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watfr mirks toward the fun, and on llie oppofite fide, (hew- 

 n,< thit th," tidc-8 of flcKHl rife not then fo Ingh, nor do tht- 

 tidc, of ebb fall fo low, as at other times. For the dcfcr.p- 

 tion of the infidc work of this machine, and the method ot 

 conftruding it, fee Fergufon's Aftron. p. 297. 



TinE-Gatf. See Gage. 



TiDK-Gatet are the lower gates of a lock open to a tide- 

 way : thefe are alfo placed at the mouths of drains. 



"tlDK-Afill, in Rural Economy and Agriculture, an ufeful 

 fort of mill, the moving power of which is formed by run- 

 ning a dam acrois an inlet where tide-water comes m, lo 

 31 to leave a narrow padage open for placing it in on one 

 fide. It alfo fignifies a mill for raifing and clearing lands 

 from tide-water in fen fituations, and where injury is 

 done by the overflowing of the tides. See Watering of 

 Land. 



Tide-mills may moftly be formed without producing any 

 obftriidion or hindrance to agriculture. 



TlDK-l^ailcri, or TiJc--Men, certain officers belonging 

 to the cuftom-houfe, appointed to watch or attend on 

 ftiips coming from abroad, to fee that nothing be landed till 

 the culloms be p;Jd. 



They are thus called, becaufe they go aboard the (hips at 

 their arrival in the mouth of the Thames, and come up with 

 the tide. 



TIDENSDORF, in Geography, a town of PrufTia, in 

 the province of Ermeland ; 4 miles S. of Frauenburg. 



TIDER, or Ner, a fmall ifland in the Atlantic, near the 

 coaft of Africa. N. lat. 19° 30'. 



TIDESWELL, a fmall market -town in the hundred of 

 High Peak, and county of Derby, England ; is fituated in 

 a valley among bleak hills, 32 miles N.N.W. from the 

 county-town, and 160 miles N.W. by N. from London. 

 The town is reported to have received its name from an 

 ebbing and flowing well, now hardly remembered, as it has 

 long ceafed to flow. The church, which was eret\ed in 

 the fourteenth century, is a handfome edifice of the con- 

 ventual form, with a neat tower at the weft end, terminated 

 by eight pinnacles ; thofe at the angles rifing from ofta- 

 gonal bafes, and being much higher than the intermediate 

 ones. In the chancel is a fmall ftone commemorative of 

 John Foljambe, who died in 1358, and is faid to have con- 

 tributed much towards the building of the church. A 

 raifed tomb perpetuates the name of Sampfon Meurill, who 

 died in 1462, and who, in the courfe of two years, was en- 

 gaged in eleven battles in France. Among other monu- 

 ments of ancient date, is one to the memory of a native of 

 this town, Robert Purfglove, prior of Gilburn priory, who 

 obtained a penfion from Henry VHI. for his obfequious 

 compHance with that monarch's wilhcs, in not only fur- 

 rendering his own houfe, but alfo afting as a commif- 

 fioner to procure the furrender of others. In queen Mary's 

 reign he was appointed archdeacon of Nottingham, and 

 fuffragan bifliop of Hull ; but on the acccflion of Ehza- 

 beth, he was deprived of all his fpiritualities, and retired to 

 Tidefwell, where, having founded a grammar-fchool, and an 

 hofpital for twelve poor people, he died in 1579. By the 

 population return of the year 181 1, the inhabitants of this 

 panfh are ftated to be 1219, who are chiefly fupported by 

 the mining bufinefs ; the number of houfes, which are moftly 

 fcattered on the oppofite banks of a rivulet, was eftimated 

 at 283. A weekly market is held on Wednefdays ; and 

 here are three annual fairs. 



In the vicinity of Tidefwell is the fequeftered retreat of 

 Monfal-Dale, peculiariy eminent for pifturefque beauty. 

