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TIRING, in Falconry, is the giving a hawk the leg or 

 pinion of a fowl to pluck at. Didl. Rull. 



TIRIPANGADA, in Ancient Geogrtiphy, a town of 

 India, on this fide of the Ganges. PtoL 



TIRIPIN, in Geography, a fea-port of South America, 

 in the province of Cumana. 



TIRISTA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Lower 

 Myfia, near the Danube, between Trimaninm and Duruf- 

 torum, Ptol. 



TIRISTRIA, or Tetrisia, a promontory of Lower 

 Myfia, on the Euxine fea, between Dionyfopolis and 

 Odcffus. Ptol. 



TIRKA, in Geography, a town of Africa, in the king- 

 dom of Ghana, on the north fide of the Niger ; 120 miles 

 E. of Ghana. N. lat. 15° 20'. E. long. 14° 30'. 



TIRLEMONT, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Dyle, called by the people of the country T'lenen ; 

 on the Geete. It was anciently one of the prnicipal cities 

 of Brabant, and made a fourth quarter in the affembly of 

 the States ; but that precedence was afterwards removed 

 to Bois-le-Dnc. It certainly has been a very flounfhing 

 and populous city, and many veftiges of its grandeur are 

 yet vifible ; but it has fuffered much by war, and other ca- 

 lamities ; 9 miles S.E. of Louvaine. 



TIRMAKUL, a fort of Hindooftan, near Gooty, 

 taken by the Britifh in 180 1. 



TIRMANIZ, a mountain extending from Bnkovina to 

 Tranfylvania. 



TIRNA, a river of Hungary, which runs into the Da- 

 nube, a few miles below Prefburg. 



TIRNAU,atown of Hungary, containing nine churches, 

 and as many convents. This town was built in the thir- 

 teenth century ; 20 miles E.N.E. of Prefburg. N. lat. 

 48-2.'. E. long. I 7° 44'. 



TIROAN. See Tarox. 



TIROCOOR, a tovsn of Plindooftan, in Golconda ; 

 8 miles S. of Calloor. 



TIRRETO, a town of Naples, in Calabria Ultra ; 

 15 miles E.S.E. of Reggio. 



TIRROUP-MEW, a town of the Birman empire : the 

 meaning of the word is the Chinefe city, and the appellation 

 was derived from a viftory obtained over the Chinefe fome 

 centuries ago, when they invaded Birmali ; 35 miles N.E. 

 of Paghan. 



TIRSjE, in Ancient Geography, a town of Macedonia, 

 in Mygdonia. 



TI'RSCHENRIED, in Geography, a town of Bavar/a ; 

 28 miles N.N.E. of Amberg. 



TIRSCHNITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Kaurzim ; 4 miles N.W. of Koftcletz. 



TIRSIO, in Ichthyology, a name given by Gaza and fome 

 other authors to the phocasna of Willughby and others, 

 the porpcjfe or marfum. Phny, Bellonius, and many others 

 call It tiirfio. 



TIRSRUM, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in Eaft 

 Gothland ; 25 miles S. of Linkioping. 



TIRUA, a fmall ifiand in the Pacific ocean, near the 

 coall of Chili. N. lat. 38° 30'. 



TIRUAN, a town of Hindooftan, in Bundelcund ; 20 

 miles N.E. of Callinger. 



TIRUMBORE, a town of Hindooftan, in Madura; 

 7 miles N.E. of Madura. 



TIRUN, or Tedong, a name given to tribes who live 

 chiefly on the N.E. coaft of Borneo, and are reckoned a 

 favage and piratical race, addicted to eating the flefh of 

 their enemies. Their language is peculiar. It is probable, 



however, that they are only a tribe of Idan, who are ima- 

 gined to be only a race of Haraforas or Alfoers, as they 

 are termed by the Dutch, who fecm to be the moft original 

 race of all the caftern iflands, excepting perhaps the Papuas. 

 Tlie Idan are fometimes termed Marut ; they are certainly 

 the original inhabitants of Borneo, and refcmble the Hara- 

 foras equally in ftature, agility, colour, and manners. The 

 Haraforas are indigenous in almoll all the eallern ifles, and 

 are fometimes found on the fame ifiand with the Papuas or 

 oriental negroes. They are often lighter in colour than the 

 Mahometan races, and generally excel them in ftrength 

 and activity. They are univerfally rude and unlettered, and 

 where they have not been reduced to the ftate of flaves of 

 the foil, their manners have a general refcmblance. In their 

 manners, the moft fingular feature is the neceffity impofed 

 on every perfon, of lomc time in his life cmbruing his hands 

 in human blood ; and, in general, among all their tribes, as 

 well as the Idan, no perfon is permitted to marry, till he 

 can ftiew the flcuU of a man whom he has flaughtered. 

 They cat the flefli of their enemies, like the Battas, and 

 drink out of their fivulls ; and the ornaments of their houfes 

 are human flf ulls and teeth, which are confequently in great 

 requeft among them, as formerly in Sumatra, the ancient 

 inhabitants of which are faid to have originally had no other 

 money than the flfulls of their enemies. The Haraforas are 

 found in all the Moluccas, in Celebes, the Philippines, ar.d 

 Mag-indano, where they are termed Subano or Manubo ; 

 and the ferocious race mentioned by Marfden, who live 

 inland from Samanka in Sumatra, and are accuftomed to 

 atone their own faults by offering the heads of ftrangers to 

 the chiefs of their villages, are probably of the fame de- 

 fcription. Af. Rcf. vol. x. 



TIRUVELORE, a town of Hindooftan, in the Car- 

 natic ; 30 miles E. of Tanjore. 



TIR-Y, or Tyuie, one of the ifl.inds of the Hebrides, 

 fituated in the diftrift of Mull, and fliire of Argyle, Scot- 

 land, is about 1 1 miles in length, and 2-| miles in breadth. 

 Its coaft is moftly rocky, and interfefted with many beautiful 

 fandy bays, fome of them a mile broad. About one-half of 

 the furface is arable, interfperfed with fmall rocks and rifing 

 grounds, none of which are above 250 feet above the fea- 

 level ; but the furface in general is fo even, that the 

 waves are often feen from the one fhore rifing apparently 

 feveral feet above the level of the other. In the centre of 

 the ifiand is a large plain, which contains about 1200 Scotch 

 acres, and is elevated about fix feet only above high-water 

 mark : confequently, in ftormy weather the fea often meets 

 acrofs this plain, and is produ£live of bad confequences. 

 The inhabitants have endeavoured to avert this evil by 

 building a defence of ftone and earth on the one fide, 

 while the fea, on the other, has raifed a confiderable barrier 

 of bowlder ftones ; yet neither has been fufficient to re- 

 fift the waves of the Atlantic. Here are fevei-al lakes, 

 covering in all about 600 acres : in one of thefe is a fmall 

 ifiand, on which are the ruins of an ancient caftle, on the 

 fcitc whereof a neat houfe has been eredted for the refidence 

 of the faftor of the duke of Argyle, who is proprietor of 

 the whole ifiand. The fifiteries employ a number of hands, 

 as well as the manufacture of kelp, of which .^bout 245 

 tons are annually made. The hill of Cean-Mharra, the 

 weftern point of the ifiand, is remarkable for a great num- 

 ber of large natural caves, frequented by innumerable flocks 

 of fea-fowls. Here are the remains of many Danifli forts, 

 and alfo of feveral old chapels, at fome of which burying- 

 grounds and croftes are ftill vifible. In the time of St. 

 Columba, this appears to have been part of the patrimony 



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