rue 



keep lime, with profefllonal firmnefs and accuracy ; and 

 ^ther totally negleftiug or runniiifr away too foon from 

 plain counterpoint to florid, a want of inftruftion and regu- 

 lar ftudy appear in the bafea they put to the flighteil and 

 moft natural melodies. 



Tucker'j- IJlaiid, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the Pa- 

 cific ocean, fo called by Capt. Wilfon of the Duff, from 

 one of the crew who left the fhip there. N. lat. 7° 22'. £. 

 long. 1 22° 5'. — Alfo, a fmall ifland near the coafl of South 

 Carohna. N. lat. 32° 36'. W. long. 80° 16'. 



TUCKERTON, a fea-port of New Jerfey, in Little 



Egg harbour Alfo, a town of Burlington county, New 



Jerfey ; 201 miles from Wafhington. 



TUCKET, a word ufed by Shakfpeare in "All's well 

 that ends well," aft iii. fc. 8. corrupted from toccata, Ital. 

 a flourifh. 



TUCKIN, \n Agricuhiii-e, the name of the fatchel that 

 is fometimes ufed in fetting beans in the field. 



TUCKING-MiLL, in Rural Economy, a name given in 

 fome places to a fulling-mill. 



TUCKT Hazara, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, 

 in Moultan ; 10 miles N.W. of Toulomba. 



TUCKUM, a town of the duchy of Courland ; 33 miles 

 E. of Goldingen. 



TUCKUSH, a fmall ifland in the Mediterranean, near 

 the coaft of Algiers, oppofite a town of the fame name on 

 the continent ; 12 miles E. of the Cape of Iron. 



TUCKWAPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude ; 

 14 miles S. of Bahraitch. 



TUCKYPARA, a town of Bengal; 24 miles S. of 

 Burdwan. 



TUCOPIA, an ifland in the Pacific ocean, difcovered 

 by Quiros in 1606. He could not find any anchoring place, 

 but was near enough to converfe with the inhabitants, who 

 offered him a prefent of nuts, and a piece of cloth made of 

 palm-leaves ; and they faw fome plantations of fruit-trees. 

 S. lat. 12°. E. long. 167°. 



TUCRI, a town of Naples, in the county of Molife ; 

 13 miles E.S.E. of Molife. 



TUCUBI, or Tacubis, in Ancient Geography, a town 

 of Spain, in Lufitania. 



TUCUMAN, or Tacma, now called the Intendancy of 

 Salta, in Geography, a province of South America, in the vice- 

 royalty of Buenos Ayres, extending from 26° to 3 3° W. long., 

 and from 22° 30' to 30° S. lat. ; bounded on the N. by Chicas 

 and Tarija, on the E. by Chaco and Yapitzlaga, on the S. 

 by Cordova, and on the W. by the Andes, which feparate 

 it from Chili. This province is now divided into thofe of 

 Salta and Cordova. Eftalla fays that the province of Tu- 

 cuman was the largefl in America, extending from the cor- 

 ner called La Guardia to the river of Quiaca, 380 leagues ; 

 of which 314 are fertile lands with carriage-roads, and the 

 remaining 66 barren country with horfe-paths. As far as 

 Jujuy the temperature is benign, inclining to the warm and 

 humid, and travellers find much convenience and abundance 

 of provifions. The territory of Tucuman is rich and well cul- 

 tivated, efpecially towards Chili, with fome defert cantons upon 

 the Magellanic fide. The foil is fandy, and almoll without 

 flones, but very well watered, producing plenty of cotton, 

 wild cochineal, wax, honey, paftel for dyeing, and a variety 

 of fruits, with roots, Indian wheat, &c. They likewifc 

 breed here vafl numbers of cattle, and have plenty of deer, 

 and other game, with lions and tygers in their woods. The 

 iheep here are very large and ftrong, but their wool is fine, 

 and the inhabitants ufe them alfo for c.irriage. The natives 

 were formerly naked, but fince fomewhat civilized by the 

 Spaniards, and covered with their woollen and cotton manu- 



T U D 



factures ; they live in fmall villages very clofe to one another. 

