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cultivated, and make a very beautiful appearance, which, 

 wth a continual ferene (liy, prove not lefs agreeable to tra- 

 vellers tlian to the inliabitants. The city is fituated 480 

 miles S. of Quito. S. lat. 8° 6'. W. long. 79=" 20'. 



The progrefs of this city to fplendour and opulence was 

 very rapid ; but in the midft of its career it was attacked 

 and defolated by the buccaneer Francis Grammont, in the 

 year 1678. The confequence of his invafion was almoft a 

 temporary depopulation. However, the falubrity of the 

 air and the fertihty of the foil have drawn thither inhabit- 

 ants fuf&cient to make their number amount to 7600 perfons. 

 The land about it produces fugar, cacao, indigo, coffee, 

 and in general aU the produftions of the torrid and fome 

 few of the temperate zones. Wheat is obtained here of an 

 excellent quality, and in abundance. They alfo breed Iheep 

 and goats : their mutton io large and good ; their cheefe 

 much commended ; and of the wool they fabricate goods, 

 of certain and profitable fale. The women are employed 

 in making fweetmeats, which have an extenfive circulation. 

 The commercial articles of Truxillo are conveyed to Ma- 

 racaibo by the lake ; but their moft common intercourfe is 

 with Carora, where they fend their goat and fheep-lkins to 

 be drefled. The air enjoyed by the inhabitants of Truxillo 

 is pure ; but their waters, though clear and light, are im- 

 pregnated with metallic particles. The fpot occupied by 

 the city lies between two mountains, fo as to give it the 

 fhape of a coffin. Here is a monafler)- of Francifcans, and 

 alfo another of Dominicans. The nuns of Truxille employ 

 themfelves in making delicate articles of bark, which have a 

 ready fale. 



Truxillo, a fea-port town of Mexico, in the province 

 of Honduras, fituated on a hill, near the fea ; frequently 

 ravaged by the Enghfh and the Dutch, and at prefent much 

 decayed. N. lat. 15° 45'. W. long. 86® 40'. 



Truxillo, or Nuejlra Seiwra de la Paz, a town of South 

 America, in the province of Venezuela ; 120 miles S. of lake 

 Maracaybo. N. lat. 8° 45'. W. long. 69° 35'. 



TRUXTON, a poft-townfhip of New York, in the N.E. 

 comer of Cortlandt county, 142 miles W. of Albany; 

 bounded N. by Fabius, in Onondaga county, E. by Madifon 

 county, S. by Solon, and W. by Preble : its extent is 10 miles 

 E. and W., and 5 miles N. and S., comprifing the S. half of 

 the townfhip of Fabius, in the mihtary traft. It refembles 

 Fabius in the general charader of furface, foil, timber, &c. 

 and is watered only by branches of the Tioughnioga that rife 

 in that town. The foil is good, the agriculture produftive, 

 and the tow.nlhip improving. In 18 10 the population was 

 1012, the fenatorial eleftors 129, and the taxable property 

 affeffed at 47,673 dollars. The fettlements commenced in 

 1 800. Truxton village is agreeably fituated, and has about 

 twenty houfes. 



TRUZZA, or Truzzo, a town of Tunis, with a fulphur- 

 ous fpring. Little of the town exifts but ruins ; 84 miles 

 S.S.W. of Tunis. 



TRY, To, in Sea Language. See Trying. 



TRYAL. See Trial. 



TRYBERG, in Geography. See Triberg. 



TRYBLION, a word ufed by the old medical writers, 

 to exprefs the pot or di(h in which the medicines ufed in 

 fumigations were placed at the time of ufe. 



TRYCHNUS, in Botany, the fame ssjlrychnus, the name 

 of nightfhade, 



TRYDEFFRIN, in Geography, a townfhip of Pennfyl- 

 vania, in the county of Chefler, containing 1253 inhabitants. 



