between that and _Chalcedon_, to go in or out of Port on the North Side of the City. It is observable farther, that the _Ancient Description of the Wards_ mentions no _Stairs_ which lie over-against _Chalcedon_; or if the Author had taken Notice of any, he had placed them in the first or second _Wards_, opposite to _Chalcedon_, or in the third _Ward_, which stands Southward, where the _Neorium_ or the new Dock stood, as I observ’d before. But it would be of little Significancy to enlarge on this Matter, since I shall be very particular in naming and producing such Authorities, as will make it evident, that the _Bosphorian_ Port, and the _Stairs_ of _Chalcedon_ were not only situate on the North Side of the City, but shall mention the very Place where they stood. The first Historian I shall quote is _Dionysius_, a Native of the City, who places, just without the Walls of Old _Byzantium_, the Temple of _Tellus_ upon the Bay of the _Bosporus_, and a little below it the Temple of _Ceres_ and _Proserpina_, whom he does not call _Proserpina_, but only κόρη the _Virgin_; yet by the Situation of the Place we may easily understand that Virgin to be _Hecate_, whose _Tripos_ _Cedrinus_ mentions to have been in the _Strategium_, where, or at least not far from it, as appears from the same Author, stood the Temple of _Proserpina_: But _Evagrius_ is more clear upon this Occasion, who tells us, that in the Reign of _Leo_ there happen’d a great Fire on the North Side of the City, where the Dock stood, which consumed all before it, from the _Bosphorian_ Haven, to the old Temple of _Apollo_; on the South Side, from the Port of _Julian_ to the Temple of _Concord_, in the Middle of the City, from the _Forum_ of _Constantine_, to the _Taurus_; and _Zonaras_ adds, that the same Fire destroy’d all the Buildings between the North and the South Sea. _Cedrinus_ reports, that the same Fire began at the Dock, and burnt down all before it, as far as the Church of St. _John_; from whence I observe, that the _Bosphorian_ Port and the Dock were near to one another, although the Author of the _Description of the Wards_, places the former in the fifth, and the latter in the sixth _Ward_. For since both these _Wards_ join’d together, and descended from the Ridge of the _Promontory_ down to the Sea, it is not possible that they should stand at any great Distance from one another. _Zosimus_, an ancient Historian, points out the very Place where the Dock was built in his _Description_ of Old _Byzantium_. He tells us, that ’twas situate upon a Hill, which made part of the _Isthmus_, which was enclosed by the _Propontis_, and the Bay call’d _Ceras_; and adds, that the Wall of _Byzantium_ stretch’d it self over a Hill, from the Western Side of the City to the Temple of _Venus_, and the Sea facing _Chrysopolis_; and that it descended on the North Side of the City to the _Neorion_, or _New Haven_, which I take to stand near the Gate which the _Greeks_