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baked to a moderate hardnefs. This account of its original 

 is fupported by the authority of Teixeira and Douglas, and 

 by its chemical properties. That the common opinion of 

 its being a fubhmate produced in the European founderies, 

 where zinc is melted with other metals, is erroneous, appears 

 from hence, that tutty is not found, upon ftriA enquiry, to 

 be known at thofe founderies ; and by its confifting, in a 

 great part, of an earth not capable of rifing in fnbhmation. 

 This, however, is probable, that fublimates, or the common 

 ores of zinc, are often mixed with argillaceous earths, and 

 baked hard, in imitation of the genuine oriental tutty. 



Bontius, in his animadverfions upon Garcias ab Orta, 

 informs us, that it is made of a glutinous or argillaceous 

 earth, like clav, found in great quantities in a province of 

 Perfia, called Kirman, which the Indians, who gather it, 

 put into earthen pots made on purpofe, and, adding water to 

 it, ftir it with a ftick : thefe pots are then placed in furnaces 

 till the water is evaporated ; afterwards removing the dregs 

 which remain at the bottom, they pick off from the fides of 

 the pots the calcined earth or tutty, which they carefully 

 prcferve for fale. He adds, that it is ufed in India as a 

 cofmetic for deftroying hair, more efpecially by the women, 

 when they bathe. 



Tutty is generally of a browniih colour, and full of fmall 

 protuberances on the outfide, fmooth and yellowifh within, 

 fometimes whitilh, and fometimes with a blueilh caft. Like 

 other argillaceous bodies, it becomes^harder in a ftrong fire ; 

 and after the zinc has been revived and diffipated by in- 

 flammable additions, or extrafted by acids, the remaining 

 earthy matter affords with oil of vitriol, an aluminous 

 fah. 



Tutty, levigated into an impalpable powder, is, like 

 the lapis calaminaris and calces of zinc, an ufeful ophthahnic, 

 and frequently ufed as fuch in ointments and collyria. 



Ointments for this intention are prepared in the (hops, by 

 mixing the levigated tutty with fo much viper's fat as is fuf- 

 ficient to reduce it to due confiftence, or, by adding one 

 part to five parts of a Ample hnimeut made of oil and wax. 

 See Zinc. 



TUTUACA, in Geography, a town of Mexico, in the 

 province of Hiaqui ; I oo miles E. of Riochico. 



TUTULUS, among the Romans, a manner of dreffing 

 the hair, by gathering it up on the forehead into the form of 

 a tower. 



TuTULUS likewife fignifies a woollen cap with a high 

 top. 



TUTURA, in Geography, a town of Ruffia, in the go- 

 vernment of Irkutl]{,on the Lena ; 160 miles N. of Irkutfk. 

 N. lat. 54° 40'. E. long. 105° 44'. 



TUTZIS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Egypt, 

 between Talmae and Pfelcis. Anton. Itin. 



TUUE, in Geography, a lake of Norway, about 20 miles 

 in circumference ; 52 miles from Chriflianfand. 



TUXAL, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of Sir- 

 hind ; 60 miles N.N.E. of Sirhind. 



TUXFORD, a fmall market-town in South Clay divi- 

 fion of the wapentake of Baffetlaw, in the county of Not- 

 tingham, England ; is iituated 24 miles N.E. by N. from 

 the county-town, and 138 miles N. by W. from London. 

 It was deltroyed by fire September 8, 1 702 ; confequently 

 its appearance is more modern than that of many other towns 

 in the county. Great part of it confifts of farm-houfes ; 

 agriculture being the chief employment of the inhabitants. 

 Scarcely any trade is carried on here, except in hops, of 

 which a confiderable quantity is raifed in this and the adjacent 

 parifhes. A fair for this article is annually held in Septem- 

 ber ; and another in May for cattle, (Keep, pigs, and poultry. 



