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TIGRE, a small island in the Pacific ocean, at the entrance into Amapalla bay. Long. 88. 44. W. Lat. 18. 10. N.

TIGRE, a river of South America, in the government of the Caraccas, and province of Cumana, which falls into the Guarapiche.

TIGRE, a river of Quito, in the province of Chimbo, which runs very rapidly north, until it unites itself with the Tinto and the San Christoval, and enters the Ojiva, Lat. 1. 46. N.

TIGRE, a small island of the Pacific ocean, near the coast of the province and government of Nicaragua.

TIGRE, a small island of the Pacific ocean, in the gulf of Panama, near the island of Otoque.

TIGRIS, a large and celebrated river of Western Asia, flowing along the boundaries of the Turkish and Persian empires. It rises in the mountains of Armenia, about 50 miles to the north of Diarbekir, and 15 to the east of the source of the Euphrates. These two great rivers then separate, and flowing parallel to each other, but at a considerable distance, inclose the extensive province of Algesira. At Bagdad they approach within less than 30 miles, but again separate, forming the rich district of Irak Arabi. The Tigris is distinguished by the rapidity of its course, in allusion to which, it received its original Persian name of Teer, signifying the arrow. This river was particularly famed in antiquity, and many of the greatest cities, as Nineveh, Seleucia, and Ctesiphon, were built upon its banks. In modern times it can boast of Bagdad, with the secondary names of Mosul and Diarbekir. Above Bagdad it is navigable only for very small vessels. Those which carry on the commerce between that city and Mosul, consist of rafts, supported by inflated sheep-skins. These are floated down the river, and on their arrival at Bagdad the wood is sold, and the skins conveyed back to Mosul by camels. Between Bagdad and Korna, the Tigris is about 200 yards wide, and navigable for boats of 20 or 30 tons burden. The banks are steep, and generally overgrown with brushwood, the haunt of wild beasts. At Korna, the Tigris joins the Euphrates; and the united stream, under the name of the Shut-ul-Arab, falls into the Persian gulf. This river rises twice in the year, first and most remarkably in April, in consequence of the melting of the snows in the mountains of Armenia; afterwards in November, through the accession of the periodical rains.

TIGRIS, or BOCCA TIGRIS, the name given to a branch of the river of Canton, formed by an island, near its junction with the sea. Canton itself lies on the Eastern

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TIGUA, a river of Quito, in the province of Esmeraldas, which runs north-west, and enters the Toachi, in Lat. 19. S.

TIGUA, a point of land in New Granada, on the coast of the province of Carthagena. TIGUARA, a river of Portuguese Guiana, which enters the Negro.

TIGUIL, a river of Kamtchatka, which rises in the district of Niznei Kamtchatka, and falls into the Penjinskaia gulf. On its banks, about 20 miles from its mouth, is built the fort of Tiguilskoi, the strongest in Kamtchatka, where a garrison is maintained, to keep in awe the Koriaks and the Tchoutski.

TIHANY, a small town of the south-west of Hungary, on a peninsula on the lake Balaton, with a fortified castle, and a Benedictine abbey. 12 miles S. by W. of Veszprim.

TIHARA, a town of Hindostan, province of Delhi, belonging to the Seiks. Long. 75. 21. E. Lat. 30. 48. N.

TIHOE, a bay on the south coast of the island of Bouro. Long. 126. 27. E. Lat. 3. 44. S.

TIIB, EL, a small town of Khusistan, in Persia, on the river Karoon, 140 miles S. E. of Bagdad.

TIJELENKING, or CHILLINGCHING, a small Malay village in the island of Java, on the west coast. This village is intersected by a river. Here are prepared all the covering of the houses of the environs of Batavia, consisting of wet leaves. A considerable quantity of fish is brought to the city, both salt and fresh; and much salt is made. Here the British army landed in 1811, which accomplished the capture of Java. 10 miles E. of Batavia.

TIKITHOCKTHOCK, a settlement on the east coast of Labrador. Long. 60. 5. W. Lat. 56. 15. N.

TIKOV, a town of Bengal, district of Ramghur. It is advantageously situated at the junction of four roads, and formerly possessed a sinall fort. Long. 84. 85. E. Lat. 23. 29. N.

TIL, a village of Aderbijan, in Persis, 60 miles N. W. of Tauris.

TILANTONGO, a settlement of Mexico, in the intendancy of Oaxaca, containing 100 families of Indians.

TILBROOK, a parish of England, in Bedfordshire, 14 miles N. by E. of Bedford.

