The surface is level and the soil fertile, and timber is abundant. The chief productions in 1870 were 121,723 bushels of Indian corn, 41,580 of sweet potatoes, 13,666 lbs. of rice, and 2,236 bales of cotton. There were 1,303 horses, 10,350 cattle, 3,175 sheep, and 16,781 swine. Capital, Woodville. TYLER, Bennet, an American clergyman, born in Middlebury, Conn., July 10, 1783, died in South Windsor, May 14, 1858. He graduated at Yale college in 1804, was pastor of the Congregational church in South Britain, Conn., from 1808 to 1822, president of Dartmouth college from 1822 to 1828, and pastor of the second Congregational church in Portland, Me., from 1828 to 1833. The controversy on the new divinity" awakened by the writings of Dr. Taylor (see TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM), of which he was the principal opponent, resulted in the formation of a pastoral union in September, 1833, by the Connecticut clergymen who held to Dr. Tyler's opinions, and the resolution to found a theological seminary at East Windsor, of which he was president and professor of Christian theology till his death. His principal works are: "History of the New Haven Theology, in Letters to a Clergyman" (1837); "A Review of Day on the Will " (1837); "Memoir of Rev. Asahel Nettleton, D. D." (Hartford, 1844); "Nettleton's Remains" (1845); "A Treatise on the Sufferings of Christ" (New York, 1845); "A Treatise on New England Revivals" (1846); and two series of "Letters to Dr. Horace Bushnell on Christian Nurture" (1847-'8). After his death appeared his "Lectures on Theology," with a memoir by his son-in-law, the Rev. Nahum Gale, D. D. (1859). TYLER, John, tenth president of the United States, born in Charles City co., Va., March 29, 1790, died in Richmond, Jan. 17, 1862. He was the second son of John Tyler, who was a prominent revolutionary patriot, governor of the state from 1808 to 1811, afterward judge of the federal court of admiralty, and died in 1813. He graduated at William and Mary college in 1807, and in 1809 was admitted to the bar. Two years later he was elected a member of the legislature, and he was reelected for five successive years. In 1816 he was elected to congress to fill a vacancy, and was twice reelected. He voted for the resolutions of censure on Gen. Jackson's conduct during the Seminole war, and opposed internal improvements by the general government, the United States bank, the protective policy, and all restrictions on slavery. Ill health compelled him to resign before the expiration of his term. In 1823 and the two following years he was a leading member of the state legislature. In December, 1825, he was chosen governor by the legislature, and at the next session was reelected by a unanimous vote. He succeeded John Randolph as United States senator in March, 1827, and was reëlected in 1883. In the presidential election of 1824 he had supported Mr. Crawford, who received the vote of Virginia. He however approved the choice of Mr. Adams in preference to Gen. Jackson by the house of representatives; but seeing in Adams's first message "an almost total disregard of the federative principle," he sided in the senate with the opposition to him, consisting of the combined followers of Jackson, Crawford, and Calhoun. He voted against the tariff bill of 1828, and against all projects of internal improvement. During the debate on Mr. Clay's tariff resolutions in 1831-'2, he made a three days' speech against a tariff for direct protection, but advocating one for revenue with incidental protection to home industry. In 1832 he avowed his sympathy with the nullification movement in South Carolina, and made a speech against the force bill, which passed the senate with no vote but his in the negative, Mr. Calhoun and the other opponents of the bill having retired from the chamber; but he voted for Mr. Clay's compromise bill. In the session of 1833-'4 he supported Mr. Clay's resolutions of censure upon President Jackson for the removal of the deposits, which he regarded as an unwarrantable assumption of power, although he considered the bank unconstitutional. The legislature of Virginia having in February, 1836, adopted resolutions instructing the senators from that state to vote for expunging those resolutions from the journal of the senate, Mr. Tyler resigned and returned to his home, which about this time he had removed to Williamsburg. In 1836, as a whig candidate for vice president, he obtained the votes of Maryland, Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee. In 1838 he was elected to the