wall. More remarkable is the Tower of Eugenius, called also the Centenarian Tower,[1] a massive pile closer to the bank, which corresponds to a similar erection across the water. These structures are the work of Constantine, who raised them to serve as the points of attachment of a ponderous iron chain, which should close the Golden Horn against the attack of a hostile fleet. So far, however, no enemy has been encountered so adventurous as to necessitate the practical application of this means of defence.[2]
Beyond the stairs of Sycae the locality is called the Zeugma.[3] This tract is reserved for the storage of wood, which, coal being unknown, is the only fuel available for cooking, heating of baths, and all other purposes. Immense quantities have, therefore, to be brought down by sea from the wild countries bordering on the Euxine[4] and deposited here for the use of the Constantinopolitans. At this point we have reached the limits of the wall of Byzantium and henceforth to the end of the land-wall at Blachernae this side
- [Footnote: share in adorning the city (Glycas, iv, p. 463), or another, who lived
under Theodosius I (Codin., p. 77).], Venice, 1824, p. 14, by Constantius, Archbishop of CP. This appears to be the first attempt by a modern Greek to investigate the antiquities of CP. He had to disguise himself as a dervish to explore Stamboul, for which he was banished to the Prince's Islands, and his book was publicly burnt.]
- ↑ Codin., p. 114; Cedrenus, ii, p. 80; Leo Diac., p. 78. This tower was standing up to 1817; see [Greek: Kônstantiniade
- ↑ Leo Diac. (loc. cit.) explains how the chain was supported at intervals on piles. It seems to have been first used in 717 by Leo Isaurus; Theophanes, i, p. 609; Manuel Comn. even drew a chain across the Bosphorus from CP. to the tower called Arcula (Maiden's T., etc.), which he constructed for the purpose (Nicetas Chon., vii, 3).
- ↑ Theophanes, an. 6024; Codin., p. 93. The "junction," that of the mules to the vehicle containing the relics of St. Stephen newly arrived from Alexandria!
- ↑ Xenophon notices the plenty of timber on these coasts (Anab., vi, 2).