TILBURG, an inland town of the Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant, with a large castle, and about 10,000 inhabitants. It has extensive woollen manufactures, but is otherwise a place of little interest, having few public buildings, and being seldom vis

sited by travellers, from its lying out of the great road from Flanders to Holland. 14 miles E. of Breda, and 15 S. W. of Bois le Duc.

TILBURY, EAST, a village and parish of England, in the county of Essex. On the bank of the Thames, in this parish, opposite Gravesend, is Tilbury fort, originally built as a kind of block-house by Henry VIII., but enlarged into a regular fortification by Charles II. in the year 1667, after the Dutch fleet had sailed up the river, and burned three English men of war at Chatham. It was planned by sir Martin Beckman, engineer to Charles II., who also designed the works at Sheerness. The espla nade is very large, and the bastions the largest of any in England. They are faced with brick, and surrounded with a double ditch or moat, the innermost being 180 feet broad, and has a good counter scarp. On the land side are two small redoubts of brick; but the chief strength on this side consists in its being able to lay the whole adjacent level under water. On the side next the river is a very strong curtain, haying a strong gate in the middle called the Water gate, and the ditch pallisadoed. At the place intended for the water bastion, which was never built, stands a high tower erected by queen Elizabeth, called the block-house. Various additions have been made to this fort, which is now mounted with a great number of guns, and strongly garrisoned. 22 miles S. by W. of Chelmsford, and 28 E. by S. of London.

TILBURY, WEST, a parish adjoining to the above. It appears to have been an episcopal seat of Cedda, bishop of the East Saxons, who, some time in the 7th century, spread the Christian religion in this country, and built churches in several places. It is now a small village. Within the manor a medicinal spring was discovered in 1727, which is found extremely useful in various disorders. In this and the contiguous parishes are extensive marshes, which are chiefly rented by grazing but chers in London, who feed here great num bers of Lincolnshire and Leicestershire wedders, for the markets of the metropolis. Here are still some traces of queen Elizabeth's camp, which was formed here in 1588, when the kingdom was threatened by the Spanish armada. Here the four Roman proconsular ways crossed each other. TILBURY, a parish of England, in Essex, miles N. N. W. of Castle Hedingham. TILCAXETE, a settlement of Mexico, in the intendancy of Oaxaca, containing 260 Indian families.

TILDIZ DAGH, a mountain of Asiatic Turkey, 10 miles S. of Tokat.

TILDSLEY, a township of England, in

Lancashire, 8 miles N. E. by E. of Newton in Makersfield. Population 3492.

TILEHURST, a parish of England, in Berkshire, 24 miles W. of Reading. Population 1521.

TILE-KILN-GREEN, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Great Hallingbury, Essex. TILEY, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Great Mintern, Dorsetshire.

TILGHMAN'S ISLAND, an island of the United States, in the Chesapeak, Maryland, at the mouth of the Choptank, containing about 1720 acres.

TILGUN, a village of Asiatic Turkey, 36 miles E. N. E. of Akshehr,

TILKERODE, a village of Germany, in the principality of Anhalt Bernburg, with large iron-works.

TILI, a river of England, in the county of Northumberland, which rises among the Cheviot hills, runs southwards to Chillingham, and thence westwards, and falls into the Tweed, 2 miles below Coldstream.

TILLE CHATEL, a small town in the east of France, in Burgundy, situated on a hill watered by the small rivers Tille and Ignon. It has some iron-works, and a population of 1000.

TILLENDORF, a large village of Prussian Silesia, in the circle of Buntzlau, with 1000 inhabitants.

TILLIERES, a small town in the north of France, on the small river Arve, with 1000 inhabitants, and manufactures of iron. 5 miles N. E. of Verneuil, and 22 S. of Evreux.

TILLINGHAM, a parish of England, in Essex, 2 miles S. by W. of Broadwell, near the sea. Population 760.

TILLINGTON, a hamlet of England, in the parish of St Mary, in Staffordshire. TILLINGTON, a parish of England, in Sussex, near Petworth. Population 650. TILLINGTON, a hamlet of England, in Herefordshire, 5 miles N. W. by N. of Hereford.

TILLOUTA, a town of Hindostan, province of Bahar, and district of Rotas. It is pleasantly situated on the north-west bank of the river Soane. Long. 84. 15. E. Lat. 24. 48. N.

TILLY, or ST ANTOINE, a seigniory of Lower Canada, in the county of Buckingham, and on the south side of the St Law, rence.

TILLYCOULTRY, a parish of Scotland, in Clackmannanshire, of an oblong form, 6 miles long and from 1 to 2 broad. Population 1025.

