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stantial portion of his fame; and after the death of Reubens, 
he was made director of the Academy at Antwerp in 1661. 
His compositions are rich and ingenious, and are conducted 
in a style more correct and grand than that of most of his 
countrymen, and his colour is clear and harmonious. 
Amongst the best of his works are his “ Martyrdom of St. 
Benedict,” in the church of the Caphchins at Brussels; the 
“ Crucifixion,” at the Carmelites; and the “ Assumption of 
the Virgin,” at the church of St. James at Antwerp. He 
died in 1692, aged 67, leaving two sons, painters. 
TYTHE, s. A tenth part. See Tithe. 
TYTHEBY, a townsihp of England, in Cheshire; 1| 
mile north of Macclesfield. 
TY'THING, s. A company of ten; a district; a tenth 
part. See Tithing. 
TYTHER1NGTON, a hamlet of England, in Gloucester¬ 
shire ; 31 miles south-east of Thornbury. 
TYTHERLEY, East and West, adjoining parishes of 
England, in Southamptonshire; 7 miles south-west of Stock- 
bridge. 
TYWARDREITH, a parish of England, in Cornwall; 
3s miles west-north-west of Fowey. Population 741. 
TZAGAMUSKOI, a village of Irkoutsk, in Asiatic Rus¬ 
sia, on the borders of China; 48 miles south-south-west of 
Selenginsk. 
TZEKINSKOI, a fortress of Irkoutsk, in Asiatic Russia, 
on the borders of China; 100 miles west-south-west of Selen- 
giusk. 
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TZ1CHU, a settlement of Mexico, in the intendancy of 
Valladolid, containing above 500 Indian families. 
TZIKIRSKOI, a fortress of Irkoutsk, in Asiatic Russia ; 
120 miles west-south-west of Selenginsk. 
TZ1NTZONTZAN, the old capital of the kingdom of 
Mechoacan, in Mexico, containing 2500 inhabitants. 
TZIRAGUATO, a settlement of Mexico, in the inten¬ 
dancy of Valladolid; containing 115 Indian families. 
TZIVILSK, a small town of the east of European Russia, 
in the government of Kasan ; 64 miles west of Kasan. 
TZSCHOPPAU, orZscHOPPAU, a small town of Saxony, 
on the river Tzschoppau; 33 miles west-south-west of Dresden, 
and 7 south-east of Chemnitz. It contains above 4000 in¬ 
habitants. 
TZSCHOPPAU, a river of Germany, in Saxony, which 
rises among the Fichtelberg mountains, joins the Flohe, and 
falls into the Trey berg Mulda, at Dobeln. 
TZULIMM, or Tchui.imm, a river of Asiatic Russia, 
which runs through the province of Kolivan, and falls into 
the Yenisei. The track through which it runs is poor and 
desolate. 
TZUMMARUM, a village of the Netherlands, in Fries¬ 
land. Population 800. 
TZURUCHATU, a small town of Asiatic Russia, in the 
province of Nertschihsk, near the borders of China; 160 
miles south-east of Nertschinsk. 
y a b 
V. u. 
VAC 
T HAS two powers, expressed in modern English by two 
characters, V consonant and U vowel, which ought to 
be considered as two letters; but as they w^ere long con¬ 
founded while the two uses were annexed to one form, the 
old custom still continues to be followed. 
U, the vowel, has two sounds; one clear, expressed at 
other times by eu, as obtuse ; the other close, and approach¬ 
ing to the Italian u, or English oo, as obtund. 
V, the consonant, has a sound nearly approaching to.those 
of b and f With b it is by the Spaniards and Gascons 
always confounded, and in the Runic alphabet is expressed 
by the same character with f distinguished only by a dia¬ 
critical point. Its sound in English is uniform. It is never 
mute. 
V. A numeral letter, denoiing five. 
VA, a river of New Granada, in the province of San Juan 
de los Llanos, which running east, after many windings, enters 
the Guaviare. 
VAAGEN, East, a small island in the North sea, 20 
miles from the coast of Norway, in lat. 68. 26. N.—West 
Vaagen is 30 miles from the same coast, in lat. 68. 12. N. 
VAAGSOE, a small island near the coast of Norway, in 
lat. 61. 57. N. 
VAARSOE, a small island of Denmark, on the east of 
Jutland, at the entrance of the gulf of Horsens. Lat. 55. 3. 
N. long. 10. 1. E. 
VAAS, a small town in the north-west of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Sarthe ; 20 miles east of La Fleche. 
VAASEN, a large village of the Netherlands, in the pro¬ 
vince of Gelderland ; 15 miles north-w’est of Zutphen. 
VAASKAY, one of the smaller Hebrides, in the sound of 
Harris. 
VAAST, St., a small town in the north-west of France: 
it has a small harbour, with salt works and fisheries along the 
coast; 13 miles east-south-east of Cherburg. 
VAAST, a small inland town of the Netherlands, in the 
province of Hainault. 
VABRES, a small town in the south of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Aveyron, on the river Dourdon ; 2 miles south¬ 
west of St. Afrique. 
VABRES DE SENEGALS, a small town in the south¬ 
west of France, department of the Tarn; 14 miles north¬ 
east of Castres. 
VACA, a cape in the north of Spain, on the coast of Astu¬ 
rias. Lat. 43. 36. N. long. 5. 47. W. 
VACA, an island of the Atlantic ocean, one of the Tor- 
tugas or Florida Keys, to the east of Bahia Honda. On the 
south side of Cayo Vaca, about eight miles from the west 
end, there are wells of fresh water. A thick range of isles 
go by this name. Bahia Honda is in lat. 24. 35. N. 
VACAN, one of the small Philippine islands, near the 
north coast of Samar. Lat. 12. 47. N. long. 121. 15. E. 
VACANCY, s. Empty space; vacuity. 
How is’t 
That thus you bend your eye on vacancy, 
And with th’ incorporal air do hold discourse ? Shakspcarc. 
Chasm ; space unfilled.—The reader finds a wide vacancy, 
and knows not how to transport his thoughts to the next 
particular, for want of some connecting idea. Watts .— 
[vacance, Fr] State of a post or employment when it is 
unsupplied.—In the vacancy of a bishop, the guardian of 
the spiritualities was summoned to parliament in the bishop’s 
room. Ay life. — [yacances, Fr.] Time of leisure; relax¬ 
ation ; intermission ; time unengaged. 
If, sometimes, each other’s eyes we meet. 
Those little vacancies from toil are sweet. Dryden. 
Listlessness; emptiness of thought.—When alone, or in 
company, they sit still without doing any thing, I like it 
worse; for all dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even be¬ 
fore they are habits, are dangerous. Watt on. 
VACANT, adj. [vacant, Fr.; vacans, Lat.] Empty ; 
unfilled; void.—Why should the air so impetuously rush 
into the cavity of the receiver, if there were before no vacant 
room to receive it? Boy/e. —Free; unincumbered; un- 
crouded.—A very little part of our life is so vacant from 
uneasinesses, as to leave us free to the attraction of remoter 
good. Locke. —Not filled by an incumbent, or possessor.— 
Others when they allowed the throne vacant, thought the 
succession should immediately go to the next heir. Sxvift 
—Being 
