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1 Dutch ducatoon. The finenefs of gold and filver is ex- 

 prefled by toques or touch, the weiejht being divided into 

 I CO parts. The pccul, or weight for heavy goods, is = 

 50 catties, and the catty — 20 tales — 80 ticals. The 

 Siam pecul weighs 129 lbs. avoirdupois, and the catty, 

 41 oz. 4^ dwt. avoirdupois. 



TICANONA, Tacona, Jcanona or Jcatona, in Ancient 

 Geography, a town of Egypt, between Cese and Oxyryn- 

 chon. Itin. Anton. 



TICAO, in Geography, one of the Philippine iflands, 

 about 25 miles long, and from 3 to 8 broad. N. lat. 12° 39'. 

 E. long. 123° 34'. 



TICENA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa Propria, 

 S. of Carthage, between the rivers Bagradas and Triton. 

 Ptol. 



TICENGO, in Geography, a town of Italy, in the de- 

 partment of the Upper Po ; 6 miles E. of Crema. 



TICHASA, Te-Gewse, in Ancient Geography, a town 

 of Africa Propria, S. of Carthage, between the rivers 

 Bagradas and Triton, 12 leagues S.W. of Capfa : in which 

 are fome veftiges of the Romans. Ptol. 



TICHENBRAY, in Geography. See TiNCHEBRAY. 



TICHFIELD, a village of England, in the county of 

 Hants, fituated on a river which runs into the Southampton 

 Water. Here Charles I. concealed himfelf, when he fled 

 from Hampton-Court, in the year 1674, 3' ^ ^^^^ °f ^^ ^^''^ 

 of Southampton. This feat had been an abbey, and is faid 

 to be the place where the marriage of Henry VI. with 

 Margaret of Anjou was folemnized ; 8 miles N.W. of 

 Gofport — Alio, a town of Jamaica, on the N. coafl ; 22 

 miles N.E. of Kingfton. N. lat. 18° 12'. W. long. 

 76° 10'. 



TICHIS, in Ancient Geography, a river which flowed 

 from the Pyrenees, now Tech, in the department of the 

 Eaftern Pyrenees. 



TICHIUM, a town of Greece, in Etolia. Thucydides. 



TICHOS, or TicHus, a fortrefs of Achaia, in the 

 eaftern part to the S. of the promontory Araxum. 



TICINDLO, or Maviglio Grande, in Geography, a canal 

 made from the river Tefmo to the city of Milan, by order 

 of Francis I. king of France. 



TICINUM, PaVIA, in Ancient Geography, a town of 

 Tranfpadane Gaul to the S.W. upon the river Ticinus, or 

 near it. After the fecond Punic war, it attained the rank 

 of municipal. Odoacer, king of the Heruli, deftroyed it, 

 and it was rebuilt under the name of Papia, whence the 

 name Pavia. 



TICINUS, Tesin, a river of Tranfpadane Gaul, wliich 

 commenced in the country of the Lepontii, traverfed the 

 lake Verbanus, and difcharged itfelf into the Po, near 

 Ticinum. It is celebrated for a battle of the fame name, 

 between the Romans, condufted by Cornelius /Scipio, the 

 father of Scipio Africanus, and the Carthaginians, con- 

 dufted by Hannibal, in the year of Rome 535, in which 

 the Romans were defeated. 



TICK, in Natural Hijlory, a nafty little animal of a livid 

 colour, with a blunt and roundifli tail, elevated antenna, a 

 globofe -ovate form, and full of blood ; which infefts cows, 

 fwine, goats, flieep, and dogs. The tick or ricinus is, in 

 the Linnsean fyftem, a fpecies of acarus in the aptera order 

 of infefts. 



