I returned again to my lodgings at _Galata_, and the next day crossed the water in company with Mr. Goodfellow to _Constantinople_, where after a visit to the _mosque_ of _Solymán_ the _Magnificent_, we obtained leave to ascend one of the _minarées_, from which the _muezins_ call the Turks to their _namáz_, being about an hundred and twenty feet high. Here we took a delightful prospect of the whole situation and extent of _Stambol_, as likewise of _Galata_, _Pera_, and _Scutari_, with the neighbouring seas, canals, and land that encloses them. But the peculiar happiness of this day was the employment of about two hours, which we leisurely spent in viewing the stupendous church of _Sophía_[86], now profaned by its conversion into a Turkish _mosque_. It chiefly merits the regard of any curious traveler for the reliques of its rich mosaic work; the variety of pretious marble[87], which adorns it, consisting of serpentine, alabaster, and porphyry; and the architecture of its large and flat tho sublime cupola[88], in which are still the entire figures of _Christ_ and the twelve _Apostles_, and in the windows many inscriptions in mosaic work from the _New Testament_. May xxiii. I returned again to _Belgrade_, as well for the opportunity of confirming my health, as for continuing my respects to his Excellency the Lord Paget. June vi. I waited on his Excellency from _Belgrade_ to _Pera_, going first to _Boiukderé_ and thence down the _Bosphorus_ by boat. June x. I waited on his Excellency, as well to wish him a good journey, as to receive his commands for _Smyrna_. June xiii. I returned to the house of my esteemed freind, Mr. Goodfellow, in _Galata_; and the day following took leave of the Dutch ambassador and his family. June xvi. I made a visit by boat to the _Seven Towers_, now a prison for persons of quality, since by the fate of war it has fallen into the hands of the Turks, but antiently the _Porta Janicula_ of _Constantinople_. The beautiful remains of this gate are still admirable, tho by the Turks suffered to be almost concealed by a dead wall, and the shade of the neighbouring trees. It is a regular and carved arch of white marble, supported by two beautiful pillars, adorned in the pilasters with a sculpture representing several military affairs, and flanked on each side the pillars with twelve tablets of carved work extremely well performed, which contain several poetical stories. Among the rest is _Hercules_ and the _Nemeaean lion_, the beast prodigious and terrible, but confessing its conqueror by an agreable posture; _Luna_ and _Endymion_; a winged _Pegasus_, managed by some of the _Muses_; a pourtraiture of the known combat of whirlbats; and an imperial figure, crowned by two celestial machines.