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ftnick in the citic* of Briftol, Oxford, and Worcetter, aiid 

 alfo by about ^coo tradcfmeii and others ; upon rcturnnig 

 wliich to the irfuer, he gave current coin, or value, for them, 

 3i defired. In the fucceeding reign, on the 19th of May, 

 1613, king James's royal farthing tokens commenced by 

 proclamation. Thefe were not forced upon the people as 

 fartlilngs or cftablilhed coin, but merely as pledges or 

 tokens, for which government was obliged to give other coin 

 if required. Their legend was the king's common titles 

 running upon each fide. Thefe pieces were not favourably 

 received, but continued in a kind of reluftant circulation 

 through the whole of this reign, and the beginning of the 

 fuccceding. In 1635, Charles I. ftruck thole with tlie rofe 

 inftead of the harp. But the vaft number of counterfeits, 

 and the king's death in 1648, put an utter ttop to their 

 currency ; and the tokens of towns and tradefmen again 

 took their run, increafing prodigioufly till the year 1672, 

 when farthings properly fo called were firft publifbed by 

 govcrflmeut. Thefe town-pieces and tradefmen's tokens, 

 together with thofe of the time of queen Elizabeth, are col- 

 letled by fome antiquaries with great avidity. Similar 

 tokens, fays Pinkerton, are to this day current in Scotland, 

 both of copper and tin, principally ufed by the bakers aud 

 grocers ; farthings not being very common in that country. 



In 1804, the bank of Ireland bought in a large quantity 

 of depreciated filver coin ; and, as a fubftitute, iffued Spanifli 

 dollars, newly ftamped, at 6s. Irilh, and alfo fractions of the 

 dollar, which had been minted for the occafion at the Tower 

 of London, confiding of five-penny, ten-penny, and thirty- 

 penny pieces Irifh, being exaftly -r'j, ,V, and -,%■ of the 

 dollar. All thefe coins are called Bank tokens, the Bank 

 having engaged to receive them again at the iflued price, 

 and they have been declared a legal tender in the payment of 

 taxes : their intrinfic value may be known from that of the 

 dollar. In 1809, a new filver coinage was minted at the 

 Tower of London for the colonies of Eflequibo and Deme- 

 rary, confifting of pieces of 3, 2, i, i, and -i guilders : the 

 larger piece weighs 15 dwt., and is I oz. 6dwt. worfe than 

 Enghfli ftandard. Its value therefore is 3^. ^J. fterling, or, 

 computing it as the dollar is now rated in the Weft Indies 

 (/. e. at 4^. 8<^. ), its value is 3^. 85^. and the fmaller pieces 

 in proportion. They are marked on the reverfe " Colonies 

 of Eflequibo and Demerary Token," and the king's 

 is on the obverfe. The exchange with London fliould be 

 about 12 guilders for i/. fterhng, but varies confiderably 

 above this, even to 20 guilders, and upwards. Kelly's 

 Cambift. 



TOKIS, in Geography, a town of Japan, in the ifland of 



Nipbon ; 40 miles N.N.E. of Meaco Alfo, a town of 



Japan, in the province of Ximo ; 15 miles N.N.W. of 

 Nangafaki. 



TOKI-TAO, a fmall iHand near the coaft of China, 

 N. lat. 38° 7'. E. long. 120° 39'. 



TOKORARI. See Tocorary. 



TOKTABA, a town of Bootan ; 50 miles N. of 

 Beyhar. 



TOL, in Law, a term fignifying to defeat, or take away. 

 From the Latin, tollere, which fignifies the fame. 



Thus, lo tol the entry, is to take away thp right of 

 entry. 



ToL Peden Penwith, in Geography, a cape on the. S. coaft 

 of the weftern extremity of Cornwall ; 3 miles S.E. of 

 Land's End. N. lat. 50° 4!. W. long. 5° 36'. 



TOLA, in Commerce, a weight for gold and filver at 

 Bombay, Sural, and other places in India : at Bombay, the 

 tola contains 40 vails, 100 gonze or Bombay grains, or 600 

 chowes. The tola is equal in weight to the filver rupee ; 



TOL 



24 tolas make i feer, and 32 tolas 13 vails = I lb. troy. 

