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year lOOl, and terminating at 1470, edited by Ifelin, in 

 two vols. fol. Bafle, 1734 — 1736 ; " De vera ct prifca Al- 

 pina Rhjetia, &c." Baile, 1538, 4to. ib. 1560; " Defcrip- 

 tion of the Alps," Bafle, 1738, &c. TfcTiudi was a zealous 

 Catiiolic, as we may infer from his " Treatife on Purgatory," 

 and another " On the Invocation of Saints ;" though he 

 was fully apprifed of the errors of popery, the licentious 

 manners of the clergy, and tlie avarice of the convents, 

 ivhich he very freely expofed. 



TSCHUKOTSKOI Noss, or Cook's Strain, in Geogra- 

 phy, a part of the fcores of the government of Irkutfli, 

 waflied by the Eallern or Pacific ocean, extending to the 

 frontiers of China ; or in other words, from tlie mouth of the 

 river Aimakan ; j. e. from about 65" to 45° N. lat. 



TSCHUKTSCHES, a people who occupy the north- 

 eaftern poirit of Siberia, towai-ds the Frozen ocean and the 

 Eaftern ocean, which is called the Tfchuktfchy-cape, and in 

 all refpefts fo much refemble the Koriaks, that one might 

 be induced to take the two nations for relational Items. 

 They may be computed at 4000 bows. We may naturally 

 fuppofe that they are the primitive poffefTors of thefe coails, 

 who either came over from the continent of America, or 

 were divided by the probable infraftion of the fea, and the 

 confequent feparation of the two quarters of the world. 

 They, as well as the Koriaks, Kamtfhadales, Tungufes, 

 and Lamutes, bear a great likenefs to the neareft Americans 

 beyond the ftraits. 



TSCHUVASSES are a very numerous nation of Finns, 

 paying the tax for more than 200,o'oo heads. They refide 

 principally on both fides of the Volga, in the governments 

 of Tobollk, Viatka, Niflinei-Novgorod, Kazan, Simbirllc, 

 and Ufa. Their language at prefent borders more upon the 

 Tartarian than that of the Finns, and hence fome will not 

 allow them to belong to this (lock ; neverthelefs their man- 

 ners and culloms very much refemble thofe of the generality 

 of Finns, particularly thofe of the Votiaks and Tfchere- 

 miffes. Thefe three tribes dwell together in villages, but 

 never in towns ; they are inured to agriculture, and have 

 abandoned their nomadic way of life ; they are fond of 

 horfe-flefh ; they are moftly heathens, and they have among 

 them enchanters, and a fort of place for divine worfhip, which 

 they denote by the generic name of Keremet. At their 

 meetings tliey facrifice a horfe, in which their principal reli- 

 gious folemnity confifts. See Tcheremisses. 



TSE, a town of China, in Chan-fi ; 300 miles S.S.W. 

 of Peking. N. lat. 35° 30'. E. long. 112° 26'. 



TSEBID, or Tecebit, a town and diftrid of Africa, 

 in the country of Sugulmeffa ; 75 miles E. of Sugulmeffa. 

 N. lat. 31° 40'. E. long. 1°. 



TSELGA, or TcHELSA, a town of Abyffinia ; 30 miles 

 N. of Gondar. 



TSEMERUITZU, a mountain of Croatia; 20 miles 

 S. of Bihacs. 



TSENA, a river of Malacca, which runs into the Chi- 

 nefefea, N.lat. 7° 33'- E. long. 101° 21'. 



TSERKESB, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia ; 

 36 miles N. of Angura. 



TSHAC, a mountain of Little Bucharia ; 80 miles 

 S.S.W. of Hotun. 



TSHANI. See TciiANi. 



