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part of the lail century. The pariih-church is built of 

 hewn Hone, flints, and pebbles, and confifts of a chancel, 

 nave, two aifles, and a fquare embattled tower. On the 

 fouth fide of the church is a large brick porch, built, as 

 appears by the architefture, about the beginning of the fix- 

 teenth century. At the eaft end of the north aide is the 

 veftry, crefted in 1696, by H;nry, lord Colerane, and re- 

 paired, purfuant to his will, in 1790. The building is femi- 

 circular at the eaft end ; its roof is in the Ihape of a dome. 

 The font is oftagonal, richly ornamented with tracery, and 

 the devices of a mermaid, pelican, &c. Monuments and 

 other fepulchral memorials abomid in every part of the 

 church. David, king of Scotland, gave this church, in the 

 twelfth century, to the canons of the Holy Trinity in 

 London ; after the difTolution of that monaftery, the refto- 

 rial manor and the advowfou of the vicarage were granted, 

 in 1544, to the dean and chapter of St. Paul's, in whom 

 they are ftill vefted. There is a confiderable Quakers' 

 meeting in this parifli, and a chapel belonging to the Me- 

 thodifts. An alms-houfe for four men and four women was 

 founded and endowed, in 1600, by Balthafar Sanchez, a 

 Spaniard. A fimilar eftabli/hment for fix men and fix 

 women was built in 1736, purfuant to the will of Nicholas 

 Reynardfon, efq. ; who alfo made provifion for a fchool, 

 for twenty poor children. By the bequefts of Sarah, 

 duchefs dowager of Somerfet, the fchool-houfe was en- 

 larged, and the benefits extended to all the children of fuch 

 inhabitants of this pariih as were not pofTeffed of an eflate 

 of 20/. per annum. A chantv-fchool for girls was efta- 

 bhfhed in the year 1735 : alfo a Sunday-fchool for boys, and 

 a fchool of induftry for girls, in the year 1790. According 

 to the return made to the population aft in 181 1, the 

 number of houfes in this parilh was 873 ; of inhabitants 

 4571. — Lyfons's Environs of London, vol. iii. quarto, 

 1792, 181 1. Dyfon's Hiftory of Tottenham High-Crofs, 

 oftavo, 1792. 



TOTTIUM, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carnatic ; 

 24 miles W.N.W. of Tritchinopoly. 



TOTTWEIL, a town of Switzerland, in the county of 

 Baden ; 4 miles S.W. of Baden. 



TOVALEY, a town of Hindooftan ; 16 miles S.E. of 

 Travancore. 



TOUCAN, otherwife called anfer jimericanus, in AJlro- 

 nomy, a modern conftellation of the fouthern hemifphere, con- 

 firting of nine fmall ftars. See Constell.itiom. 



Toucan, in Ornithology. See Ramphastos. 



TOUCH, or Toque, in Coinage, the manner of expreffing 

 the finenefs of gold and filver in China, by dividing it into 

 100 parts, fo called; thus, if it be 93 touch, it contains 

 feven parts of alloy in 100. The Chinefe in general take 

 French filver coin at 95 touch (the better informed taking 

 it only at 93), and Englifti filver at 94 ditto ; Spanifh dol- 

 lars at about 92 ; Siam ticals, and Madras rupees, at 98 ; 

 and Rajamole rupees at 99 ditto. — Alfo, a method of 

 ; trying the finenefs of gold and filver in many places, by 

 , means of a ftone called touch-ftone. 



1 Touch, in Muju. An organ is faid to have a good 

 I touch, or ftop, when the keys clofe, and lie down well, 

 I being neither too loofe, nor too ftiff. 



I Touch, in Ship-Building, the broadeft part of plank 

 I worked top and butt, which place is fix feet from the butt- 

 ! end ; or, the middle of a plank worked anchor-ftock faftiion. 

 Alfo, the angles of the ftern-timbers at the counters, &c. 



Touch the Wind, in Sea Language, is when the fteerfman 

 at the helm is bid to keep the fhip as near the wind as may 

 be. See Touching. 



TovcH-Me-Not, in Botany. Sec Impatijsns and Mo- 



MORDICA. 



ToxjCH-Ho/e, or Fent, in Gunnery, is the fmall hole at the 

 end of the cylinder of a gun or mufl<et, by which the fire 

 is conveyed to the powder m the chamber. 



In a fire-lock, carabine, or piftol, it is called the touch- 

 hole ; but m a piece of cannon, it is more properly called the 

 vent. 



TovcH-Neeiiies, fmall mafles of gold, filver, and copper, 

 each pure and fimple, and in all the different combinations, 

 proportions, and degrees of mixture, preoared for the try. 

 ing of gold and filver by the touch-ftone ; by comparifon 

 with the mark they leave on it. 



The metals ufually tried by the touch-ftone, are gold, 

 filver, and copper, either pure, or mixed with one another in 

 different degrees and proportions by fufion. In order to 

 find out the purity or quantity of bafcr metal in thefe 

 various admixtures, when they are to be examined, they are 

 compared with thefe needles, which are mixed in a known 

 proportion, and prepared for this ufe. The metals of thefe 

 needles, both pure and mixed, are all made into lamins or 

 plates one-twelfth of an inch broad, and of a fourth part of 

 their breadth in thicknefs, and an inch and half long ; thefe 

 being thus prepared, you are to engrave on each a mark in- 

 dicating its purity, or the nature and quantity of the mixture 

 in it. 



The manner of making the touch-needles is by the pro- 

 portions of the mark, a weight of half a pound, or eight 

 ounces, being divided into fixteen half-ounces, the half- 

 ounces each into four drachms, the drachm into four penny- 

 weights, and this into two half-pennyweights. 



Tovcii-Needles, Silver: thefe muft be only tempered with 

 copper, and the proportion determined by tlie mark di\-ided 

 into half-ounces and grains. 



You muft ufe therefore for this purpofe one mark of 

 fi'ch a weight, that it may conftitute a fufficient mafs of 

 metal for the making of one needle ; let it weigh, for inftance, 

 one drachm, then weigh fuch a mark of the pureft filver, 

 wrap it up in a fmall paper, and upon this write fixteen half- 

 ounces, which will fignify that the whole mark of this metal 

 is the pureft filver, and make the firft needles of this mafs. 



Next weigh fifteen half-ounces of pure filver, and one 

 half-ounce of pure copper ; wrap thefe both in a paper, and 

 write on it fifteen half-ounces, which will fignify tliat there 

 are in that fmall mafs fifteen parts of pure filver, and one 

 part of pure copper ; make of this the fecond needle. In 

 the fame manner go on witli the reft, add two half-ounces 

 of copper to fourteen half-ounces of filver, mark it fourteen 

 half-ounces, make the third needle of this ; and in the fame 

 manner proportion the fmall mafles of filver and copper for 

 making the other needles, and put infcriptions upon every 

 one in the following manner. 



For the needle 



1 - 



2 - 



3- 



4- 



5- 

 6- 



7- 

 8- 



9- 

 10- 

 1 1 - 

 12- 



13- 

 14. 



. '5- 



ti6- 



16 



15 



■H 



13 



■ 12 

 1 1 

 10 



9 

 8 



■ 7 

 . 6 



5 



■ 4 



■ 3 



■ 2 

 ' I 



■ half oz. of filver. 



half oz. 

 copper. 



