The SERRAGLIO POINT of CONSTANTINOPLE.
- A The Entrance into yᵉ. Serraglio from yᵉ. City.
- B Lodging for the Guards.
- C The great Hall for publick Audience.
- D The Grand Signors Lodgings.
- E The Womens Lodgings.
- F Pleasure Houses.
- G The Grand Signors Barge-houses.
- H Part of Constantinople called Balat.
- I The Entrance into the Serraglio from Sea.
- K Sancta Sophia now yᵉ. Grand Signors Mosque.
- L Part of Asia Shoar.
- M The Bosporus wᶜʰ. divides Europe from Asia.
From B. Randolph.
APPENDIX.
The following Piece was communicated to me by a Gentleman of the University of Oxford, who had copy’d it from the latter End of the Second Book of Nicetas Choniat, Concerning the Destruction of Constantinople. I had no sooner perus’d it, but I found it so curious in it self, and so well suited to the Subject of my Author, that I perceiv’d the Obligations I was under for that Favour; and judg’d it worthy of a Translation. I would only farther advertise the Reader, that the following Passage is not to be met with in any of the Printed Copies of Choniat, but is a Transcript from him in that Part of his Book, where he writes, concerning the Statues of Constantinople, which the Romans, when they took that City, caused to be melted down, and coyn’d. The Passage may be found in a MS. Cod. Bodl. fol. 447. l. 25. and runs thus: