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Tugguht, or TocoRT, a town of Algicis. It was 

 formerly under the proteftion of the Turks, and paid a 

 trifling acknowledgment. The inhabitants being difguiled 

 with the condu(Sl of their mailers, revolted ; but were re- 

 duced to obedience, the town taken, and great numbers of 

 them put to the Iword ; 240 miles S.S.E. of Algiers. N. 

 lat. 32° 40'. E. long. 5° 50'. 



TUGIA, in jincient Geography, a town of Spain, upon 

 the route from Callulo to Malaca, between Caftulo and 

 Traxinum. Anton. Itin. 



TUGMA, a town of India, on the other fide of the 

 Ganges and near it, with the title of Metropolis, according 

 to Ptolemy. 



TUGPINS, in Artillery, are the iron pins which pafs 

 through the fore -ends of the fhafts of the army carts, to 

 faflen the draught chains for the fore-horfes. 



TUGUESA, in Geography, a town of South America, 

 in the province of Darien ; 20 miles N.E. of St. Maria. 



TUGULIAN, a town of Ruffia, near the ftraits which 

 feparate the continent of Afia from America. N. lat. 

 65° 54'. E. long. 189° 14'. 



TUGUS, in Botany, the name of a fweet aromatic plant, 

 growing up fometimes to eight or nine cubits, much efteem- 

 ed in the eaftern parts of the world, and fuppofed by father 

 Camelli, who very ftriftly compared it with the accounts 

 given by Diofcorides and the ancients of their amomum, to 

 be that very plant. The cluftercd manner of growing 

 of the fruit, together with its oblong fhape, and the aro- 

 matic tafte of the feeds, feem greatly to countenance this 

 opinion. 



Each fruit of the tugus contains five or feven feeds ; 

 thefe are of an oblong figure, of a reddifli colour, and of an 

 agreeable aromatic tafte, but not too acrid. They are 

 much fought after by birds, infefts, and field-mice. 



The natives feem as fond of thefe as the ancients were 

 of the amomum ; and the young vvomen ftring them on 

 threads, asd wear them as bracelets ; fometimes they make 

 the bracelets of the feeds alone ; but more ufually they 

 ftring them alternately with pearls, and pieces of red 

 coral : thefe bracelets they call caropi, as well as the fruit 

 itfelf. 



They are fuppofed, when worn by way "f necklace, to 

 keep off the effefts of a bad air, and to preferve them 

 from the bites of ferpents, or the centipes. If not a pre- 

 fervative, they are, however, found, upon experience, to 

 be a very good remedy in the laft cafe, the common ap- 

 plication for the bite of this animal being fome of the feeds 

 of the tugus chewed in the mouth to a fort of pafte. 



The clufter of fruit of the tugus, or true amomum, when 

 newly formed and unripe, fomewhat refembles the pfeudo- 

 amomum of Garcias ; but this hkewife wears off as they 

 ripen. For CameUi's accurate defcription of this plant, 

 illuftrated by a figure, fee Phil. Tranf. N° 248. p. 2. 



TUGUZAK, in Geography, a river of Ruflia, which 

 runs into the Uvelka, 12 miles E. of Troitz, in the govern- 

 ment of Upha. 



TUGWELL Plough, in Agriculture, a light, eafy- 

 going, well-contrived implement of this kind, invented by 

 a perfon of that name. It performs the work well, but 

 not deeply, confequently is improper for weeding lands. 

 It is fometimes termed the Gloucetter plough. See 

 Plough. 



TUHERE', in Geography, a town of Brafil ; 45 miles 

 E. of Paru. 



TUHLOIS, a town of Sweden, in Tavaftland ; 15 

 miles N.E. of Tavafthus. 

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TUI, a river of South America, v;liicli run;; into the 

 Caribbean fea, N. lat. 10° 36'. W. long. 67" 20'. 



Tui, in Ornithology, a name by which fome call the parro- 

 quet. See Psittacus. 



The word is originally Brafilian ; and the names of feveral 

 of the Brafilian fpecies of this bird, defcribed by Marc- 

 grave, have the word tui as a part of them ; as the 

 tuiete, the ti(tpara, the tuitirica, and the luiaputejuba. See 

 TuiETE, &c. 



TUIAPUTEJUBA, the name of a Brafihan fpecies of 

 parroquet, all over of a green colour, but in different fhades, 

 very deep on the wings, very pale, and fomewhat yellowifh 

 on the belly, and of a faint colour all over the reit of the 

 body ; its tail is very long ; it is about the ilze of a fwallow ; 

 its eyes are large and black, and have a circle of yellowilh- 

 green feathers round them, and over the beak, which is 

 black and crooked ; and on his head he has one fpot of 

 gold-yellow feathers. See Psittacus Pertinax. 



TUICEA, in Geography. See PiROM. 



TUIETE, in Ornithology, the name of a Brafihan fpecies 

 of parroquet, of the fize of a lark, and all over of a pale 

 green colour, variegated with blue ; the origin of its wings 

 is blue, as are alfo the ends of the wing-feathers, fo that 

 when the bird fits ftill, there is, as it were, a blue line feen 

 running down each fide ; on its rump there is alfo a blue 

 fpot ; its tail is but fhort ; its beak is fmall, crooked, and 

 of a pale red ; and its legs and feet grey. See Psittacus 

 Pajferinus. 



TUILERIE, or Tylery, French ; formed from tuile, 

 tile, a tile-tvork ; a large building, with a drj'ing-place, 

 covered at top, but furnifhed wdth apertures on all fides, 

 through which the wind having admittance, dries the tiles, 

 bricks, &c. which the fun would crack, before they be 

 put in the kiln. 



The garden of the Louvre is called the Tuileries, as be- 

 ing a place where tiles were anciently made, &c. But the 

 term Tuileries does not only include the garden, but alfo a 

 magnificent palace, whofe front takes up the whole length 

 of the garden. 



The palace of the Tuileries is joined to the Louvre by a 

 large gallery, which runs along the banks of the river Seine, 

 and has its profpefts on it. 



The Tuileries was begun in 1564, by Catherine de Me- 

 dicis, wife of Henry II., in the time of her regency ; it 

 was finifhed by Henry IV. and magnificently adorned by 

 Louis XIV. The garden of the Tuileries was much im- 

 proved by Louis XIII. 



TUIPARA. See Taipara, and Psittacus Tuipara. 



TUIROBIUS, in Ancient Geography, a river of Albion, 

 on the weftern fide, which hes along the Irilh and Vergi- 

 vian feas : univerfally agreed to be the river Tyvi. 



TUIS, in Geography, a town of Italy, in Friuh ; 10 

 miles W. of Udina. 



TUISCO, or TuiSTON, in Mythology, a name given by 

 the ancient Germans to a celebrated perfon, whom they re- 

 garded, by the defcendants of his fon Man or Mannus, as the 

 founder of their nation, and whom they reprefented to be the 

 fon of the earth, becaufe they were ignorant of his origin. 

 He gave them laws, pohihed them, eftabhftied religious 

 ceremonies among them, and obtained fuch a high degree 

 of reputation, that after his death they ranked him among 

 the gods. One of the principal ceremonies of his worfliip 

 confifled in finging fongs in praife of him. Thefe fongs, 

 according to Tacitus, were very ancient : " Celebrant," 

 fays he fpeaking of the Germans, " carminibus antiquis 

 Tuiftonera Deum, terra editum, et filium Mannum, origi- 



