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TIPTON, a large village of the hundred of Offley in the county of Stafford, 127 miles from London. It has become a place of importance, from the extension of the potteries which are carried on there. The inhabitants amounted in 1821 to 1 1,546, and in 1831 to 14,951.
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TIPTON
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TIRANAS and Tonadillas (Spanish) are Spanish national melodies in ¾ time, and of a moderate movement, sung with an accompaniment for the guitar only. The Spanish dance-tunes, such as the Fandangos, the Boleros, and the Seguidillas, formerly much in vogue in Spain, were played on the guitar, often accompanied by the voi...
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TIRANAS
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TIREH, a town of Anatolia, in Asia Minor, on the Mein-der, which has some manufactures. It was besieged by Timor in 1402, when the inhabitants redeemed their lives by a sum of money. Thirty-two miles S. S. E. of Smyrna.
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TIREH
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TIREY, one of the Hebrides Islands, situated in long. 6° 52' W. and lat. 56° 32' N. Its length is twelve miles, and its greatest breadth about four and a half miles; and it contains about 13,000 Scotch acres, of which nearly 4000 are considered as arable. Its nearest distance from Mull, at Kilninian, is fourteen miles,...
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TIREY
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TIRHOOT, an extensive district of Hindustan, province of Bahar, situated principally between the 27th and 28th degrees of north latitude. It is generally well cultivated, and productive of grain, sugar, indigo, tobacco, opium, and of late years has bred numbers of horses and cattle. Towards the northern frontier it pos...
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TIHLEMONT, a city of the Netherlands in the province of South Brabant and circle of Louvain. It has been fortified, but its walls are dilapidated. It stands on the river Geete, has a very fine market-place, and contains 8400 inhabitants, who carry on breweries and distilleries, and make some woollen cloths and hosiery....
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50 49' N 4 48' E
TIHLEMONT
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TIROLESE (Ital.), a kind of waltz-tune, mingled with triplet passages, in ¾ time, and of a moderate movement. The Tyrolese songs have a similar melody, and are generally performed in a singular fu!setto voice.
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TIROLESE
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TITAN, in fabulous history, the son of Coelus and Terra, [7:21:317]and the elder brother of Saturn, suffered the latter to enjoy the crown, on condition that he should bring up none of his male issue, by which means the crown should at length revert to him. But Jupiter being spared by the address of Rhea, Saturn’s wife...
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TITAN
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TITHES, in ecclesiastical law, are defined to be the tenth part of the increase yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants; the first species being usually called predial, as of corn, grass, hops, and wood; the second mixed, as of wool, milk...
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TITHES
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TITHING (Tithinga, from the Saxon, Theothunge, i.e. Decuria), a number or company of ten men, with their families, knit together in a kind of society, and all bound to the king for the peaceable behaviour of each other. Anciently no man was suffered to abide in England above forty days, unless he were enrolled in some ...
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TITHING
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TITIANO VECELLI, the most universal genius for painting of all the Lombard school, and the best colourist of all the moderns, was born at Cadore, in the province of Friuli, in the state of Venice, in 1477, or in 1480 according to Vasari and Sandrart. His parents sent him at ten years of age to one of his uncles at Veni...
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TITIANO VECELLI
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TITLE, an appellation of dignity or rank given to princes and persons of distinction. Titles were not so common among the ancient Greeks or Romans as they are in modem times. Till the reign of Constantine, the title of Illustrious was never given except to those who were distinguished in arms or letters; but at length ...
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TITLE
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TITULAR denotes a person invested with a title, in virtue of which he holds an office or benefice, whether he performs its functions or not.
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TITULAR
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TITUS VESPASIANUS, the Roman emperor, the son of Vespasian; of whom it is related, that not being able to recollect any good action which he had done on a certain day, he exclaimed, “I have lost a day !” He might truly be called the father of his people; and though Rome laboured under various public calamities during h...
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TITUS VESPASIANUS
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TIVERTON, a town of the hundred of the same name, in the county of Devon, 163 miles from London. It stands on the river Exe, where the Leman joins that stream, and by the two the town is nearly surrounded. They are rapid streams, and well calculated for turning large machinery. The town was much enriched by its woollen...
