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TOBACCO KEY, a small island in the bay of Honduras, 
near the coast of Yucatan. Lat. 16. 45. N. long. S8. 35. W. 
TOBACCO POINT, a cape on the coast of Maryland, in 
the river Potomack; 37 miles south-south-west of Annapolis. 
TOBA'CCONING, adj. Smoking tobacco.—Neither was 
it any news on this guild-day to have the cathedral, now 
open” on all sides, to be filled with musketeers, waiting for 
the major’s return, drinking and tobacconing as freely as if 
it had been turned ale-house. Bp. Hall. 
TOBA'CCONIST, s, A preparer and vender of tobacco. 
—Hence it is, that the lungs of the tobacconist are rotted. 
B. Jonson. 
TOBA'CCO-STOPPER, s. An instrument to press to¬ 
bacco down into a pipe. 
It is a planet now I see; 
And, if I err not, by his proper 
Figure, that’s like a tobacco-stoppcr. Hudibras. 
TOBAGO, one of the Carribee islands, in the West In¬ 
dies; about 25 miles in length, from south-east to north¬ 
west, and about 12 in its greatest breadth. This island was 
first discovered by Columbus, in the year 1498; but we 
know of no settlement that he or any of his countrymen 
made upon the island. When an adventurous spirit for dis¬ 
coveries prevailed in England under Queen Elizabeth, Sir 
Robert Dudley, son of the famous earl of Leicester, in an 
expedition against Trinadada, gave the.English governor the 
first hint of peopling Tobago, which was then uninhabited 
by any European nation ; but this proposal met with small 
encouragement. William, earl of Pembroke, in the year 
1628, obtained a grant of this island, with that of Barbuda 
and St. Bernard; but his death happening in less than 
two years after, the design came to nothing. About the 
year 1632, some Zealanders having fitted out a small 
squadron for trading to those islands, made such a favour¬ 
able report of this in particular upon their return home, that 
the company of merchants to which they belonged, under¬ 
took to settle it, and gave it the name of New Walcheren, 
from one of the islands in Zealand. The new colony, in a 
short time, increased to about 200, who, finding themselves 
pestered by the visit; of the Caribean Indians, began to 
erect a fort for their preservation. The Indians hid recouise 
to the Spaniards, who readily granted them assistance. 
They sent a force upon the island, which demolished the 
rising fort, and exterminated the new colony. It was pro¬ 
bably from some Dutch merchants who travelled to Cour- 
land, that James, duke of that country, conceived the de¬ 
sign of settling Tobago : being a prince of an active dispo¬ 
sition, and finding there was room for such a settlement, he 
sent over a colony of his own subjects, who settled upon 
what has since been called Great Courland bay, and erected 
a small regular fort, with a town, in the neighbourhood; 
and the duke’s title was farther confirmed by a grant from 
Charles II. king of England, but disputed by the Dutch. 
Upon the extinction of the Kettler family, dukes of Cour¬ 
land, in the person of Ferdinand, son of duke James, the 
fief of the island of Tobago reverted to the crown of 
England, in 1737, and by the definitive treaty concluded 
at Paris, in 1763, Tobago was ceded in full right to Great 
Britain. 
Tobago possesses almost every kind of plant that grows 
in the Antilles, and besides, like Trinidad, the greater part of 
those which are peculiar to Spanish Guiana and Cape de 
Paria. The most valuable are Indian corn, Guinea corn, 
peas, beans, French beans, figs, pine-apples, pomegranates, 
oranges, lemons, limes, plantains, bananas, grapes, guavas, 
tamarinds, prickly pears, papas, and a variety of other fruits 
which are not to be found in Europe. Lat. 11. 16. N. long. 
60. 30. W. 
TOBAGO, Littj.e, a small island, near the east coast of 
Tobago; about 2 miles long and 1 broad. 
TOBAK, a small town of the south-west of European 
Russia, in Bessarabia ; 34 miles north-north-west of Ismail. 
TOBATI, a settlement of Indians in the province and 
government of Paraguay; 30 miles east from Assumption. 
