See TESTUDO, ERPETOLOGY Index.

TURTLE-Dove. See COLUMBA, ORNITHOLOGY Index.

TUSCAN order, in Architecture. See ARCHITECTURE, No. 42.

TUSCAN Earth, a yellowish kind of soil found in many parts of Italy, and particularly about Florence, where there is a stratum eight or ten feet thick, at the depth of five or fix feet from the surface. It is supposed to have an astringent property.