TIN 



natic ; 74 milfs S.S.W. of Madura. N. lat. 8° 42'. E. 



lo'nji- 77° 46'- 



TiNEVEi.LV, a province of Hiiidooflan, bounded on the 

 N. by Madura, on the E. and S. by the gulf of Manara, 

 and on the W. by Travancore, from which it is feparated 

 by the Gliauts. The coail of this (late is called the Filhing 

 Coall, and has long been celebrated for its pearls. It was 

 formerly in podl-nion of the Portuguefe. The fifheries arc 

 carried on by the natives, but the Dutch claim the fove- 

 reignty, and fend two or three frigates to proteft the boats, 

 which fometimcs amount to hundreds. The revenues of the 

 country belong to the nabob of Arcot. 



TINEWALD, the parliament or annual convention of 

 the people of the Ifle of Man, of which this account is 

 given : the governor and officers of that ifland do ufually 

 fummon the twenty-four keys, being the chief commons 

 of it, once every yeai", viz. upon Midfummer-day, at St. 

 John's chapel, to the court kept there, called the tinewald- 

 eourt ; where, upon a hill near the faid chapel, the inhabit- 

 ants of the ifland ftand round about the plain adjoining ; and 

 here the laws and ordinances, agreed upon in the chapel of St. 

 John, are publirticd and declared unto them. At this fo- 

 lemnity the lord of the ifland fits in a chair of fliate, with a 

 royal canopy over his head, and a fword held before him, at- 

 tended by the feveral degrees of the people, who fit on each 

 fide of him, &c. 



TING, in Geography, a city of China, of the fecond 

 rank, in Pe-tchc-li, near the river Tarn ; 107 miles S.S.W. 

 of Peking. N. lat. 38'=' 32'. E. long. 114* 39'. 



TINGAM, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of Au- 

 rungabad ; 20 miles E.S.E. of Aarungabad. 

 • TINGAMOLLY, a town of Hindooftan, in the cirear 

 of Ruttunpour ; 6 miles W. of Kyragur. 



TINGANO, a river of Malacca, which runs into the 

 Chinefe fea, N. lat. 5° 27'. E. long. 103° 9'. 



TINGAU, or TiNCH, a townof Bavaria, late belonging 

 to the abbey of Kempten ; 7 miles N.E. of Kempten. 



TlNG-CHAN, a town of the kingdom of Corea ; 30 

 miles S.E. of Haimen. 



TINGENTERA, Algeciraz, in Ancient Geography, 

 a town of Spain, in Bcctica, towards the S.W. It appears 

 to have been the fame town with that called by Antonine 

 '; Portus Albus," and " Julia Traduda." It was the na- 

 tive place of Pomponius Mela. 



TING-FAN, in Geography, a city of China, of the fe- 

 cond rank, in Koei-tcheou ; 992 miles S.S.W. of Peking. 

 N. lat. 26° 5'. E. long. 106^ 4'. 



TING-HAI, a city and walled town of Chufan, on the 

 coaft of China, iituated within a mile from the large open vil- 

 lage or fuburb, built along the fliore. The way from the one 

 to the other lies over a plain, interfered with rivulets and ca- 

 nals in various direftions, and cultivated like a garden. The 

 city walls are thirty feet high ; and along thefe, at the dif- 

 tance of every hundred yards, are fquare ftone towers. In 

 the parapets are embrafures, and the holes in the merlons for 

 archery, without cannon. The gate is double, and within 

 it a guard-houfe, where military men were ftationed, and the 

 bows and arrows, pikes and matchlocks, were arranged in an 

 orderly manner. Of the towns of Europe, Ting-hai moft 

 refembled Venice, on a fmaller fcale. The bridges are fteep, 

 and afcended by fteps, like the Rialto ; the ftreets are like 

 ^leys, or narrow pafTages, and paved with fquare flat ftones. 

