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with violet-colour and gold. The ufual mctiiod of doing 

 this at iirft, was by mixing gold with the common varnifti, 

 breaking the leaves very fmall, and- then adding the com- 

 mon blue and the powder of calcined agate of a coarfe 

 kind, found in great plenty on the (horcs of their rivers. 

 But they have lince found that the brown varnifh called 

 tfck'tn fucceeds much better, for when the blue is mixed 

 with this, its brown colour is loR, and the gold lies on much 

 better than it would any other way. 



They had once a method of a varied varnifli, which was 

 very beautiful, but is much neglefted now ; this was the 

 giving a velfel the brown varnidi on the outfide with a large 

 portion of gold, and the common white varnifh within. 

 They alfo varied tiie degree of colour on the outfide, by 

 laying on more or lefs of the varnifli ; and gave this way a 

 variety, even in the fame colour. Obferv. fur les CoCltumes 

 de I'Afie, p. 308. 



TGIDT, in Geography, a town of Arabia, in the pro- 

 vince of Oman ; 48 miles N. of Fartach. 



THABBA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Arabia 

 pelix, fituated between Menambis and Seba, now Ebha. 

 Ptol. — Alfo, an ancient town of Africa, in the vicinity of 

 Tichafa. 



THABET Ebn Korra, in Biography. See Thebit 

 Ben Corah. 



THABILIACA, in Ancient Geography, a town of 

 Albania, between the rivers Genus and Soanes. Ptol. 



THABIR, in Geography, a mountain of Arabia; 20 

 miles S. of Medina. 



THABO R, in Jncient Geography. See Tabor. 



THABORITES. See Tabokites. 



THABRACA Colonia, Tabarha, in Ancient Geogra- 

 phy, a town and Roman colony of Africa, in Numidia, ac- 

 cording to Ptolemy. It was fituated on the weftern bank, 

 and near the mouth of the river Tufca. Some veftiges re- 

 main of walls and ciilerns. 



THABUCA, a town of Spain, in the interior of the 

 Tarragonenfis, belonging to the Varduli. Ptol. 



THACAS, Saxac, in Antiquity, a general name given to 

 the place or feat where the augurs made their obfervations. 



THACCONA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, 

 in Babylonia, upon an arm of the Euphrates. Ptol. 



THACES, a people of Scythia, on tliis fide of the 

 Jmaus, and near it. Ptol. 



THACK Tyles. ■ See Tvle. 



TH^MA, in Ancient Geography, a town in the interior 

 of Arabia Deferta. Ptol. 



TH^NA, or Th^en,?:, a town placed by Strabo, Pliny, 

 and Ptolemy, on thecoaft of Africa, towards the commence- 

 ment of the LefTer Syrtes. — Alfo, a town of Afia, in Syria, 

 fituated, according to Ptolemy, in Cyrrhcftica. 



THAGIA, in Geography, a town of Africa; 1 00 miles 

 S.S.W. of Fez. 



THAGORA, TiNGORAN, in Ancient Geography, a poft 

 of India, at the bottom of a fmall gulf, in the eailern part 

 of the peninfula, beyond the Ganges. 



THAGULIS, a tov/n of Africa, fituated between the 

 Two Syrtes. Ptol. 



THAHAR KiAMEN, in Geography, a poft of Chinefe 

 Tartary ; 15 miles N.E. of Tcitcicar. 



THAH ATH, in Ancient Geography, the place of the 23d 

 llation of the Ifraelites, where they encamped, after having 

 left Mauloth ; fituated in the defert of Arabia, S. of Mauloth. 

 TRAINEE, in Geography, a town of Africa, in the 

 kingdom of Tunis, near the eait coaft, but without a harbour, 

 at a fmall diftance from the mouth of a river of the Canic 

 name : 120 miles S. of Tunis. 



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THAIS, a town of France, in the department of Paris ; 

 2 leagues S.S.E. of Paris. 



Thais, a name given by ^ginctato a cofmetic cerate, in- 

 tended to give a beautiful red to the face. Galon ufes the 

 fame word to exprels a fort of bandage. 



THALA, Ferre Anach, in Ancient Geography, a town of 

 Africa, in Numidia, according to Salhift and Tacitus. — Alfo, 

 a mountain of Africa, in Interior Eibya, and the people in- 

 habiting its vicinity were called Thal^e. 



THALACH, in Geography, a river of Bavaria, which 

 runs into the Schwarzach ; 5 miles W. of Greding. 



THALAMEGUS, among the .(^n<:;Vn/j, a (hip of plea- 

 fure, or yatch ufcd by princes. It was always provided with 

 a good cabin, or bed-chamber. See Ship. 



THALAMI Nervorum Opticorum, in Anatomy, Xw'io em- 

 nences in the brain. See Brain. 



THALAMIA, in Botany, i'ec Lichenes, one of whofe 

 kinds of Apolhecium, or receptacle, is fo denominated by 

 Acharius. 



THALAMII, among the Ancients, thofe rowers who 

 fat in the-loweft part of the fhip. See the next article. 



THALAMIT^iE, in the Nairn! ArchiteSure of the An- 

 cients, a term ufedto exprefs thofe rowers in the polycrote gal- 

 leys, or thofe who contained feveral feries of rowers, who fat 

 on the thalamus of the vcfi'el, and made the loweft row. Thefe 

 moved their oars and hands under the feats of the row that 

 fat next above them. See Polycrota. 



THALAMIUM, among tlie Ancients, a port-hole, 

 through which the oars of the rowers in the bottom of the 

 fliip went. 



THALAMUS, in Botany, a term ufed to exprefs that 

 part of the flower in the capitated or flofculous-flowered 

 plants, where the embryo fruits of every fcparate flofcule are 

 lodged, and where afterwards the feeds are contained. This 

 is the bottom of the cup, in the central part of which it ad- 

 heres to the ftalk. 



THALASSAR, in Ancient Geography, a province of 

 Afia, between Mefopotamia and Armenia. 



THALASSOMELI, the name of a medicine ufed as 

 a purge among the ancients. It was compofed of equal 

 parts of honey, fea-water, and rain-water, expofed to the 

 fun in the dog-days, in a veflel pitched on the infide. It 

 purged in the fame manner that fea-water alone would do, 

 but only in a milder way. 



THALASSUS, in Ancient Geography, a town or port 

 in the fouthern part of the ifle of Crete. 



THALATHA, a town of Afia, in Babylonia, on the 

 banks of the Tigris, and S. of Apamea. 



THALATTA, a lake or marfli, at the foot of mount 

 Caucafus, in the environs of the people called " Coraxi." 

 It difcharged its waters into the Euxine fea, near a place 

 called Beithea-Ponti. 



THALBIS, a river of Albania, between the Gerrus and 

 the Soanes. Ptol. 



THALEA, a town of Paleftine, in the tribe of Simeon, 

 according to the book of Jofliua. 



THALER, in Commerce. See Rixdollar. 

 THALES, in Biography, the founder of the Ionic 

 fchool, and of the fcientilic method of philofophifing r;mong 

 the Greeks, was born of Phoenician parents, at Miletus, in 

 the firfl year of the 35th Olympiad, or about the year 580 

 B.C. He acquired wealth and diftinftion among his coun- 

 trymen, and was employed at an early age in public af- 

 fairs. He dechned involving himfelf by marriage in the 

 cares of a family, that he might devote his whole time and 

 attention to the ftudy of philofophy ; alleging, as it is 

 faid, to his mother, who urged him to marry, at aij early age 



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