In order to deftroy and remove thefe noxious vermin, 



which fpread very rapidly in fiieep, it has been recommended 



to fepa-ate the wool, and to wafli the difeafed fpots two 



or »^ree times, or oftener, if neceflary, with a liquid pre- 



I ^yaration, confifting of one ounce of cream of tartar, and a 



quarter of a pound of bay-falt, each finely powdered and 

 fifted, and one ounce of corrofive fublimate, reduced into the 

 fame ftate; the whole being well diffolvcd and mixed toge- 

 ther in two quarts of foft water : or four pounds of foft 

 fo.-ip, and two pounds of arfcnic, may be ftccped and dif- 

 folved in tliirty gallons of water, and the animals be im- 

 merfed in the mfiifion or folution, the heads of them being 

 carefully kept above water, and the (heep being fheltered 

 from rain for one or two days afterwards. The wool muft 

 be clofely prcfTcd, and the liquor that runs off be caught in 

 a tub, or other veflel, for future ufe. The proportion above 

 fpecified, is fufficient to bathe or wafh forty lambs, or the 

 fame number of fmall fheep ; and fometimes many more. 



But the preparation which is in ufe at Holkham-Hall, in 

 the county of Norfolk, for this purpofe, confifts of two 

 pounds of tobacco, two pounds and a half of foft foap, and 

 one pound of the white calx of mercury, well reduced into 

 powder ; tlie whole being boiled in eight gallons of water 

 for an hour This is a quantity fufficient for dreffing fixty 

 (heep, being applied by parting the wool down the (houlders 

 and breaft, and twice on each of the fides of the (heep, then 

 pouring it in very carefully fo as to prevent its being wafted. 

 It is faid to be very effeftual not only in deftroying the 

 vermin, but in removing the fcabby fores that are pro- 

 duced. 



It is ftated in a paper in the third volume of the " Tran- 

 faftions of the Highland Society of Scotland," that the 

 tick, or acarus reduvius, is a diftinft fpecies or fort of vermin 

 of this kind from that of the kid, or hippobofca ovina, the 

 former of which haralTes the lambs and trembling (heep in 

 the fpring feafon, while the latter molefts all forts and ages, 

 but particularly hogs or young (heep, and chiefly fuch as 

 are in a lean ftate. The former always adheres clofe to 

 the bare fpots of the (houlders, thighs, or ears, draining 

 and drawing away the blood from them ; and for the molt 

 part drops off about midfummer : but the latter har- 

 bours in the wool, bites the (heep, and fucks their blood. 

 Smearing with tar, it is faid, expels it from the (liin, and it 

 foon afterwards drops from the wool. Tobacco-juice is 

 fatal to it almoft inftantaneoufly, and mercurial ointment 

 deftroys it. The former, or tick, is removed by the fame 

 remedies as the kid, and it is wholly prevented by having 

 the young (heep in good condition. This diiliiiftion, in 

 fome cafes, may be of confiderable ufe to the (heep-farmer 

 in the deftruftion and removal of fuch hurtful vermin. 



Tick, in the Manege, a habit that fome horfes take of 

 prefling their teeth againft the manger, or all along the 

 halter or collai", as if they would bite it. 



TlCK-Bean, or Ticks, in Agriculture, a term commonly 

 apphed to the fmall bean employed in the feeding of horfes 

 and other animals ; of which there are feveral kinds, as the 

 common ticks, the large flat ticks, the fmall or EfTex ticks, 

 and the French ticks. The firft is a fort which is fmall and 

 very commonly cultivated, but moft generally by the farmers 

 of Kent, where they are ufed for the fattening of hogs, and 

 as food for horfes, efpccially thofe of the team kind. The 

 fecond is a larger fort than the common, and ripens fome- 

 what more early. They are very produftive in fome cafes ; 

 but from being larger in fize, they of courfe arc l"fs heavy, 

 and confequently of rather lefs value the quarter or any 

 other meafure. They are fometimes called May beans. 

 The EflTex ticks are a much fmaller fort than the common, 

 and of a rounder (liape or form. They ripen a few days 

 later, and are not fo produftive, but are 11. ore valuable, as 

 being heavier in proportion. The lall fort, or fmall French 

 ticks, are a ilill lefs kind, being only about as large as a 

 middling-fized pea, and nearly circular. They ripen later 



than 



