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reddish and white, spotted with obscure or bay: the freckled 
sand-piper of Pennant and Latham. 
41. Tringa grisea. With black bill and legs; body above 
grey, beneath white ; primary tail-feathers brown; tail grey 
and white at the margin ; a band obscurely grey parallel to 
the margin: the grisled sand-piper of Latham. 
42. Tringa keptuschca.—With cinereous body; black 
vertex; abdomen blackish, terminating reddish. 
TRINGLE, in Architecture, a name common to several 
little square members, or ornaments; as reglets, listels, and 
platbands. 
TRINIDAD, an island of the Atlantic ocean, opposite the 
coast of Cumana, from which it is separated by the gulf of 
Paria, which varies in its breadth, being on an average about 
75 miles. At its southern and northern extremities, however, 
Trinidad approaches to within 10 or 11 miles of the 
American land. The island is of an irregular square form, 
having two points stretching to the west from its north and 
south corners. Its longest lines are from Cape Galera on 
the north-east, to Point Ycaque or Icacque on the south-west, 
79 miles, and from Cape Galeota on the south-east to Cape 
Blanca on the north, 56 miles. 
Trinidad is the largest, most fertile, and most beautiful of 
all the Leeward islands. It is full of forests, abounding in 
the finest woods, of large dimensions, fit for ship-building, 
while others again are equally well adapted to ornamental 
purposes. The climate is less moist than that of Guiana, and 
not so dry as that of Cumana. The winter or rainy season 
begins there in June, and ends in October, as in all the 
islands of the Carribean sea. 
Trinidad was discovered by Columbus on the 3lst July 
1498. The labours of the Indians soon fertilised the land of 
which they had been masters, for the benefit of their con¬ 
querors. Some negroes were afterwards taken there, and 
united in the work of the natives. Sir Walter Raleigh, who 
visited Trinidad when attracted by the chimera of El Dorado 
in 1593, relates that the inhabitants then cultivated excellent 
tobacco and the sugar cane. The Spaniards assured him that 
the rivers were full of gold dust. The full importance of this 
colony, however, was not discovered till the year 1783, when 
every measure was adopted for its rapid settlement. An 
edict was issued, permitting all foreigners professing the Ro¬ 
man Catholic religion to establish themselves in this colony. 
It protected, at the same time, for a period of five years, those 
new inhabitants from debts contracted in the countries they 
had quitted. It invited, in short, all the traders and navigators 
of the nations which were at peace with Spain, to frequent 
the island, placing but a few restrictions on its commerce, 
and these such as could be easily eluded. In consequence of 
this liberal policy, crowds of new colonists crowded from 
Europe, and from the British and French possessions, bring¬ 
ing with them their industry and capitals. The inhabitants 
increased so rapidly, that, though in 1783 the whole amount¬ 
ed only to 2763, they were estimated six years afterwards at 
18,918. In 1797, the island capitulated to a British force 
under the command of Sir Ralph Abercrombie, without any 
resistance. From this period till the peace of Amiens in 
1802, the population increased from 18,918 to 24,239 inha¬ 
bitants: the produce of sugar had also greatly increased, be¬ 
ing almost doubled. In 1783 the tonnage of the vessels em¬ 
ployed in the commerce of Trinidad was only 150 tons; in 
1802, 60 vessels were employed, whose tonnage amounted to 
60,000 tons. The emigration which took place from St. Do¬ 
mingo and the British colonies, to Trinidad, after the peace 
of Amiens, had increased its population in 1807 to 31,000, of 
which 21,000 were slaves. Trinidad has since this period 
remained in the hands of the British. The north-east point 
of the island is in lat. 10. 51. N. long. 60.55. 25. W. 
TRINIDAD, an island in the Straits of Magellan. It is 
low and desert, but covered with trees. 
TRINIDAD, a city of the island of Cuba, situate on the 
south side of the island, and on the shore of a river of 
the same name, with a celebrated port, at which is car¬ 
ried on a traffic in sugar and tobacco, both of excellent 
quality. Its natives, who are much given to seafaring, 
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are good mariners. This city lies in lat. 21. 42. N. long. 
