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Troy, John de, was the fon of Francis, and born at 

 Paris in 1676. After receiving the inftruftion of his father 

 in the art of painting until he had made confiderable pro- 

 grefs, he travelled to Italy, where he ftudied fome years, and 

 foon after his return to Paris he was made a member of the 

 Academy. He was employed by Louis XIV., for whom 

 he painted a feries of cartoons for tapeftry, reprefenting the 

 hiilory of Efther ; and feveral large allegorical fubjefts for 

 the Hotel de Ville. The king appointed him direftor of the 

 French Academy at Rome, where he refided great part of his 

 Lfe ; and he acquitted himfelfin the adminiftration of his office 

 in a moft refpeftable manner. His majefty conferred upon 

 him the order of St. Michael, and honoured him with other 

 marks of his particular efleem. He was not lefs diftin- 

 guiflied as a painter of portraits than of hiftory. He died 

 in 1752, aged 76. 



Trov, in Geography, a poft-townfhip, the capital of Renf- 

 felaer county, on the E. bank of the Hudfon, fix miles above 

 Albany ; bounded N. by Lanfmgburgh, E. by Brunfwick, 

 S. by Greenbufh, W. by the Hudfon, or the county of Al- 

 bany. The flourifliing village of Trov is in this town- 

 fhip, from which it has its name. Along the river are ex- 

 tenfive flats, and the river -hill is moftly arable. In the S. 

 where the hills approach neareft the river, are fome fine 

 ftreams for mills, and falls of a great height. There are 

 few places on the Hudfon, of the fame area, that com- 

 bine more advantages for a populous town. The foil is 

 good, and here are excellent facilities for water-works ; and 

 near the head of floop -navigation on one of the beft 

 rivers in America. In 18 10, the whole population was 

 3895, including 89 flaves, and the number of cleftors was 



334- 



The village of Troy is agreeably fituated on a gravelly 

 plain, on the E. bank of the Hudfon, fix miles N. of Al- 

 bany ; it is regularly laid out iit (Ireets and fquares, and 

 contains 660 houfes and ftores, five places of worfhip, two 

 banks, the court-houfe and prifon for the county, a market- 

 houfe, and many other buildings. Many of the houfes, 

 though built of wood, are large and elegant, and thofe of 

 brick form a confiderable number of the whole. The ftreets 

 are wide, with fufficient fide-walks, but unpaved. River- 

 ftreet, the principal avenue, extends about a mile along the 

 river, and receives all the other ftreets that run N. and S. 

 as well as E. and W. in right lines, forming the rear fpace 

 into perfefl fquares, and the Straight ftreets are fixty feet 

 wide. The maniifaftures are confiderable, and trade is ex- 

 tenfive, as it employs a great number of iloops, &c. on the 

 Hudfon. In wealth and trade Troy takes the third rank in 

 the ftate, among its populous towns. The places of worftiip 

 belong to the Prefbyterians, Baptifts, Epifcopalians, Qua- 

 kers, and Methodifts : and here are feveral fchool-houfes, as 

 well as two banks, with an aggregate capital of 850,000 

 dollars. The River-hill, that rifes in the rear of Troy, is 

 very appropriately called mount Ida, and its fine fides and 

 fummits prefent elegant fcites for building that command an 

 extenCve view of Troy and the furrounding country. Troy 

 was incorporated in 1801, and is governed by a prefident and 

 feveral truftees. 



Troy, a town of Maft^achufetts, in the count)- of Briftol, 

 containing 1296 inhabitants. — Alio, a town of Vermont, in 



the county of Orleans, containing 231 inhabitants /Mlo, 



a town of the county of Athens, in the diftriil of Ohio, 

 containing 578 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfliip of Trum- 

 bull county, in the diftrift of Ohio, containing 239 inha- 

 bitants. 