legislature by the whigs of James City co., and during the subsequent session of that body he acted entirely with the whig party. He was a delegate from Virginia to the whig national presidential convention which met at Harrisburg, Dec. 4, 1839, and was nominated for vice president with Gen. Harrison as president, and elected in November, 1840. President Harrison died just one month after his inauguration, and the administration devolved on the vice president. Mr. Tyler requested the members of the cabinet to remain in the places they held under President Harrison. Three days later he published an inaugural address, which in its indications of political principle was satisfactory to the whigs, and he at once began to remove from office the democrats appointed by previous administrations, and to fill their places with whigs. In his message to the congress which convened in extra session, May 31, 1841, he discussed at considerable length the question of a national bank, at that period a leading feature of whig policy; and he intimated to several members his desire that congress should request a plan for a bank from the secretary of the treasury. Resolutions for this purpose were adopted by both houses, and Mr. Ewing sent in a bill for the incorporation of the "Fiscal Bank of the United States," the essen- of war, and Thomas W. Gilmer of Virginia, of tial features of which were framed in accor- the navy, who were confirmed, Feb. 15, 1844. dance with the president's suggestions and in On Feb. 28 Mr. Gilmer and Mr. Upshur, while deference to his peculiar views of the institu- inspecting the steamer Princeton, were killed tion. The bill was finally passed by congress by the bursting of a gun, and Mr. Calhoun of on Aug. 6, with a clause concerning branch South Carolina was appointed secretary of banks differing from Mr. Ewing's, and sent to state, and John Y. Mason of Virginia secrethe president, who returned it with a veto tary of the navy. Under the management of message, in which he declared the act uncon- Mr. Calhoun a treaty of annexation was constitutional in several particulars. This veto cluded between the United States and Texas, created great excitement and anger among April 12, 1844, which was rejected by the senthe whigs throughout the country. The whig ate. But the scheme of annexation was vigleaders in congress, however, made yet anoth- orously prosecuted by the president, and at the er effort to conciliate the president and secure very close of his administration brought to a his assent to their favorite measure. A bill successful issue by the passage of joint resoluwas prepared embracing certain features sup- tions by congress, approved March 1, 1845. posed to be acceptable to the president, and The other most important measures of his adwas privately submitted to and approved by ministration were the act establishing a uniform him and his cabinet, and finally without any system of proceedings in bankruptcy, passed in alteration passed by the house, Aug. 23, and August, 1841, and the protective tariff law of by the senate two weeks later; but the presi- 1842. Toward the close of Mr. Tyler's term it dent, who by some communications was made became evident that he had lost the confidence to believe that the bill was framed with the of the whigs without having secured that of object of entrapping him into an act of in- the democrats. In May, 1844, a convention consistency, vetoed it. Very soon after the composed chiefly of officeholders assembled at promulgation of the veto, the cabinet, with Baltimore and tendered him a nomination for the exception of Mr. Webster, the secretary the presidency, which he accepted; but in Auof state, sent in their resignations, and pub- gust, perceiving that he had really no popular lished statements of their reasons for this step, support, he withdrew from the canvass. In reflecting severely on the conduct of Presi- 1861 he was a member of the peace convendent Tyler. The president filled their places tion, composed of delegates from the "border by appointing Walter Forward of Pennsylva- states," which met at Washington to endeavor nia secretary of the treasury; John C. Spen- to arrange terms of compromise between the cer of New York, secretary of war; Abel P. seceded states of the south and the federal Upshur of Virginia, secretary of the navy; government. Of this convention he was electCharles A. Wickliffe of Kentucky, postmaster ed president, but nothing resulted from its degeneral; and Hugh S. Legaré of South Caro-liberations. He subsequently renounced his