See Testudo, Herpetology Index.

Turtle Dove. See Columba, Ornithology Index.

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

TUSCAN Earth, a yellowish kind of loam 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 six feet from the surface. It is supposed to have an astringent property.