 At Surat, the tola contains 32 vails or 96 ruttees : 82^ 

 vails make 1 oz. troy, and therefore 31 tolas i lb. troy 

 nearly. 



TOLABO, Cape, in Geography, d. cape on the E. coafl 

 of Celebes. S. lat. 0° 45'. E. long. 122° 50'. 



TOLAGO Bay, a bay on the N.E, coaft of the north- 

 ern ifland of New Zealand, in the South Pacific ocean, dif- 

 covered by captain Cook in the year 1769. It i» moder- 

 ately large, and has from fcven to thirteen fathom, with a 

 clean fandy bottom and good anchorage, and is flieltered 

 from all winds except the noith-caft. On the fouth point 

 lies a fmall but high iiland, fo near the main as not to be dif- 

 tinguiftied from it. Clofe to the north end of the ifland,. at 

 the entrance into the bay, are two high rocks ; one of which 

 is round, like a corn-ftack, but the other is long, and per- 

 forated in feveral places, fo that the openings appear like the 

 arches of a bridge. Within thefe rocks is a cove, conve- 

 nient for wood and water. Off^ the north point of the bay 

 is a pretty high rocky ifland ; and about a mile without it, 

 are fome rocks and breakers. The tide flows at the full 

 and change of the moon, about fix o'clock, and rifes and 

 falls perpendiculai'ly from five to fix feet. Captain Cook 

 faw no four-footed animals, nor the appearance of any, 

 either tame or wild, except dogs and rats, and thefe were 

 very fcarce : the people eat the dogs, as at Otaheite, and 

 adorn their garments with the fl<ins. He climbed many of 

 the hills, hoping to get a view of the country, but could fee 

 nothing from the top except higher hills, in a boundlefs fuc- 

 ceffion. The ridges of thefe hills produce httle befides 

 fern ; but the fides are moft luxuriantly clothed with wood 

 and verdure of vai-ious kinds, with little plantations inter- 

 mixed. In the woods he found trees of above twenty dif- 

 ferent forts, and carried fpecimens of each on board ; but 

 there was nobody to whom they were not altogether un- 

 known. The tree cut for firing was fomewhat like the 

 maple, and yielded a whitifli gum. Another fort was found' 

 of it, of a deep yellow, which might be ufeful in dyeing. 

 One cabbage-tree was met with, and cut down for the cab- 

 bages. The country abounds with plants, and the woods 

 v\'ith birds in an endlefs variety, exquifitely beautiful, and of 

 which none of them had the leaft knowledge. The foil qf 

 both the hills and vallies is light and fandy, and very fit for 

 the produftion of all kinds of roots ; though none were feen 

 except fweet potatoes and yams. S. lat. 38° 22'. W. 

 kng. 181° 15'. 



TOLAND, John, in Biography, a writer on fubjefts of 

 political and religious controverfy, was born in the year 1 669, 

 in Ireland, near Londonderry ; and his parents, of a good fa- 

 mily, were Roman Catholics. Educated in the principles of 

 his family, he renounced them before he attained the age of 

 fixteen years, and became a zealous oppofer of popery. 

 Accordingly he completed his education in Scotland, and 

 having fpent three years in the univerfity of Glafgow, 

 removed to Edinburgh, where he graduated M. A. in 

 1690. From Edinburgh he removed to London, and be- 

 came acquainted with fome refpeftable diflcnters, who 

 enabled him to purfue his ftudies for two years more at 

 Leyden. On his return to London, he vifited Oxford, and 

 here he collefted materials for the execution of fome literary 

 projcfts : one of which was a difli^rtation in order to prove 

 that the common narrative of the death of Regulus was a 

 fable. In 1696 he publiflied at London his '^ Chriftianity 

 not rnyfterious ; or a Treatife fliewing that there is nothing 

 in the Gofpel contrary to Reafon, or above it ; and that no 

 Chriftian Doftrine can be properly called a Myftery." 

 This publication caufed an alarm, and not without reafon, 



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