80. 6. W. 
TRINIDAD, a city of Guatimala, on the shore of the river 
Belen, in the province of Costa Rica, three leagues distant 
from the sea, but by an intransitable route. It is 82 miles 
east-south- east from Guatimala, in lat. 13. 46. N. long. 90. 
15. W. 
TRINIDAD, a town of the kingdom of Guatimala, in the 
province of Sonsonate, situate near a bay on the coast of the 
Pacific ocean. 
TRINIDAD, a missionary settlement of Indians, in Para¬ 
guay, on the west bank of Parana. Lat. 27. 7. S. long. 55. 
44. W.—It is the name of several other settlements in South 
America, mostly inconsiderable. 
TRINIDAD, La, a settlement of Veragua, on a river 
which runs into the gulf of Mexico; 18 miles south-east of 
La Conception. 
TRINIDAD, a river of South America, in the province of 
Parana, which enters the Chagre.— 2. A river of Brazil, in 
the province of San Vicente, which enters the sea.— 3. A 
river of Terra Firma, in the province of Veragua, which runs 
south, and enters the large river Martin, before it falls into 
the sea.— 4. A river of Peru, in the province of Patoz, which 
enters the Guallaga at its source. 
TRINITA, a small town in the north-west of Italy, in 
Piedmont, province of Mondovi. Population 2500. 
TRINITA'RIAN, s. A believer of the Trinity.—They 
make a difference between nominal and real trinitarians. 
Swift .—One of a monastic order, instituted in honour of the 
Trinity. The order came into England about the middle of 
the fourteenth century. 
Trinitarian is however a term used very variously, and 
arbitrarily: frequently it stands as a common name for all 
persons who have sentiments on the mystery of the Trinity, 
different from those of the Catholic church. 
Sometimes it is more immediately restrained to some one 
or other particular class of such persons. 
TRINITE, or Cape St. Michael, a seignory of Lower 
Canada, in the county of Surrey. 
TRI'NITY, s. [trinitas, Lat.; trinite, Fr.] The in¬ 
comprehensible union of the three persons in the Godhead. 
—Touching the picture of the Trinity, I hold it blasphem¬ 
ous and utterly unlawful.— Peacham. 
TRINITY, or Trinidado, a river of Mexico, which 
takes its rise in Louisiana, in lat. 34. N. long. 99. W. It 
enters the province of San Luis Potosi, and discharges itself 
into Galvestan’s bay, in lat. 29. 30. N. 
TRINITY, or La Trinite, a seaport town of the island 
of Martinco. The harbour is formed on the south-east side 
by the Point Caravelle, which is two leagues in length; and 
on the other side by a very high hill, about 350 or 400 
paces in length, which only joins to the mainland by an 
isthmus not above 200 feet broad. During the hurricane 
season, ships have a safe station in this port. Another ad¬ 
vantage they have here is, that when they set out for Europe, 
they are to the windward of all the islands, and save about 
300 leagues in their passage, which they would find by the 
way of St. Domingo or Porto Rico. Lat. 14. 53. N. long. 
61. 8. W. 
TRINITY BAY, a large bay on the east coast of New¬ 
foundland. Lat. 48. N. long. 53. 10. W. 
TRINITY BAY, a large but not a very deep bay of the 
South Pacific ocean, on the north-east coast of New 
Holland, between Cape Grafton and Cape Tribulation. 
TRINITY, Cape, a low point on the south coast of the 
islands of Kodiak, in the north Pacific ocean. Lat 56. 45. 
N. long. 154. 26. W. 
TRINITY-GASK, a parish of Scotland, in Perthshire, in 
Stratherne, which stretches for several miles on both sides of 
the Erne. Population 740. 
TRINITY-HOUSE, is a kind of college at Deptford, 
belonging to a society of seafaring persons, founded for the 
regulation of seamen, and security and convenience of ships 
and mariners on our coasts. 
This society was incorporated by Henry VIII. in 1515, 
who 