lina, attorney general-all of them whigs, or allegiance to the United States, and gave his at least opponents of the democratic party. support to the confederate cause. At the Before the adjournment of congress, Sept. time of his death he was a member of the con13, the whig members published a manifesto federate congress. proclaiming that all political relations between them and the president were at an end. The course taken by Mr. Webster, though condemned by some of the whigs, was justified by the greater portion of the people on the ground of the critical condition of our relations with Great Britain on the subject of the northeastern boundary, in regard to which he was at the time engaged in negotiations with the British ministry. After a satisfactory treaty was arranged and ratified (August, 1842), Mr. Webster resigned, and was succeeded by Mr. Legaré, who died soon after. In July, 1843, President Tyler reorganized his cabinet as follows: Mr. Upshur, secretary of state; Mr. Spencer, secretary of the treasury; Mr. Wickliffe, postmaster general; James M. Porter of Pennsylvania, secretary of war; David Henshaw of Massachusetts, secretary of the navy; John Nelson of Maryland, attorney general. Messrs. Porter, Henshaw, and Nelson were democrats, and the first two were rejected by the senate when their nominations came before it. In their places the president appointed William Wilkins of Pennsylvania, secretary TYLER, Royall, an American author, born in Boston, July 18, 1757, died in Brattleboro, Vt., Aug. 16, 1826. He graduated at Harvard college in 1776, and studied law under John Adams. He was for a short time aide to Gen. Lincoln. In 1790 he commenced the practice of law in Guilford, Vt. From 1800 to 1806 he was chief justice of the state supreme court, and he published "Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Vermont" (2 vols., 1809). He was also known as a dramatist, his play "The Contrast," produced in New York in 1786, being the first American play acted by a regular company, and the first also in which an attempt was made to portray the conventional Yankee character. It was followed by "May Day, or New York in an Uproar" (1787), and "The Georgia Spec, or Land in the Moon" (1797). He also published "The Algerine Captive," a novel (2 vols., 1799). TYLER, Samuel, an American author, born in Prince George's co., Md., Oct. 22, 1809. He was admitted to the Maryland bar in 1831, and settled in Frederick City, where he has since resided. In 1836 he contributed to the "Princeton Review" an article on "Balfour's Inquiry," which was followed by several philosophical articles, and a volume entitled "A Discourse of the Baconian Philosophy" (1844). He has also published "Burns as a Poet and as a Man" (New York, 1848); "The Progress of Philosophy in the Past and in the Future" (1859; 2d ed., 1868); and a biography of Chief Justice Taney (1872). TYLER, William Seymour, an American linguist, born at Harford, Pa., Sept. 2, 1810. He graduated at Amherst college in 1830, and in 1831 became a classical teacher in Amherst academy. He afterward studied at Andover theological seminary, and was licensed to preach by the third presbytery of New York city in 1836; but, being elected professor of the Latin and Greek languages and literature in Amherst college about the same time, he was not ordained till 22 years later. In 1847 the professorship of ancient languages was divided, Prof. Tyler retaining that of Greek. In 1855 he visited Europe and the East, and in 1869 Greece and Egypt. He has published "The Germania and Agricola of Tacitus" (New York, 1847); "The Histories of Tacitus" (1848); "Prize Essay on Prayer for Colleges" (1854); "Plato's Apology and Crito" (1859); a "Life of Dr. Henry Lobdell, Missionary at Mosul" (Boston, 1859); "Theology of the Greek Poets" (1867); "History of Amherst College" (Springfield, Mass., 1873); "Demosthenes De Corona" (Boston, 1874); and "The Olynthiacs and Philippics of Demosthenes" (1875); besides papers in the "Transactions of the American Philological Association," and contributions to the "Biblical Repository," "Bibliotheca Sacra," 66 American Theological Review," &c. TYLOR, Edward Burnett, an English author, born in London, Oct. 2, 1832. He was educated at the school of the society of Friends, Grove house, Tottenham, and in 1871 was elected a member of the royal society. He has published "Anahuac, or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern" (London, 1861); Researches into the Early History of Mankind, and Development of Civilization" (1865); and "Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom" (2 vols., 1871). TYMPANUM. See EAR. TYNDALE, William, an English reformer, born at North Nibley, Gloucestershire, about 1484, executed at Vilvoorden, in Brabant, Oct. 6, 1536. He was educated at Oxford and Cambridge, took orders, and was tutor and chaplain in the house of Sir John Welch near Bristol. He sympathized with the reformation, and while in this family he translated the Enchiridion Militis, or "Soldier's Manual," of Erasmus into English. His boldness of speech induced suspicion, and he went to London, where he began his translation of the New Testament. He was soon compelled to flee again, and with the promise of an annuity of £10 from Alderman Munmouth, on condition | of praying for the souls of the alderman's parents, he went to Hamburg, where for a year he gave himself to his work; thence to Cologne, where the first ten sheets of his translation were put to press; and thence to Worms, where in 1525 two editions were published anonymously. They had speedy and wide circulation. The edict of the bishop of London, forbidding under heavy penalties their use or their possession, only increased the demand. Tyndale was lampooned by Sir Thomas More in seven books of elaborate abuse, and plots were laid to arrest him, which he foiled by removing in 1528 to Marburg, where he published his work on "The Obedience of a Christian Man." In 1529 a fifth edition of the New Testament was printed; and in 1530 appeared Tyndale's translation of the Pentateuch. A new edition of the New Testament, revised and corrected, was issued at Antwerp in 1534, in which Tyndale avowed his responsibility for the work. At the instance of the English government he was arrested at Antwerp, and after 18 months' imprisonment at Vilvoorden was strangled and then burned at the stake. The works of Tyndale and Frith his assistant, collected and published after the reformation was established, were issued in London in 3 vols. 8vo in 1831, and by the "Parker Society" in 1848-'50. The translation of the New Testament was the principal model and basis of the King James version, and its diction is but little more obsolete. An edition of it was published in London in 1836, edited by George Offor (reprinted, Andover, Mass., 1837). A memorial was erected to Tyndale at Nibley Knoll, Gloucestershire, in November, 1866. TYNDALL, John, a British natural philosopher, born at Leighlin Bridge, county Carlow, Ireland, Aug. 21, 1820. Under the guidance of his father, he received a strict religious training, and early became thoroughly conversant with the Bible. Having mastered Euclid, conic sections, and plane trigonometry, he was employed in the Irish and English ordnance surveys from 1839 to 1844. During the three succeeding years he was a railway engineer, and in 1847 he accepted a post in Queenwood college, Hampshire, which he resigned in the following year to attend the lectures of Bunsen at the university of Marburg. Here, in conjunction with Prof. Knoblauch, he undertook a series of experiments in magnetism and diamagnetism, proving the existence of a relation between the molecular constitution of matter and magnetic force, and demonstrating that the direction of greatest magnetic energy will fall in the line of greatest molecular condensation. The results of their combined investigations were embodied in a paper "On the Magneto-optic Properties of Crystals, and the Relation of Magnetism and Diamagnetism to Molecular Arrangement," published in the "Philosophical Magazine" for 1850. On graduating in 1851, he prepared a mathematical dissertation on screw surfaces (Die Schrauben | study of the natural sciences in America. In the "Contemporary Review" for July, 1872, Prof. Tyndall published with commendation a letter addressed to himself, wherein the writer proposed that the efficacy of prayer should be tested by making one ward of a hospital the special object of the prayers of the faithful for a term of years, and then comparing its rate of mortality with that of other wards during the same time. This gave rise to a widespread controversy, and was popularly denominated "Tyndall's prayer test." In August, 1874, while presiding over the annual meeting of the British association, he delivered the famous inaugural known as the "Belfast Address," which was denounced as a declaration of materialism.