makes it appear, that it was stripp’d of its Gold long before the _Turks_ took _Constantinople_. _After the Battle of Platææ_, says he, _the_ Greeks _made a common Offering to_ Apollo, _which was a golden_ Tripos, _supported by a brazen Serpent_. The Brass, he tells us, remain’d whole in his Time, but the Gold was carry’d off by the _Phocean_ Generals. There are five other Pillars in the same Range. In the Front of the _Hippodrom_, facing the _Propontis_, there was a Range of seventeen Pillars of white Marble standing, when first I came to _Constantinople_. They stood on the South-west Side of the _Hippodrom_. The _Pedestal_ of each of them is two Foot and ten Digits high, and are all of them supported by arch’d Foundations, which lye Level with the Plain of the _Hippodrom_, but rise above Ground to the Height of fifty Foot. They are all placed upon a little Wall, which projects two Steps, or square Plinths, the lowermost of which is a Foot and a Digit high; the upper is a Foot and six Digits high, and projects beyond the Pedestal eight Digits. The Pedestals of them are every way five Feet, and seven Inches broad. The lowest Projectures of them, which are placed there for _Tores_ and other _Modules_, are six Digits and a half high, the upper Projectures of the same Height; the _Plinth_ of the _Cornice_ is eleven Digits in Thickness; the lower _Tore_ seven Digits and a half; the _Scotia_ four Digits; the upper _Tore_ six Digits; the Stone which supports the Shaft is five Digits high, and the Shafts themselves three Foot five Digits in Diameter, and twenty eight Foot in Height. These Pillars were lately taken down, and the _Bases_ of them removed by Order of _Solyman_ the Emperor, to build an Hospital. I was concern’d to see them thus demolish’d, not so much for the Use they were intended, but that some of them were squared out for paving a _Bagnio_, and that the _Capitals_, made after the most exact Plans of ancient _Architecture_, were cut into Rude and ill-shapen Models for covering a Bake-house, and that the _Pedestals_, and all the _Entablature_ were hewn out, it may be only to build a Wall. The _Shafts_ of the Pillars stood at eleven Foot Distance. I observ’d the _Capitals_ were impair’d by reason of the great Space of Intercolumniation. The _Capitals_ were finish’d after the _Corinthian_ Order, and the _Trabeation_ was beautifully wrought, but was not adorn’d with an _Ovolo_. There were Iron Rings fix’d to the _Architraves_, upon which were hung Curtains. Beyond this was another Range of Pillars, which were remaining some time after the Taking of the City by the _Turks_. Before it was taken by the _Gauls_ and the _Venetians_, there were in the _Hippodrom_ abundance of Figures of Horses, both in Stone and Brass. There were four in particular of surprizing Skill, which were gilded, equal in Beauty and Workmanship to those which now stand before the Church of St. _Marcian_ at _Venice_, which, some say, were brought thither