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tree of large size. The bark is very thick, rough, and of a 
brown colour. The branches spread out wide on every side. 
Leaves alternate, oblong-ovate, four inches long, and two 
inches broad in the middle, rounded at the base, acuminate 
at the end, smooth, of a light-green colour, on very short 
strong foot-stalks. The flowers are produced in small axil¬ 
lary racemes or bunches, each on a slender pedicel.—Native 
of Spanish America, in the province of Tolu, behind Car- 
thagena, whence Dr. Houston sent the seeds to England. 
TOLUTA'TION, s. [toluto , Lat.] The act of pacing or 
ambling.—They move per latera, that is, two legs of one 
side together, which is tolutation or ambling. Brovin. 
TOLTZ, a small town of Germany, in Bavaria, on the 
Iser; 26 miles south of Munich. Population 2100. 
TOM, or Tomm, a considerable river of Asiatic Russia, 
which rises in the Altai mountains, in lat. 53. N. on the 
frontiers of Tartary; and after a course of about 400 miles, 
falls into the Obi, in lat. 58. N., about 25 miles after passing 
the city of Tomsk. It furnishes an extraordinary quantity 
of fish. 
TOM, a river of China, which falls into the Heng; 5 
miles south of Heng-chan. 
TOM’S CREEK, a river of the United States, in New 
Jersey, which runs between Dover and Shrewsbury. 
TOMAHAWK, an island on the east coast of Patagonia; 
24 miles north-east of Seal’s bay. 
TORMAN, or Touman, a kind of imaginary money 
used among the Persians in the keeping of their accounts, 
and to facilitate the reduction of money in the payment of 
considerable sums. 
TOMANI, a small kingdom of Western Africa, situated 
on the northern bank of the river Gambia, to the west of 
Kantore. 
TOMANISI, a town of Niphon, in Japan; 75 miles west 
of Meaco. 
TOMASWALDE, a village of Prussian Silesia, in the 
circle of Bunzlau, with 8000 inhabitants. 
TOMASZOW, a small town in the south of Poland, on 
the San ; 52 miles south south-east of Lublin. 
TOMB, s. [tumba, low Lat.] A monument in which the 
dead are enclosed. 
Methinks, I see thee, now thou art below. 
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Shakspeare. 
To TOMB, v. a. To bury; to entomb. 
Souls of boys were there, 
And youths, that tomb'd before their parents were. Map. 
TOMBA, a river of Peru, which runs into the Pacific 
ocean, in Lat. 17. 15. S. 
TOMBALY, Point, a cape on the western coast of 
Africa. Lat. 10. 48. N. long. 4. 36. W. 
TOMBELAINE, a petty island of France, on the coast 
of Normandy, in a small bay between Avranches and St. 
Maloes. 
TOMBIGBEE, or Tombeckbee, a river of the United 
States, in the Alabama territory, which rises within a few 
miles of the Muscle Shoals, flows southerly near the line be¬ 
tween Mississippi state and the Alabama territory, joins the 
Alabama 45 miles above the head of Mobile bay, and 75 
above the gulf of Mexico, to form the river Mobile. 
TO'MBLESS, adj. Wanting a tomb ; wanting a sepul¬ 
chral monument. 
Lay these bones in an unworthy urn, 
Tomb less, with no remembrance over them. Shakspeare. 
TO'MBOY, s. [Tom a diminutive of Thomas, and bop. 
Dr. Johnson. — Verstegan derives it from tumbe ; [tum- 
bepe, Sax , a dancer ;] hereof we yet call a wench, that 
skippeth or leapeth like a boy, a tombopi] A mean fellow; 
oftener a wild coarse girl. 
A lady 
Fasten’d to an empery, to be partner’d 
With tombops, hir’d with that self-exhibition 
Which your own coffers yield! Shahspeare. 
V ol. XXIV. No. 1625. 
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TO'MBSTONE, s. A stone laid over the dead ; a stone 
placed in memory of the dead. 
The secret wound with which I bleed. 
Shall lie wrapt up ev’n ’in my herse ; 
But on my tombstone thou shalt read 
My answer to thy dubious verse. Prior. 
TOMBSTONE, a post village of the United States, in 
Bertie county. North Carolina. 
TOMBUCTOO, a large city of Africa, which has for 1 " 
many centuries been the grand emporium of the interior 
trade of that great continent. This circumstance, ever since 
the rise of discovery and commercial enterprise, has excited 
in Europe an eager desire to visit and establish an intercourse 
with it. Although, however, it be reached by native cara¬ 
vans from every extremity of the continent, all attempts 
made during 300 years by European merchants and tra¬ 
vellers, have been completely baffled. We have been able 
to obtain only shreds aud fragments of information, and are 
unable to form any distinct idea of this great emporium of 
Africa. The latest account of Tombuctoo is that collected 
by Captain Lyon during his residence in Fezzan. From the 
description given to him by the merchants, it did not appear 
so large a town as had been supposed; and some repre¬ 
sented it as not more extensive than Mourzouk. It is walled, 
the houses very low, and with the exception of one or two 
small streets, built irregularly. Many of the habitations 
are mere huts, composed of mats. The immense popu¬ 
lation which some have ascribed to it is accounted for by 
supposing that they included the Kafilas, who arrived there 
in great numbers, and being often obliged to remain during 
the rainy season, erected temporary huts. Cabra, its port, 
was described as rather a collection of storehouses than a 
town. The Nile, or Goulbi (Joliba), is there very broad; 
and though in the dry season it may be forded by a camel, 
after the rains it becomes deep, rapid, and dangerous. The 
king is hereditary, but has little power. The trade consists 
in gold (brought from Jenne), cotton cloths, leather, and 
arms manufactured in Tombuctoo, and the neighbouring 
villages. There exists, to the south, a nation of Jews, who, 
from their colour, and difference in customs from the Moors, 
have sometimes been supposed to be Christians. Tombuctoo 
has a language peculiar to itself. 
Such are the meagre and imperfect notices with which we 
must be content, until some fortunate adventurer shall reach 
this great centre of African trade. It is impossible even to 
fix its precise position. Our maps usually place it in about 
lat. 17. N. long. 1. 20. E.; about 1100 miles in the in¬ 
terior, from the mouth of the Senegal. 
TOMDORF, a large village of the Prussian states, in 
Upper Lusatia, near Gorlitz. 
TOME, s. [French ; r opos, Gr.] One volume of many; 
a book.—All those venerable books of Scripture, all those 
sacred tomes and volumes of holy writ, are with such abso¬ 
lute peifection framed. Hooker. 
TOME, St., a settlement of Indians in the province of 
Buenos Ayres, on the west bank of the Uruguay. Lat. 28. 
32. S. long. 55. 57. W. 
TOMEFOBOI, a lake of Canada, in the county of Rich- 
lieu, which extends in length about 8 miles. The banks 
are beautiful and picturesque, with landscape and woodland 
scenery as romantic as the most fertile genius of an artist 
could well imagine. It abounds with excellent fish of many 
sorts, and is the resort of innumerable wild-fowl of various 
descriptions, as indeed are all the smaller ones. Many roads 
lead to the adjacent townships, and also communicate with 
the main ones, leading into the states of Vermont and New 
Hampshire. 
TOMEION [formed from Top-q, section ], a general name 
used to express any sharp or cutting instrument, used either 
in surgery or in the mechanic arts. 
TOMENTUM, properly signifies flocks or locks of wool, 
but by botanists is used for that soft downy matter which 
grows on the leaves of some plants. 
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