land; _e.g._ Terciera (the rough land), in the Azores; Terranova (the new land), in Sicily, supposed to be on the site of the ancient Gela; Tierra-del-fuego (the land of fire), so named on account of the numerous fires seen on the land by the first discoverers; Terregles (church land); Tiree Island, Gael. _Tir-ith_ (the land of corn); Terryglas, _i.e._ _Tir-da-ghlas_ (the land of the two rivers), Co. Tipperary; Terryland, _i.e._ _Tir-oilein_ (the land of the island); Tyrone, anc. _Tir-Eoghain_ (Owen’s land); Tir-Rosser, _i.e._ _Tir-Rhos-hir_ (the long peat land), in Caermarthen; Pentir (the headland); Gwydir, from the roots _gwy_, water, and _tir_, a general term for moist land in different places in Wales. It was the ancient name of Glastonbury; Tiranascragh (the land of the sand hill, _esker_), Co. Galway; Tyrconell (the land of Conell), the ancient name of Co. Donegal; Carstairs, in Lanarkshire, anc. _Casteltarras_, probably corrupt. from _Castelterres_ (the castle lands), the castle in the village having been the site of a Roman station; Culter, in Lanarkshire, anc. _Cultir_ (the back of the land); _Finisterroe_ (land’s end), now Cape Finistère, the north-west extremity of France; Blantyre (warm land--_blane_, warm), in Lanarkshire; Terrebonne (good land), in Canada; Terre-haute (high land), in Indiana. [Sidenote: THAL (Ger.),] a valley--_v._ DAL. [Sidenote: THING, or TING,] a term applied by the Scandinavians to the legislative assemblies of their nation, and also to the places where these assemblies met, from an old word _tinga_, to speak. Traces of these institutions appear in the topography of certain districts in Great Britain formerly occupied by Danes or Norwegians. The Norwegian Parliament is still called the _Storthing_ or great assembly; smaller courts are called _Lawthings_, and the _Althing_ was the general assembly of the whole nation. These meetings were generally held on some remote island, hill, or promontory, where their deliberations might be undisturbed. The Swedish Parliament used to assemble on a mound near Upsala, which still bears the name of _Tingshogen_, Scand. _haugr_; Thingveller (the council-plains), in Iceland; Sandsthing (the place of meeting on the sand), in Iceland; Aithsthing (the meeting-place on the headland), in Iceland; Dingwall, in Ross-shire, has the same derivation--its Gaelic name is _Inverpeffer_ (at the mouth of that stream); Tingwall, in Shetland, Tynwald Hill, Isle of Man, Thingwall in Cheshire, and Dinsdale in Durham, from the same root; Tinwald, in Dumfries (the wood of the meeting); Tain, in Ross-shire, Norse _Thing_--its Gaelic name is _Baile-Duich_ (St. Duthic’s town). [Sidenote: THOR and THUR,]