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TIVOKEA, a low sandy island in the South Pacific Ocean, of an elliptical form, and eighteen miles in its longest diameter. Long. 144. 56. W. Lat. 14. 28. S.
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14 28' S 144 56' W
TIVOKEA
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TIVOLI, a city of the papal dominions, the capital of a district of the same name, on the river Teverone, on the side of a hill. It is the seat of a bishop, has a fine market-place, a cathedral, ten parish and fourteen conventual churches, with 5550 inhabitants, but is an old and ill-built place. It is, however, much v...
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TIVOLI
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TIZE, a seaport of Persia, in the province of Mekran, once important, but now reduced to a miserable village of fifty or sixty huts. It is ten miles south from Churbar.
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TIZE
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TJIDANEE, or Tangerang, a river of the island of Java, which runs a northerly course, and falls into the Java Sea in the bay of Bantam.
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TJIDANEE
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TOBACCO. See Νicοτιανa. Tobacco- Pipes, Manufacture of. The art of making tobacco pipes, or, as it is commonly called, pipe-making, though one of the simplest species of pottery, is sufficiently curious to merit description. The process may be divided into six stages; viz. 1. Beating or preparing the clay; 2. Rolling; ...
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TOBACCO
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TOBAGO, the most southerly of the Carribbee Islands, lies in 60° 30' west longitude, and 11° 16' north latitude. It is about twenty-two miles long, and from four to nine miles broad. This island was discovered by Columbus in 1496, and received its name from the herb which was smoked by the inhabitants. Sir Robert Dudle...
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TOBAGO
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TOBERMORY. See Mull.
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TOBERMORY
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TOBOL, a considerable river of Asiatic Russia, which has its rise near the northern extremity of the Oural Mountains. It joins the Irtysch near Tobolsk, after a course of nearly 400 miles. Its shores are generally flat, and liable to inundation. Its upper course is traversed by wandering bands of Tartars, but in its lo...
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TOBOL
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TOBOLSK, the name of one of the two great governments into which Asiatic Russia is divided, being the western division of that immense territory. Irkoutsk is the eastern division. Tobolsk is bounded on the west by the Oural chain of mountains, which separates it from European Russia; on the north by the Northern Ocean,...
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58 12' N 68 15' E
TOBOLSK
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TOBOSA, a town, or rather a large village, of Spain, in the province of La Mancha and the partido de Infantes. It stands on the great road from the province to Madrid, and contains about 2200 inhabitants; and is only remarkable from being the supposed residence of the imaginary Dulcinea of Don Quixote.
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TOBOSA
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TOCAT, or Tokat, a large and commercial city of Asia Minor, in the pachalic of Sivas. It is built in the form of an amphitheatre, and is situated in a deep valley on the banks of the Jekil Irmak, the ancient Iris. The streets, though steep, from the unevenness of the ground, are well paved. Several manufactures are car...
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39 35' N 36 30' E
TOCAT
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TOCCATA (Ital.), an old-fashioned piece of music of considerable difficulty, generally written for the harpsichord or the organ, but sometimes for the violin. Clementi’s modern toccata for the pianoforte is an admirable study for that instrument.
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TOCCATA
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TOCKENBURG, a long and narrow valley of the canton of St Gall, in Switzerland. The length of this valley is thirty-six miles; and through the whole of it the river Thur rushes with impetuous force, from its source on the western side of the Sentis, to its entrance into the Rhine at Elken, in the canton of Zurich. A ran...
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TOCKENBURG
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TODDINGTON, a town of the county of Bedford, in the hundred of Mamshead, thirty-seven miles from London and four from Dunstable. It had formerly a market, but it has gradually declined, and at length disappeared; but the town still has four well-attended annual fairs. The population amounted in 1801 to 1143, in 1811 to...
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TODDINGTON
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TOGA, in Roman antiquity, a wide woollen gown or mantle, which seems to have been of a semicircular form, without sleeves; differing both in richness and largeness, according to the circumstances of the wearer, and used only upon occasion of appearing in public. Every body knows that the toga was the distinguishing mar...