TILLYCOULTRY, a village of the above parish, seated at the foot of the Ochil hilis, on the road from Stirling to Kinross. miles W. of Dollar. It has a manufacture of Scots plaiding, serges, and blankets.

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TILSIT, a considerable town of Prussian Lithuania, 56 miles E. N. E. of Konigsberg. It contains 9000 inhabitants, and stands on the banks of two rivers, the Tilse, a small stream separating the town from the castle, and the Niemen, a great river which flows past the town by the north, and over which it has a bridge of boats. The inhabitants, who are partly Catholics, but more Protestants, carry on a trade by means of the Niemen, with Konigsberg on the one side, and the interior of Poland on the other. The chief articles are corn, wax, salt, salted provisions, hats, and leather. Tilsit gives name to a district which extends from it to the great maritime inlet of the Curische-Haff, a level and fertile track, noted for its exports of barley, butter, and cheese. The castle of Tilsit is said to have been built in 1289, though the place received the title of town only in 1552. Its chief title to historical notice is from the treaty of peace concluded here on 1st July 1807, between France on the one hand and Prussia on the other; a treaty which unfortunately threw the weight of Russian influence during several years into the scale of Bonaparte. 50 miles S. S. E. of Memel. Long. 21. 56. 15. E. Lat. 55. 4. 30. N. TILSOF, a village of England, in Salop, 3 miles from Cleobury Mortimer. TILSTOCK, a hamlet of England, in Salop, 3 miles S. of Whitchurch.

TILSTON, a hamlet of England, in Cheshire, 12 miles S. S. E. of Chester.

TILSTON FERNHALL, a hamlet of England, in Cheshire, 2 miles S. E. of Tarporley.

TILSWORTH, & parish of England, in Bedfordshire, 3 miles N. W. by W. of Dunstable.

TILT, a small rapid stream of Scotland, in Perthshire, which rises on the borders of Marr, and falls into the Garry near Blaircastle. It forms several romantic falls, of which that named " the York cascade," particularly attracts attention.

TILTEPEC, a settlement of Mexico, in the intendancy of Oaxaca, containing 109 families of Indians. It is also the name of two other inconsiderable settlements in Guatimala.

TILTEY, a parish of England, in Essex, 3 miles S. by W. of Thaxted.

TILTIL, a settlement of Chili, in the province of Santiago.

TILTON, a parish of England, in Leicestershire, 10 miles E. by N. of Leicester.

TILTS, a township of England, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 4 miles N. by W. of Doncaster.

TIM, a small town of the central part of Russia, in the government of Kursk, on the river Tim, with 2000 inhabitants. 39 miles E. of Kursk.

TIMA, TAIMA, or AL ABLAK, a town of Nedsjed, in Arabia, 180 miles N. N. E. of Medina.

TIMAAN, OF TIMOAN, a small island, high and woody, situated off the east coast of the Malay peninsula. It has several others still smaller lying off it to the westward. Vessels bound to India, through the straits of Malacca, may go within the islands of Timaan, Pisang, Aor, and Pulo Tingy and the main. Long. 104. 5. E. Lat. 2. 52. N.

TIMAHOE, a small village of Ireland, in Queen's county, where an abbey was founded, and where also stands a round tower. In the rebellion of 1641 a sanguinary battle was fought near this village, between the insurgents and the English forces. 42! miles N. W. of Dublin.

TIMAI, a village of Lower Egypt, situated on the ruins of the ancient Thmuis. The ruins consist of bricks and broken granite columns, in a state of total confusion; but on a hill at half a mile's distance, is a shrine of polished red Theban granite, 23 feet in height, upon a pedestal of the same substance. The front has been ornamented with hieroglyphics.

TIMANA, a town of New Granada, in the province of Popayan. Its population is much reduced from the attacks of the barbarian Indians. 81 miles E. of Popayan, and 160 S. of Santa Fe. Long. 75. 12. W. Lat. 2. 14. N.

TIMAVO, a river in the north-east of Italy, which rises on the confines of Istria and Friuli, near St Giovanni, and after a short course, falls into the bay of Trieste, near Diuno.

TIMBERLAND, a township of England, in Lincolnshire, 8 miles N.W. by N. of Sleaford. Population 370.

TIMBERSCOMBE, a parish of England, in Somersetshire, 3 miles W. S. W. of Dunster. Population 388.

TIMBIO, a river of New Granada, in the

province of Popayan, which enters the Patia. It has a settlement of the same name on its shore.

TIMBLE, GREAT and LITTLE, townships of England, West Riding of Yorkshire, 5 miles N. by W. of Otley.

