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o( tint churcli. Here i« a parochial fchool, and alfo one 

 ertablilhed by the Society tor Promoting Chriftian Know- 

 ledge, both of which are well attended. The population 

 of the parilh (which compreliends the iflands of Coll, 

 Gunna, and Tir-y) was, in the year 1811, eftimated at 

 3 1 86. There is a regular ferry from Tir-y to CoU, three 

 miles dillant, which is often dangerous, owing to a heavy 

 fwell from the Atlantic, and a rapid current over rocks and 

 Ihifting fands. The two iflands appear to have been for- 

 merly united : the ifle of Gunna, which lies in the found, 

 being apparently part of the intermediate land which has 

 efcaped dcllruftion. — Beauties of Scotland, vol. v. Car- 

 lille's Topographical DitHonary of Scotland, vol. ii. 



TIRYNS, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Argo- 

 lide, N. of Midea, fituated in an cnclofurc ot the moun- 

 tains ; called anciently Halicis, or the town of filhermen, 

 from its having been the abode of the Hermionean fifher- 

 men. In the time of Paufanias it was in ruins. 



TISiEUS, or Tis.'EUM, a very lofty mountain of 

 Theffaly. 



TISALPHATA, a town of Mefopotamia, fituated W. 

 of the Tigris, on one of the fmall rivers which difcharged 

 themfelves into the Mygdonius. 



TISBURY, in Geography, a fmall fifliing town on the 

 N. coaft of Martha's Vineyard, belonging to the ftate of 

 Mafiachufetts. 



TISCHNOWITZ, a town of Moravia, in the circle 

 of Brunn ; 13 miles N.W. of Brunn. 



TISDRA, TuSDRO, or Thyfdrus, in jlncient Geography, 

 a town of Africa, fix leagues S.W. of Sarfura and five 

 hagues S.W. of Achola. It has many ancient relics of 

 altars, infcriptions, columns, and fragments of marble (latues ; 

 and alfo the remains of an amphitheatre. 



TISEBARICA, a country of Ethiopia, according to 

 Arrian, which commenced near the port of Berenice, and 

 extended along the Red fea, as far as the country of the 

 Mofchophagi. 



TISHEET, in Geography, a town of Africa, with a 

 fait -mine ; 150 miles N. of Benown. N. lat. 17° 20". 

 W. long. 26^ 50'. 



TISHOLTZ, a town of Hungary ; 10 miles E.N.E. 

 of Libctcn. 



TISIDIUMj in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa, 

 the command of which, according to Salluft, was given by 

 Metellus to Jugurtha. 



TISIPHONE, in Mythology, one of the three Furies. 

 ■She is reprefented by the poets with vipers, fometimes as 

 loofe ferpents, intermixed with her hair, and fometimes as 

 fcrpents growing from her head inftead of hair. As (lie is 

 one of the chief of all the infernal executioners, her robe 

 is defcribed either as dropping with frefii blood, or ftiff 

 with human gore : this robe is faftened round her with a 

 f'-rpcnt inllead of a girdle ; and (lie has fometimes vipers 

 twifted round her arms inftead of bracelets. They fome- 

 times give her a torch in her hand wet with blood ; fome- 

 times a torch in one hand and a ferpent in the other ; and 

 fometimes ferpents in both. Statins, Thcb. i. v. 91. v. 1 1 1. 

 V. 113. Theb. vii. v. 467. Ovid. Met. iv. v. 483. v. 490. 

 T. 495. v. 510. 



TISMANA, in Geography, a town of Walachia, at the 

 fourcc of a river of the fame name ; 18 miles W. of Ter- 

 gofyl — Alfo, a river of Walachia, which runs into the 

 Syl, 15 miles S. of Tergofyl. 



TISQUIUU Lake, a lake of North America. N, lat. 

 56' 10'. W, long. 95° 45'. 



TISRI, or lizRi, in Chronology, the firft Hebrew 



month of the civil year, and the feventh of the ecclefiaftical 

 or facred year. 



The Hebrews call it rajh-hajhanna, that is, the beginning 

 of the year. It anfwered to part of our September and 

 Oftober. On the firft day of this month was kept the 

 feaft of trumpets, becaufe the beginning of the year was 

 then proclaimed by found of trumpets. On this day they 

 refrained from all forts of fervile bufinefs, and offered in 

 facrifice a calf, a ram, and feven lambs. Levit. xxiii. 24. 

 Numb. xxix. 1. 



The tenth day of this month was the great day of expia- 

 tion, and on the fifteenth the feaft of Tabernacles began, 

 which lafted till the twenty-fecond day inclufively. See 



SCENOPEGIA. 



TISSA, in Ancient Geography, -d. fmall town of Sicily, 

 at the northern foot of jEtna, near the river Onobala. 

 Ptol. 



TISSANAH, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 the circar of Sumbul ; 16 miles S.W. of Sumbul. 



TISSIA, a town of Bengal ; 35 miles S.E. of Pa- 

 lamow. 



TISSUE, Cellular, in Anatomy, the cellular fub- 

 ftance. It is an expreflion borrowed from the tiffu cellulaire 

 of the French, who alfo often call it tijju muqneuv. S^re 

 Cellular Subjlance. 



TISTE, in Geography, a poft-town of Germany, in thu 

 county of Verden ; 20 miles N.E. of Rotenburg. 



TISURUS, TozER, in Ancient Geography, a town of 

 Africa Propria, S. of Adrametum, and 4 leagues S.W. 

 of Tichafa. It has fome Roman remains. 



TIT, in Geography, a town of Morocco, near the At- 

 lantic ocean ; 8 miles S.W. of Mazagan. 



Tit, in Rural Economy, a term provincially applied to a 

 fmall ftiff horfe, or fort of poncy, and fometimes to other 

 horfes, as a handfome or ugly tit, &c. 



TITALBARY, in Geography, a town of Bengal j 20 

 miles N.N.W. of Goragot. 



TITALEEA, a town of Bengal ; 6 miles E. of Moor- 

 ftiedabad. 



TITALLYA, a town of Bengal; 50 miles N. of 

 Dinagepour. 



TITAN. See Levant. 



TITANA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Sicyonia, 

 E. of the river Sitas, and W. of the river Afopus ; fitu- 

 ated on a mountain, and regarded as a fortified town. Here 

 was a temple of Efculapius, and a ftatue of this god ; and 

 alfo a ftatue of Hygeia. In the temple of Efculapius were 

 noui'ilhed facred ferpents Alfo, a fmall country of Sicy- 

 onia. — Alfo, a river of Afia, which had its fource in 

 mount Zagrus, and flowed into the river Sillas. 



TITANIA, Tnaiix, in Antiquity, a feftival in memory 

 of the Titans. 



TITANID.S, or Artemid.=e, the feven daughters of 

 Chronus, fon of Uranu5, by Aftarte. 



TITANIS, in Ancient Geography, a port on the wcftern 

 coaft of Corfica, between the mouth of the river Ticarius 

 and the town of Fifera. Ptol. 



TITANIUM, in Mineralogy, a metal originally dif- 

 covered by Mr. Gregor of Cornwall, in the grains of a 

 black mineral found in the bed of a rivulet in the valley of 

 Menaian, in that county. It occurs alfo in different ftates 

 of oxydation or intermixture in various parts of the world; 

 and, according to the recent obfervations of M. Cordier, is 

 a conftituent part of moft volcanic rocks. The oxyd of 

 titanium is reduced by expofure to an intenfe heat, being 

 previoufly moiftened with oil and furrounded by powdered 



charcoal. 



