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which lic under ir. When the Wind has Frefhen’d, andtheShip Ius beenunder Füll Saii, I have observ’d theWavcs, at the Head and at the Sidesof the Ship, to appear wi*h a Pale kind of Bngbtness ; which I Ascribe ratherto the S<*/wParticIc3 of the Sea-sVater, which were then put into a violentAgitation, that» to the Spawn of Ftßi, as forne of our Company Ima*gin’d.

SaÜing toward the West of Portland, we saw scveral Porpifces Playingwith their Heads above Watcr; which I mention oniy, becaule the Seamenlook upon them as fore-runners of a Storm; the Wind foon aster Blowingvery Hard at N. by E. and afterwards arriving at Constantinople, theWind blowing a Stiti Gale at North, I observ’d, wich a plcasimt kind ofastonistiment, good part os the Propontis, that is from Seraglto Point towardthe Istands, which lie against the Bay of Nicomedia, Eastward and South-East fronius, as far as we could sec, coverd as ic were with Porpifcts,which appcar’d every where in great abundance. So that I am very apt tobelieve that Julius Solinus is to be understood of Porpifces, and not of Dol-pbtns, now properly so call’d, though that be his Word, fpeaking of theBojßhorus and Propontis : Hac profunda Delphmas Plurimos babent: and soonalter, ante omnia nihil Velocius babent Marsa, sie iit plerumque transvolentVela Navium, And I could not hear that any Dolphins are caughtin tholeSeas by the Greeks, whosc Poverty, added to the Love which their Nationhas for Fißs, and the advantage arising thence, upon the Account of theirsblcmn Fafis and Abflinences from all Flefh, even to a wonderful Strictneseand Scrupulosity, has made them excellent Filhermen.

2. Constantinople, formerly Byzantium, was by Constantine the Greatcall’d so aster hi* own Name, who being mightily pleascd with the Beau-tisul and Advantagious Situation of the Place, between two Seas, and de-fended by narrow Straits on both sides, Remov’d the Seat of the Empire hi-ther, and laid the Foundation of its Future Splendor and Greatnefs. It wasalso by a fpecial EdiB, ot Law, of the fame Emperor, which he caused tobeEngravenon a Marble PiUar, placed near his own Statue on Horsc-back,inoneof the Piaixa's of his New Built City call’d Strategiam, where the Sol-diersused to Muster, as in the Campus Martius, calfd Second or Nevi Reme,in emülation of Old Rome, which he design’d and endeavour’d this fhouldequal in all things. Accordingly he Endow’d it with the fame Priviledgesand Immunities, and establifh’d the fame Number of Magistrates and Or-ders of People, and Divided the whole Extent of it into 14 Prectn&s orRegions according to the Division of Reme. And the Greek Wrirers wereas Elegant and Extravagant in their Commendations of it; but the usual Ti-tle in their Ordinary Difcourfes and Writings, when they had occasion tomention it without any Flourifh was « ßauno-kvMra. or » ßno-iAh, that is, theImptrial City to the fame Sense with that of Sidonius Apollinaris,

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