Thuanus

See Trior, Jacques Auguste de.

Thule

Thule, the name reported by the ancient navigator Pytheas, about the time of Alexander the Great, as that of the northernmost region of Europe. Strabo says that he gives no clue as to whether it is an island, or whether it is inhabited; and it is therefore probable that Pytheas did not visit Thule himself. Iceland is commonly supposed to be the land he referred to, as he says it was six days from the Orcades (Orkney islands); yet there are other reasons which favor the view that Mainland, the largest of the Shetland group, or Jutland, or Norway, is meant.

Thun

I. A Walled Town Of Switzerland

A Walled Town Of Switzerland, in the canton of Bern, on the Aar, about 1 m. from Lake Thun, and 16 m. S. E. of Bern; pop. about 4,700. Among the public buildings are the old Kyburg castle, the cathedral, the federal military academy, and the modern Gothic castle of Schadau. It is a summer resort of tourists to the Bernese Alps.

II. A Lake

A Lake, 10 m. long, 2 m. wide and 1,896 ft. above the sea. It connects at the S. E. end with Lake Brienz by the Aar, which again emerges from the N. W. end of Lake Thun, and the water of the Kander is carried into the lake through an artificial channel formed in 1714. The shores near the town of Thun are covered with fine villas and gardens. Near the S. W. shore are the two mountains Niesen and Stockholm. A small steamer plies regularly.

Thunder

See Lightning. •

Thurn And Taxis

See Post, vol. xiii., p. 748.

Thursday

Thursday, the fifth day of the week, the dies Jovis of the Roman calendar, and sacred in the northern mythology to the thunderer Thor, from whom it is named. In German it is called Donnerstag (thunder day, originally Thunderer's day).

Thyestes

See Atreus.

Tiaguanaco, Or Tialmanaco

See Titicaca.

Tibboos

See Tuariks.

Tiberias

See Gennesaret.

Tiberias Claudius Atticus Herodes

Tiberias Claudius Atticus Herodes, a rich citizen of Athens, born about A. D. 104, died probably in 180. He opened a school of rhetoric at Athens and afterward at Rome, having Marcus Aurelius for one of his pupils. His speeches are said to have excelled those of all contemporary orators, but none of them are now extant. He was consul in 143, and for a time administrator of the free towns of Asia. Having inherited an immense fortune, he adorned Athens with magnificent public buildings, constructed a theatre at Corinth, aqueducts at Olympia and Canusium, a race course at Delphi, and a bath at Thermopylae, and restored several decayed cities of the Peloponnesus.

Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicis

See Claudius I.

Tibet

See Thibet.

Tiborio Cavallo

Tiborio Cavallo, an English electrician, born in Naples in March, 1749, died in London in December, 1800. He was the son of a Neapolitan physician, completed his education in the university of his native city, and went at an early age to England with a view of becoming a merchant; but he devoted himself to natural philosophy, and gained reputation as a writer and experimenter in electricity and the physical sciences, He invented an instrument called a condenser, and another called a multiplier of electricity, and other instruments. His best work was his "Elements of Natural and Experimental Philosophy" (4 vols. 8vo, London, 1803).