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antiquity ; and was built in the caftcUated form. Theiv 

 have been feveral other tower-houfes in the parifli, one of 

 which is ftill almofl entire at Cardrona. Several places, deno- 

 minated chejlers, exhibit evident maiks of lines of circumvalla- 

 tion : they are moftly circular, and fecm rather to have been 

 intended to fecure cattle againft fudden incurfions, than for 

 regular encampments ; though tradition dignifies them by 

 the appellation of Roman camps : they are all conllrudled 

 upon the fummits of eminences not eafily aflailable. At 

 the commencement of the Scoto-Saxon period, the Scottifh 

 kings poirelTed the forell of Traquair, with a caftle on the 

 ifthmus, which is formed by the junftion of the Quair with 

 the Tweed. Tlie firll mention of it on record, is in the 

 reign of David I., from whofe time, till the death of Alex- 

 ander III., the caftle was occafionally the royal refidence. 

 Traquair was then a confiderable village, which had arifen 

 under the (belter of the caftle, and appears to have been 

 more opulent and populous than Peebles itfelf ; but is now 



very much reduced Carlifle's Topographical Diftionary 



of Scotland. Beauties of Scotland, vol. ii. Chalmers' 

 Caledonia, 410. 18 10. 



TRAQUATUHA, a town of Brafil, on the river of 

 the Amazons ; 330 miles W. of Fort Rio Negro. 



TRAQUENADE, in the Manege. See Entrepas. 

 TRARA, in Geography, a range of mountains in Al- 

 giers ; 6 miles E. of Twunt. 



TRASCALETA, a town of Spain, in the province of 

 Galicia ; 16 miles S.E. of Lugo. 



TRASCINA, in Ichthyology, a name by which fome 

 authors have called the filb more ufually known by the 

 names of the draco marinus, and araneus. 



TRASEN, in Geography, a river of Germany, which 

 rifes in the S. part of Auftria, pafles by Marcktl, Lihen- 

 feld, Wilhelmfburg, St. Polten, &c. and runs into the 

 Danube, 8 miles below Mauttern. 



TRASIMENUS Lacus, or the LakeofTrafimene, in 

 Ancient Geography, a lake of Italy, towards Etruria, S.E. 

 of Cortona : famous for the battle called after its name, 

 in which Hannibal, in the year of Rome 536, defeated 

 the Romans under Flaminius ; 15,000 Romans having been 

 "killed, 10,000 put to flight, and 1500 having died of their 

 wounds. 



TRASKIRCHEN, or Draskirchen, in Geography, 

 a town of Auftria; 3 miles E.N.E. of Baden. 



TRASMAUR, a town of Auftria, on the Trafcn, 

 with a citadel ; it belonged to the archbiftiopric of Salz- 

 burg ; 12 miles W. of Tulm. 



TRAS-OS-MONTES, or Tra-los-mostes, a pro- 

 vince of Portugal, bounded on the N. and E. by Spain ; 

 on the S. by Beira, from which it is feparated by the 

 Duero ; and 011 the W. by Entre Duero e Minho. It re- 

 ceives its name from its pofition, with refpeft to the pro- 

 vince of Entre e Minho, lying on the other fide of the 

 mountain of Marao. In extent from N. to S. it is 70 

 miles, and from E. to W. about 50, being for the mull 

 part mountainous. It is wild, barren, and thinly inhabited, 

 though bleffed with fertile and delightful valhes, which pro- 

 duce rye, wheat, wine, and fruits : befides the Duero, it 

 is watered by the fmall rivers of Tamega, Corgo, Tuela, 

 and Sobor, which run all into the Duero. It contains two 

 cidades or cities, and 57 villas or towns; according to De 

 Lima's lift, 549 parifties, in which, in the year 1732, were 

 computed 135,804 fouls. 



TRASP, a citadel and lordftiip in the Engadine, on the 

 borders of Tyrol, with 5 fmall garrifon in it ; 27 miles N. 

 of Bormio. 



Voj.. XXXVI. 