TIMBO, a small seaport on the Grain coast of Africa. Long. 9. 20. W. Lat. 5. 28. N.

TIMBOI, a small river of the province and government of Buenos Ayres, which runs east, and enters the Uruguay.

TIMBRIDGE, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Kingsbury Episcopi, Somerset shire.

TIMELKAM, a small town of Upper Austria, on the river Ager, 3 miles W. of Vocklabruck.

TIMERYCOTTA, a town and fortress of the south of India, province of the Carnatic, and district of Palnaud. Six miles distant from this place is a cataract of 60 feet high, from which the water falls into a basin 120 feet in breadth, the banks of which are ornamented with a number of small Hindoo temples. Long. 79. 25. E. Lat. 16. 35. N. TIMнEM, a town of China, of the third rank, in Pe-che-lee.

TIMISCOUATA, a lake of Canada, in Cornwallis county, 22 miles in length, by the average breadth three quarters of a mile, encompassed in all directions by lofty mountains covered with thick wood almost down to its margin. Several large rivers lend the aid of their powerful streams to swell the waters of this romantic and secluded expanse. In this spot, so far removed from the habitations of man, and the pleasures of society, there is a farm, on which one person with a large family is settled. To this lake there is a portage from the St Lawrence, by means of which the communication is carried on between Quebec and Halifax, a distance of 627 miles.

TIMMISKAMAIN LAKE, in Lower Canada, is about 30 miles long, and 10 broad, having several small islands. Its waters empty into Utawas river, by a short and narrow channel, 30 miles N. of the north part of Nepissing lake. The Indians named Timmiscamaings reside round this lake.

TIMOLIN, a village of Ireland, in the county of Kildare, near which are the rums of Moone abbey. 29 miles S. W. of Dublin.

TIMOPHEEVA, a village of Asiatic Rus sia, in the government of Irkoutsk, on the Ilim, 32 miles N. W. of Vercholensk.

TIMOR, the southernmost and largest of the Molucca islands, in the Eastern seas. Its extent is more considerable than the charts usually represent it, being little less than 250 miles in a north-castern direction, by from 30 to 60 in breadth. The interior

part is a chain of mountains, some of which nearly equal the peak of Teneriffe in elevation; whilst the shores on the south-east side are represented to be exceedingly low, and over-run with mangroves. Gold is said to be contained in the mountains, and to be washed down the streams; but the natives are so jealous of Europeans gaining any knowledge of it, that at a former pe riod, when forty men were sent by the Dutch to make search, they were cut off. The produce of this island is chiefly sandalwood and wax; but the first article is now become scarce, the last continuing abundant. The bees make their nests in bushes and the boughs of trees, to which the natives cannot approach until they have smoked or burned the bees out. The honey is then put into jars, and the wax run into blocks three feet in length, and 12 or 15 inches in thickness. Another article of export is biche de mer, which is partly procured near the island, and partly fished on the coast of New Holland, and brought here for sale. When captain Flinders was surveying the north coast of New Holland, with the view of exploring the great gulf of Carpentaria, he unexpectedly, at the bottom of it, fell in with six Macassar prows fishing for biche de mer or sea slug. From the commander of these vessels he learned that a numerous fleet sailed annually from Macassar on this expedition, and afterwards carried their cargoes to Timor, where they were met by Chinese traders, who purchased the commodity; and having transhipped it to their own junks, carried it for sale to the southern ports of China. Each prow carried a crew of 16 or 18 men, for the purpose of collecting this sea reptile, which they afterwards dried with the smoke of green wood. The bread-fruit tree grows here also in great luxuriance, and seems to thrive as well as in Otaheite. Mountain rice is also produced, and grows on dry land, which is rather unusual. Sandal-wood, bees-wax, honey, and slaves, are exported; and rice, arrack, sugar, tea, coffee, betel-nut, and the manufactures of China, with some from India and Europe, received in return; and the duties upon these were said to suffice the expence of keeping up the establishment. The Dutch established themselves in this island at Coepang, in 1630. Their territory did not extend beyond four or five miles round Fort Concordia; and the settlement affording no other advantage to the company than that of keeping out other nations, it seemed to be following, with accelerated steps, the ruin of their affairs. During the war which terminated in 1801, the communication with Batavia was inter rupted, and the town taken by the English

forces; an insurrection was raised by the half-cast people; and some of the troops left as a garrison were massacred, and the rest abandoned the island. During these troubles the town had been set on fire; and at this time, all the best houses were in ruins. The few troops kept by the Dutch were mostly Malays, some of the officers even being mulattoes. Captain Flinders, when he visited this island in 1808, only saw two European residents at Coepang, besides the soldiers and the governor. The original inhabitants of Timor, who are black, but whose hair is not woolly, inhabit the mountainous parts, to which they appear to have been driven by the Malays, who are mostly in possession of the sea coast. There were formerly several Portuguese establishments on the north side of the island, of which Diely and Leffow still remained; but these had all gradually declined, and the governor of Diely was then said to be the sole white Portuguese resident on the island. The Dutch have made some attempts to establish Christiamity, but with very little success, the natives mostly remaining in their original ignorance. Long. of the extreme south-west point of Timor, 123. 29. E. Lat. 10. 22. S.