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TOGA
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TOKA, a town of some consequence, in Hindustan, province of Aurungabad. Long. 75. 10. E. Lat. 19. 25. N.
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19 25' N 75 10' E
TOKA
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TOKAY, or T okai, a town of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, in the division of Semplin. It is situated on the river Theiss, at the point where the waters of the Bodrog fall into that stream. It was once considered an important military post; and was then the great store-cellar of the wine of Prince Bagotzky. Tokay co...
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TOKAY
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TOKEN Besseys, a cluster of very small isles situated off the east coast of the island of Booton. Long. 123. 35. E. Lat. 5. 40. S. These islands are all connected by narrow straits, between which run very rapid currents, that render the navigation dangerous.
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5 40' S 123 35' E
TOKEN
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TOLAND, J ohn, a well-known writer, was born near Londonderry, in Ireland, in 1670, and educated in the Popish religion, but at sixteen years of age embraced the principles of the Protestants. He studied three years in the university of Glasgow; took the degree of A. M. in that of Edinburgh; and afterwards completed hi...
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TOLEDO, a province of Spain, forming a part of the ancient kingdom of Old Castille. It extends in north latitude from 39° 3' to 40° 54', and in west longitude from 3° 1' to 5° 32', and comprises 734 Spanish square leagues, or about 9060 English square miles. It is bounded on the north by the provinces of Madrid and Gua...
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40 28' 40" N 3 27' 57" W
TOLEDO
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TOLERATION, in matters of religion, is either civil or ecclesiastical. Civil toleration is an impunity and safety granted by the state to every sect that does not maintain doctrines inconsistent with the public peace; and ecclesiastical toleration is the allowance which the church grants to its members to differ in cer...
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TOLERATION
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TOLLO, or Tolour Bay, a great bay on the east coast of the island of Celebes, very broad at the entrance.
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TOLLO
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TOLOUR Isle, the largest of the Salibabo Isles, named Kercolang by Captain Hunter. It is a well-cultivated and populous island. The inhabitants are chiefly Mahomme [7:21:324]dans, who exhibit a considerable degree of cultivation. It is fertile, every part being covered with trees and verdure. It is about eighty or a hu...
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TOLOUR
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TOLSTONOSKOI, a fort of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Tobolsk, on the Yenisei, 280 miles northnorth-west of Turuchansk.
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TOLSTONOSKOI
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TOMB includes both the grave or sepulchre in which a person is interred, and the monument erected to preserve his memory. The word is formed from the Greek τύμϐος , tumulus, sepulchre; or, according to Menage, from the Latin tumba, which has the same signification. In many nations it has been customary to burn the bod...
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TOMB
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TOMBUCTOO. See Timbuctoo.
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TOMBUCTOO
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TOMINIE Bar, a bay which deeply indents the north-east quarter of the island of Celebes, and abounds with small rocky islets and rocky shoals. It is often called Gonong Teliu Bay.
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TOMINIE
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TOMOGUY, a small island in the Eastern Seas, about two miles round. Long. 127. 4. E. Lat. 0. 15. S.
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0 15' S 127 4' E
TOMOGUY
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TOMPION, a sort of bung or cork used to stop the mouth of a cannon. At sea this is carefully encircled with tallow or putty, to prevent the penetration of the water into the bore, whereby the powder contained in the chamber might be damaged or rendered incapable of service.
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TOMPION
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TOMSK, a large city, capital of an extensive district in Asiatic Russia. It is situated on the Tom, about twenty-five miles from its junction with the Obi. Like most of the Siberian cities, it was originally a small wooden fort; but being consumed by fire, it was rebuilt on a larger scale in 1648. It is built on remark...
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56 80' N 84 10' E
TOMSK
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TONALITY, in Music (Ital, tonalita, Fr. tonalite), a modern term, introduced to designate the existence of differences among various musical modes, ancient and modern, and among the elements of melodies and harmonies founded upon these modes. See M usic , pp. 611, 612, and pp. 61-68 of Appendix to Graham’s Essay on Mus...