TSHARISKOI Mountains, a very extended branch 

 of the Altai mountains that fall to the (hare of Ruffia, in 

 the range of Kolhyvan. They comprife the whole fpace 

 between the higheft fources of the Ulba, Ouba, and the Ko- 

 kofun (to the point where the Tfliuya f.-ills into the Koko- 

 fun), and between thecourfe of this latter river and the Ka- 



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tunaia, and carries its powerful forked ridges along both 

 fides of the Tfharilh, from its origin to its diferaboguing 

 into the Oby. The direftion of thefe mountains is from E. 

 to W. and N.W., and an the S. they are parted, by a rude 

 v.illey, from the Oubinftoi fnow-mountains. In feveral 

 places this range rifes to a great height, heaving up enormous 

 pinnacles, which in fome parts are covered with never-failing 

 fnow, and which, for the moil part, confiit of granite, por- 

 phyry, jafper, and flint breccia. One of thefe, viz. the 

 Tigeretzkoi, to a confiderable height confifts of marble, 

 which contains a multitude of fea-(hells. Thefe in general 

 are found to be 4392 Paris feet higher than the Shlangen- 

 berg. One of the higheft points is the Koffipnaia-Sopka 

 (the Ragged-head), coufifting of monftrous blocks of 

 hoary granite. In feveral places of thefe wild and extenfive 

 mountains, iron, copper, and lead ores have been dug up, but 

 no regular works have been eftablifhed. 



TSHATSHI, a town of Little Bucharia ; 30 miles N.E. 

 of Acfu. 



TSHEGULA, an ifland belonging to the clafs called 

 Fox iflands, and arranged by MuUer under the appellation 

 Kavalang. 



TSHENIKE', a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the go- 

 vernment of Sivas ; 20 miles N.E. of Amafieh. 



TSHETCHINA, one of the illan.Is comprehended 

 under the name of Andreanofskiye Oftrova, on which a 

 high white mountain overtops the reft, which is apparently an 

 extinft volcano, as there are ftill hot fprings on this ifland. 



TSHETGHINA, one of that clafs or divifion of the 

 iflands that He between Kamtfliatka and America, called 

 Chao. 



TSHIBUK-ABAD, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Na- 

 tolia ; 18 miles E.N.E. of Angura. 



TSHIGAMA, one of the clafs of iflands called Fox 

 iflands, diftingulfhed in Mr. Mulltr's arrangement under the 

 name Kavalang. 



TSHI-KOI, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the Sc- 

 lenga, 12 miles S. of Selenginlk. 



TSHIKOTA, one of the Kurile iflands, diftant from 

 KunafTyr ifland 70 verfts, 1 20 verfts long, and 40 broad. It 

 has lofty mountains, with fimilar forefts to thofe of Kunal- 

 fyr, with lakes and ftreams of wholefome water. 



TSHILLIENI, a. town of Wahchia ; 7 miles S. of 

 Caracalla. 



TSHINKA, in the Materia Medica, a name by wlucli 

 fome authors have called the clove-tree, the tree which pro- 

 duces the fpice of that name. 



TSHIRINKUTAN, in Geography, one of the Kurile 

 or Kurillkoi iflands, about 30 verfts from Ikarma. The 

 ifland is round, and its diameter is about fifteen verfts. A 

 mountain nearly upon the ftrand is continually emitting 

 fmoke, and very frequently large ftones roll down one of its 

 fides, by which a valley has been excav.ited from top to 

 bottom. The coaft round about is mountainous and rocky. 

 It has a great number of wild fowl, and in other refpetis 

 very much refembles Ikarma. 



TSHIRPO-OI, one of the Kurile iflands, may be 

 eftim.atcd in length and bre.adth at 15 verfts. This ifland 

 has had a volcano, that has dlfcharged ftones over the whole 

 face of it. Infteadof forcft-woods, it prefents to view 

 merely buflies of the forbus fylveflris, but no ftreams, and 

 one fmall faline lake. In one fpot is a falt-fp«ng of that 

 kind called acidulx, the water of which lofes its acidity by 

 boihng. On an adjacent ifland is alfo a volcano. 



TSHLUCHOW, a town of PruDian Pomerelia ; 44 



miles S.S.W. of Dantzig. 



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