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Galata is at prefent the refidence of many merchants of all nations, and the narrow ftreets are formed by fhops and magazines for articles of European commerce. The circuit inclofes four miles. Its pretended jurifdiCtion is claimed by the Venetians, whofe ambaf- fadors are ilyled “ bailo,” and whofe public entrance through the. gates is attended with a ceremony of prefenting the keys. The lover of Gothic antiquity will difeover with pleafure efcocheons of arms, and inferiptions in that chara<5ter, placed againft the wallsd. ’ Im perfect remains only are now feen of the Genoefe fort, from which the chain was drawn acrofs to the Seraglio point, during the fieges which happened in the reigns of Leo III. Michael II. and Conftan-tine the fall.
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