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i.iif, were no more Uiaii tdellial miiilllors, to whom a cer- 

 tain kind of inferior worllilp was due. He acknowledged 

 Chritl to be a moll excellent man, tlie triend of God, and 

 the admirable theurge ; but denied that it was his intention 

 entirely to abolilh the worlhip of dxmons, and of the other 

 miuiilers of divine providence ; affirming, on the contrary, 

 that he merely purified the ancient religion, and that his fol- 

 lowers had manifedlv corrupted the doanne of their divme 

 mailer. Molh. EccJ. Hill. vol. i. 8vo. 



THEUTIS, in /Incimt Geography, a fmall town ot Ar- 

 cadia, S. of the river Lodon, and near that of Tuthoa. 



THEL'X, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 p.-irtment of the Ourtlie ; 5 miles N.W. of Spa. 



THEXIS, a word ufed by the old medical writers, 

 Sometimes for wounds made by punfture with fmall inftru- 

 ments, and fomctimes for the operation of the future, or the 

 fewing together the lips of a wound, to make it heal with a 

 Icfs fear. 



THEYA, m Geography. See Teya. 

 THEYE-CHEEKE Lake, a lake of North America. 

 N. lat. 65 \ W. long. 109^. 



THEYE-NOYE-KYED Lake, a lake of North Ame- 

 rica. N. lat. 64° 10'. W. long. 108°. 



THEYHOLEKYED Lake, a lake of North Ame- 

 rica. N. lat. 62°. W. long. 102° 5'. 



THEYSSE, a river which rifes in the E. part of Hun- 

 gary, on the borders of Poland, and runs into the Danube ; 

 19 miles N.W. of Belgrade. 



THEZE, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Lov<er Pyrenees ; 1 2 miles N. of Pau. 



THIA, or Divine, in Ancient Geography, an ifland 

 which, A.D. 46, was under the empire of Claudius. 

 It was one of the Cyclades, fituated between Thera and 

 Therafia. It either difappearcd, or was reunited to that of 

 Hiera towards the year 726, on occafion of a violent erup- 

 tion which took place at that time. 



TiiiA, a town of Cappadocian Pontus, upon the route 

 from Trapezunte to Satala, between Zigana and SedilTca- 

 pifonti. Anton. Itin. 



THIACAR, in Geography, -d town of Thibet ; 75 miles 

 S.E. of LalTa. 



THIAGOLA, in Ancient Geography, a name given to 

 the mod northerly mouth of the Danube, and to the marlh 

 which it forms before it runs into the Euxine fea. 



THIAN, in Geography, a town of the county of Tyrol ; 

 1 3 miles W. of Bolzano. 



THIAR, in Ancient Geography, a town of Spain, upon 

 the route from Tarragona to Caftula, between IDicis and 

 Carthage. Anton. Itin. 



THIAUCOURT, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Meurthe ; 7 miles W. of Pont-a- 

 Mouffon. 



THIAUMA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Albania, 

 between the rivers Csefius and Gerrus. 



THIBAULT VI., in Biography, count of Champagne 

 and king of Navarre, deferves to be recorded as one of the 

 earlieft French fong-writers. In 1234 he fucceeded to the 

 crown of Navarre on the death of his maternal uncle. 

 Upon his return from the Eaft, whither he went as one of 

 the crufaders, he cultivated literature, and particularly 

 poetry. He died at Pampelona in 1253, having acquired 

 the fomewhat inconfiftent titles of the Great and the Song- 

 maker. Under the latter charadter he obtained permanent 

 reputation, degraded, however, by the occafional licen- 

 tioufnefs of his imagery. He was the firft, it is faid, who 

 blended mafculinc with feminine rhymes : — a capital inven- 

 tion in French verfification. Moreri. Nouv. Did. Hift. 