 Its two principal rivers are the Dolce and Salado, /. e. the 

 fweet and fait ones, befides innumerable fmaller ftreanis. 

 In this province a kind of large crow is hunted, and an ani- 

 mal b tween a liare and rabbit. Here are faid to be twelve 

 kinds of bees, all producing honey of different qualities. 

 The chief drink is called " Aloja," but Eflalla does not 

 mention its ingredients, but it is the chica made of maize. 

 Throughout the province there is, as he fays, no pcrfon fo 

 poor that he does not kill a cow or a heifer every day for 

 the fupport of his familv. 



In the jurifdiftion of San Miguel de Tucuman (fee St. 

 Miguel) is found the tree called "Quebracho," a name 

 derived from its extreme hardnefs, which breaks the axe • 

 the outer part being white and the centre red, and the latter 

 after being fleeped in water, becoming hard and heavy like 

 ftone. In the fame province are found fpiders, which weave 

 a thread of great ftrength and beauty. About a league to 

 the fouth of San Miguel is the fait river called Sali. This 

 town is remarkable for the manufafture of a kind of cars 

 ufed in tranfporting articles of commerce. The city of 

 Salta (fee Salta) is crowded with merchants in Febru.-u-y 

 and March, though in the rainy feafon the roads are fcarcely 

 paffable : the furrounding vale of Lerma produces excellent 

 wheat, and ab;andant pafturage, but the poor are tormented 

 with a kind of leprofy. The graziers, who deal in mules, 

 and the merchants, chiefly Gallicians, are robuft, and the 

 women are remarkable for their beautiful complexions and 

 flowing hair ; yet the fex, after twenty-five years of age, is 

 fubjeft to a fwelling in the throat, called " Goto," producing 

 an efFeft veiT flrange and ridiculous, and which is care- 

 fully concealed with neckcloths, but attended with no difeafe 

 or abbreviation of life. This deformity feems to belong to 

 the goitre, a diforder formerly believed to be reflritted to 

 the mountains ; but as Salta is fituated in a valley, it is pro- 

 bably produced by the water or the fogs. 



TUCUMANITA, a town of South America, in the 

 province of Tucuman ; 10 miles W. of St. Miguel de Tu- 

 cuman. 



TUCUYO. See Tocuvo. 



TucuYo, or Tocuyo, a river of Venezuela, which nms 

 into the fea, N. lat. 10° 38'. W. long. 69" 22'. 



TUDDER, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Roer ; 1 1 miles S. of Ruremond. 

 TUDDINGTON. SeeToDDiNOTON. 

 TUDELA, a town of South America, in the kingdom 

 of New Granada. — Alfo, a town of Spain, in the province 

 of Leon ; 5 miles E. of Valladolid. — Alfo, a town of Spain, 

 in Navarre, on the Ebro ; taken from the Moors in 1118; 

 4 miles S. of Pamplona. N. lat. 42° 11'. W. long. i''4o'. 

 TUDER, ToDi, in Ancient Geography, a town of Italy, 

 in Umbria, to the S.W., among the mountains. From 

 being a fmall place it became a Roman colony. 



TUDERGA, in Geography, a town of Afialic Turkey, 

 in Natolia ; 32 miles N.N.E. of Efl<i-She!ir. 



TUDES, in Ancient Geography, a town of Spain, on 

 the route from Bracara to Afturica, between Limia and 

 Burbida. Anton. Itin. 



TUDWAY, Dk. Thomas, in Biography, aji ecclcfiaf- 

 tical compofer, educated under Dr. Blow, at the fame time 

 as Turner and Purceli. He was one of the fecond let of 

 children of the chapel-royal after the Reftoration. Soon 

 after quitting the chapel-royal, he was received into the 

 choir at Windfor as a tenor finger. Tudway, like his 

 fellow-difciples, endeavoured to dillinguilh himfelf early as a 

 compofer, and has inferted into the Colleftion of Church 

 Mufic which he tranfcribed for lord Harley, an antlicm of 



Ills 