-The labors of Prof. Tyndall, though more particularly directed toward the examination of the molecular constitution of matter, have not been confined to any special branch of physics. Between 1849 and 1856 he was mainly occupied with the prosecution of his experiments in magnetism and electricity, in the course of which he conclusively settled the question of diamagnetic or reversed polarity, the existence of which, ori fläche mit geneigter Erzeugungslinie, und die Bedingungen des Gleichgewichts auf solchen Schrauben). In the same year he removed to Berlin, where for some time he was engaged in the laboratory of Prof. Magnus. Shortly after his return to England he was elected a fellow of the royal society, and in 1852 one of the secretaries of the physical section of the British association. In June, 1853, he was appointed professor of natural philosophy at the royal institution, which office he still retains (1876). Tyndall first visited Switzerland in 1849, and in company with Prof. Huxley made a second journey in 1856, since which time he has visited the Alps every year. In the winter of 1859 he succeeded in establishing himself on the Montanvert, and determined the rate of winter motion of the Mer de Glace. With the cooperation of Dr. Frankland, be planted several thermometric stations on the slopes and summit of Mont Blanc, and made numerous observations relating to combustion at great altitudes. In 1861 he scaled the hitherto inaccessible peak of the Weisshorn, and in 1868 reached the summit of the Matterhorn, crossing it from Breuil to Zermatt. The results of his glacial investigations were published in the "Phil-ginally asserted by Faraday, and reaffirmed by osophical Transactions (jointly with Prof. Huxley's) for 1858, and subsequently in "Glaciers of the Alps" (London, 1860), and "Hours of Exercise in the Alps" (1871). He opposed the views of Agassiz respecting the occurrence of lamina in glaciers, definitely ascribing the true cause of their formation to mechanical pressure. Through the direct application of the doctrine of regelation, he arrived at a satisfactory understanding of the nature of glacial motion, proving, by carefully repeated observations on the structure and properties of ice, the inefficacy of the generally admitted plastic theory to account for that phenomenon. This discovery led to a protracted controversy with Professor (afterward Principal) Forbes of Edinburgh. (See GLACIER, ICE, and FORBES, JAMES DAVID.) In 1863 he published "Heat considered as a Mode of Motion," which placed him in the front rank of scientific expounders. In 1866 he relieved Faraday in his duties at the Trinity house, and on the death of that philosopher in 1867 became superintendent of the royal institution. To observe the solar eclipse of December, 1870, he accompanied the British expedition to Algeria, and on his return voyage instituted a number of simple inquiries in relation to the color of the ocean. He demonstrated that the change of color frequently observed at different portions of the sea is due to the reflection of certain rays of light from the surfaces of innumerable particles of matter held in mechanical suspension at varying depths of the water's mass. Prof. Tyndall visited the United States in 1872, and delivered a course of lectures in some of the principal cities of the east, the proceeds of which, $13,000, were given to the establishment of a fund designed for promoting the Weber in 1848, had been subsequently denied by the former. In 1859 he initiated a remarkable series of researches in radiant heat, which were extended over a period of more than ten years. The diathermancy of simple and compound gases, as well as of various vapors and liquids, was experimentally tested, and the degrees of their opacity to radiant heat determined with great precision. Dry atmospheric air, which had hitherto afforded but negative results to Melloni, was ascertained to have an absorptive power about equal to that of its main elementary components, and but a mere fraction of that of aqueous vapor; a discovery which, in its bearings on terrestrial and solar radiation, has exerted a marked influence on the progress of meteorology. The principle of the physical connection of the emission and absorption of undulations (first enunciated by Euler), which formed the basis of Angström's experiments on the radiation and absorption of incandescent solids, and which laid the foundation for the science of spectrum analysis, was applied by Tyndall to gases and vapors some time previous to the publication of Kirchhoff's more specialized generalizations respecting refrangibility. Tyndall's investigations on obscure and luminous radiations, and on the nature of calorescence, or the transmutation of heat rays, form some of