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bees. The total length is one inch one-fourth ; and its weight isonly 20 grains. The female is less than the male : the whole up-per side of a dirty brown, with a slight gloss of green; the underarts of a dirty white. These birds are found in various parts ofouth America and the adjacent islands.
TROGLODYTES, or TROGLODYTE, an
ancient people of Ethiopia , said to have lived in caves underground.
TROGLODYTRIA, the country of the Troglodyte, a coun-try of Abyssinia, which produces the best myrrh.
TROJA, the capital city of Troas ; but some would have it tobe a country of which Ilium was the capital. It was built on asmall eminence near mount Ida. Dardanus the first king of thecountry built it, and called it Dardania, and from Tros, his grand-son, it was called Troja, and from 1 Ins, Ilium . It is supposed tohave stood on the site of the modern village Bounarbachi, about12 miles from the sea, on an eminence, at the termination of aspacious plain.
Troja or Troia, in modern geography, a town of Naples, atthe foot of the Appennines, 60 mdes N. VV. of Naples. Lon. 15.15. E. Lat. 51. 21 . N.
TROJAN I LUDI, games instituted by Eneas in honour ofAnchises , celebrated at Rome.
TROIS RIYTERES, a town of Upper Canada , 55 miles S. W.of Quebec . Lon. 71. 20 . W. Lat. 46. 35 N.
TROK1, a late palatinate of Lithuania , now annexed toPrussia.
TROKr, the capital of the above palatinate, 160 miles E. ofKonigsberg, and 75 N. E. of Grodno . Lon. 54. 40. N.
THOLLIUS, Globe Ranunculus, or Lucken Gowan ; inbotany, a genus of plants belonging to the class polyandria, andorder polygynia : natural order, iYlullisiliqux. Calyx wanting ;petals about 14; capsules very numerous, ovate, and many-seeded. There are two species, viz. T. Asiaticus, and '1'. Eu-ropteus.
TRONAGE, an ancient customary duty or toll, for the weigh-ing of wool. According to Fleta, trona is a beam to weigh with,mentioned in the stat. YVestm. 2. cap. 25. And tronage was usedfor the weighing of wool in a staple or public mart, by a commontrona or beam ; which, for the tronage of wool in London , wasfixed at Leaden-Mall.
Trone Y\ 7 eight, the most ancient of the different weights usedin Scptland ; and, though now forbidden by several statutes, is stillused by many for borne commodities, and that in a very irregularmanner ; for the pound varies in different places, and lor differentpurposes, from 20 to 24 Dutch ounces. The common allowanceis 21 £ oz. for wool, 20 J for butter and cheese, 20 for tallow, lint,hemp, and hay. It is divided into 10 of its own ounces, and 161b.make a stone.
TRON, St. or St. TR .YUEN, a town of the Netherlands , inthe bishopric of Liege ; 2 iJ miles S. E. of Louvain . Lon. 5. 22 .E. Lat. 50. 41. N.
TROON, a promontory of Argyllshire, in Scotland , projectingabout a mile into the Frith of Clyue. Lon. 4. 49. YV. Lat. 55.26 . N.
TROOP, a small body of horse or dragoons, commanded bya captain.
TROPJEOLUM, the Indian Cress , or Narstuiitium ; agenus of the octandria monogvnia class and order of plants.Flower with five roundish petals inserted into the divisions of thecup; two upper petals sessile; three others have very long andbarbated ungues; fruit consists of three convex capsules, (ideated,and striated on one side, and angular on the other; the seeds arethree, gibbous on one side, and angulatcd on the other, some-what roundish. There are five species.
TROPE, [tjst©', (Jr. tropus, Lai] a change of a word from itsoriginal signification. See Figure, Metathor, and Ora-tory.
TROPEA, a town and bishop’s see of Naples, in CalabriaUltra, 45 milesN. N. E. of Reggio . Lon. 16 . 24. E. Lat. 38.
42. N.
TROPES, St. a sea port-town of France , in the departmentof the Y’ar, and province of Provence, 12 miles S. YY r . of Frejus and 58 E. of Marseilles . Lon. 6 . 44. E. Lat. 43. 16 . N.
