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tliat if lie had any talent for Englifli profe, it was di-riveJ 

 from frequent perufal i)f Tillotfon's writings. Mr. Mel- 

 moth, however, in his " Fitzorbone's Letters," expreffes a 

 very different, and in our judgment a lefs juft, or to fay tlie 

 Icaft of it, a lefs candid opinion. He fpeaks of " liis words 

 as frequently ill chofen, and almoft always ill placed ; his 

 periods as tedious and unharmonious ; and his metaphors 

 as generally mean, and often ridiculous." Notwithlland- 

 ing thefe refledtions, Tillotfon's fcrnions, though furpafled by 

 the corredlnefs and elegance of modern compofitions in this 

 department, and lefs peruied than formerly, will not ceafe 

 to be regarded as a valuable part of Englifli literature. 

 Birch's Life of Archbiihop Tillotfon. Biog. Brit. Gen. 

 Biog. 



TILLS, in ylgnctihure, a term lignifying tares or vetches 

 in many places, in both the northern and fouthern parts of 

 the kingdom. 



TILLURAH, in Geography, a town of Bengal; 2 1 

 miles E.N.E. of Purneah. — Alfo, a town of Hindoollan, in 

 Bahar ; 22 miles S. of Patna. N. lat. 25° 14'. E. long. 

 85° 22'. 



TILLY, a town of Canada, on the St. Laurence ; 10 



miles S.W. of Quebec Alfo, a town of France, in the 



department of the Meufe ; 9 miles S. of Verdun Alfo, a 



town of France, in the department of the Eure ; 7 miles 

 S.E. of Grand Andelys. — Alfo, a town of France, in the 

 depa:rtment of the Sambre and Meufe ; 6 miles W. of 

 Gemblours. ' 



Tilly la Campagne, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Calvados ; 4 miles S.S.E. of Caen. 



Tilly Verolle, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Calvados ; 9 miles W. of Caen. 



Tilly Land, in /tgriculture, that fort which is, for the 

 mod part, conftituted and compofed of materials of the till 

 kind. 



Thefe kinds of land, in their original ftates, are in gene- 

 ral of a very barren and unproduftive nature ; but when they 

 have been fully turned over by the plough or other means, 

 ■well and effedlually wrought and reduced by other proper 

 tools, and their parts completely divided and expofed to the 

 alternate aftion of different agents, fuch as thofe of froft 

 and thaw, of drought, dews, and rain, with the many other 

 improving effefts of the atmofphere which furrounds them ; 

 and withal ftimulated, feparated in their parts, and enriched 

 by calcareous and other fuitable manures and fKbilances, 

 they become, in various inftances, of a far lefs ftrong and 

 ftubborn nature, and greatly more difpofed to the raifing of 

 good and plentiful crops upon them. They are commonly 

 much ameUorated and improved at firil by growing beans, 

 tares, and rape in fucceffion with wheat and other fuitable 

 forts of grain, having the green crops fo managed as to 

 ftand as clofe, thick, and fmothering as poflible on the land. 

 See Land and Soil. \ 



TILMUS, -11^,1X0;, a term ufed by fome of the medical 

 writers to exprefs the effeA of a fort of dehrium, in which 

 people pull the bed-cloaths, or pick out threads from the 

 flieets. This is ufually efteemed a dangerous fymptom. 



TILNOR, in Geography, a town of Bengal ; 60 miles 

 N.N.W. of Midnapour. 



TILO-GRAMMUM, Ougli, or Ongli, in Ancient Geo- 

 graphy, a town of India, fituated, according to Ptolemy, 

 to the right of the moll weftern arm of the Ganges, about 

 23° lat. 



