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TORTOLA, a town of Spain, in New CaftUe ; 5 miles 

 N.E. of Guadalasorz. — Alfo, a town of Spain, in New 



Caftile ; 8 miles S. of Cuenca Alio, one of the Virgin 



iflands in the Weft. Indies, iirll fettled by a party of Dutch 

 Bucaniers, who built a fort for their protection ; but who, 

 in the rear 1666, were driven out by another party of the 

 fame adventurers, calling themfelves Enghfh, and pretend- 

 ing to take poffeffion for the crown of England ; and the 

 Englifli monarch, if be did not commiffion the enterprife, 

 made no fcruple to take the benefit of it : for Tortola and 

 its dependencies were foon afterward-s annexed to the L-ee- 

 •ward ifland government, in a commillion granted by king 

 Charles II. to fir Wilham Stapleton. The Dutch had done 

 little towards the cultivation of the ifland, when they w«re 

 espeUed ; but the cliief merit of its improvement; was re- 

 ferved for fome Enghfti fettlers from the hitle iiland of An- 

 guilla, who, about a century and a quarter ago, embarked 

 with their famihes and fettled in the Virgin' IJlaruL ; which 

 fee. Tortola is sot more than 15 miles long and 6 miles 

 broad. Its chief and almoii only ilaple productions are 

 fugar and cotton. N. lat. 18" 20'. E. long. 64' 20'. 



TORTOLI, a to\vn of the ifland of Sardinia, near the 

 E. coaft : jc miles N.N.E. of Cagliari. 



TORTONA, a town of France, in the department of 

 Marengo, on the Scrinia ; late the fee of a bilhop, lufiragan 

 of Milan, with a good citadel, lituated on an eminence. 

 This place has often been taken and retaken during the dif- 

 ferent wars in Italy. It gives name to a dillrici called Tor- 

 tonefe ; 9 miles E. of AJexandria. N. lat. 44- 53'. E. 

 long. 8- 52'. 



TORTORELLA, a town of Naples, in Principato 

 Citra ; 5 miles N.E. of Policaltro. 



TORTORICI, a to^vn of SicUy, in the valley of De- 

 mOca ; 30 miles N.W. of Taormina. N. lat. 38" 9'. E. 

 long. ij'^. 



TORTOSA, a town of Spain, in the pro".-ince of Ca- 

 tdonia, lituated near the Ebro, about 15 miles from its 

 month ; the fee of a bilhop, fuffragan of Saragofla. It is 

 faid to have been founded 2000 years before the Chriftian 

 sra, but the proofs of this illullrious origin are unfortu- 

 nately, loft. Scipio gave it the name of " Dordofa," and 

 made it a municipal city. Among the numerous and trifling 

 combats between the Spaniards and the Moors, there was 

 one in which the women of Tortofa fignahzed themfelves. 

 They courageoufly mounted the ramparts of their ciiv, and 

 performed fuch prodigies of valour, that Raimond Berenger, 

 the lall count of Barcelona, inftituted for them, in 117c, 

 the mihtary order of the hacha, or flambeau. Thev merited 

 and obtained the fame day feveral honourable pri>Tleges, 

 which exift not at prefent ; they have however preferred 

 the right of precedency in matrimonial ceren-.onies, let the 

 rank of the men be ever fo diftinguifhed. The moft re- 

 markable buildings are the cathedral and the caftle ; the 

 latter of which is a mile fquarej and in a ftate of decay ; 

 and only ft-rves as a place of refidence for a governor ; 8 1 

 miles S.E. of Saragofla. N. lat. 40" 47^. E. lono-. 0° 26'. 

 — Alfo, a fea-port of Syria, in the pachahc of Tripoli, 

 anciently called " Antaradus" and " Orthofia." This town 

 appears to have been built about the fifth or fisth centurv ; 

 it is fituated on the fea, and may be about three-quarters of 

 a mile in circumference. The ancient walls are of large 

 hewn ftone ; vrithout them there are other lower walls, with 

 a foffe round them. At the N.W. comer there are great 

 remains of the caftle, and the prefent town is \vithin the 

 walls of it, which are ftrong, and built of large hewn ftone, 

 rufticated. They are of a furprifing height, being at leail 

 Efty feet high, and the whole is near half a mile in circuit. 