the most noteworthy of his contributions to molecular physics. By means of a filter composed of a solution of iodine and the bisulphide of carbon, so constituted as to intercept all but the ultra-red rays of any luminous source of heat, he has ascertained that the visible thermal rays emanating from any particular body bear but a small ratio to the total number of thermal rays emitted by that body. He has also shown, by closed by rocky walls, and in the season is much resorted to for sea bathing. It has many handsome houses, and extensive rope manufactories, and holds four cattle fairs annually. There is a chalybeate spring; and in the vicinity are traces of a Roman fort, and the ruins of Tynemouth priory, founded in 625 and repeatedly rebuilt. experiments made on his own eyes, that the calorific energy of a concentrated electric beam, capable of raising platinized platinum foil to vivid redness, and of instantaneously exploding gunpowder at an absolute dark focus, is incompetent to excite the sense of vision in the human retina. The subject of gaseous conductivity (which led to views antagonistic to those entertained by Magnus), the action of TYNG. I. Stephen Higginson, an American clerodors and colors on radiant heat, and the vari-gyman, born in Newburyport, Mass., March ous laws governing acoustic and optical phe- | nomena, have also engaged his attention. To him is due the beautiful interpretation of the azure color of the firmament, as well as of the changing tints accompanying the morning and evening twilight. (See LIGHT.) Since 1873 his labors have been more generally related to those of the Trinity house, in connection with inquiries made into the causes which affect the acoustic transparency of the atmosphere. Prof. Tyndall is a strenuous advocate of the doctrine of evolution. His vigorous language and felicitous method of exposition have given him the highest position among scientific lecturers. Besides the works already mentioned, he has published "Mountaineering in 1861" (1862); "On Radiation" (1865); "Sound, a Course of eight Lectures" (1867; 3d ed., embracing his important observations on acoustic opacity, 1875); "Faraday as a Discoverer" (1868); "Natural Philosophy in Easy Lessons (1869); "Notes of a Course of nine Lectures on Light" (1870); "Researches on Diamagnetism and Magne-crystallic Action" (1870); "Notes of a Course of seven Lectures on Electrical Phenomena and Theories" (1870); "Essays on the Use and Limit of the Imagination in Science" (1870); "Fragments of Science for Unscientific People" (1871); "The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers" (1872); and "Contributions to Molecular Physics in the Domain of Radiant Heat" (1872). Some of these have been translated into various Euro-ized a new parish in the same city, that of the pean languages. His work on "Sound" has been published in Chinese at the expense of the Chinese government. TYNE, a river of Northumberland, England, formed by the junction of the North and South Tyne, the former of which rises in the Cheviot hills, on the border between England and Scotland, and the latter in the E. part of Cumberland. These two streams unite near Hexham in the S. part of Northumberland, and the Tyne thence has a course of 35 m., generally E., to the North sea. It is navigable by vessels of 300 or 400 tons as far as Newcastleupon-Tyne. Its principal affluent is the Derwent. The Tyne is the great outlet of the seaborne coal trade, and once possessed valuable salmon fisheries. TYNEMOUTH, a town of Northumberland, England, on a promontory at the mouth of the Tyne, and adjoining North Shields, 8 m. N. E. of Newcastle; pop. in 1871, 38,941. It has a fine harbor in the form of a basin en 1, 1800. He graduated at Harvard college in Holy Trinity, which erected a new and enlarged TYPE (Gг. TUTTεw, to stamp), a piece of metal or wood having the form of a letter or other character in relief upon one end, used in printing. The various forms of type have been described in the article PRINTING, which also contains the history of their invention, the methods of their use, &c. The material of which book and newspaper types are made is an alloy known as type metal, composed of lead, antimony, tin, and sometimes copper and other metals. The metals of this alloy are combined in different proportions, to meet the different requirements of hardness, softness, tenacity, or cheapness. Lead is the chief constituent; antimony is added to compensate for the softness of the lead, tin to give toughness, and sometimes copper to give a still greater |