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TONALITY
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TONDI, a seaport town in the south of India, province of the Carnatic, district of Mara was. Long. 76. 5. E. Lat. 9. 43. N.
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9 43' N 76 5' E
TONDI
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TONE, in Music. See Music.
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TONE
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TONG, a city of China, of the second rank, in Pe-che-lee, on the river Peiho, ten miles east of Pekin. Long. 116. 20. E. Lat. 40. 56. N.
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40 56' N 116 20' E
TONG
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TONGA Islands. See Friendly Islands .
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TONGA
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TONGATABOO Island, one of the Friendly Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, about sixty miles in circuit. It was first discovered by Tasman. Long, of the middle of the island 175. W. Lat. 21. 11. S.
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TONGATABOO
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TONG-GIN, a city of China, of the first rank, on the borders of Houquang, in the environs of which are mines of gold and silver. 850 miles south-south-west of Pekin. Long. 106. 37. E. Lat. 27. 39. N.
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27 39' N 106 37' E
TONG-GIN
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TONGHO, a celebrated fortress and capital of a district of the same name in the Birman empire. The district is situated about the nineteenth degree of north latitude, and the ninety-eighth degree of east longitude. It is fertile and extensive, and constitutes the principality of one of the king’s sons. The town is buil...
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18 50' N 96 49' E
TONGHO
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TONG-TCHANG, a city of China, of the first rank, on the grand canal. It carries on an extensive trade in grain and fruits. It is 212 miles south of Pekin. Long. 115. ‘10. E. Lat. 86. 34. N.
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TONG-TCHANG
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TONG-TCHOUEN, a city of China, of the first rank, in Sechuen, strongly fortified, being on the Tartar frontier. Long. 103. 2. E. Lat. 26. 20. N.
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26 20' N 103 2' E
TONG-TCHOUEN
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TONK RAMPOORAH, a rajpoot town, in the province of Ajmeer, sixty miles south by east of Jyenagur. Long. 75. 68. E. Lat. 26. 7. N. [7:21:326]
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26 7' N 75 68' E
TONK RAMPOORAH
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TONNAGE. Tonnage has long been an official term, intended originally to express the burthen that a ship would carry, in order that the various dues and customs which are levied upon shipping might be levied according to the size of the vessel, or rather in proportion to her capability of carrying a burthen. It has hen...
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TONNAGE
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TONNAGE and Poundage, an ancient duty on wine and other goods, the origin of which seems to have been this. About the 2lst of Edward III. complaint was made that merchants were robbed and murdered on the seas. The king thereupon, with the consent of the peers, levied a duty of 2s. on every ton of wine, and 12d. in the ...
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TONNAGE
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TONNEINS, a city of France, in the department of the Lot and the Garonne, and in the arrondissement of Mar-mande. It is on a fertile plain on the right bank of the Garonne, along which its broad well-built streets extend to a great length. The inhabitants amounted in 1836 to 6494. They cultivate much tobacco and hemp, ...
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TONNEINS
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TONNERE, an arrondissement of the department of the Yonne, in France. It extends over 463 square miles, and comprehends five cantons, divided into eighty-two communes, having 45,390 inhabitants in 1836. Its capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river Armançon, and containing in the same year 4271 inhabi...
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4 51' 8" N 3 53' 39" E
TONNERE
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TONNINGEN, a city of Denmark, in the province of Sleswick. It is on a hill on the right bank of the river Eyder, and near its mouth. From its connection with the Sleswick Canal, which unites the German Ocean with the Baltic, it has some trade; but had more during the war, when it was a depot for colonial articles. It n...
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55 19' N 8 43' E
TONNINGEN
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TONORU, a town in the province of Mysore, where are still to be seen the remains of ancient and extensive walls, that must have enclosed a large city. The town, which is decayed, is fast increasing in size and population under the British government.
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TONORU
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TONQUIN. See Tunquin.
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TONQUIN
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TONSURE, a particular manner of shaving or clipping the hair of ecclesiastics or monks. The ancient tonsure of the clergy was nothing more than polling the head, and cutting the hair to a moderate degree, for the sake of decency and gravity. The same observation is true with respect to the tonsure of the ancient monks....
