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in the evening, on account of the \wild beafts. In this vale 

 no fingle habitation is vifible for near 15 or 20 miles. Jack- 

 fon's Journey from India, p. I 20. 



TUSCULAN, in Matters of Literature, is a term which 

 frequently occurs in the phrafe Tujculan Quejlwns. Cicero s 

 " Tufculan Queftions" are difputations on ieveral topics in 

 moral philofophy, which that great author took occafion to 

 denominate, from Tufcukm, the name of a country feat, or 

 villa, where they were compofed, and where he lays the 

 fcene of the difpute. 



They are comprifed in five books ; the firft. on tlie con- 

 tempt of death; the fecond of enduring pain.; the third on 

 affuaging grief ; the fourth on the other perturbations of the 

 mind ; and the laft, to Ihew, that virtue is fufficient to a 

 happv life. 



TUSCULUM, m Ancient Geography, a town of Latiuni, 

 at a fmall diftance from Rome, towards the S.E. Its ori- 

 gin was referred to the time of UlyfTes, whofe fon Telegonus, 

 hy Circe, is faid to have been its founder. Its inhabitants 

 were diflinguifhed for their courage, and placed themfelves 

 at the head of the allies in the war of the Latin people. It 

 was afterwards fubdued by Rome and became municipal. 

 Its fituation on a mountain and between the hills induced the 

 rich inhabitants of Rome to feleft it as the fcite of their 

 country-houfes. It had a citadel of no lefs importance with 

 regard to this city than the Capitol with regard to Rome. It 

 had alfo an amphitheatre and aquedufts. It was afterwards 

 denominated Frefcati or Frafcati, which fee. 



TUSCUM, or Thusum Mare, the name of a part of 

 tlie Mediterranean fea, which wafhed the coafts of Etruria, 

 as far as the coafts of Sicily. 



TUSGEL, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in 

 Caramania ; 42 miles N.W of Cogni. 



TUSHES, in the Manege, are the fore-teeth of a horfe, 

 feated beyond the corner teeth, upon the bars, where they 

 (hoot forth on each fide of the jaws, two above, and two 

 below, about the age of three, three and a lialf, and fome- 

 times four ; and no milk or foal-teeth ever come up in the 

 place where they grow. See Teeth. 



TUSHETI, in Geography, a town of Afia, in Daghef- 

 tan ; 80 miles S. of Teflis. 



TUSIAGATH, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa, 

 in tke interior of Mauritania Cjefarienfis, according to Pto- 

 lemy. 



TUSIS, in Geography, a town of the Helvetian republic, 

 in the Grifons, on the Rhine. In 1799, it was taken by 

 the French ; 15 miles S. of Coire. N. lat. 46° 32'. E. 

 long. 9° 30'. 



TUSK, in Carpentry, a bevel-lhoulder, made to ftrengthen 

 the iron of the joift, which is let into the girder. 



Tusk, in Zoology, is ufed to denote tiie long tooth of a 

 fighting animal ; and in the fame fenfe with tulhes, as ap- 

 plied to other animals befides horfes. 



TUSKAR, in Geography, a fmall idand, or rather rock, 

 off the coaft of the county of Wexford, Ireland, forming 

 a confpicuous objeft for mariners. N. lat. C2° 13'. W. 

 long. 6° 10'. 



TUSKAU, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Pilfen ; 

 6 miles N.W. of Teinitz. 



TUSKAWARA, a townfhip of Mulkingum county, 

 in the diftrift of Ohio, containing 1151 inhabitants. 



TUSO, in Ancient Geography, a river of India, on this 

 fide of the Ganges, into which it runs. 



TUSPA, in Geography, a town of Mexico, in the pro- 

 'nnce of Mechoacau ; 25 miles N.N.E. of Colima— Alfo, 



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a town of Mexico, in the province of Tlafcala, at the 

 mouth of a river fo called ; 140 miles N.N.E. of Puebla de 

 los Angelos. — Alfo, a river of Mexico, which runs into 

 the gulf of Mexico, N. lat. 21° 28'. W. long. 98°. 



