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wifiieJ lo prcftrve a memorial of the poet. For a particular 

 defcription of this celebrated villa, with a beautiful eugravinff, 

 we refer to " The Fine Arts of the Enghlh School," by 

 J. Brittoii, F.A.S. See alfo a very intorelling work by 

 Meffrs. W. andG.Cookes, entitled " The Thames," 2 vols. 

 4to. and 8vo. 



Strawberry Hill, the well-known refidence of the late 

 Horace, earl of Orford, better known as Mr. Horace Wal- 

 pok, W.1S originally a fmall tenement, built in 1698, by the 

 earl of Bradford's coachman, and let as a lodging-houfe. 

 Colley Cibber was one of its firft tenants. Dr. Talbot, 

 bifhop of Durham, lived in it eight years ; and after him 

 Henry, marquis of Carnarvon. In 1 747, Mr. Walpole bought 

 the leafe, and in the following year purchafed the fee-fimple 

 of the eftate. Having formed a defign of enlarging his 

 villa, and fitting it up in the old Englifh ilyle, he commenced 

 his improvements in 1753, ^""^ completed them in 1776. 

 The interior is arranged in llriiil accordance with the outfide 

 of the ftrufture ; the ceilings, fcreens, niches, and other de- 

 corations, even the more ordinary articles of furniture, are 

 confonant in ftyle with the leading features of the fabric. 

 The extenfive coUeftion of curiofities and works of art, with 

 which every apartment is ftored, was progreffively made by 

 Mr. Walpole during the affluent leifure of a long life, which 

 was chiefly devoted to the light parts of literature and the 

 fine arts. The moil confiderable part confifts of miniatures, 

 enamels, and portraits of remarkable perfons. The noble 

 owner drew up a complete catalogue of his coUedlion, to- 

 getiier with what he calls a defcription of the villa : this work 

 occupied 113 quarto pages; of which more than twenty 

 are filled with the contents of one fmall room, called the 

 Tribune, or Cabinet. A private printing-prefs was fitted up 

 by Mr. Walpole in 1757. Moil of his own works, and 

 feveral other books, were here printed under his infpec- 

 tion. Strawberry Hill was bequeathed by lord Orford to 

 the honourable Mrs. Darner for life, together with 2000/. 

 for keeping the building in repair. She refided here for 

 feveral years, but has lately declined pofTeffion in favour of 

 the countefs dowager of Waldegrave, in whom, and her heirs, 

 tlie remainder was veiled under his lordfliip's wiU. 



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At Whitton, a hamlet in Twickenham parifh, is a villa 

 which was built about the year 171 1 by fir Godfrey Kneller, 

 and was lus principal refidence during the latter part of his 

 Mr Calver? ^""""^^ ''"'^^ manfion, now the property of 



On the edge of Hounflow-Heath, within this parilh, are 

 two villas of confiderable elegance, formerly iu the poffeflioti 

 ot Archibald duke of Argyle, now occupied, one by fir 

 Benjamin Hobhoufe, bart. the other by George Gofiin?, 

 efq Lyfons's Environs of London, 5 vols. 410. 1702-! 



u T \, ^^''"'"'' °^ England and Wales, vol. x. Middlefex. 

 by J. N. Brewer, 18 16. 



TWIFALLOW, in Agriculture, a term ufed to fignify 

 a iecond ftirrmg or fallowing of land. 

 . TWIFALLO WING, the operation or work of repeat- 

 mg the tillage of land in fallowing, which is moftlybeft per- 

 formed about the middle of the fummer. It is fometimes - 

 written twyfallowing. 



ir'^^i*^'^^' '" ^'°S''''Ph'f a county of Georgia, in the 

 United States, containing 3405 inhabitants. 



TWIGHTWEES, Indians in the ftate of Ohio, near 

 the river Miami. 



TWI-HINDI, or TwYHiNDi, among our Saxon ancef- 

 tors, were men valued at zooj. See Hindeni. 



Thefe men were of the lowefl degree ; and if fuch were 

 killed, the muld was 30^. Thus in Leg. Hen. I. cap. 9. 

 " de twihindi homines interfefti, vera debet reddi fecundum 

 legem." Where note, that this was not an introdudlion of 

 a new law, but a confirmation of the old, made in the reign 

 of king Alfred. 



TWILIGHT, in AJlronomy, denotes the dubious or faint 

 light which is reflefted to us by means of the atmofphere, 

 for fome time before the fun rifes, and after he fets. See 

 Crepusculum and Atmosphere. 



The following table (hews the duration of twilight in 

 different latitudes : it is calculated on a fuppofition that thi; 

 twilight begins and ends when the fun is 18" below the ho- 

 rizon : the letters c. d. fignify that it is then continual day ; 

 c. ti. continual night ; iv. n. that the twilight lalls the whole 

 night. 



TWIN, in Geography, a townlhip of Prebble county, iu 

 the diftrift of Ohio, containing 719 inhabitants. — Alfo, a 

 townfiiip of Rofs county, in the fame diftridl, containing 

 1053 inhabitants. 



Twin, North, an ifland in James's Bay, Hudfon's Bay. 

 N. lat. 53° 20'. W. long. 80° 40'. 



Twin, South, an ifland in James's Bay, Hudfon's Bay. 

 N. lat. 53° 10'. W. long. 80° 36'. 



Twin Oat, in Jgriculture, a name fometimes applied to 

 an early kind of white oat, which is very produAive on deep 

 good land, and which affords full crops on moll forts that 



t 



Long's Allron. vol. i. p. 258. 



are not too poor in quality. It commonly yields fomewhat 

 more than the pollard fort. See Oat. 



TWINE. Bolt-rope tnuine, ufed in fewing fails to their 

 bolt-rope, is made of the long hemp, or from the long 

 rough hemp unbeat. It contains two or three threads, is 

 twifted flack, and wound into half-pound lliains containing 

 two hundred yards. Eight threads are fpun out of half 

 a pound of hemp, each fifty yards long. 



Seal-tiv'me, for feal-nets, is made of twelve threads, two 

 threads firll twifled together, then fix of them hardened 

 together, and wound up into half-fltains, or eighty yards. 



3 Q 2 Seaming 