Lat. 25. 16. S. long. 57. 8. W. 
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TOBATI GUAZU, a small river of the province and go¬ 
vernment of Paraguay, which runs north-north-west, and 
enters the Iboig. 
TOBATI MINI, a river of the province and government 
of Paraguay, which runs north, and enters the river Grande. 
TOBBERCURRY, a small village of Ireland, in the 
county of Sligo; 103J miles north-west of Dublin. 
TOBED NIGAURLEDEGH, a river of New Brunswick, 
which runs into the St. John. Lat. 46. 50. N. long. 67. 
36. W. 
TOBEL, a large village in the south-west of Germany, in 
Wirtemberg, in the mountainous track called the Black Fo¬ 
rest. Population 900. 
TOBEL, a small town of the Swiss canton of Thurgau ; 
6 miles south of Frauerfeld. 
TOBERDONNY, a village of Ireland, in the county oi 
Galway ; 104 miles west-north-west of Dublin. 
TOBERMOREY, a village of Scotland, in the parish ot 
Kilninian, in the island of Mull, in Argyllshire, lately built 
by the British Society for the Encouragement of Fisheries. 
It contains about 600 inhabitants. 
TOBITSCHAU, or Towaczow, a small town of the 
Austrian states, in Moravia; 12 miles south of Olmutz. 
Population 1100. 
TOBLACH, or Doubiaco, a small town of the Austrian 
states, in Tyrol, near the source of the Drave, and 16 miles 
east-south-east of Brunecker. 
TOBO, a village of Middle Sweden, in the province of 
Upsal, with large iron works. 
TOBOL, a considerable river of Asiatic Russia, which 
rises near the southern extremity of the Oural mountains. 
The first considerable stream which it receives is the Oui or 
Ouk, on its left bank, after the junction with which it be¬ 
comes navigable. 
TOBOLSK, the name of one of the two great govern¬ 
ments into which Asiatic Russia is divided, forming the 
western part of that immense territory. See Russia. 
TOBOLSK, a large city, capital of the government of the 
same name, and of Asiatic Russia in general. It is situated 
on the river Irtysch, close to its junction with the Tobol. 
TOBOSO, a town, or rather very large village, in the in¬ 
terior of Spain, in the province of La Mancha. It has 4000 
inhabitants; but its chief and almost only title to notice 
arises from the prominent place given to it in the adventures 
of Don Quixote; 68 miles south-south-east of Madrid. 
TOBRONO, a settlement of the island of Cuba. 
TQBULBA, a small sea-port on the eastern coast of Tunis, 
in Africa. 
TOBY, a township of the United States, in Armstrong 
county, Pennsylvania. Population 611. 
TOBY’S CREEK, a river of the United States, in Penn¬ 
sylvania, which runs info the Allegany, 20 miles below 
Franklin. It is about 55 miles long, and is navigable for 
batteaux through a great part of its course. 
TOCACH1, a river of Quito, which runs south, and 
enters the Pisque, in lat. 0. 3. N. 
TOCAIGH, a bay on the west coast of the island of 
Owhyee. Lat. 20. 3. N. long. 204. 4. E. 
TOCAIMA, a city of New Granada, in the government 
of Mariquita, near the Rio Bogota. The city is small, but 
has a good parish church; 56 miles south-west of Santa Fe, 
in the high road leading down to Honda, Mariquita, Neiva, 
and Popayan. Lat. 4. 16. N. long. 74. 59. W. 
TOCALON, a settlement of New Granada, in the pro¬ 
vince of Carthagena, situate on the shore of the Magdalena. 
TOCAMA, a settlement of Peru, in the province ol 
Tucuman. 
TOCANA, a river of New Granada, in the province ot 
Tunja, which rises east of this city, and enters the Meta. 
TOCANTINES, a large river which has its head waters 
in tlie interior of Brazil, in the capitania of Goiaz, in lat. 
about 19. S., and near the sources of the river Parana, which 
carries its waters into the Plata. 
TOC AT, or Tokat a large and commercial city, situated 
in the interior of Asia Minor, in the pachalic of Sivas. It 
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