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tips. The violet-headed curucui of Latham. Found in 

 Cayenne. 



Maculatus. Striped with duflcy and brown ; crown 

 green ; wing-coverts and fecondary quill-feathers green, 

 white at the tips ; tail dufl<y, with white bars. Spotted 

 curucui of Latham ; inhabiting Ceylon. 



Fasci^tus. With a ferruginous back ; body beneath 

 fulvous red ; head and neck dufky, with a white fafcia on 

 the breaft ; wings fafciated with black and white ; apex of 

 the tail black. Fafciated curucui of Latliam ; inhabiting 

 Ceylon, but rare, and called by the inhabitants " Rautvan- 

 kondea." 



AsiATicus. Green, with the forehead, crown, and hind 

 part of the neck red ; throat blue, with a red fpot ; quills 

 and tail-feathers black. Blue-cheeked curucui of Latham ; 

 inhabiting India. 



Indicus. Duflcy, with ferruginous fpots above ; be- 

 neath yellowifli, ftriped with duflcy ; head black, with white 

 ftripes ; tail very long, and barred. Indian curucui of La- 

 tham ; called in India by the natives " Bungummi." 



Narina. Above green, with a red belly. Male, with 

 the head, neck, back, throat, jugulum, breaft, and wing- 

 coverts green, which laft are greyifh behind ; quills black, 

 bordered externally with white. Female, with the throat, 

 jugulum, and wing-coverts brown ; abdomen in front cine- 

 rafcent. Le Vaillant fays, that this bird is an inhabitant of 

 Caffraria, and the country of Auteniqua to the river 

 Gamtoo, and that the name Narina, in the Hottentot lan- 

 guage, fignifies a flower. The female lays four nearly 

 round eggs, and during her incubation the male has a melan- 

 choly note, but at all other times he is filent. 



TROGUS PoMPElus, in Biography, a Latin hiftorian, 

 flourifhed in the time of Auguftus, and wrote 44 books, 

 under the title of " Philippics," fo called from their fub- 

 jeft, which was the Macedonian empire, originating with 

 Philip, the father of Alexander. An epitome of this work 

 by Juftin is extant. Juftin denominates Trogus a man of 

 antique eloquence, and PUny, who often refers to him in 

 his Natural Hiftory, diftinguiihes him by the appellation of 

 " feveriffimus auftor," as a moft exaft. author. 



TROIA, or Trojan Games, Ludi Trojanl, were games 

 inftituted by Afcanius, fon of jEneas ; and which after- 

 wards pafled to the Romans, and were celebrated in the 

 Circus by the youth of Rome. 



One of th'e number, who prefided over the folemnity, was 

 called princeps jwventutis ; and was always of one of the firll 

 families in Rome. 



At firft, it is fuppofed, they only engaged on foot, and 

 on horfeback ; becaufe Virgil, who defcribes thefe games 

 in the iEneid, lib. v. only fpeaks of horfes and cavaliers, 

 without any mention of bigse or quadrTgse, which were not 

 in ufe in Rome till long after Afcanius. And yet Dion, 

 fpeaking of Csfar's games, fays, the youth there combated 

 in chariots : but it is thought by fome, that thefe were not 

 the Trojan games, but races and combats of a different 

 kind, proper for young people, of a more advanced age. 



The Trojan games were renewed by Auguftus, after the 

 viftory at Aftium, A.U. -726; began to decline under 

 Tiberius, and terminated under Claudius. 



Troia, in Ancient Geography, a town of Chaonia, in 

 Ceftria. Steph. Byz. — Alfo, a town or rather village of 

 Egypt, in the vicinity of mount Troicus. This was the 

 ancient habitation of the Trojans, who followed Menelaus 

 to his captivity. Strabo. — Alfo, a town of Italy, at the 

 bottom of the Adriatic gulf, in the country of the Veneti. 

