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T oven- Woo J, in Botany, 3. name given to fpunk or agiric 

 of the 03k, on account of its readily taking fire. 



TOU-CHAN, in Geography, a city of China, of the 

 fecond rank, in Koei-tcheou; 9)87 miles' S.S.W. of Pekincr. 

 N. lat. 25= 46'. E. long. 107° 3' — Alfo, a lake of China, 

 in Chan-tong, 52 miles in circumference; 15 miles S. of 

 Tci-ngan. 



TOU-CHANG-TAO, a fmall ifland near the coaft of 

 China. N. ht. 36=55'. E. long. 121-". 



TOUCHE, Claude Gi.-i'MOND de la, in Bhgraphy, a 

 French poet, was bom in 17 19, and entered among the 

 Jefuits; but a comedy, acted in 1748, occafioned his 

 alienation from their fraternity. The flight of this body 

 Tras refented by him in a poetical epiftle publiflied in 1 766, 

 and entitled " Le5 Soupirs du Cloitre, ou le Triomphe du 

 Far-atifme," in which he has exhibited the Jefuits in the 

 blackeft colours. Upon abandoning their fociety, he at- 

 tached himfelf to the theatre ; and in 1757 introduced on 

 the ftage his tragedy " Iphijenie en Tauride," the fub- 

 ject of which he borrowed from Euripides. This play, 

 though chargeable with many defects, was well received, 

 and has, retained its reputation. Whilft he was preparing 

 another tragedy on the (lory of Regulus, he fell a facrifice 

 to a pulmonic diforder in 1760. Among his MSS. was 

 found his i' Epitre i I'Amitie," which has been read with 

 pleafure. Nouv. Did. Hiil. 



ToccHE, in Geography, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Saone and Loire ; 7 miles N.W. of Chalons 

 fur Saone. 



TOUCHING is fometimes ufed for the fenfe of feeling. 

 This fenfe may be injured by any thing that obftruas the 

 nervous influence, or prerents its being regularly conveyed 

 to the organs of touching, as prefliire, extreme cold, &c. 

 alfo by too great a degree of fenfibility, when the nerve is 

 not fafficiendy covered with the fcarf-flcin, or where there 

 is too great tenfion, or it is too delicate. Whatever dif- 

 order* the funftions of the brain and nerves, hurts the fenfe 

 of touching ; and as it proceeds from the fame o-eneral 

 ci-ofes, as palfy and apoplexy, it requires nearly the fame 

 method of treatment. In a defeft of touching, which arifes 

 from an obftruftion of the cutaneous nerves, the patient 

 muft be firft purged, and then fuch medicines as excite the 

 sftion of the nerves or ftimulate the fyftem may be ufed ; 

 for which purpofe fpirit of hartfliom, fal volatile oleofum, 

 horfe-radiflj, &c. may be taken inwardly ; and the dif- 

 ordered parts often rubbed with frefh nettles or fpirit of fal 

 smmoniac. 



Bliftering plafters and finapifms applied to the parts will 

 hkewife be of ufe, as alfo warm bathing, efpeciallv in the 

 natural hot baths. 



ToucHiXG, in Geometry. See Tangent. 



ToL'CHiSG, in Sea Language, denotes the itate of a fliip's 

 fails when they firft begin to ftuver, with their edges in the 

 du-eflion of the vrind. It is either occafioned by afudden 

 alteration of the fliip's courfe, or by a change of the wind, 

 in which it blows more obliquely zlong the furface of the 

 fails, inftead of falling into their cavities from behind, 

 according to its ufual diredion. Falconer. See Full- 

 and-by. 



ToMcmsG-At, denotes the circumilance of ftoDpjng, or 

 anchonng occafiondly, at fome intermediate port', in the 

 courfe' of a voyage. 



TOUCHIROA, in Botany, formed bv Aublet, out of 

 the Caribbean appellation Moulcuebiraou, which belocETS to 

 an aromatic tree of Guiana. See Ceudia. 



TOUCQUES, in Geography, a fea-port tpwn of France, 



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in tlie department of the Calvados, taken by the Enslifli iij 

 1427 ; 6 miles S.W. of Honfleur. 