TUSSER, John, in Biography. In Henry Vlllth's 

 time, when mufic was more cultivated in England than it 

 had ever been before, an arbitrary and oppreflive power was 

 given to the deans of cathedrals and collegiate churches, to 

 imprefs children poffeffed of good voices, in order to fupply 

 their feveral choirs with chorifters. And John TulTer, the 

 fubjeft of this ai'ticle, and the unfortunate author of the 

 " Five Hundred Pointes of Good Huft)andrie," one of the 

 moft pleafant and inftrudlive poems of the time, tells us, 

 that he was impreffed from Wallingford college, in Berk- 

 (hire, into the King's chapel. Soon after, by the interell 

 of friends, he was removed to St. Paul's, where he received 

 inftruftions in mufic from John Redford, an excellent con- 

 trapuntift, and organift of that cathedral. There feems, 

 however, to have been care taken of the general education 

 of boys fo impreffed, as we find that Tuffer was fent from 

 St. Paul's to Eton fchool, and thence to Cambridge. He 

 afterwards tried his fortune in London about the court, 

 under the aufpices of his patron lord Paget, where he re- 

 mained ten years ; then he retired into the country, and 

 embraced the occupation of a farmer, in the feveral counties 

 of Suffex, Suffolk, and Effex ; but not profpering, he 

 procured a finging-man's place in the cathedral of Nor- 

 wich ; where he does not feem to have remained long before 

 he returned to London. But being driven thence by the 

 plague, he retired to Trinity college, Cambridge ; return- 

 ing afterwards, however, to the capital, he there ended his 

 reillefs life in 1580 ; not, as has been faid, -very aged, if he 

 was born about 1523. 



TUSSEY, in Geography, the name of mountains of Penn- 

 fylvania ; to miles N. of Huntingdon. 



TUSSILAGO, in Botany, an ancient name, compofed 

 of tujis, a cough, and ago, to adf upon, or cure ; in allu- 

 fion to the reputed virtues of this herb, as a remedy for 

 coughs and other peroral difeafes. — Linn. Gen. 423. 

 Schreb. 554. WiUd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 1962. Mart. Mill. 

 Dia. V. 4. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 5. 34. Sm. Fl. Brit. 878. 

 Prodr. Fl. Grace. Sibth. v. 2. 175. Purlh 531. Juff. 181. 

 Tourn. t. 276. Lamarck lUuftr. t. 674. Gasrtn. t. 170. 

 (Petafites; Tourn. t. 258. Gaertn. t. 166.) — Clafs and 

 order, Syngenejia Polygamia-fuperfiua. Nat. Ord. Compojitie 

 difcoidet, Linn. CorymbifertE, Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Common Calyx cylindrical, tumid at the bot- 

 tom, of from fifteen to twenty linear -lanceolate, equal, 

 fomewhat membranous fcales, the length of the di(k. Cor. 

 compound, various. Florets in fome all perfeft, tubular, 

 funnel-fhaped, with an acute, four or five-cleft, reflexed 

 limb, longer than the calyx ; in others fuch florets are found 

 in the di(k only. Female florets when prefent either ligu- 

 late, very narrow, undivided, longer than the calyx ; or 

 tubular, and rather longer than the perfeft florets. Stam. 

 in the perfeft florets. Filaments five, capillai-y, very (hort ; 

 anthers more or lefs united into a cyhndrical tube. P'ifi. 

 Germen in the perfeft florets, (hort ; fl:yle thread-fhaped, 

 longer than the ftamens ; ftigma thickiih, emarginate : in 

 the female ones, Germen (hort ; ftyle thread-fliaped, the 

 length of the former ; fligma deeply divided, acute. Pertc. 

 none, except the fcarcely altered calyx. Seeds folitary, ob- 

 long, compreffed, generally abortive in the florets of the 

 difk, or centre thereof. Down capillai'y, fometimes ftalked. 

 Recept. naked, dotted. 



Eff. Ch. Receptacle naked. Seed-down fimple. Calyx 



fimple, 

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