Troy, White, White of Orleans, or Spani/h White, is a naine 

 given to a preparation of chalk, which is finely powdered, 



formed into cakes, and ufed in the arts. This chalk is found 

 in great abundance at a village called Villeloup, about four 

 leagues from Troyes in France. It is dug out of the earth 

 in Imall lumps, and after having been expofed to the air, is 

 bruifed and reduced into a grofs powder, which is palled 

 through a fieve : when it is perfeftly dry, it is diluted with 

 loft water, and formed into a kind of pafte, which, being 

 well tempered, is ground very fine in a mill, and ufed by 

 painters, gilders, &c. : the qualities that peculiarly recom.> 

 mend that fubftance are, its being very vv'hite, friable, and 

 free from all mixture of adventitious earth and ftone. The 

 white of Orleans is prepared at Cavereau, a fmall village 

 about nine leagues from Orleans, and is reckoned inferior in 

 value to the former. Mem, Acad. Sc. 1754. Ephemerid. 

 Troyennes, an. 1759. 



The artificial Troy white, called alfo Spanifti white, is 

 chalk neutralized by the addition of water in which alum is 

 diflblved, and afterwards waftied over. It is ufed by fome 

 in water-colours as a white, and may be thus prepared : Take 

 a pound of chalk, and foak it well in water ; then wafh over 

 all the fine part ; and having poured off the firft water, add 

 another quantity, in which two ounces of alum are diffolved. 

 Let them ftand for a day or two, ftirring the chalk once in 

 fix or eight hours : walh the chalk again over, till it be ren- 

 dered perfeftly fine, and pour off as much of the water a« 

 can be feparated from the chalk by that means, taking off 

 the remainder of the diffolved alum, by feveral renewed 

 quantities of frefti water. After the laft water is poured 

 off, put the chalk into a cuUender-filtre, with a hnen cloth 

 over the paper ; and, when the moifture has been fuffi- 

 ciently drained off from it, lay it out in lumps to dry on a 

 proper board. Handm. to the Arts, vol. i. p. 137. 



Troy Weight, anciently called Trone Weight. See 

 Weight. 



Troy Pound. See Weight. 



TROYES, in Geography, a city of France, and capital 

 of the department of the Aube, on the Seine : before the 

 revolution the capital of Champagne, and the fee of a bifhop. 

 It contained fourteen churches, four abbeys, ten convents, a 

 college, and an hofpital. The inhabitants carry on a con- 

 fiderable trade in linen, flax, hemp, cotton, fuftians, &c. 

 The environs produce grain, legumes, and fruit in abundance ; 

 18 pofts N.N.W. of Dijon. N. lat. 48= 18'. E. 

 long. 4° 10'. 



TRSCHITZ, a town of Moravia, in the circle of 

 Olmutz ; 10 miles S.S.E. of Olmutz. 



TRSEBON. See Wittgenau. 



TRSEMESCHNO, a town of the duchy of Warfaw ; 

 10 miles S.E. of Gnefna. 



TRUCE, Trei'GA, a fufpenfion of arms ; or a ceffation 

 of hoftilities between two parties at war, which does not 

 terminate it, but merely fulpends its operations. 



The word, according to Menage, &c. comes from the 

 Latin treuga, which fignifies the fame ; and which Ca- 

 feneuge derives further, from the German traue, or treue, 

 which fignifies truft. 



A truce is either particular or univerfal : by the former, 

 hoftilities ceafe in particular places, as between a town and a 

 befieging army ; by the latter, they are to ceafe generally, and 

 in all places between the belligerent powers. Particular 

 truces may alfo admit of a diftinftio;i with regard to the afls 

 of hoftility, or to the perfons ; that is, it may be agreed to 

 abftain for a time from certain hoftilities, or two armies may 

 conclude a truce, or fufpenfion of arms, without refpeft to 

 place. A general truce made for many years, differs from a 

 peace in little elfe than in leaving the original queftion of the 

 war undecided, as they found it. 



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