T H \ 





I 1 II A 



five hides 01' ir.nd in lull property, with a i-liurcli, n kitchen, I such doubts and the only fact which follows u-m thc-e 



- 

 barri > agreeastothci. 





w nit* n 



- 



the 



a thane by liifht. ; of liuiil wa pn 



Amount (IcIlliUi 



altho 



also the quant 



to In 



lands are nu ntion.d in JX>mesday-13ook as 



. tainornm): mid i1 i 

 the oldest of the Nornmn '. 

 to a particular 



:, or parliament, but it is mutter 

 '.vii right or as e'eetcd 



represent!! facts connected \\itli this 



been coll 'Ir. Sharon 



Turner, in his Ilisir, v of the Anglo ' aidon, 



1823, vol. iii.. pp.81, 187-900, 227-2:11 : and by Sir I 

 Palgrave, in bis' Rise ami ProiTe-s of th ' Com- 



monwealth :.. i.. \'>. :>77-">7.> : and ii.. 



ccclxx\\i. 



There is little mention of the thanes in England 

 the time of Henry II. ; but Lord II 



nalt, i. 28; thnt in Scotland thane was a Ijitle 



down to the end of tin- tilteenth century : the ( "nurtvilary 

 of Moray' mentions a thane of < 'awdor In 1492. It appears 

 from the first to have implied in Scotland a higher dignity 

 than in England, and to im\e been for tin 

 nyraous with earl, which was a title generally annexed to 

 the tenitory of a whole county. It has been commonly 

 assumed that thane is the more ant icnt title, and th:d it 

 began to be exchanged for earl in the reiirn of Malcolm 

 Canmore ; but, according to Pinkcrlon ilix/m-i/ 



the title of thane was not intro- 

 duced into Scotland till after the time of Malcolm. ' Yet,' 

 he adds, ' the difference between a thane and baron is un- 

 known: and some doubts arise that ignorance may have 

 blended the Saxon thuiii- and the Irish Iniiitst.' 



THAXKT. 1SI.K OF. [KENT.] 



THAXN. [KHiN, HAVT.] 



THA'PSACUS, or TIIA'PSAi T.M, v.as a very antient. 

 populous, and commercial town in Syria, on the right bank 

 of the Euphrates, about 21 in the junction of 



the river Chaboras Xenophon : with the 



Euphrates. Thapsacns. the Thipb.-ach of the Hible I 

 Kin:; 'lie Taphsa of the Vulgate, and the Tha)i.-a 



of Joseph t eastern town of 



the kingdom of Solomon after Da\ id had conquered the 

 country as far \\ an equal distance 



from lyr by land and from Habylon by water, Thapsacus 

 became an emporium, where the Gcrriiaei kept sto 

 the commodities and spice, of Aiabia, which they carried 

 there on floats, or probably Links, nnil which were after- 

 ward* transported by land to Syria and Plia'nicia and their 

 commercial towns on the Mediterranean. . Strabo. \vi., p. 

 76C, Can.) Its military position .iport- 



At the time of the expedition of th 



there was a ford at Thapsacns, but no In 

 subsequently there was a bridge. This town was th 

 southern passage by which an army could > cither 



from Mesopotamia into Syria and Cilicia, or from these 

 countries into M a and Persia, without being ob- 



liged to ti;iM-:.-e th.- inch occupy the 



whole tract betwec:: I'lurnicia in th. 



and the lower part of the Euphrates in the east, 'file 

 yonn:' at Thaps:; 



phon.C'yro/vsJ., i. 4 : Dri -w-d the river at Thap- 



vicus when he was a>i 

 and Alexander, win : 



(Arrian, 2. bo the In. 



Thapsacui existed no I the jmssage of il 



was made by the bir :ho. p. 747. 



CM.) The circumstance of Tlmpsncns being a town I'roin 

 which military and commercial < in (very direc- 



tion, was probably the cause why Kratosthenes 

 the centre of hi.-, geographical nicasni Minor 



and the adjacen . of which Sli :ui ac- 



count rij.. ,,. 77.11 1, <'u.,. i. It I 

 tietiU did not agree on tin 



\rabiaDeserta. and P 



1 ' ' ' It;, /in'; in is :n ,\ (,). ( 'i; i tins \. 1 i.i 



Srna. But the town was too well known to allo 



v agree as ' 



' 

 . 



led it 'fun. 



.lies that ; n the 



ch ha* the Aral i -iil-der,' 



IT ' the di-t 



I) A::\ i . , vol. iL, 141; 



:iii, \ol. n-. 

 Til 

 the n: 



uilh doubly or trebly j innal 

 f many rays without 



.Vtoolhc'.l; petals elliptic, entire: fruit eonii:resKi(i 

 the buck: nieiicarps with .') primary iiliform 

 which are do: sal. and 2 iiie comniieBure, 



and \\ith 4 secondary ribs, of which the 2 dorsal are fili- 



and the 2 lateral ones membranous and wi; 

 vittse in each furrow underneath uuy ril)s. 



The natives of the count Hi s . , the 



M'edii. :iiul are known under flu 



stem; tri-pinnate leaves, mam-. 



both surfaces lower o 



in Portugal, Sjiain. the soutU <.i n Italy, and the 



northern coa.-ts of Africa. PC . 



the root is acrid and corrosive. In Barbary it is used as a 



remedy for some forms of cutaneous disene. but it appears 



to be a severe application and attended with inflammation 



and vesication of the skin. 



'/'. -'Jphium Deadly Carrot, has a square gla- 



brous furrowed st , . iniiny-paited letdlets, 



all linear, hairy on bo 1 . with revolnte margins. It 



is a native of the north of Africa, on the mount m. 



i to be the pi;'; .i the 



juice called Si/iJiiiiin. and which was held in so high 

 repute by the antieii; 



::iled ' Silphifera.' [SiLi-ii: 



7'. '.' Linian or Greek Deaci. 



square Mem: bi- or tri-])iiinate slnnii 



segments linear, acnle. elongated, quite entire along the 

 ': h few le:i\es : fnii i the 



of Calabri 



Greece, Sicily, Sardinia. Spain. iVe. Dr. Sibtlm.p li 

 it common in Greece and the ; . and 



concludes tint it is the Uavnm of I)i' Mil whose 



: tion it agrees better than any (if the n--i. It i 

 of the most stately planlsdf the faiiuly, and was . 

 into the gardens ol this country as early n> lu'8(). 'I 



.'her species nl this :renns referred to by Don : 

 they possess the aeti'. 

 seldom employed at th 



In their cultivation e but 



little i in any common ;: 



They may be propagated I- l:ich should be sown 



in aiitumn as soon as they are ripe. 



nn island situ- 

 ated oft' the const of Thrace, iit a shoit distance from the 



i. and a little to the 



south-cast of the Guli' ot KauiUo. N'olgaro. which is 

 nearly in the centre of the island, is in 41 U t.V X. lat. and 

 ' E. long. 



the time of 11; 



;;ms. who came from 

 led by Thasos. 

 .'.'nom the island i. s;iid to ba\e taken i 



I'ausan.. v. 'J*'>. It v 

 Kthria 'Pliny, iv. 1. 

 K.iistath.. .-til 1 1 



nished by the epithet Ogvtia. Il 



colon. uiong 



whom . . m TUSor 720 i 



!/<-t/i'ii..n. 7(W. whodi.' the question. 



is enrii the possi 



and at Scapte llyle. on tin 



ding to II' 'odotus. who 

 iln in. the mo- 1 .HIS,- which had 



