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TURTLE

Volume 20 · 63 words · 1815 Edition

See TESTUDO, ERpetology Index.

TURTLE-Dove. See COLUMBA, ORNITHOLOGY Index.

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

TUSCAN Earth, a yellowish kind of bole 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.