D'Anville examines with care, and receives with confidence, this decisive testimony, which gives a circumference of ten or twelve miles.

The extravagant computation of Tournefort (Lettre XI) of thirty-tour or thirty miles, without including Scutari, is a strange departure from his usual character.] [Footnote 35: The sycae, or fig-trees, formed the thirteenth region, and were very much embellished by Justinian.

It has since borne the names of Pera and Galata.

The etymology of the former is obvious; that of the latter is unknown.

See Ducange, Const.l.i.c.22, and Gyllius de Byzant.l.iv.c.