TRYGGEVELDE, a town of Denmark, in tlie ifland 

 of Zealand ; 4 miles W. of Store Hedingen. 



TRYGUM, in Ichthyology, the Greek name given b^' 

 jElian, Athemus, and Appian, to the fifh which we call the 

 pajlinaca marina, or fire-flaire. Ariflotle and fome others 

 «Tite it tragum. 



TRYING, in Pharmacy, the purifying of fat fubflances 

 by means of melting, and feparating them from their mem- 

 branes, &c. See Suet. 



In the College Difpenfatory, the method laid down for the 

 purifying of lard, fuet, &c. was this : melt them at a gentle 

 iire, witli the addition of a little water intermixed, and, when 

 melted, ilrain them from the membranes. The addition 

 of water in this keeps the fat from burning and becoming 

 black, which it would otherwife do ; for the water not 

 being capable of receiving any greater degree of heat than 

 that of boiling, will keep the bottom of the veffel from 

 growing too hot, much better than the nicefl management 

 of the fire could do.. 



Trying, in Sea Language, denotes the fituation in which 

 a fhip Ues nearly in the trough, or hollow, of the fsa, in a 

 tempeft, particularly when it blows contrary to her courfe. 

 In tr)-ing, as well as in fcudding, the fails are always re- 

 duced in proportion to the increafe of the florm. Thus, 

 in the former flate, the fhip may lie by the wind under a 

 whole main-fail, a whole fore-fail, or a whole mizen ; or 

 under any of thofe fails, when diminifhed by the reef or ba- 

 lance. As the leafl poflible quantity of fail ufed in fcud- 

 ding is the goofe-wings of the fore -fail, fo, in trying, the 

 fmallefl portion is generally the mizen-flay-fail, or main-ftay- 

 fail ; and in either Hate, if the ftorm is exceflive, fhe may lie 

 with all the fails furled, or, according to the fea-phrafc, 

 under bare poles. 



The intent of fprcading a fail at this time is to keep the 

 fhip more fleady, and, by prefling her fide down in the 

 water, to prevent her from rolling violently ; and alfo to 

 turn her bow towards the diretlion of the wind, fo that 

 the fhock of the waves may fall more obliquely on her flank 

 than when fhe hes along the trough of the fea. While fhe 

 remains in this fituation, the helm is faflened clofe to the 

 lee-fide, or, in the fea language, hard-a-lee, to prevent her, 

 as much as pofTible, from falling-off. But as the fhip is not 

 then kept in equilibrio by the effort of her fails, which at 

 other times counterbalance each other at the head and ftern, 

 fhe is moved by a flow but continual vibration, which turns 

 her head alternately to windward and leeward, forming an 

 angle of three or four points in the interval. The part where 

 fhe ftops, in approaching the direftion of the wind, is called 

 her comtr.g-to, and the contrary excefs of the angle to lee- 

 ward is termed her falling-off. Thus, fuppofe the wind 

 northerly, and a fhip trj-ing with her flarboard fide to wind- 

 ward : if, in turning her head towards the fource of the 

 wind, fhe arrives at N.W. ^N. or N. 39° W. and then 

 dechnes to the leeward as far as W. iS. or S. 84° W. the 

 former will be called her coming-to, and the latter her fall- 

 ing-off. In this pofition fhe advances very little, according 

 to the line of her length, but is driven confiderably to lee- 

 ward. Falconer. 



TRYLISIA, in Geography, a town of Ruffian Poland; 

 10 miles E.N.E. of Zytomiers. 



TRYON, a county of the ftate of New York. 



Trvont Mountains, mountains of North Carolina, weft 

 of Sahfbury, bordering on Tenneffee. 



TRYPETHELIUM, in Botany, from T,-i/-a, a ber- 

 fora'ion, and Sr^r, a nipple, on account of the mammillary 

 orifices of the warts containing the receptacles ; a genus of 

 the great family of Lichenes. ( See that article. 1 — Achar. 



Lichenogr. 



