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Indian fea, near the W. coaft of the ifland of Celebes. S. 

 lat. 4" 40'. E. long. 119° 22' — Alfo, two fmall iflands in 

 Cook's Straits, near the N.E. coaft of the fouthern ifland 

 of New Zealand. S. lat. 40° 5'. E. long. 184'' 35' — 

 Alfo, two fmall iflands in the Eaft Indian fea, near the 

 S. coaft of Borneo. S. lat. 4° 10'. E. long. 114° 4'.— 

 Alfo, two fmall iflands in the Eaft Indian fea, between 

 the ifland of Borneo and the continent of Afia. S. lat. 

 9° 10'. E. long. 109° 34'. 



Two-Head IJland, a fmall ifland near the S. coaft 

 of Ireland, and county of Kerry ; i mile W. of Lamb's- 

 Head. 



Two-Headed Point, a cape on the S.W. coaft of the 

 ifland of Kodiak, in the North Pacific ocean, compofing 

 a fmall ifland, which terminates to the N.E. by a low flat 

 rocky point. South-weftward from Two-headed iiland 

 the coaft is low, and appears to be compaft ; but imme- 

 diately to the northward of it, the ftiores defcend abruptly 

 into the fea, appear to be much broken, and form an ex- 

 tenfive found, of which the flat rocky point may be con- 

 fidered as its S.W. point of entrance ; from this, its N.E. 

 point being low projefting land, lies N. 58° E. at the 

 diftance of nine miles. The feveral branches that appeared 

 to flow into the Sound, feemed to wind toward the bafe of 

 a connefted range of high fnowy mountains, which no 

 doubt gave boundaries to their extent. N. lat. 56^ 54'. 

 E. long. 207° 5'. 



Two Hilh, a fmall ifland among the New Hebrides, 

 in the South Pacific ocean. S. lat. 17° 15'. E. long. 

 160° 38'. 



Two-Hill IJland, a fmall ifland in the Mergui Archi- 

 pelago. N. lat. n°27'. 



Two Keys, two fraall iflands in the bay of Honduras. 

 N. lat. 17° 30'. W. long. 87° 52'. 



Two-Saddle IJland, an ifland in the Mergui Archi- 

 pelago, about four miles long, and two broad. N. lat. 

 10° 42'. 



Two Sifters, two fmall iflands in the Eaft Indian 

 fea, covered with wood, and furrounded by a reef of coral- 

 rocks. S. lat. 5°. E. long. 106° 12' Alfo, two fmall 



iflands in the Spanifli main, near the Mofquito fhore. N. 

 lat. 11° 17'. W. long. 82° 5j'. 



Two Spots, fmall iflands in the bay of Honduras, fur- 

 rounded with rocks. N. lat. 16° 40'. W. long. 88° 20'. 



TWOBILL, in Agriculture, the name of a tool com- 

 monly employed in cutting up roots in the work of paring 

 and burning in the old mode. It is feen in Jig. 7. in the 

 plate on paring ploughs. It has fometimes the title of 

 double-bitted mattock. 



TWO-FURROW Plough, a term fometimes applied 

 to that of the double kind. It is often ufeful for crofs- 

 cutting land in different cafes, and in giving the laft earth 

 for turnip-crops. 



TWO-FURROWING, a term ufed to fignify double 

 furrows, or the breaking up land by the double plough : it 

 alfo implies trench-ploughing and fod-burying. 



TWO-MEAL Cheese, in Rural Economy, 3l term ap- 

 plied to that fort which is made from the fliimmed milk of 

 the evening, added to the new milk of the meal of the morn- 

 ing ; that made from the neat milk being termed one-meal. 

 In fome diftrifts, as that of Gloucefter, two-meal cheefe is 

 made of one meal or portion of coward or clean milk, and 

 the fame of fuch as is flcimmed ; but often two of the latter 

 are ufed to one of the former. Hence this fort is fometimes 

 called coward-cheefe. 



TWO-MOULD-BOARDED Cleaning and Earthing 



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Hoe Jor Potatoes, in Agriculture, a tool of fomewhat the 

 plough kind, contrived for the purpofe of cleaning and 

 earthmg up thefe crops with. It has a wheel before to 

 direA the depth of its working, with handles behind to 

 regulate it. There is a fliarp hoe attached to a fort of 

 coulter-bar in front, with a mould-board on each fide, 

 capable of being fet to different diftances, by a kind of 

 fcrew in the middle, by which means the ground is pared 

 and laid to the crops. It is confidered a tool that pro- 

 duces much faving and advantage in the culture of potatoes, 

 and which performs its work very effeftually. 



TWOPENCE, Herb, in Botany, a fpecies of Lyjima- 

 chia ; which fee. 



TWO-THIRDS Subsidy. See Duty and Subsidy. 

 TWUNT, in Geography, a town of Algiers, on the coaft 

 of the Mediterranean, defended by a fort ; 30 miles N.W. 

 of Tremecen. N. lat. 35° 18'. W. long. 1° 2'. 

 TWYBLADE, in Botany. See OpHRYS. 

 TYACUL, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Myfore ; 10 miles S. of Colar. 



TYAHTATOOA Bay, a bay on tlie coaft of 

 Owhyhee, one of tlie Sandwich iflands. N. lat. 19° 37'. 

 E. long. 203° 54'. 



TYANA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Cappadocia, 

 in the Tyanitide prefefture ; the only one in this prefec- 

 ture, according to Strabo ; but according to Ptolemy, there 

 were three others. It was known as the native country of 

 Apollonius Tyanaeus, the celebrated impoftor. 



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

 Natolia ; 2J miles S.W. of Sis. 



TYBEE, an ifland near the coaft of Georgia, at the 

 mouth of the Savanna : on it is a light-houfe. N. lat. 32°. 

 W. long. 81°. 



TYBEIN. See Duixo. 



TYBER. SceTiBERis andTYBERiNOs. The Tyber 

 appears on the reverfe of a medal of Vefpafian, not only as 

 a divinity, but alfo as the patron and proteftor of Rome. 

 When Aneas refided in Italy, he performed religious cere- 

 monies to this river, gave himielf up to his proteftion, and 

 prayed that he might be propitious to him. 



TYBERINUS, a king of Alba, and from this prince 

 having drowned himfelf in the Albula, that river gained the 

 name of Tyber, which it has ever fince retained. 



TYBOINE, in Geography, a townfliip of Pennfylvania ; 

 100 miles W. of Philadelphia. 

 TYCHE, in Ancient Geography. See Syracuse. 

 TYCHONIC Syjlem, or Hypothejis, is an order or ar- 

 rangement of the heavenly bodies, of an intermediate nature 

 between the Copernican and Ptolemaic, or participating 

 alike of them both. See System. 



TYDAL, in Geography. See RuDEN. 

 TYDII, in Ancient Geography, a people of Afiatic Sar- 

 matia, who inhabited mount Caucafus, according to 

 Pliny. 



TYE, Dr. in Biography, the beft Englifli compofer 

 of church mufic, anterior to Tallis, that our country can 

 boaft ; for though his njme does not appear in the lift of 

 muficians of the chapel royal, or houfehold eftablifhment m 

 the Ihort reign of Edward VI., he was, doubtlefs, at the 

 head of all ecclefiaftical compofers of that period. Neither 

 the ftate of the church, nor religious principles of its 

 nominal members, were fo fettled as to render it poflible to 

 determine, in thefe times, who among quiet and obedient 

 fubjefts wore Proteftants, and who Catholics ; for, dunng 

 the conflift between the zealots of both rehgions, the 

 changes were fo violent and rapid, that great flexibihty of 



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