TROPHIS, a genus of the dioecia tetrandria class and order of
plants. No calyx and no female corolla; male corolla four pe-taled ; style two parted ; berry one-seeded. There is one spe-cies, the ramoom-tree of Jamaica .
TROPHONIUS , in fabulous history, a celebrated architect,the son of Erginus, king of Orchomenos , in Boeotia.
TROPHY, [tropceum,'] among the ancients, a pile or heap ofarms of a vanquished enemy, raised by the conqueror in the mosteminent part of the field of battle. The trophies were usuallydedicated to some of the gods, especially Jupiter.
TROPICS. See Astronomy, and Geography.
TROP1NO, a town of Russia , in Tobolskoi, on the Piazida.Lon. 90. 25. E. Lat. 71. 36. N.
TROPOLOGY, [TgoTr^and Xoy©',] a rhetorical mode of speechincluding tropes, or a change of some word from the originalmeaning. See Comparison, Figure, Metaphor , and Ora-tory.
TROPPAU, or TROPPAW, a principality of Upper Silesia ,hounded on the N. by that of Oppeln, on the E. by Ratihor amiTescben ; on the S. and YV. by Moravia. The soil is fertile incorn, fruits, and pasture.
Troppau, or Troppaw, a city of Upper Silesia, the capital of the above duchy, 40 miles N. by E. of Olmutz , and 72 S. byE. of Breslaw.
TROS, in fabulous history, the fifth king of Troy, the son ofErichthonius, and grandson of Dardanus , from whom it wasnamed Troja .’
TROUBADOURS, poets who flourished in Provence duringthe 12th century. They wrote poems on love and gallantry ; onthe illustrious characters and remarkable events of the times; sa-tires which were chiefly directed against the clergy and monks;and a few didactic pieces.
TROVER is the remedy prescribed by the Jaw , where anyperson is in possession of the properly of another, which he un-lawfully detains. Previous to the commencing of this action, a de-mand of the property so detained, must be made in writing bysome person properly authorized by the owner of the property ;anil upon refusal to restore it, the law presumes an unlawful con-version, and the party is entitled to this action, and will recoverdamages to the value of the properly detained.
1 ROYV BR1 DGE, a town of England, in Wiltshire , 10 milesS. E. of Bath, and 98 W. of London . Lon. 2.6. W. Lat. 51. 19 . N.
I ROY, an ancient city of Phrygia , the destruction of whichaffords the subject of Homer’s Iliad. (See Troja .) It hadeight kings; though some enumerate only six : viz. l.Scamander,the founder; 2. Teucer, his son; 3. Dardanus , his son-in law;4. Erichthonius, his son ; 5. Tros; 6. 11 us, his son ; 7. Laome-don, in whose reign, Troy was taken and sacked by Hercules:and 8. Priam , under whom it was destroyed. Lon. 26. 30. E.Lat. 39. 40. N.
TROY-YV EIGHT, one of the most ancient of the differentkinds used in Britain . r l lie ounce of this weight was brought fromGrand Cairo in Egypt, about the time of the crusades, into Eu-rope, and first adopted in Troyes, a city of Champagne, whencethe name. The pound English troy contains 12 ounces, or 5760grains. It was formerly used for every purpose; and is still re-tained for weighing gold, silver, and jewels ; in some degree forcompounding medicines; for experiments in natural philosophy;and for comparing different weights with each other. SeeWeight.
TROYES, a cily of France, in the department of the Aube ,and late capital of the province of Champagne, 30 miles E. N. E.of Sens, and 90 E. S. E. of Paris . Eon. 4. 10. E. Lat. 43.13. N.
TRUCE, in the art of war, denotes a suspension of arms, or acessation of hostilities between two armies, in order to settle arti-cles of peace, bury the dead, or the like.
TRUCKS , among gunners, round pieces of wood, in form ofwheels, fixed on the axle-trees of carriages; to move the ordnanceat sea, and sometimes also at land.
TRUFFLES, in natural history, a kind of subterraneous vege-table production, not unlike mushrooms, being a genus of fungi#which grows under the surface of the earth.
TRUMPET , the loudest of all portable wind-instruments, andconsisting of a folded tube generally made of brass, and sometimes