TIMOR LAUT, an island in the Eastern seas, about 70 miles long, by 25 the average breadth. It is situated between the 7th and 8th degrees of S. lat. and the 132d and 133d of E. long.

TIMOTI, a river of Darien, which rises in the mountains of the north coast, and running south-west, enters the Chucunaqui. TIMPERLEY, a township of England, in Cheshire, 84 miles N. N. E. of Nether Knutsford. Population 624.

TIMSBURY, a parish of England, in Southamptonshire, 24 miles N. by W. of Romsey-A parish in Somersetshire, 5 miles 6. E. by S. of Pensford. Population 841. TIMUR HISSAR, a small town of European Turkey, in Romania, sandgiakat of Salonica, with a strong castle situated on a rock.

TIMWORTH, a parish of England, in Southamptonshire, near Basingstoke.-A parish in Suffolk, 4 miles N. by E. of St Edmund's Bury.

TINACO, a river of New Granada, in the province of Venezuela, which enters the Portuguesa. It has a settlement of the same name on its banks.

TINAMASAKI, a town of Niphon, in Japan. Long. 136. 55. E. Lat. 34. 12. N. TINAQUILLO, a settlement of the Caraccas, in the province of Venezuela, situated on the shore of the river Caxede, south of the city of Valencia.

TINCHEBRAY, a small town in the north of France, department of the Orne, on the river Noireau. It has some manufactures

of linen and thread; also tanneries, and works in iron. A battle was fought here between the English and Normans in 1106, to the advantage of the former. Population 3000. 14 miles N. of Domfront, and 30 W. of Argentan.

TINCULEN, or TINZULEN, a village of Tafilet, in the southern part of Morocco, 120 miles S. W. of Tafilet.

TINEDALE, a valley of England, in the county of Northumberland, watered by the North Tyne, which separates it from Redesdale on the north. It was made a barony by Henry I. Several battles have been fought here, whereof memorials remain, both British and Pictish.

TINEH, OF THINEH, the ruins of a city in Lower Egypt, situated upon the Pelusiac branch of the Nile. This branch is now reduced to little more than a channel of mud, traversing a smooth, barren, and naked plain. The castle of Tineh, which appears to have been built about the time of the conquest of Selim, is now falling to ruins. Long. 32. 30. E. Lat. 30. 55. Ň.

TINEH, a small town of Tripoli, in Africa, situated on a river which falls into the gulf of Sidra or Syrtis. Long. 19. 12. E. Lat. S0. 5. N.

TING, a city of China, of the second rank, in Pe-che-lee. Long. 114. 39. E. Lat. 38. 32. N.

TINGANO, a small river on the eastern coast of Malacca, which falls into the sea of China, Long. 103. 9. E. Lat. 5. 27. N. TING-CHAN, a town of Corea, 30 miles S. E. of Haimen.

TINGEWICK, a parish of England, in Buckinghamshire, 2 miles W. by S. of Buckingham. Population 711.

TING-FAN, a city of China, of the second rank, in Koeitchoo. Long. 106. 4. E. Lat. 26. 5. N.

TINGI, a cluster of small islands in the Chinese sea, near the castern coast of Malacca. Long. 101. 21. E. Lat. 2. 23. N.

TING-NGAN, a town of China, of the third rank, in Quang-tong, on the island of Hainan.

TINGO, two small settlements of Peru, one in the province of Ica, the other in that of Chachapoyas.

TINGORAN, a small island of the Chi nese sea, near the eastern coast of Malacca. Long. 103. 33. E. Lat. 4. 8. N.

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TINGRITH, a parish of England, in Bed fordshire, 4 miles E. by S. of Woburn. TING-TAO, a town of China, of the third rank, in Shantung.

TINGTCHEOU, a city of China, of the first rank, in the province of Fokien, situ❤ ated among the mountains which separate it from Kiangsce. Some of these are excessively high, and supposed to contain

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