 Near the head of the Dale, the rocks iul out en the fouth 



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fide, like the immenfe towers of a ftrong fortrefs. Lower 

 down, the crags foften into verdure, the dale expands, and 

 the eye dwells enraptured on the rich profpeft that prefents 

 itfclf. The back-ground is formed by a fteep precipice, 

 variegated by Ihort herbage and brufliwood, with occa- 

 fionally a ftarting rock breaking its continuity of furface. 

 On the fummit of an eminence called the Great Finn, was a 

 large barrow, about 160 feet in circumference, chiefly com- 

 pofed of broken maftes of limeftone, to obtain which the 

 barrow was deftroyed about the year 1795. Within this 

 tumulus various Ikeletons were difcovered, two of them of 

 gigantic fize, with feveral urns, and other ancient memo- 

 rials ; among which were two arrow-heads of flint, whence 

 the barrow is fuppofed to have been of very remote anti- 

 quity ; for, as the learned author of " Nenia Britannica" 

 obferves, " flint arrow-heads are evidences of a people not 

 in the ufe of malleable metal ; and it therefore implies, 

 wherever thefe arms are found in barrows, they are incon- 

 teftibly the relics of a primitive barbarous people, and pre- 

 ceding the era of thofe barrows in which brafs or iron arms 

 are found." It is worthy of note, that, excepting on the 

 fide next the precipice, the fummit of the Great Finn is 

 furrounded by a double ditch, with a vallum to each : the 

 diftance between the banks is 160 yards. 



Near the hamlet of Wormhill, in this parifli, is a romantic 

 and deep glen or dale, where the river Wye flows beneath 

 a ftupendous mafs of rock, called Chee-Tor. This mafs of 

 freeftone rifes about 300 feet above the level of the river, 

 and conftitutes a moft impofing and fingular feature. At a 

 fmall hamlet called Tunfted, in the liberty of Wormhill, 

 was born James Brindley, juftly famed for his fuccefsful 

 efforts in planning and executing canals. See Brikdley. — 

 Beauties of England and Wales, vol. iii. Derbyfhire ; by 

 J. Britton and E. W. Brayley. Davies's Hiftorical and 

 Defcriptive Account of Derbyfhire, 8vo. 181 1. 



TIDEWA, a town of Sweden, in Weft Gothland ; 62 

 miles N.E. of Uddevalla. 



TIDLA, a river of Sweden, which runs into the 

 Wenner lake, near Marieftadt, in the province of Weft 

 Gothland. 



TIDON, a town on the eaft coaft of the ifland of Celebes, 

 in the bay of Gunong Tellu. N. lat. o"^ 3'. E. long. 

 120° 38'. 



TIDOR, or TiDORE, an ifland in the Eafl Indian 

 fea, and one of thofe called Moluccas, fituated near the 

 weft coaft of the ifland of Gilolo, between Ternate and 

 Timor ; about ten leagues in circumference, and fo called 

 from its capital, though named Tadura, or Daco, by the 

 natives. It abounds in fpices, efpecially cloves. The 

 Dutch have feveral forts, but the ifland is governed by a 

 king, who poffeffes likewife fome territory on the ifland of 

 Gilolo ; 15 miles S.E. of Ternate. N. lat. 0° 42'. 

 E. long. 127° 19'. 



TIDSI, a river of Morocco, which difcharges itfelf into 

 the ocean a few miles S. of the Tegrewelt, or Cape 

 Offam. 



TIEBAS, a town of Spain, in the province of Navarre ; 

 5 miles S.E. of Pamplona. 



TIEDEMAN, Dieterich, in Biography, a philofo- 

 phical writer, was born April 1748, at Bremervorde, in the 

 duchy of Bremen, and educated in the fchool of his native 

 place in the Greek and Latin languages, in which he made 

 very confiderable proficiency. Devoting himfclf to the 

 church, he removed to the fchool of Verden, and from 

 thence to the Athenaeum at Bremen, where he formed an 

 intimate friendfhip with Meiners, afterwards profeffor at 



Gottingen. 