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TONSURE
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TONTINE, a loan given for life annuities with benefit of survivorship; so called from the projector Lorenzo Tonti, a Neapolitan. He proposed his scheme in 1653, to reconcile the people to Cardinal Mazarine’s government, by amusing them with the hope of becoming suddenly rich. He obtained the consent of the court, but t...
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TONTINE
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TON-TING, a large lake of China, in the province of Houquang, about sixty miles long, and from seventeen to twenty-five broad.
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TON-TING
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TONYN’S Islands, a cluster of small islands in the Eastern Seas, near the south-west coast of the island of Celebes. Long. 119. E. Lat. 5. 31. S.
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5 31' S 119 E
TONYN’S
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TOOBAE, some very low islets about five miles north of Bolabola, one of the Society Islands, much resorted to for turtle, found in great abundance on its shores.
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TOOBAE
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TOOBIGAN, a small island in the Sooloo Archipelago. Long. 120. 44. E. Lat. 6. 14. N.
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6 14' N 120 44' E
TOOBIGAN
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TOOBOUAI Island, one of the Society Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, about six miles in extent. Long. 210. 37. E. Lat. 23. 25. S.
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23 25' S 210 37' E
TOOBOUAI
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TOOFOA, one of the Friendly Islands, visible from Annamooka. It was from this island that Lieutenant Bligh was forced into his boat with eighteen of his people.
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TOOFOA
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TOOKE, John Horne, an ingenious grammarian, and an active politician, born in Westminster, June 1736, was the son of Mr John Horne, a poulterer living in Newport Market. He was the third of seven children; but his father, having acquired considerable affluence, first sent him for a short time to Westminster school, and...
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TOOKE
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TOOL, among mechanics, denotes in general any instrument used for making other complex instruments and machines, or in other operations of the mechanic arts.
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TOOL
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TOOLJAPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Aurungabad, 110 miles south-east from Ahmednuggur. This place contains a number of small pagodas dedicated to the goddess Bhavani.
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TOOLJAPOOR
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TOOLOOMBAH, a town in the Afghan territories, in the province of Mooltan, situated on the south side of the Ravey river, sixty miles north-east by east from the city of Mooltan. Long. 72. 13. E. Lat. 30. 58. N.
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30 58' N 72 13' E
TOOLOOMBAH
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TOOMBUDDRA, a celebrated river of the south of India, which takes its name from the junction of the Toom and the Bhadra, which rise in the western mountains. After flowiug through a jungly country for nearly a degree, it joins its name and waters with the Tunga at Koorly. From thence taking a sweep, first northerly, an...
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TOOMBUDDRA
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TOOMOON, a small town of Hindustan, in the province of Ma)wah, eighty-four miles west by north from Chatterpoor. Long. 78. 35. E. Lat. 25. 8. N.
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25 8' N 78 35' E
TOOMOON
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TOOREYPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the Carnatic, twenty-four miles north from Trichinopolv. Long. 78. 48. E. Lat. 11. 11. N.
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11 11' N 78 48' E
TOOREYPOOR
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TOORMOOZ, T irmoz, or T ermed a city of Independent Tartary, situated to the north of the Oxus, near its junction with the Hissaur river. It is fifty miles north of Balkh.
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TOORMOOZ, T
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TOOTING, a large village of the county of Surrey, in the western division of the hundred of Brixton, six miles from London. It consists of many seats of the richer merchants and gentry of the metropolis. It has a church, remarkable from being of a circular form. The river Wandle passes through the parish, and turns mil...
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TOOTING
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TOP, a sort of platform, surrounding the lower mast-head, from which it projects on all sides like a scaffold. The principal intention of the top is to extend the topmast shrouds, so as to form a greater angle with the mast, and thereby give additional support to the latter. It is sustained by certain timbers fixed acr...
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TOP
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TOPMAST, the second division of a mast, or that part which stands between the upper and lower pieces. [7:21:338]
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TOPMAST
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TOPGALLANT Isle, a high and rocky island, of little extent, with three rocks near it, lying off the southern coast of New Holland, between 134° and 135° east longitude.
