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Abbey came into the Mohun family, who were fucceeded 

 by the Ridgeways, and thefe by the Carys, who now enjoy 

 it. At the diiFoIution, the revenues amounted to 396/. I is. 

 — Gilpin's Obfervations on the Weftern Counties, 8vo. 

 Beauties of England and Wales, vol. iv. Devonfhire, by 

 J. Britton and E. W. Brayley, 1803. 



ToRBAY, a bay of the North Altantic, on the eaft coaft of 

 Newfoundland. N. lat. 47° 48'. W. long. 52° 20' — Alfo, 

 a town and bay on the fouth coaft of Nova Scotia. N. lat. 

 45° 8'. W. long. 61° 15'. 



TORBEK, a town on the fouth coaft of Hifpaniola ; 

 9 miles N.W. of Vache ifland. 



TORBIA, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Maritime Alps, called by the B..omzn%Trophxa Jlugtijii, with 

 ao ancient Gothic tower. In the environs are found many 

 remains of monuments erefted by the Romans, trophies and 

 fragments of a ftatue of Auguftus ; 7 miles E. of Nice. 



TORBIDO, Francesco, called // Mora, in Biography, 

 was born, about the year ijoo, at Verona, and perhaps rather 

 before it, as he is faid to have had, for a ftioit time, the ad- 

 vantage of receiving inftruction from Giorgione. He after- 

 wards became the pupil of Liberale, and his own ftyle is a 

 compound of thofe of his mafters, partaking of the glow of 

 the former, with the elaborate finifh of the latter. His 

 principal occupation was in portrait, yet he left feveral hif- 

 torical piftures of confiderable merit. Amongft them are 

 fome frefcoes, reprefenting the life of the Virgin, in the 

 cathedral at Verona ; and a pifture in oil of the Transfigur- 

 ation, in the church of S. Maria Maggiore, at Venice. He 

 died at the age of 81, but the exaft date is unknown. 



ToRBlDO, in Geography, a river of Naples, which runs into 

 the Crate, near Bifignano. 



TORBISCON, a town of Spain, in the province of Gre- 

 nada ; 14 miles N.E. of Motril. 



TORBOLE, a town of the Tyrolefe, on the north-eaft 

 coaft of lake Garda. In 1796, this town was taken by the 

 French ; 17 miles N. of Garda. 



TORBUS. See TuBURBo. 



TORC, a mountain of Ireland, in the county of Kerry, 

 on the fouth fide of Lough Lane, whence the fouthern part 

 is called Lough Tore. 



TORCELLO, a fmall idand in the gulf of Venice, with 

 a town of the fame name, the fee of a bifhop, fuffragan of 

 Venice. The town of Torccllo is in a flourifhing ftate, which 

 it owes to the inhabitants of Altino, who were driven out of 

 that place by Attila, and fled hither ; it has alfo been the fee 

 of the bilhop of Altino, in confequence of the biftiop Paolo 

 having emigrated to the firft-mentioned place. His fuccellor, 

 Mauro, or Maurizio, obtained from pope Severino the con- 

 firmation of his new fee, and built here feveral churches, 

 togetiier with the elegant nunnery S. Giovanni di Torcello. 

 More churches were built by his fucceffor Giuliano ; and 

 Diadato, the fourth bilhop, erefted finally, in the year 697, 

 the principal church of Santa Maria ; which was rebuilt 

 from the ground, in the eleventh century, by the bilhop 

 Orfo ; 3 miles N. of Venice. 



TORCH, T^-EDA, a fort of luminary, properly a ftick of 

 fir, or other refinous and combuftible matter, as pine, linden, 

 fcc. more or lefs thick, and long ; encompaffed at one end 

 with fix wax candles, which being lighted, yield a kind of 

 gloomy brightnefs. 



Torches are ufcd in fome church ceremonies, particularly 

 at the proceifions of the holy facrament in the Romifh church, 

 and at the interments of the poorer people. 



Formerly they were ufed at the funerals of thofe of the 

 firft rank ; but tapers and flambeaux are now introduced 

 in their ftead ; and frequently alfo called by their name. 