TILOTAMA, a nymph celebrated for her beauty in 

 the mythological and amatory poems of the Hindoos. She 

 appears to have been one of that numerous clafs of females, 

 who, under the name of Upfara, arofe from the churned 



ocean, as defcribed under our article Kurmavataka : a 

 fable as prolific of poetical incident, and as often referred 

 to, as any in the whole range of invention. The chief of 

 thefe llpfaras, or water-nymphs, was lllienba, of whom 

 fome mention is made under her name in tliis work. They 

 are delcribed in numerous Hindoo poems with ijl the warmth 

 and fancy that may be predicated of " youlhfid poets when 

 tliey love ;" and in terms too glowing for readers beyond 

 the tropics. Under the name of another of thefe beauteous 

 damfels, Menaka, we have faid lomcthing of them. See 

 alfo Upsaua. 



The name of the elegant nymph, the fubjeft of this ar- 

 ticle, occurs in an infcription on a copper-plate found in the 

 Deccan, bearing date A. D. 1359. The infcription is given 

 in the 9th volume of the Afiatic Rcfcarchcs, and records a 

 grant for pious purpofes. After much adulation of the 

 mother of the royal donor, it is faid that " by the charms 

 of her graceful gaiety flie obfcured Tilotama." 



TILOUTTAH, in Geography, a town of Hindoollan, 

 in Bahar; 10 miles S.S.E. ot Saferam. N. lat. 24° 48'. 

 E. long. 84° 15'. 



TILOX, in Ancient Geography, a promontory on the 

 northern coail of tlie ifland of Corfica, between the mouth 

 of the river Valerius and Ca:rix Littus. 



TILPHOSS^UM, a fmaU country of Greece, in 

 Theffaly. 



TILSIT, in Geography, a town of Pruffia, in the Lithu- 

 anian department, lai-ge, rich, and commercial. It obtained 

 the privileges of a city in the year 1552, though the caftle is 

 faid to have been Handing fo early as 1 289. The river Memel, 

 which runs along the N. fide of the town, opens to it a very 

 advantageous trade with Konigfberg, in corn, linfeed, butter, 

 and other provifions. Tilfit, properly fo called, confiffs of 

 two long ftreets, of a proportionate breadth, which are 

 called the German-ftreet and the High-ftreet, contiguous to 

 which are the fuburbs called the " Liberty." The number 

 of houfes in this city is about 600, and the inhabitants 

 amount to 7000 fouls. The ecclefiaftical buildings are an 

 evangelical or Lutheran German church, a Lithuanian 

 church, and a Calvinift or reformed church. Without the 

 town is a Lutheran chapel, and about an Enghfh mile from 

 it a Roman Cathohc chapel. The flat country about Tilfit, 

 which is about 16 miles in length, and as many in breadth, 

 is one of the moft fertile fpots in the whole kingdom : the 

 inhabitants of it breed great numbers of horned cattle, and 

 furnifh not only PrufQa, but hkewife other provinces, with 

 excellent butter and cheefe ; and the filheries in this place 

 are alfo confiderable. The horfes are large and llrong, but 

 clumfy. Barley is almoft the only grain fown in thefe parts, 

 which afford little or no wood. The marfh-land is, in fpring, 

 expofed to inundations by the overflowing of the rivers, 

 which often do great damage. In 1 807, it was taken by 

 the French ; foon after which a peace was made between 

 France, Ruffia, and Pruffia, called the " Peace of Tilfit ; 

 50 miles N.E. of Konigfberg. N. lat. 55° 8'. E. long. 

 22° 8'. 



TILT. See Tournament. 



Tilt, in Rural Economy, a term fignifying the arched or 

 other covering of a cart, waggon, or other carriage. 



The hoops for fupporting the tilts in thefe cafes, may be 

 faftened upon the fides of the carriage-frames, after being 

 properly prepared and bent in a fort of half-circular man- 

 ner, in feveral different ways, but the faftening by means 

 of fcrews is probably the beft, where they are to remain 

 fixed. 



TiVT-Boat, a boat covered with a tilt, /'. e. a cloth, or 



tarpawling, fuftained by bails or hoops over the ftern, iov 



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