TRATOW, a town of the duchy of Holftein ; 6 miles 

 S. of Segeborg. 



TRATTINNICKIA, in Botany, is fo caUed by WiU- 

 denow, in honour of a Vienna botanilh named Trattinnick. 

 The name of Leopold Trattinick occnrs in Mr. Dryauder's 

 Bibl. Bankf. v. 3. 646, 648, and 654, as the author of 

 fome botanical treatifes in German. Perfoon, it appear* 

 from Purfti 519, has a Tratteniciia, which is Marshallia 

 of Purfh, after Schreber. (See that article.) We muft 

 prefume Willdenow to be moft correft in the above ortho- 

 graphy. — Willd. Sp. PI. V. 4. 975. — Clafs and order, 

 Polygamia Monoecla, Willd. ; rather Pentandria Monogyma. 

 Nat. Ord. Terebintacete, JufT. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, hairy, 

 bell-ftiaped, with three teeth. Cor. of one petal, bell- 

 (haped, longer than the calyx, with three flight teeth, 

 fomewhat hairy at its outfide. Stam. Filaments five, awl- 

 (haped, very ftiort, inferted into the receptacle ; anthers 

 oblong, ereft. Ptfl. Germen ovate, fuperior ; ftyle awl- 

 ftiaped, the length of the ftaraeiis ; ftigma fimple. Frutt 

 unknown. 



Obf. There are fome flowers male only, having merely a 

 fliort ftyle, without any germen. But we cannot for that 

 reafon admit the genus into Polygamia, there appearing to 

 be no difference of ftrufture in the other parts of the 

 flowers. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx bell-ftiaped, with three teeth. Corolla 

 bell-lhaped, with three teeth. Stamens inferted into the 

 receptacle. Germen fuperior. Stigma fimple. 



I. T. rhoifoUa. Sumach-leaved Trattinnickia. WiUd. 



n. I Found in the province of Para, in Brafil, by count 



HofFmannfegg, who communicated a dried fpecimen to 

 profeftbr Willdenow. — A large and very handfome tree, 

 whofe ultimate' branches are ftriated and fmooth, as thick as 

 the little finger. Leaves alternate, ftalked, pinnate, two 

 feet long, compofed of feven pair of oppofite leajlets, with 

 an odd one, which are ftalked, four or five inches in length, 

 oblong, pointed, entire, rigid, rough on both fides, veiny ; 

 fomewhat heart-ftiaped at the bafe. Tlie common fooljlalk is 

 femi-cylindrical and ftriated ; partial ones half an inch long, 

 corrugated. Stipulas lanceolate, an inch long, rough with 

 hairs, deciduous. Panicle terminal, fpreading, compound, 

 five inches in length. Flozuers white, fefiile, in little round 

 tufts. The/(7«!Wf ends in a pointed bud, expanding into a 

 branch after the flowering is over, fo that the branches oi 

 the panicle fubfequently become lateral. The habit of this 

 plant moft refemblea Canarium, though the genus is un- 

 queftionably diftinft. Willd. 



TRATUZ, in Geography, a town of European Turkey, 

 in Moldavia ; 49 miles S. of Niemecz. 



TRAU, or Troghir, a town of Dalmatia, pleafantly 

 fituated on a piece of land, which was formerly a peninfula, 

 but now feparated from the continent by a canal cut through. 

 It is divided into the New and Old ; the latter of which 

 has a double, the former only a fingle wall, and defended 

 by three towers. The harbour, which is formed by a bay, 

 has depth of water enough for the largeft fliips, which ride 

 there flieltered by two capes. It abounds alfo in fifti, par- 

 ticularly fine fardines. It was an ancient Roman colony 

 of the emperor Claudius ; and fo early as the year 997, put 

 itfelf under the proteftion of Venice ; on which it has 

 been continually dependent ever fince the year 1420, though 

 not without many changes and difaftrous revolutions. 

 Vines, olives, figs, apd almonds are cultivated here, and fome 

 corn, which hovfever is not the richeft produce of thefe 

 parts. The internal p?rt of the territory of Trau, which 

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