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the vfffcls : but in the boiUng of the liquor it gives a red- 

 ilith colour, and diforders the whole works when in any 

 jfr,-at quantity. They always pafs their hquor over lour 

 parcrU of the alum-rock, and the laft, if not carefuUy ca- 

 nned, gen.raliy gives it this difadvantagcous mixture. I'm!. 



'I'ranf. N' 142. , , . , r 



TLANHQUACHUL, in Ornithology, the name ot a 

 Brufilian bird, vcr)- much approaching to the nature of the 

 European platea, or fpoonbill. 



It is a very voracious bird, and feeds on live filh, but will 

 not take or meddle «-ith dead ones, and is all over of a 

 beautiful red. It has a black ring round the upper part 

 of its neck, and is common about the fhores of the iea 

 and rivers. , 



TLAQUACUM, in Zoology, the name given by the 

 Spaniards, and fome others, to a very remarkable animal in 

 America, commonly known among us by the name of the 

 poiTum or opoffum. 



TLAQUATZIN, a name by which the natives in fome 

 parts of America call the opofTum. 



T1.AQUATZIN Spinofum., the name by which Hernandez 

 has called the cuanda, a fort of Brafilian porcupine. 



TLASCALA, in Geography, a province of North 

 America, in the government of Mexico ; bounded on the 

 N. by Guafteca, on tlie E. by the gulf of Mexico and the 

 province of Guaxaca, on the S. by the Pacific ocean, and 

 on the W. by the province of Mexico Proper ; about 320 

 miles in length, and from 40 to 120 in breadth. The cli- 

 mate, foil, and produce, are much the fame with thofe of 

 Mexico Proper. On the W. fide there is a chain of moun- 

 tains for the fpace of eighteen leagues, very well cultivated ; 

 and on the N. is alfo a great ridge of mountains, covered 

 with perpetual fnow, the neighbourhood of which expofes 

 it to horrid tempells, hurricanes, and frequent inundations, 

 whereby houfes, even on the top of eminences, are fome- 

 timea endangered. Yet this is allowed to be the moft po- 

 pulous country of all America : and this is partly afcribed 

 to its having been originally an ally to Cortez, in the con- 

 queft of Mexico, who obtained a grant of it from the em- 

 peror Charles VI. alfo king of Spain, by which it is ftill ex- 

 empt from any fervice or duty whatfoever to that crown, only 

 paying the king of Spain a handful of maize for each head, 

 as an acknowledgment ; which inconfiderable parcels were 

 faid, upwards of fifty years ago, to make up 1 3,000 bufhels ; 

 for it produces fo much of the Indian corn, that hence it 

 had the name of Tlafcala, that is, the Land of Bread. By 

 this means the towns and villages fwarm with Indians. This 

 province was anciently a monarchy, till civil wars arifing 

 among the inhabitants, they formed themfelves into an arif- 

 tocracy of many princes, in order to get rid of one. They 

 divided their towns into different diftricts 5 each of them no- 

 minated one of their chiefs to refide in the court of Tlafcala, 

 where they formed a fenate, whofe refolutions were a law to 

 the whole. Under this form of government they maintained 

 themfelves a long while againil the kings of Mexico, and 

 continued in it till the reception of the Spaniards under 

 Cortez. 



Tlascala, a town of North America, and anciently 

 the capital of a province to which it gives name, fituated on 

 a river, which runs into the Pacific ocean. When the Spa- 

 niards firft arrived here, it is faid to have contained 300,000 

 inhabitants : and Acofta affirms, that it had a market-place 

 large enough to hold 30,000 buyers and fellers ; tliat in the 

 fhambleswere feldom lefs than 1500 fheep, 4000 oxen, and 

 2000 hogs. But matters were fo much altered, that Ge- 

 melli, who was here in 1698, fays it was then become an 

 ordinary village, with a parifti-church, in whieh hangs up a 



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picture of the fhip which brought Cortez to La Vera Cruz. 

