Titus Coan

Titus Coan, an American missionary, born in Killingworth, Conn., Feb. 1, 1801. He studied theology at Auburn seminary, was ordained as a Congregational minister in Park street church, Boston, in 1833, and the same year went upon an exploring mission to Patagonia, landing near the strait of Magellan. Finding the country unfavorable for the establishment of a mission, he returned to New London, Conn., and thence sailed for the Hawaiian islands, where he arrived in June, 1835, and was stationed at Hilo, on the island of Hawaii, where he has since resided. Apart from his successful missionary labors, he has made valuable contributions to the knowledge of volcanic eruptions, published in the "American Journal of Science" and in the "Missionary Herald."

Tliomas Wentworth

See Strafford.

Tnisto, Or Tent Tuisco Thuisco

Tnisto, Or Tent Tuisco Thuisco, the god whom, according to Tacitus, the ancient Germans revered as the earth-born founder of their nation. He was represented as a gray-bearded man, with uncovered head clad in the skin of an animal, holding a sceptre in his right hand, and stretching out the left. His son Mannus was the father of the progenitors of the three principal tribes.

Tobago

Tobago, an island of the Windward group of the British West Indies, the N. point of which is in lat. 11° 25' N., Ion. 60° 32' W., 32 m. long; area, 120 sq. m.; pop. in 1871, 17,-054. It is a mass of rocks which rises abruptly on the N. E. side and descends toward the S. W., the most elevated part of which is about 900 ft. above the sea. There are several good harbors on the N. side for vessels of 150 tons, and a few on the S. side. The valleys are well watered by numerous streams. The productions are sugar, molasses, and rum. The value of imports in 1874 was £43,743; of exports, £45,280. It has a lieutenant governor, subordinate to the governor of the Windward islands, a privy council, a legislative council of 7 members, and a house of assembly of 16 members, elected by the parishes. The capital is Scarborough, on the S. coast. - Tobago was discovered by Columbus in 1498, and was ceded by France to Great Britain in 1763.

Tocantins

Tocantins, a river of Brazil, formed by the Almas and Maranhao, which rise in the province of Goyaz and unite in lat. 14° S., Ion. "49° 15' W. After a course of about 1,000 m., in a general northerly direction, it falls into the Rio Para, about 80 m. S. W. of the city of the same name. The Araguay, Parannan, Great Somno, Tucahunas, and Theresa are its affluents. The tide ascends about 300 m., and at its mouth the Tocantins is 8 m. wide.

Toddy Tree

See Palm, vol. xiii., p. 18.

Tofana

See Aqua Tofana.

Togrul Beg

See Seljuks.

Tokat, Or Tocat

Tokat, Or Tocat, a town of Asiatic Turkey, in the vilayet and 55 m. N. N. W. of the city of Sivas, on the Yeshil Irmak (the ancient Iris); pop. estimated variously from 45,000 to 150,000. It has high limestone hills on three sides, and is commanded by two peaks which are almost perpendicular and consist of crystalline marble. The houses are of mud or unburned bricks, but the town has a large and handsome Armenian church and several mosques. The manufactures consist chiefly of copper articles and hardware, woollen, linen, silk, cotton goods, and carpets; and there are dyeing and calico-printing establishments. The inhabitants are chiefly Turks.