great Palace, which stands in the Eastern part of the City; but when his Physicians judg’d it not to be so wholsome an Air, he was removed into the Palace of the _Mangana_. CHAP. VII. _Of the_ Bagnio’s _of_ Zeuxippus _and its Statues_. These _Bagnio’s_ were so call’d, as _Cedrinus_ relates, because they were built in a Place, where formerly had stood the Temple of _Jupiter Zeuxippus_. This is said of them by _Eusebius_, who writes, _That there are some of Opinion, that the fine Bathing-place at_ Constantinople _took its Name from the famous Painter_ Zeuxes, _whose Pieces adorn’d it_. I collect that it stood near the Church of St. _Sophia_, not only from the _Treatise_ of the _ancient Description_ of the City, which places them both in the same _Ward_, but also from the Fire which happen’d in the Reign of _Justinian_, and burnt down, as _Procopius_ observes, the Church of St. _Sophia_, and the adjacent Buildings, as the _Bagnio_ of _Zeuxippus_, and the House of Entrance before the Palace; and _Zonaras_ writes, that _Severus_ the Emperor join’d it to the _Hippodrom_, and built it on the same Spot of Ground, where formerly had stood the Temple of _Jupiter_. _Leontius_, a more ancient and judicious Historian, does not join it to the _Hippodrom_, but makes it to stand near it, as appears by his Verses inscrib’d over a Door of a House, situate between the _Zeuxippum_ and the _Hippodrom_. An Inscription of _Leontius_ upon a House call’d the _Zeuxippum_ and the _Hippodrom_. _Between_ Zeuxippus’ _cool refreshing Baths, And the fam’d_ Hippodrom_’s swift Course I stand. Let the Spectator, when he baths himself, Or sees the struggling Steed panting for Breath, Pay a kind Visit, to enhanse his Pleasures; He’ll find a hearty Wellcome at my Table. Or if more manly Sports his Mind affects, Practise the rough Diversions of the_ Stadia.