Note 150 — BOOK XI. (continued 2)

Some modern writers have asserted that the column from which Mourzoufle was precipitated is still to be seen at Constantinople: but there existed two columns in that city; one of Theodosius and the other of Arcadius. The first was destroyed by Bajazet, and nothing remains of the other but the pedestal, which is in the Avret Baras (the women-market). See the Voyage to the Propontis, by M. le Chevalier, who has cleared up this fact on the spot.