_Adrianople_ is seated on the _Hebrus_, at the place where it receives the _Tunsa_ and the _Harda_. It is a fair and compact city, about five miles in circumference, rising gently on the side of a small hill from the banks of the _Hebrus_ and _Tunsa_[107]. What is there remarkable, may be reduced to the _seraglio_, _mosques_, and _sharshées_. The _seraglio_ is built in a flat and verdant plain, at the foot of the city betwixt the _Hebrus_ and _Tunsa_, but more immediately upon the banks of the latter. It is surrounded almost on all sides with a thick grove of beech and elm, which within form the resemblance of a park, and outwardly yeild a grateful prospect, in regard that the countrey about it is almost wholly naked of wood. A square wall encloses the fabric, which is truly mean, and of a confused intricate figure; but, as is commonly said, well contrived for convenience. The matter is plain free stone, and the covering of lead. Nothing can be more grateful to the eye, than the sight of this level verdant situation; and yet in regard of its lowness, and too near approach to the rivers, nothing more unwholesome. It seems to stand in the very same place, where _Constantine_ gave that famous defeat to _Licinnius_[108]. The _mosques_ observable in this place are those called _Eskijamí_, the _Three Sheríffs_, _Sultan Bajazet_, and _Sultan Selím_. The first of these is so called from its antiquity, which _Morát_ the first here established, and converted to that profane use from a Christian church, of which it still retains the intire figure. The second is to be observed for the abundance of porphyry, which appears in the fabric, and the various architecture of the four _minarées_, together with many serpentine pillars, which support the porticos of the area. The third likewise has many serpentine pillars round the area, and those of interrupted veins and distinct materials, which seem to persuade one, that they are of a cast substance. But the greatest beauty of this city, and as some think of the whole empire, is the _mosque_ of _Sultan Selím_ the second, built by him out of materials brought chiefly from the ruins of _Famagusta_, in the island of _Cyprus_. Yet in regard that the area is not square, nor supported with so rich or correspondent pillars, excepting four that adorn the front, I esteem it inferior to the two noble _mosques_ of _Solymán_ and _Achmét_ at _Constantinople_. Otherwise it is a fair structure, built with great conformity of its several parts, and like a theatre consisting of one stately room ending upwards in a cupola. It is adorned with four regular and beautiful _minarées_, each of which has two hundred forty four stairs leading into the uppermost balcony. For in each of them are three balconies, that imitate the capitals of pillars, between which the whole body of the column is regularly chanel’d. One of these is famous for having three staircases winding one within another, of which one opens into the three