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TOPOGRAPHY, a description or draught of some particular place, or small tract of land, as that of a city or town, manor or tenement, field, garden, house, castle, or the like.
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TOPSAILS, certain large sails extended across the topmasts, by the topsail yard above, and by the yard attached to the lower mast beneath; being fastened to the former by robands, and to the latter by means of two great blocks fixed on its extremities, through which the topsail-sheets are inserted, passing from thence ...
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TOPSHAM, a town of the hundred of Wonford, in the county of Devon, 170 miles from London. It stands on the river Exe, about three miles below Exeter, and is the place where the vessels to that place are anchored. The upper part of the town is pleasant and well built, but not the lower part, which is chiefly inhabited b...
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TOR, an ancient town of Arabia, near the head of the Red Sea, and once a place of importance, and a great emporium of Indian trade. It has been supplanted by Suez, and has now sunk to a mere village. The harbour is formed by a reef of coral rocks, and to the northward by a low point of land, on which is placed a beacon...
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TORBAY, a fine and commodious bay on the coast of Devonshire, of great importance to the naval power of the British empire, celebrated as the place where King William with his army landed in the year 1688. The bay is formed by two capes or promontories; that on the east, called Hob's-nose, and that on the west, called ...
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TOREE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, 125 miles south from Patna. Long. 85. 2. E. Lat. 23. 42. N.
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TOREE
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TORGAU, a city of Prussian Saxony, in the government of Merseburg, the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 344 square miles, and contains 36,500 inhabitants. The city stands on the river Elbe, and being strongly fortified, is in war a most important post. It is defended by two strong fortresses, an...
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TORIES, a political party in Britain, opposed to that of the Whigs. The name of Tories was given to a sort of banditti in Ireland, and was thence transferred to the adherents of Charles I. by his enemies, under the pretence that he favoured the rebels in Ireland. His partisans, to be even with the republicans, gave the...
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TORNEA, a town of Sweden, in the most northern spot that is inhabited. It stands between two rivers, the Tor-neaelf and the Galixelf; but as the first of these streams forms the boundary between Russian Finland and Sweden, a part of the town, which is on the eastern side, now belongs to the Russian empire. There are ne...
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TORNEA
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TORO, a province in the north-west of the kingdom of Spain, which in ancient times formed the chief part of the kingdom of Leon. It is a large division, extending over 2025 square English miles, and is subdivided into three partidos. The most northern of these partidos is Reynosa, a very mountainous district, with narr...
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TORO
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TOROFF, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, seventy-seven miles north-east from Dacca. Long. 91. 18. E. Lat. 24. 20. N.
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TORONTAL, a palatinate of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, one of the three divisions which compose the Bannat of Temeswar. It extends over a plain, and is 2700 square miles in compass. Two thirds consist of arable land, and the rest of pasture, vineyards, and woods. It is watered by the Theiss, the Maros, and the Aran...
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TOROPEZ, a city of Russia, in the stadtholderate of Pfkow and in the province of Moscow, the capital of a circle of the same name. It stands on the river Toropa, and is 370 miles distant from St Petersburg. It is a place of considerable industry. Here are many tanneries; and large quantities of linen are made from the ...
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TOROPEZ
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TORRE del Greco, a city of Italy, in the province of Naples. It stands on the sea-shore, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, by whose irruptions it suffered very considerably in the years 1637, 1794, and 1801. The second of these irruptions nearly destroyed the whole of the houses and public buildings. The depth of the lava...
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TORREFACTION, in chemistry, is the roasting or scorching of a body by the fire, in order to discharge a part either unnecessary or hurtful in another operation. Sulphur is thus discharged from an ore before it can be wrought to advantage.
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TORRENT denotes a temporary stream of water falling suddenly from mountains, where there have been great rains or an extraordinary melting of snow.
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TORRESVEDRAS, a town of Portugal, the capital of a corregimiento of the province of Estremadura. It is one of the most ancient places of the kingdom, and is situated on a rising ground, at the foot of which is a small pellucid stream, called the Sisera. The town contains four churches, the same number of convents and h...
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