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TSISAGATA, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Ni- 

 phon ; 1 10 miles W. of Meaco. 



TSISIR, a town of Thibet, now in ruins. N. lat. 34.° 

 24'. E. long. 96^ 19'. 



TSITA, a lake of Thibet, 45 miles in circumference. 

 N. lat. 33° 32'. E. long. 90° 39'. 

 TSITCHICHAR. See Tcitcicar-Hotun. 

 TSIURAC, a river of Natolia, which runs into the 

 Meinder, at Tcharfhebeh. 



TSO, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in Pe- 

 tche-li ; 22 miles S.S.W. of Peking. N. lat. 39° 32'. E. 

 long. 115° 39'. — Alfo, a city of China, of the fecond rank, 

 in Quang-fi ; 930 miles S.S.W. of Peking. N. lat. 22° 

 42'. E. long. 106° 49'. 



TSO-CHOUI, a town of Corea ; 5^ miles S.E. of 

 Kang-tcheou. 



TSO KAMA, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon ; 

 1 70 miles W. of Meaco. 



TSOL-ABAD, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Cara- 

 mania ; 32 miles S.W. of Akfhehr. 



TSONDUE, a town of Thibet ; 7 miles W. of Painom- 

 Jeung. 



TSONG-HE, a town of Corea ; 10 miles N. of Hoang- 

 tcheou. 



TSONG-KING, a city of China, of the fecond rank, 

 in Se-tchuen ; 857 miles S.W. of Peking. N. lat. 30° 

 38'. E. long. 103° 23'. 



TSONG-MING, a town of China, in the ifland fo 

 called. N. lat. 31° 45'. E. long. lao'^ji'. 



TsONG-MiNG, or Tfung-m'ing, an ifland near the coaft of 

 China, in the Eaftern fea, at the mouth of the Yang-tfe 

 river, belonging to the province of Kiang-nan, about 50 

 miles in length, and 10 in breadth. This ifland was formerly 

 a place of banifliment for criminals, to whom fome poor 

 Chinefe families reforted, and they divided the lands amongft 

 them ; but not being able to clear all the land they had ap- 

 propriated to themfelves, called other families from oft the 

 continent to their afiiftance, and yielded to them for ever a 

 part of the lands, on condition that they fliould pay an- 

 nually, in divers goods, a rent proportionable to their har- 

 veft. The country is divided by an infinite number of 

 canals, that have high banks to defend it from inundations, 

 for the land is level, having no hills ; the air is healthful and 

 temperate, and the country agreeable. Here are large 

 towns fcattered about the ifland at convenient diftances, 

 wherein is a great number of fhops, well furniflied with all 

 manner of neceflaries and conveniencies of life ; and, dif- 

 perfed between each town, there are as many houfes about 

 the country as there are families employed in tillage. The 

 highways are very narrow, and are bordered with little fliops 

 that fell refrefliment to travellers ; and, indeed, one would 

 imagine the whole ifland to be one exceeding large vilhge. 

 Here are no wild fowl, but great numbers of large geeie, 

 ducks, hens, hogs, and bufi'aloes, but thefe latter are ufed 

 only for tillage. The land is not alike throughout the ifland, 

 the produce ' of it being very different : that towards the 

 north is not cultivated, but the reeds which grow here natu- 

 rally produce a confiderable revenue : as there are no trees in 

 the whole ifland, they ufe part of thefe reeds to build houfes 

 in the country ; the other part fcrves to bvirn, and fupplies 

 fuel not only for the whole ifland, but alfo for fome parts of 

 the neighbouring continent. The fecond fort of land is that 

 which extends from the firit quite to the fea on the fouth 

 fide ; this produces two crops every year ; one of grain, 

 which is generally in the month of May, the other of rice, 

 or cotton ; of nee, in September ; of cotton, a little later : 



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their grain is rice, wheat, barley, and a fort of bearded 

 corn, which, though it rcfemble wheat, is neverthelefs of 

 a different nature. There is a third fort of land, which, 

 though it appear barren, produces a greater revenue than all 

 the reft ; it confifts of a whitifli earth, found in feveral 

 parts of the north fide of the ifland, from whence they get 

 fucli a great quantity of fait, that it fupplies not only ttie 

 iOand, but part of the continent. In this ifland there is a 

 number of mandarins, and the governor is one of thofe 

 called " literati." He alone adminiftersjuflice, receives the 

 tribute paid by every family to the emperor, gives pafTports 

 to fliips, and paffes fentence of death on criminals. When 

 the people have occafion for rain, or fine weather, this man- 

 darin proclaims a general faft ; butchers and inn-keepers are 

 then forbid to fell any thing, under the fevereft penalties ; 

 they however take care to get rid of their provifions, by 

 paying fome money privately to the officers of the tribunal, 

 whofe bufinefs is to enforce the obfervance of this order. 

 The mandarin afterwards walks in proceflion, accompanied 

 by his fubalterns, to the temple of the idol whom they in- 

 tend to invoke ; he kindles on the altar two or three fmall 

 aromatic twigs ; they then all fit down : to pafs the time, 

 they drink tea, fmoke, and converfe an hour or two ; after 

 which they retire. This is what they call begging for rain 

 or fine weather. 



Father Jacquemin relates, that in his time the viceroy of 

 one ot the provinces, becoming impatient becaule rain had 

 not b^-en granted to his repeated rcquells, fcnt an inferior 

 mandarin to tell the idol, from him, that if it did not rain 

 before a certain day he would drive him from the city, and 

 caufe his temple to be razed. No rain havnig fallen before 

 the day mentioned, the viceroy, in a great paflion, forbade 

 the people to carry, according to cufl^om, their offerings to 

 the idol, and ordered the temple to be fhut, and the gates 

 fealed up, which was immediately executed. N. lat. 31" 38' 

 E. long. 120^ 54'. 



TSONG-SIO, a town of the kingdom of Corea; 27 

 miles S.E. of Hoang-tcheou. 



TSO-PING-ING, a town of Corea ; 30 miles S.E. 

 of Koang. 



TSOR, or SoR, or Sur, or Soor, a town on the eaft 

 coail of Arabia, in the province of Oman ; 22 miles S.E. 

 of Kalhat. N. lat. 22° 36'. 



TSORLII, or CiORLi, or Tziour/y, a town of European 

 Turkey, in Romania; 15 miles N.E. of Rodofto. 



TSOTSANG, a river of China, which runs into the 

 Hoang, near Hoai-king. 



TSUBSUKI, a town of .Japan, in the ifland of 

 Niphon ; 65 miles N.N.W. of Meaco. 



TSUEN, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 

 Quang-fi ; 912 miles S.S.W. of Peking. N. lat. if 50'.. 

 E. long. 1 10° 44'. 



TSUEN-TCHEOU, a city of the firll clafs in 

 China, in the province of Fo-kien, and reckoned one of 

 the moft beautiful cities in China, on account of its 

 fituation, extent, trade, triumphal arches, temples, and 

 its well-paved flreets. It has in its diftrid feven cities 

 of the third clafs. In its neighbourhood is a bridge remark- 

 able for its extraordinary fize, and the fingularity of itscon- 

 ilrudion. It was built at the expence of one governor. It 

 is wholly built of the fame kind of blackifli Itonc, without 

 arches ; but it has above 300 large Hone pillars, which ter- 

 minate on each fide in aii acute angle, the more eafily to 

 break the violence of the current. Five ftones of equal 

 fize, laid tranfverfely from one pillar to another, form the 

 breadth of the bridge ; of thefe there are icoo, all of the 



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