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retreat of the 10,000 Greeks, they fojourned about a 

 month near tliis tovn ; and as they had a great number of 

 cattle, they offered facrifices to Jupiter the Saviour, to Her- 

 cules, and to other deities. They celebrated alfo the 

 Gymnic games on the mountain where they encamped. 

 The inhabitants of Trebifonde furniflied the Greeks with 

 two veffcls, one of 50 and another of 30 oars. Trapezus 

 was the boundary of the ancient kingdom of Pontus, and 

 the commencement of the Colchide. — Alfo, a town of 

 Arcadia, S. of the river Alpheus and near it, towards the 

 W. and not far from Megalopohs. It was abandoned by 

 its inhabitants, and funk into ruin upon the eftablifhment of 

 Megalopolis. On the left of the Alpheus is a place named 

 *' Bathos," where were triennially celebrated the myfteries 

 of. the great goddefs. Here was alfo the fountain " Olym- 

 pias," which, as it was pretended, furnifhed water only once 

 every two years. Here, it is faid, the earth difcharged 

 flames, and the giants at this place had fought againft the 

 gods. See Trebisond. 



Trapezus Mons, mountains of the Tauric Cherfonefus, 

 W.S.W. of mount Cimmerius. M. de Peyfonnel fays 

 that the Trapezus comprehended the mountains now called 

 Jachelow, Bakchefarai, and Katchi. 



TRAPEZUSA, a town of Afia, in the interior of the 

 Cappadocian Pontus. Ptolemy. 



TRAPOLIZZA, ill Geography, a town of European 

 Turkey, in the Morea ; 30 miles N. of Mifitra. N. lat. 

 37° 40'. E. long. 22° 26'. 



TRAPP, Joseph, D.D. in Biography, a divine and poet, 

 was born in 1679, probably at Cherrington, in Gloucefter- 

 fhire, where his father was rector, educated at Wadliam col- 

 lege, Oxford, of which he was a fellow, and in 1702 com- 

 menced M. A. and took orders- As a fpecimen of his talents 

 for poetrv, he wrote a tragedy, entitled " Abramule, or 

 Liove and Empire," which was afted in 1704. In 1708 

 he was chofen profeflbr of poetn,- at Oxford, the duties of 

 which office he performed by delivering leftures in elegant 

 Latin ; which lectures were publifhed under the title of 

 " Pra:lei£liones Poeticae," and an Englifh tranflation was 

 printed by Bow^-er in 1742. In 17 11 Trapp was chap- 

 lain to the lord chancellor of Ireland, and publifhed in the 

 fame year " A Charafter of the prefent Set of Whigs," 

 of which, as well as of the author. Swift, who fent it to 

 the prefs, fpeaks contemptuoufly in his letters to Stella. 

 He recommended him, however, to be chaplain to lord 

 Bolingbroke, who gave him the reftory of Harlington in 

 Middlefex. HewasalfoappointedleSurerof St. Martin's-in- 

 the-Fields ; and afterwardsobtained the vicarage of the united 

 pariflies of Chrid-church, Newgate-ftreet, and St. Leo- 

 nard's, Fofter-lane. At this time he was deemed a popular 

 preacher. As a poet, he publifhed a flat and profaic tranf- 

 lation of Virgil m blank verfe, Latin verfions of Anacreon, 

 and Milton's Paradife Lofl. He alfo wrote feveral Enghfh 

 poems, one of which was " On the Four Lall Things." 

 In 172 1 he married. His fubfequent publications were 

 " Sermons at Lady Moyer's Lefture," various other " Ser- 

 mons," and " A Defence of the Church of England 

 againft the Church of Rome." In 1727 he was created 

 D.D. at Oxford by diploma. He died at the parfonage- 

 houfe in Chrift -church, in 1747, with the chara&er of an 

 excellent fcholar, an inftruftive preacher, and a worthy man. 

 Biog. Brit. 



