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cineMOus, tinftured with red : the coot-footed triiiga of 

 Edwards, and brown phalarope of Pennant and Latham. 



Cancellatus. With upper feathers brown, white at 

 the margin ; lower white lineated tranfverfely obfcurely ; 

 pinnated legs obfcure. 



EucoPTERA. Black, beneath red, with cinereous bill, 

 green legs, and yellow vent : the white-winged fand-piper 

 of Latham. 



Maritima. Above varied with grey and white ; be- 

 neath white, with yeDow legs ; middle of the back violet ; 

 throat and tail obfcure : the felninger fand-piper of 

 Latham. 



Undata. Obfcure, undulated with yellow and white ; 

 the rump, the tip of the fecondary tail-feathers, and wing- 

 coverts, white ; tail cinereous, white at the apex : the 

 waved fiind-piper of Pennant and Latham. 



Uniformis. Wholly dilutely cinereous, with a fiiort 

 black bill : uniform fand-piper of Pennant and Latham. 



AusTRALls. Above cinereous, fpotted brown ; beneath 

 reddifh ; abdomen and rump whitifli ; tail and tail-feathers 

 obfcure ; bill and legs black : fouthern fand-piper of 

 Latham. 



N.^EViA. With obfcure bill ; legs greenifh ; body above 

 cinereous, fpotted with red and black; beneath reddifh and 

 white, fpotted with obfcure or bay : the freckled fand- 

 piper of Pennant and Latham. 



Grisea. With black bill and legs ; body above grey, 

 beneath white ; primary tail-feathers brown ; tail grey and 

 white at the margin ; a band obfcurely grey parallel to the 

 margin : the grifled fand-piper of Latham. 



Keptuschca. With cinereous body ; black vertex ; 

 abdomen blackifh, terminating reddifh. 



TRINGAN, in Geography. See Trangano. 



TRINGENSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the prin- 

 cipality of Nafiau Dillenburg ; 6 miles E. of Dillenburg. 



TRINGLE, in Arch'tle8ure, a name common to feveral 

 little fqnare members, or ornaments ; as reglets, liftels, and 

 platbands. 



The word is French, where it fignifies the fame. 



Trixgle is more particularly ufed for a little member 

 fixed exaftly over every triglyph, under the platband of 

 the architrave ; from whence hang down the guttas, or 

 pendant drops. 



TRINIDAD, \n Geography, a town of South America, 

 in New Granada ; 20 miles N.W. of Santa Yh. 



Trinidad, an ifland near the coaft of South America, 

 about thirty leagues long, and from two to ten broad. 

 This idand was difcovered by Columbus in his third voyage, 

 who landed here in 1498, and was named by him after 

 the Holy Trinity ; becaufe, fays Herrera, having been in 

 great danger in a violent ftorm, he made a vow to give that 

 name to the firft land he fliould find : foon after which a 

 failor, in th'; main-top, faw three points of land, by which 

 the name was in every refpeft fuitable to his vow. The 

 original inhabitants were a colony of ylrrowauki ; which fee. 

 The chmate is faid by fome to be unwhokfome ; the idand 

 being very often covered with thick fogs. The abbe 

 Raynal fays that it is excellent, being free from hurricanes. 

 Heavy rains fall from the middle of May to the end of 

 Oftober. It is fubjeft to flight earthquakes, and in the in- 

 terior are four groups of mountains. The quality of its foil 

 is varioufly reported ; however, fir Walter Raleigh, who was 

 there fome time in the year 1593, and examined the ifland, 

 gives an account, that the northern part of it is high land ; 