 Within the caftle there is a church. Towards the E. cor- 



ner of the city thoe is aKo a very beautiful large church ; 

 it is built of hewn ftone infide and out, and confifts of three 

 naves ; it does not feem to have been finiflied, and probably 

 is a building of the iixth century ; it is of the Corinthian 

 order ; and the arches, which are executed with the plai- 

 olive leaf, are built on fquare pillars, covered on the fo 

 fides with femi -circular pilafters. The pulpit was fixed to 

 one of the pillars, and over it there is an infcription in the 

 Syriac language. When Jerufalem was in the hands of the 

 Chriftians, Tortofa was the fee of a bifliop, fufiragan of 

 T)Te ; 35 miles N. of TripoL. N. lat. 34^^ 55'. E. long. 

 55- 58'. — Alfo, a river of Syria, which runs into the Me- 

 diterranean, between Antioch and Tripoh. — ^AJfo, a car 

 of Spain, on the coaft of Catalonia. N. lat. 40" 40'. Z 

 bng. o- 47'.^ 



TORTUE, a river of Am.erica, which runs into tK 

 Wafcafh, N.-lat. 39= 30'. W. long. 87/ 55'. 



TORTUES, a river of Louifiana, which runs into- ti!^ 

 Miflburi, N. lat. 36- 26'. W. long. 94= 24'. 



TORTUGA Salada, an iliand in the Caribbean fea, 

 about 36 miles in circumference ; the eaft end is full 

 rugged and broken rocks, which itretch themfelves a Httk 

 \vay out to fea. At the fouth-eail part is an indifferent 

 good road for ihipping, and much frequented in peaceable 

 times by merchantmen, which come hither to lade fait, froaa 

 May to Auguft : for at the eaft end is a large falt-pond, 

 within 2 CO paces of the fea. Near the well extremity of 

 the iiland, on the fouth fide, there is a fm.all harbour, and 

 fome finelh water. The end of the iiland is fuU of flmibby 

 trees ; but the eaft end is rocky, and bare of trees, pro- 

 ducing only coarfe grafs. Upon it are fome goats, but not 

 many. The tiirtles or tortoifes come into the iandv bavs to 

 lay thefr eggs, and from hence the iiiaad has its name. 

 There is no anchoring any where but in the road where the 

 falt-ponds are, or in the harbour. N. lat. 1 1" 7'. W. long. 

 64= 30'. 



ToRTVGA, an ifland about fix miles from the north coaft 

 of the ifland of Hifpanicla, about 40 iniles in circumference. 

 N. lat. to" 5'. W. long. 72° 40'.' 



TORTUGAS Point, a cape of South America, on 

 the C021I of Chih, near Coquimbo. — AKo, the fouth point 

 of the port of Coquimbo, on the coaft of Chih. The road 

 or harbour is well flieltered, but will not contain above 20 

 or 30 veflels fafely. S. lat. 29' 37'. 



ToKTUGAS Shoali, ihoals and rocks in the gulf of Mexico, 

 near the coaft of Eaft Florida. N. lat. 24" 36'. W. long. 

 82" 50'. 



ToRTfGAS, Dry, fltoals in the Florida flreams, at the 

 entrance of the gulf of Mexico. N. lat. 24° 40'. W. long. 

 82= 25'. 



TORTUGILLA, a ftnall ifland in the Spanilh Main, 

 near the coaft of South Amenca. N. lat. 8~ 45'. W. long. 

 76- 20'. 



TORTULA, in Botjny, Screw-mofs, an Hedwigian 

 genus of Mofles, whofe eflential character, of the fpiral 

 fringe, is expreifed in the name, derived from lortus, twifted. 

 The lame appellation was fubfequently bellowed on a genus 

 of the Didsnamta, in allulion to its twilled corolla, bv the 

 late Dr. Roxburgh, who not being converfant with cryp- 

 togamic botanv, was not perhaps aware of the preoccupa- 

 tion of the name. (See Strepticm.) — Hedw. Fund. 

 V. 2. 92. t. 8. f. 38, 39. Sp. Mufc. 122. Schreb. Gen. 

 760. Mart. Mill. Di(il. V. 4. Sm. Engl. Bot. iici. FL 

 Brit. 1249. Compend. 171. Prodr. Fl. Grac. Sibth. 

 v. 2. 283. Swartz Mufc. Suec. 38. Turn. Mufc. Hib. 43, 

 (Barbula; Hedw. Fund. v. 2. 92. v. i. t. 6. f. 29 — ^2. 

 Sp. Mufc. 115) — Clafs and order, Crrptogamia Muj'ei. 

 Nat. Ord. Mvfci. 



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