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had not all the generical charafters to maks it the fame. 

 Columella, de R. R. lib. ix. cap. 4. 



TREFUMEL, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the North Coafts ; 6 miles S. of Dinan. 



TREGARON, or Trev Garon, or Caron, a fmall 

 market -town in the hundred of Pen-Arth, and county of 

 Cardigan, South Wales ; is fituated in a valley watered by 

 the river Berwyn, a contributory ftream to the Teifi ; 1 8 

 miles S. by E. from Aberyftwith, and 170 miles W. from 

 London. It was formerly a corporate town, but for fome 

 improper conduft at the eletlion of a member to ferve in 

 parliament in the year 1742, the houfe of commons voted 

 that the corporation had forfeited their charter. A weekly 

 market is held on Tuefday, and an annual fair of three days' 

 continuance in March. The church, which is a fpacious 

 ftrufture of very rude mafonry, confifts of a nave and 

 chancel : it (lands on a rocky eminence, regularly circular, 

 and forming an elevated centre to the town. In the church- 

 yard are the remains of a Druidical circle, with the fpaces 

 filled up with ftone-walling. The parifli of Tregaron, 

 which extends nine miles in length, and four miles in 

 breadth, comprehends eight parcels or townlbips, and, ac- 

 cording to the population return of the year i8l I, con- 

 tained 244 houfes, and 1 133 inhabitants. At a place 

 called Caftell Flemys, in this parifh, is a very large intrench- 

 ment of a femi-circular form, well defended on three fides 

 by a morafs. On a hill called Penrhiwflur are three heaps 

 of ftones, called Carneddau, fepulchral monuments of 

 Druidical origin : and a bank of raifed earth runs in a 

 ftraight line for feveral miles, in this parifh as well as that 

 of Gwnnws, and is faid to lead into (he fea, called " the 

 furrow of Bannoy's oxen," the fame as were faid to be 

 employed in building the church of Llandewi Brefi. But 

 it is probably the remains of an old Britilh road. Thomas 

 Jenes, an eminent antiquary and poet, who hved at the end 



of the fixteenth century, was a native of Tregaron 



Mulkins's Scenery, &c. of South Wales, 2 vols. Bvo. 1807. 

 Carhfle's Topographical Diftionary of Wales. Beauties 

 of England and Wales, vol. xviii. South Wales ; by the 

 Rev. T. Rees. Meyrick's Hiftory and Antiquities of the 

 County of Cardigan, 4to. 1808. 



TREGIANO, a town of Naples, in the province of 

 Bari ; 6 miles E.S.E. of Bittetto. 



TREGONY, a market-town and borough in the weftern 

 divifion of the hundred of Powder, and county of Cornwall, 

 England ; is fituated on the river Fal, 8 miles E. from 

 Truro, 40 miles S.W. from Launcefton, and 250 miles 

 S.W. by W. from London. This town was formerly a 

 place of fome confequence, but fell to decay when Truro 

 began to flouridi, and attraft its trade and population. 

 Tregony fent two members to parhament in the reign of 

 Edward I. ; and after a long difufe, recovered its ancient 

 privilege in the year 1559 : the right of eleftion is veiled in 

 the houfekeepers : the number of voters who poOed in the 

 year 1812 was 183, the exaft number of houfes returned 

 under the population aft of 181 1 ; the number of inha- 

 bitants were therein ftated to be 923. The town confifts 

 principally of one long ftreet. It was anciently governed 

 by a portreeve, or mayor; but in the year 1620, king 

 James I. granted it a charter of incorporation. The 

 market, which is on Saturday, is held by prefcription : 