TRAPPE, Monh of La, in Ecclejiajl'ical Hijlory, monks 

 of the Ciftercian order, belonging to an abbey beautifully 

 fituated on a large valley in the province of Le Perche, on 

 the confines of. Normandy, in France. The abbey was 



founded in 1 140 by Rotrou, count of Perche, and dedi- 

 cated under the name of the Bleffed Virgin, in 1214, ^^Y 

 Robert, archbifhop of Rouen. This abbey was fubjefted 

 to a very rigorous difcipline by tlie abbe d' Ranee, in 1664. 

 F.ncyclop. 



TRAPPINGS. Among the ancients, fome will hav.> 

 the horfe-trappings to have been placed on their breafts ; 

 others, on their forehead ; and others, again, on their 

 cheeks : that on the breaft was a fmall kind of fhield, finely 

 polifhed. 



TRAPRAIN Law, in Geography, a mountain of Scot- 

 land, in the county of Haddington ; 4 miles E. of Had- 

 dington. 



TRAPS, The, a town of Pennfylvania ; 26 miles N.VV. 

 of Philadelphia. 



TRAPSALO, in Zoology, a name given by the Greeks 

 in the Levant to a fpecies or variety of Calamary, or 

 Sepia Lollgo (which fee), called by the Provencals Arvgl- 

 It refembles the common calamary, but differs from it by 

 the extraordinary fize of its eyes, by a lefs extent of fins, 

 by its feet having a greater number of fmaU bony points to 

 their cartilaginous tubercles, by a lefs length of back-bone, 

 by the fheath's having a fmaller quantity of black liquor, 

 and by its becoming very large. The Greeks are of opinion, 

 that their trapfalo is only the calamary changed by age. 

 The arugi approaches the coafl more frequently than tli. 

 calamary ; it often comes on the fand of the fhore, and there 

 depofits its eggrs, whereas the calamary never goes on land. 

 The flefh is bet'er and lefs difficult of digeflion ; but their 

 eggs have a flight purgative property, from which no bad 

 effefts are felt. It is confidered as a prefage of a tempefl, 

 when the calamaries dart out of the water. Sonnini's 

 Greece, p. 128. 



TRAPTOWN, in Geography, a town of Maryland ; 

 7 miles S.W. of Fredericktown. 



TRAQUAIR, or Tre-quair, a parilh in the fhire of 

 Peebles, Scotland, on the fouthern bank of the Tweed, is 

 Avatered by the river Quair, which has its rife and its 

 whole courfe in the parifh to which it communicated 

 its name ; Tre-quair Cgnifying a dwelling on the Quair. 

 The prei^nt parifh is compofed of the old parifli of Tra- 

 quair, with that half of the ancient parifh of Kailzie, 

 which lies on the fouth fide of the Tweed, and to which 

 it was annexed in the year 1674. ^^^ greatefl length 

 from E. to W. is about nine miles ; its greatefl breadth, 

 from the Tweed to the fource of the Quair, is from 

 four to five miles; the whole contains 17,290 acres, of 

 whicli about 4000 are arable. The furface is rocky and 

 mountainous. Minchmoor, one of the hills, is upwards <it 

 20C0 feet abo%e the level of the fea ; and Gum.fcleugh and 

 fome other heights are elevated above 200 feet more. The 

 hills, in genera], afford excellent pafture for fheep, of which 

 there are above 10,000 in the parifh. The foil in the low 

 grounds is fhallow and ftony, but tolerably fertile ; and the 

 air falubrious. In the population return of the year 18 11, 

 the number of inhabitants was flated to be 621, occupying 

 102 houfes. The church was rebuilt in the year 1785. A 

 parochial fchool is eftablifhed, with a falary of 300 merks 

 and perquifites, a free houfe and garden. Traquair Houfe, 

 the refidence of that branch of the Stewart family who de- 

 rive the title of earl from this parifh, is feated on the bank 

 of the Tweed : and on the fide of a hill, which overlooks 

 the lawn, are the remains of " The Bufh aboon Traquair," 

 celebrated in ancient melodies, and probably in former 

 times a confiderable thicket, but now reduced to five foli- 

 tary thorn-trees. Part of the manfion is of very remote 



antiquity j 