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Toncn-Thijle, in Botany. See Cere'js. 



TORCHENES, in the Manege, a long ftick with a hole 

 at the end of it, through which a ftrap of leather is run, the 

 two ends of which being tied together, ferve to ftraighten 

 and clofely tie up a horfe's nofe as long as the ftick is ftayed 

 upon the halter or fnaffle. This is done to keep the horfe 

 from being unruly when he is drefled, or upon any other 

 occafion. 



TORCHIARA Rocca, in Geography, a town of the 

 duchy of Parma ; 5 miles S. of Parma. 



TORCHILLI, Jonas, in Biography, the defcendant of 

 a refpeftable family in Iceland, was born in the diftrift of 

 Guldbringe in 1697, and fent in 1718 to the univerfity of 

 Copenhagen, from whence he proceeded to Holftein, com- 

 pleting his ftudies at the univerfity of Kiel. In 1728 he 

 returned to Iceland, and became re£tor of the fchool of Skal- 

 holt, which he refigned in 1736, quitting his country on 

 account of fome troubles which enfued from his fpeaking his 

 fentiments too freely. At Copenhagen, whither he with- 

 drew, he made fome unfavourable reports of the clergy in 

 Iceland, and was fent thither as fecretary to Harboe, after- 

 wards biftiop of Zealand, who was deputed to examine the 

 ftate of the Icelandic church. Having finiftied this bufmefs, 

 Torchilli retired to Copenhagen, and died there in 1 759. 

 His works, befides fome others, are, " The Augftjurg Con- 

 fefiion, tranflated into Icelandic," 1742, l2mo. ; " Biblia 

 Iflandica ab eo Mendis Typographicis purgata," Havn. 

 1746 ; " An Appendix to Anderfon's Account of Iceland, 

 in Danifti," 1 748, 8vo. ; " Chryforis, five Defcriptio Traftus 

 Guldbringenfis ;" " A Supplement to Runolf Jonae's Ice- 

 landic Grammar ;" " Verfio Latina Odx Havamal Car- 

 mine Sapphice exprefla ;" " Lexicon Illandico-Latinum." 

 Tirabofchi. Gen. Biog. 



TORCOLA, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the Adriatic. 

 N. lat. 43° 27'. E. long. 16= 54'. 



TORCULAR, a bandage, or inftrument, ufed to check 

 hemorrhage. See Tourniquet. 



ToRCULAR Herophili, in yjnatomy, a name given to one 

 of the finufes of the brain. See Vein. 



TORCY le Grand, in Geography, a town of France, 

 in the department of the Lower Seine ; 3 miles S. of 

 Arques. 



T O R D A , or ToRENBURG, a town of Tranfylvania, famous 

 for its falt-works. The Hungarian language is faid to be 

 fpoken with the greateft purity in this town; 15 miles 

 W.N.W. of Claufenburg. N. lat. 46° 42'. E. long. 

 23" 24'. 



TORDEHUMOS, a town of Spain, in the province of 

 Leon ; 5 miles W.S.W. of Rio Seco. 



TORDERA, a river of Spain, in Catalonia, which runs 

 into the fea, near Blanes. 



TORDESILLAS, a town of Spain, in the province of 

 Leon, on the Duero ; 13 miles S.W. of ValladoHd. 



TORDINO, a river of Naples, which crofles Abruzzo 

 Ultra, paffes by Teramo, and runs into the Adriatic, N. lat. 

 42° 40'. E. long. 14°. 



ToRDiNO, in Ornithology, a name by which the Venetians 

 call a bird of the lark kind, common in their markets, and 

 called by ?iUthors fplno/etta. 



TORDO Marino, the name of a bird of the ftarling 

 kind, called alfo the codirofo maggiore, or ruticilla major, and 

 by the Auftrians the Jkin-reitling. Aldrovandus has named 

 it the mcrulafaxatilis, or rock-blacklird- It is of the fize of 

 our ftarling, and much refembles it in figure ; its breaft is 

 greyifti, and has a black tranfverfe ftreak, and behind that 

 the whole is of a yellowifti hue ; its head and back are of a 

 blackifli hue, with fome flight variegations of grey, from the 



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