 The inhabitants formerly offered up human facriftces, and 

 when the Spaniards Hrft arrived here, we are told by Diaz 

 del CaftiUo, that they found wooden cages, in which pri- 

 foners were confined to be fatted for viftims ; 20 miles N. 

 of Puebla de los Angelos. N. lat. 19° 45'. W. long. 

 98° 30'. 



TLAYOTIC, in Natural Hiftory. See CoLlc-Stone. 



TLEMSAM, or Telemsen, in Geography. See TnE- 



MECEN. 



TLETSCH, a town of Ruflia, in the government of To- 

 boldc, on the Irtifch ; 72 miles E.S.E. of Tobolflf. 



TLEUQUECHOLTOTOTL, in Ornithology, the 

 Mexican name of a bird of the wood-pecker kind, defcribed 

 by Nieremberg under the name of the avis falutiferus ; the 

 feathers of a red crcft it carries on its head being fuppofed a 

 remedy for head-aches. 



TLOS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia Minor, in 

 Lycia, at the pafs of a mountain, on the fide of Cybara, ac- 

 cording to Strabo. It is placed by Ptolemy in the number 

 of the interior towns of Lycia, in the vicinity of mount 

 Cragas. — Alfo, a town of Afia, in Pifidia. 



TLUMACZOW, in Geography, a town of Moravia, in 

 the circle of Hradifch ; 15 miles N. of Hradifch. 



TMAIE', a town of Egypt; 12 miles S.E. of an- 

 fora. 



TMARUS, in Ancient Geography, a mountain of Epirus, 

 in Thefprotia, at the foot of which was a temple. Strabo. 

 It was alfo called Tamarus and Tomarus. 



TMATARACAN, or Tamatercan, literally denot- 

 ing the " fwarm of beetles," called in Theodofius's Itine- 

 rary " Tamatarce," a name anciently given to the city of 

 Taman, over the fuburbs of which extend all the ruins 

 of the ancient city of Phanogoria. The diflance acrofs 

 the Bofphorus from Tmataracan to Kertchy,/. e. from Pha- 

 nogoria to Panticapaeum, is found to correfpond with the 

 adlual diftance from Taman jto Kertchy. Among other 

 antiquities of Taman, one of the moft remarkable is the Nau- 

 machia, or amphitheatre for naval combats, not lefs than 

 1000 paces in diameter, with its whole area paved. The 

 fubterraneous conduits for conveying water ttill remain, but 

 are applied to other ufes. The materials of the ruined build- 

 ings do not exift in the ifie of Taman, but mud have been 

 brought from the Crimea, from Greece, or in later ages, 

 by the Genoefe from Italy. The diftance from Taman to 

 Yenikele, on the oppofite (hore, is about 1 2 miles. Clarke's 

 Travels, vol. ii. 



TMESCHEDE, or Mu.schede, a town of Germany, in 

 the county of Arenn)crg, on the left fide of the Roer ; 3 miles 

 N.W. of Arenfberg. 



TMESIPTERIS, in Botany, an uncouth, however 

 leai-ned, name, compofed of TiJ-mi;, a notch, or incifion, and 

 Trlffi?, a fern, becaufe the capfules are feated in the notches 



of the frond Bernhardi in Schrad. Journ. for 1800, 131. 



t. 2. f. 5. WiUd. Sp. PI. V. 5. 56. Swartz Fil. 187. Labill. 

 Nov. Holl. V. 2. 105. t. 2J2. This fern is referred by 

 Mr. Brown to Psilotum. ( Sqe that article. ) We ought 

 there to have noticed Mr. Brown's remark, that the plant 

 of Forfter differs from Labillardiere's, in not having abrupt 

 leaves, and that it was found in New Zeeland, not in the 

 ifie of Tanna. Willdenow has juftly obferved the difference 

 between Bernhardi's figure, and that of Labillardiere. Mr. 

 Brown fays both thefe fpecies are pai-afitical, on the ftems 

 of arborefcent ferns. 



TMESIS, Tjuro-i.-, formej} from rtixva, I cut, in Grammar, 

 a figure by which a compound word is feparated into two 

 parts, and one or more words inte;'pofed between them. 



Thus, 