 Steph. Byz.— Alfo, a town of Afia, in Cilicia Alfo, a 



place of Italy, in the territory of the town of Laientum- 

 According to Livy, it gave name to the place where jEneas 

 landed, on his arrival in Italy ; fituated, according to Dion, 

 Halic, four ftadia from the fea. 



Troja, or Troy, a celebrated city of Afia Minor, and 

 capital of the fmall country called Troas, or Troade (which 

 fee), and Phrygia Minor, fituated to the north-wefti See 

 Phrygia Minor. 



Troja, in Geography, a city of Naples, in Capitanata, 

 on the river Chilare, the fee of a bifhop, contaimng fix 

 churches and fix convents. It was built on an eminence, 

 out of the ruins of ^cas, a city deftroyed by Conil^ns II. 

 It is faid to have been founded by Bagianus, catapan or 

 viceroy of the province in the eleventh century, by order of 

 the emperors Bafil and Conftantine, as a bulwark againft 

 the inroads of the Norman adventurers, and to have had its 

 name in commemoration of the famous city, which, by its 

 fall, immortahzed the heroes of Greece. It was long ac- 

 counted a key to the Apennines, and as fuch was expofed 

 to many affaults and fieges ; 33 miles S.W. of Manfredonia. 

 N. lat. 41° 24'. E. long. 15° 18'. 



Troja, a fmall ifland in the Mediterranean, near the 

 coaft of Italy. N. lat. 42=43'. E. long. 11° ;'. 



TRO.IAN, a town of Servia ; 16 miles S. of Sabacz. 



TROIL, among Tinners, denotes a feaft, or occafion of 

 merriment, by eating and drinking ; called alfo a duggk. 



TROILINSKAIA, in Geography, a town of Ruffia, 

 in the country of the Coflacks, on the Don ; 80 miles E. 

 of Azoph. 



TROIS-ClNQUE, in the French DiJHlkry, a term ufed to 

 exprefs their brandy, when of a peculiar ftrength, confifting 

 of five parts alcohol and three parts phlegm. 



The method of diililling the wines into brandy in France, 

 is exaftly the fame with that ufed with us to draw the fpirit 

 from our walh or fermented liquor of malt, treacle, fugar, 

 or whatever other kind. They only obferve more parti- 

 cularly to throw a little of the natural lee into the ftill 

 along with the wine ; and the pooreft wines are fure to fuc- 

 ceed beft on the trial, making by much the fineft brandies. 

 We are apt to wonder that we cannot, from the wines of 

 particular countries, diftil their particular brandies ; but the 

 whole myftery confifts in this, that they do not fend us over 

 the fame wines which they ufe in diililling, becaufe thefe 

 latter would not be Ukcd as wines, nor would keep in the 

 bringing over. Sometimes in Scotland they meet with the 

 poor and pricked wines, the fame that the French diftil 

 their brandies from ; and from thefe they diftil a fpirit, 

 not to be known from the brandy diftilled in France. 



The lee which the French add in the diftillation gives 

 the brandy that high flavour for which we fo much efteem 

 it ; but they themfelves like it fo much the worfe for it. 

 The French notion of a proof ftrength, determined by the 

 chaplet or crown of bubbles, is tlie fame with ours ; and all 

 their fine fpirits are found of this ftrength. 



But they have one particular expedient for thofe brandies 

 which prove foul and feedy, or retain the tafte of certain 

 weeds which grow among the wines ; they draw them 

 over again, with a defign to free them from that adven- 

 titious flavour. In this operation they always leave out 

 the faints, or rather they change the receiver as foon as 

 ever the ftream comes proof; then mixing together all 

 that ran oif before, they make a brandy ftronger than the 

 ordinary kind, and this is what they call trois-cinque. 



The diftillers in France fcarcely ever bring their brandies 



higher than this ; for they have the art to perfuade the 



foreign merchant, that the phlegm of French brandy is 



Sf 2 natural 