 The houfes are low, and moftly of one fl;ory. Attention to 

 ornament was chiefly beftowed on the roofs of the houfes ; 

 on the ridges of which were uncouth figures of animals, and 

 Other decorations in ftone and in iron. The town was full of 



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fliops, containing, chiefly, articles of clothing, food, and 

 furniture, difplaycd to full advantage. Even coffins were 

 exhibited to view in a variety of colours. The fmaller quad- 

 rupeds, including dogs, intended for food, as well as poul- 

 try, were expofed alive for fale, as were fifh in tubs of water, 

 and eels in fand. The number of places where tin-leaf, and 

 fticks of odoriferous wood were fold, for burning in their 

 temples, indicated no flight degree of fuperftitious difpofi- 

 tion in the people. Loofe garments and trowfers were worn 

 by both fexes ; but the men had hats of ftraw, or cane, 

 which covered the head, the hair, except one long lock, being 

 cut ftiort or fliaved ; while the women had theirs entire, and 

 plaited and coiled, in a becoming manner, into a knot upon 

 the crown of the head. Aftivity and labour univerfally pre- 

 vailed. None aflted alms, and none fliunned labour. Staun- 

 ton's Embafly to China, vol. i. 



TINGI, a duller of fmall iflands in the Chinefe fea, near 

 the eaft coaft of Malacca. N. lat. 2° 23'. E. long. 

 104° 21'. 



TINGIA, a town of Peru, in the audience of Lima ; 

 15 miles S.E. of Iga. 



TINGIS, Tangier, a town of Africa, fituated upon 

 a ftrait between the promontory, the coafts, and the mouth 

 of the river Valon, according to Ptolemy, who furnamed 

 it Caefarea. Mela fays that it was a very ancient city, 

 founded by the giant Antsus. It gave name to Mauritania 

 Tingitana, of which it was tlie capital. Pliny fays tiiat it 

 took the name of Julia Tradufta, when the emperor 

 Claudius fent thither a colony. Plutarch, in Serlorio, calls 

 it Tingena, and fays that a fon of Tinga by Hercules, called 

 Sophax, founded it, and gave it the name after that of his 

 mother. 



TIN-GLASS, a name frequently given to the femi-metal 

 bifmuth. 



TING-NGAN, in Geography, a town of China, of the 

 third rank, in Quang-tong, on the river of Limou ; 17 

 miles S. of iCiong-tchcou, in the ifland of Hai-nan. 



TINGO, or Tenna, a river of Italy, which runs into 

 the Adriatic, 3 miles N. of Fermo. 



TINGORAN, a fmall ifland in the Chinefe fea, near the 

 coaft of Malacca. N. lat. 4° 8'. E. long. 103° 33'. 



TINGO RC ALLY, a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal ; 

 40 miles W.S.W. of Calcutta. N. lat. 22° 9'. E. long. 



87^ 53'- 



TINGRACALLY, a town of Bengal ; 16 miles E. of 

 Mahmudpour. 



TINGRECOTTA, a town of Hindooftan, in Bara- 

 maul ; 18 miles S.E. of Darampoury. 



TINGRI, a town of Thibet. Here the Nepaulefe were 

 defeated by the troops of China in 1792 ; 22 miles S.W. 

 of Zuenga. 



TING-TCHEOU, a city of China, of the firft rank, in 

 Fo-kien ; 870 miles S. of Peking. N. lat. 25° 48'. E. 

 long. 116° 4'. 



TINGUIRICA, a river of Chili, which runs into the 

 Rahel ; 40 m-iles from its mouth. 



TINGUZGALPA, a town of Mexico, in the province 

 of Nicaragua ; 80 miles N.W. of Leon. 



TINGWALL, a town of the ifland of Shetland ; 4 J 

 miles W.N.W. of Lerwick. 3 



TINGWALLA, an ifland of Sweden, in the north 

 part of the Wenner lake, oh which the town of Carlftadt is 

 built. 



TINIA, or Teneas, in Ancient Geography, a river of 

 Italy, in Umbria, which, according to Sihus Italicus, ran 

 into the Tiber. 



TINIAN, 



