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 we shall not at this date find a road winding over hill and dale from sea to sea as at the present day. Most of the country is occupied by walled philopatia or pleasaunces in which landscape gardening has been developed with considerable art, suburban residences of the Byzantine aristocracy. In a grove about a mile from the shore we come upon a certain well, which is regarded as sacred and frequented by sufferers from various diseases on account of the healing virtue attributed to its waters. Northwards the extramural district abutting on the Golden Horn is called Blachernae from the chief of a Thracian tribe, which formerly occupied this quarter. Here, contiguous to the wall, we may notice a small summer palace on two floors, built of brick with rows of stone-framed, arched windows, now undergoing restoration and extension by the Emperor An-*

or a Martello Tower and was the prototype of the castle shown on the old maps as the "Grand Turk's Treasure-house," built in 1458 by Mohammed II within his fortress of the Seven Towers; Map by Caedicius, CP., 1889; Ducas, p. 317; Laonicus, x, p. 529. Most likely, however, it was a wall uniting five towers in a round. The Cyclobion is attributed to Zeno, about 480; Byzantios, [Greek: Kônstantinoupolis], i, 312; Grosvenor, op cit., p. 596.], but this is evidently the highway to Rhegium, etc. (Procop., De Aedific., iv, 8).]
 * [Footnote: 6165, p. 541, etc. Possibly it looked like the tomb of Caecilia Metella