 Henry de Pomeroy certified his right to it in the reign 

 of Edward I. Henry III. granted a fair to the faid 

 Henry in the year 1266. Here are now five fairs. Both 

 the fairs and market have for many yeai'S been in a de- 

 clining ftate : till the middle of the laft century, they were 

 very confiderable, and particularly noted for the fale of 



woollen cloth, of which there was an extenfive manufaflory 

 in the town. Tregony caflle, of which there are now no 

 remains, is faid to have been built by Henry de Pomeroy at 

 the time king Richard I. was in the Holy Land : it was 

 ftanding, and was the feat of the Pomeroys, in the reign of 

 Edward VI. In the year 1696, Hugh Bofcawen founded, 

 an hofpital for decayed houfekeepers, and endowed it with 

 lands, now let at 30/. per annum, but capable of being foon 

 raifed to three times that value. On the north fide of the 

 town ftood, what is called, Old Tregony, where was a church 

 dedicated to St. James, the walls of which were ftanding till 

 about the middle of the laft century . 



On the oppofite bank of the Fal, is Trewarthenick, the 

 feat of Francis Gregor, efq. The houfe is feated on an 

 elevated piece of ground, abounding with fine groves, and 

 commanding a variety of interefting profpecls. 



About two miles fouth-weft of Tregony, is Rua 

 Lanihorne, a village feated on the banks of the Fal, ov, 

 which the Rev. John Whitaker, the learned hiftorian ofl 

 Manchefter, was nearly forty years the refident reftor. 

 He died Nov. 4, 1808, in the 73d year of his age, and Kes 

 buried within the rails of the communion-table. — Lyfons's 

 Magna Britannia, vol. iii. Cornwall, 1814. Beauties of 

 England and Wales, vol. ii. Cornwall ; by J. Britton and 

 E. \N. Brayley, 1802. 



TREGUIER, a fea-port town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the North Coafts, on a peninfula, near the Enghfh 

 Channel ; before the revolution the fee of a biftiop ; 9 miles 



N.E. of Lannion. N. lat. 48° 47'. W. long. 3° 8' Alfo, ' 



a river of France, which runs into the Englifli Channel, 

 6 miles N. of Treguier. N. lat. 48° 5 1 '. W. long. 3° 8'. 



TREIA, in Ancient Geography, a town ot Italy, in 

 Picenum, S.E. of Cingulum. 



Trei.4, in Geography, a town of the Popedom, in the 

 marquifate of Ancona ; 6 miles W. of Macerata. 



TREIGNAC, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Correze ; 16 miles N. of Tulle. 



TREIGNY, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Yonne ; 9 miles S.E. of St. Fargeau. 



TREILLAGE, in Gardening, a fort of rail-work con- 

 fifting of ranges of light pofts and railings, for the purpofe 

 of training efpalier trees to, and occafioiially for wall-trees, 

 where the walls do not admit of naihng the branches im- 

 mediately againft them ; likewife for training wall-trees in 

 forcing-frames, &c. They are made in different ways for 

 ufe and ornament, as well as of different dimenilons, from 

 four or five to fix or feven feet high. 



For common efpalier fruit-trees in the open ground they 

 are abfolutely neceftary, and may either be formed of com- 

 mon ftakes and rails nailed together, or of regular joinery 

 work. 



The cheapeft and the eafieft, and fooneft made treillage 

 for common efpalier trees, is that formed with any kind of 

 ftraight poles or ftakes of under-wood, as cut in the cop- 

 pices, being then cut into proper lengths, and driven into the 

 ground in a range at ddlances of a foot each, all of an equal 

 height, and then railed along the top with the fame kind of 

 poles, to preferve the whole ftraight and firm in a regular 

 pofition. See Espalier. 



And to render thefe ftill ftronger, two or three horizontal 

 ranges of rods may be nailed along the back part of the up- 

 rights, a foot or eighteen inches afunder. 



The more elegant and ornamental treillages are formed 

 with regularly fquared pofts and rails of hard timber, 

 neatly planed and framed together ; having for this purpofe 

 deal or oak pofts, uniformly worked two or three inches 

 fquare ; but if the main polls are of oak, it will be of ad- 

 1 1 vantage 