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A weekly market on Mondays is well fupplied in propor- 

 tion to the population of the parilh ; which, in the return to j 

 parliament in the year 181 1, is ftated to be 841, occupyiiig 

 197 houfes. The church is an ancient ftrufture, and con- 

 fills of a nave, fide-aifles, and chancel ; with a fpire. It 

 contains the mutilated remains of monuments and other 

 fculpture of a remote period. A rude reprefentation of St. 

 Laurence on a gridiron is ftill entire : one man is employed 

 in blowing the fire, another is turning the faint with tong?, 

 and a third appears to be a fpedlator, or direftor. A free 

 grammar-fchool, ftill in high repute, was founded, and hbe- 

 rally endowed, by the will of Mr. Charles Read, dated the 

 30th of July, 1699. A manufcript copy of the regula- 

 tions, as contained in the will, is preferved in the Britilh 

 Mufeum. — Hiftory of Nottinghamlhire, by J. Throlby, 

 3 vols. 4to. 1797. Beauties of England and Walt, 

 vol. xii. Nottingham(hire. 



TUXIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Italy, and 

 capital of Samnium. When Fabius Fabricianus pillaged 

 this city, he removed the ftatue of the viftorious Venus, 

 worlliipped here, to Rome. Plutarch. 



TUY, in Geography, a town of Spain, in Galicia, 

 fituated on a mountain, near the north fide of the Minho, 

 oppofite Valenca, in Portugal ; the fre of a bilhop, fuffra- 

 gan of Compollella. In a war between Spain and Portugal, 

 tiiis is one of the places of rendezvous for the Spanifh troops ; 

 50 miles S. of Compoftella. N. lat. 42° 3'. W. long. 



8° 37'- 



Tuv, a navigable river of Caraccas, which difchargc. 

 itfelf into the ocean, 30 leagues E. of the port of Guayra. 

 It rifes in the mountains of San Pedro, 10 leagues from Ca- 

 raccas, and being joined by the Guayra, becomes navigable, 

 and ferves for the tranfportation of produce, abounding in 

 the vaUies of Aragoa, Tacata, Cua, Sabana, Ocumara, St. 

 Lucia, and St. Therefa, through which it paffes, and parti- 

 cularly cacao, which is here of thebeft quality. 



TUYU, a country of South America, in Patagonia, to 

 the fouth of the viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres. 



TUZ-KURMA, a town of Curdiftan ; 50 miles S.S.W. 

 of Sherezur. 



TUZLA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Caramania, 

 fituated at the weftern extremity of a lake, to which it gives 

 name. The lake is 36 miles in length, and about 4 in 



breadth; 28 miles N. of Cogni Alio, a town of Afiatic 



Turkey, in Natolia ; 24 miles E. of Conftantinople. 



TWAGER, a town of Sweden, in the province of Hal- 

 land ; 28 miles N.N.W. of Halmftad. 



TWAITE, in Ichthyology. See Shad. 



TwAiTE, in our Old Writers, a wood grubbed up and 

 converted into arable land. 



TWA-NIGHTS Geste, in our Ancient Cujioms. See 

 TlllRXi-night a<wn Hynde. 



If the tiva-nighi's gejle did any harm to any, his hoft was 

 not anfwerable for it, but himfelf. 



TWARDONICE, in Geography. See TuRNiTz. 



TWARSIMIRKA, atown of Silefia,in the principality 

 of Oels ; 6 miles N.E. of Mihtfch. 



TWASHTA, or TwASHTl, in the Mythology of the 

 Hindoos, a name of the fun, or of its regent Surya. The 

 name occurs as of the fun in the article Saraswati. Other 

 legends make Twalhta the parent of Suranuh, one of Su- 

 rya's wives. In fome points he correfponds with Vulcan, or 

 Dsedalus ; being profoundly Ikilled in the mechanical arts, 

 and hence deified in gratitude for his uleful inventions. He 

 feems to be the fame perfonage with Vifwakarma : being, 

 like him, called the " chief engineer of the gods." Mr. 

 Wilford's learned Effay on the facred ifles of the Weft, in 



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