ToccQi-Es, La, a river of France, which rans into the 

 fea, about 8 miles N. firom the town cf Tocques. 



TOUCY, a town of France, in the department of ths 

 Yonne ; 12 miles W.S.W. of Auserre. 



TOUDARGA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in NatoFa • 

 26 miles W.S.W. of Boli. 



TOUDSONG, a town of Thibet ; 92 miles S.S.W. o' 

 Lafla. N. lat. 29^6'. E. long. 90=" 42'. 



TOUERY, a town of Hindooltan, in the circar of 

 Nagore ; 40 miles S.W. of Naotire. 



T0\ ET, in Rural Economy, a term ufed pro%4ncially in 

 fome difljias to Cgnify a meafuit of half a bufhel. Ifis 

 fometimes written tofet in books on agriculture and rural 

 economy. 



TOU-FANS, in Geography. See Sl-F\\s. 



TOUGITO-HOTOC, a town of Chinefe Tartarv. 

 N. lat. 44=48'. E. long. 116° 54 



TOUING, a town of Croatia ; 24 miles S.S.W. of" 



Carl<1adt. 



TOUINTCHOSE, a Tartarian ilandard of Chinefe 

 Tartary^ N. lat. 41 = 40'. E. long. 1 1 1"^ 14'. 



TOUJOO, a fmall ifland near the W. coaft of Sumatra 

 S. lat. 0= 38'. E. long. 99'= 25'. 



TOUI-YUEN, a toivn of Corea ; 50 miles N.E. of 

 King-ki-tao. 



TOU-KIE, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 

 Ouang-fi ; 1 137 miles S.S.W. of Peking. N. lat. 2«^ 10'. 

 E. long. 106= 49'. ^ 



TOUL, a town of France, and principal place of a dif- 

 tria, in the department of the Meurte, on the Mofelle, 

 over which is a ftone bridge, and regularly fortified. Before 

 the revolution it was the principal town of a govemmest, 

 and the fee of a bifliop. It was formerly imperial, and the 

 biftiop a prince of the empire, and fufragan of Treves. 

 The Toulois, with the city of Toul, and the two bifliopric 

 of Metz and Verdun, in the year 1552, put themfelve 

 tinder the protedion of France; and, m 1648, became .. 

 part of that countrv ; 12 miles W. of Nancv. N ht 

 48=^ 41'. E. long. 5° 59'. 



TOULA, a river of Tartary, in that part inhabited bv 

 die Kalkas, and called Kalia-pira, which takes its courfe 

 from E. to W., and is often broader, deeper, and more 

 rapid than the Kerlon, another river of the fame countrv, 

 which runs from W. to E., and difcharges itfelf into the 

 lake Koulon-nor, the waters of which again flow into the 

 river Saghalien by that of Ergone ; and the banks of which 

 afibrd die beft paftures in Tartar)-. The banks of the Toula 

 are covered with woods and beautiful meadows. The 

 mountains which hang over it on the northern fide are 

 covered with forefts of aged firs, and prefect to the view a 

 kind of amphitheatre. This river, after having received 

 the waters of the Sehngue, lofes itfelf in the lake of 

 Pai-cal, which is the largelt lake in Tartarv, and lies in the 

 territories of the Mufcovites. The Ruflians are alfo 

 matters of the lower part of the Selingue, where they iJave 

 built a fmall city called the Selingeflcoi. 



TOULICIA, in Botany, from the Caribbean name of 

 the fame plant Toulici. See Pos^la. 



TOULOMBA, in Geography, a town and fortrefs of 

 Hindooitan, in the fubah of Moaltan, on the Rauvee. This 

 town was taken and plundered by Timur Bee ; 50 zmles 

 N.E. of Moultan. N. lat. 30° 59'. E. long. 72° 25'. 



TOULON, a city and feaport-of France, and capital of 



the department of the Var, ftrongly fordfied. Before the 



revolution, it was the fee of a bifliop, and, befides the 



9 cathedral 