 but that its foil is good, proper for planting of fugar-canes, 

 tobacco, &c. The fouthern coail is vi'eH adapted to the 

 culture of coffee ; and on the weft is a large harbour, fecure 



in all feafons. Here are feveral forts of animals, plenty of 

 wild hogs, fifti, fowl, and fruit. It alfo produces maize, 

 caflava, and other roots, and in general all that is commonly 

 found in America. The Spaniards owned to fir Walter, 

 that they found gold in the rivers of this ifland, but nothing 

 in comparifon of what the main land produces. The natives 

 called this ifland " Cairi ;" but they themfelves had different 

 names, according to the different parts of the ifland where 

 they dwelt. In 1797, it was taken by the Britifh troops; 

 and by the peace of Amiens, the ifland was ceded to Great 

 Britain. The ifland of Tobago is feparated from Trinidad 

 by a channel called " Trinidad Channel." This ifland, 

 iltuated at the eaftern extremity of Terra Firma, from 

 which it is only four leagues dillant, is the natural magazine ' 

 and refort where the contraband traders of Cumana, Barce- 

 lona, Margaretta, and Guiana, make their purchafes. The 

 pofition of the ifland is fingularlv favourable to this com- 

 merce. The Spanifti coafts, extenfive, folitary, defencelefs, 

 and to leeward, offer both to the Englifli and Spaniards the 

 greateft facility for profecuting it. The gulf of Paria, 

 which wafhes the weftern part of Trinidad, receives the 

 waters of the river Guarapiche, which penetrates the pro- 

 vince of Cumana. By this river animals for labour and for 

 the fliambles are brought from Terra Firma to Trinidad ; 

 and through the fame channel all the contraband articles 

 confumed in this provnice can afcend with perfeft con- 

 venience, or may be landed at feveral points without the 

 leaft danger. In general, the cargoes which are deflined for 

 Barcelona proceed up this river-: they are thence diftributed 

 to Caraccas and other cities. The mouths of the Oronoko, 

 which crofs the giJf of Paria from fouth and north, and 

 which are compelled by Trinidad to difcharge into the fea 

 by the dragon mouths, open to this ifland the commerce of 

 Guiana, whither the furplus goes by the river Apure to 

 Barquifimeto, Truxillo, Varinas, Merida, &c. Dr. Ar/- 

 derfon has given a particular account of a remarkable phe- 

 nomenon in this ifland, which is a bituminous lake, or rather 

 plain, denominated Tar-lake, and by' the French La Brca, 

 from its refemblance to fliip-pitch, and from its anfwering a. 

 fimilar intention. It lies on the leeward fide of the ifland, 

 on a point of land extending into the fea about two miles, 

 and oppofite to the high mouRtains of Paria on the north fide 

 of the gulf. The headland, or cape, is about 50 feet above 

 the level of the fea, and is the greateft elevation on this fide 

 of the ifland. From the fea it appears a mafs of black 

 vitrified rocks ; but on clofer examination, it is found to be 

 a compofition of bituminous fcoris, vitrified fand, and earth, 

 cemented together : in fome parts, beds of cinders only are 

 found. In approaching this cape, there is a ftrong ful- 

 phureous fmell, fometiraes difagreeable. This fmell is pre- 

 valent in many parts of the ground to the diftance of eight 

 or ten miles from it. The point of land is about two miles, 

 and falls with a d-clivity to the fea, the bituminous plain 

 being on the highelt part of it, and feparated from the fea 

 by a mai^nn of wood which furrounds it. It appears at firft 

 hke a lake of water ; and in hot and dry weather its furface, 

 about an inch deep, is liquid, whence it obtained the appel- 

 lation of lake. Its form is circular, about three miles in 

 circumference. Its more common confiftence and appear- 

 ance are thofe of pit-coal, the colour being rather greyer. 

 No appearance of fulphur is difcemible, though, in pafling 

 over it, a ftrong fulphureous fmell was experienced. Dr. 

 Anderfon apprehended that this bituminous fubftance is the 

 bitumen afphaltum of Linnseus. By a gentle heat it was 

 rendered duftile ; and mixed with greafe or common pitch, 

 it is much ufed for the bottoms of fhips ; and he conceives it 

 to be a prefervative againft the infedl called the borer, fo 

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