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The fongs of this prince are placed by ferae at the head of 

 thofe that have been prefcrved in the French language, a-^ 

 thofe by Guillaume IX., duke of Aquitaine, are in that 

 of Provence. There were indeed fongs written in both 

 languages before thefe princes had done poetry the honour 

 to make it their favourite amufement ; but the chief part of 

 thofe of higher .mtiquity than the time of thefe patriarch? 

 of Provemjal and French verfification are either loft, er 

 thought of little value. 



This prince was contemporary with Philip Auguftus, and 

 I^ewis VIII. and IX., which lafl; prince he accompanied to 

 the Holy War. It has been faid by feveral hiftorians that he 

 was much captivated by the charms of queen Blanche of Caf- 

 tile, mother of St. Lewis, to whom many of his fongs wers 

 addrelTed ; but this point of hillory has been difputed with 

 great zealby M.l'Evequede laRavalliere.editorof Tliibault's 

 poems, which he publifhed in 1742, with notes, in 2 vols. 

 l2mo. and a hillory of the revolutions, in the French lan- 

 guage, from the time of Charlemagne to that of St. Lewis, to- 

 gether with an Effay on the Antiquity of French Songs. This 

 learned prelate has defended the honour of queen Blanche 

 with his pen, five hundred years after her deceafe, with as 

 much prowefs and true chivalry, as the moft valiant cham- 

 pion of injured innocence could have done with his fword 

 and lance, had he been animated by the prefence of that 

 princefs, and the heroifm of the times in which flie lived. 



" Les Grandes Chroniques de France" tell us that Thi- 

 bault, at the age of thirty-five, having conceived a violent 

 and hopelefs paflion for queen Blanche, was advifed by wife 

 and prudent counfellors to apply himfelf to mufic and poetry, 

 which he did with fuch fuccefs, that he produced " the moft 

 beautiful fongs and melodies that have ever been heard." 

 Fauchet Des Anciens Poetes Frangois. 



Two airs by Thibault may be feen in Burney's General 

 Hiftory of Mufic, from the Vatican colleftion of Provencal 

 fongs in Gregorian notes, without bars or bafe ; and given 

 afterwards in modern notation, with a bafe, and an Englilh 

 verfion of the words. 



THIBERVILLE, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Eure ; 9 miles E. of Lifieux. 



THIBET, or Tibet, pronounced Tibbet and Tibt in 

 Bengal, and called by its own inhabitants Pu'e, or Pue- 

 koachim, ptie fignifying northern, and koachim, fnoiv, that is, 

 the fnowy region of the North, is a country of Afia, of 

 which our knowledge, principally obtained at a very recent 

 period, is ftill very imperfeft. We have no evidence that 

 the ancients ever penetrated the fnowy mountains of Tibet. 

 It feems to have been in fome meafure difclofed to the Por- 

 tuguefe, in their commercial intercourfe with the Eaft In- 

 dies ; and the name of it was known to Marco Paolo and 

 other travellers of the 12th and 13th centuries. Accord- 

 ingly, Tibet feems to have been the fouthern part of their 

 Tangut. Paolo indeed defcribes the province of " Tebeth," 

 as containing eight kingdoms, with many cities and villages, 

 and as being a mountainous country, which produced fome 

 gold and fpices, a large breed of dogs, and excellent falcons. 

 But we have no geographical nor ftatiftical account of this 

 country upon which we can depend previoufly to the laft cen- 

 tury ; and even now our knowledge of it is very partial and 

 defeftive. About the year 1 7 15, the emperor of China, as 

 we learn from Du Halde, being defirous of obtaining a map 

 of Tibet, fent two lamas, who had ftudied geometry, for 

 this purpofe. Thefe lamas drew a map, from Sining, in the 

 province of Shen-fi, to the fources of the Ganges, which 

 was afterwards examined by the Jefuits, and improved. This 

 map is publifhed in the Atlas of Du Halde, and has been 

 followed, with few Tariations, by our modem geographers. 



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