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 THURLOE THYLACINE 731 it S. W. and S., is a narrow and wooded moun- tain range, rising in some parts upward of 3,000 ft., and extending nearly 70 m., not in- cluding numerous northern offshoots toward the Hartz. In the southeast it approaches the Fichtelgebirge, and in the southwest the Rhon, from which it is separated by the valley of the Upper Werra. The inhabitants are chiefly en- gaged in mining, grazing, and manufactures. The territory covered or traversed by the Thuringian Forest is included in the Prussian province of Saxony, Saxe- Weimar-Eisenach, Meiningen-Hildburghausen, Saxe-Coburg-Go- tha, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Altenburg, and the Reuss principalities, all of which territories are called Thuringian in the wider sense. THIRLOE, John, an English statesman, born at Abbots Roding, Essex, in 1616, died in London, Feb. 21, 1668. He was called to the bar in 1647, and in 1652 became secretary to the council of state, and in 1653 secretary to the protector. In 1657 he was made a privy councillor, and in 1658 governor of the Charter- house and chancellor of Glasgow university. While continuing to hold office under Rich- ard Cromwell he was accused of offering his services to promote the restoration of Charles II., and was imprisoned in May and June, 1660. After his release he took no part in public af- fairs. His collection of state papers, with a number of private papers and letters, was ed- ited, with a life of Thurloe, by Thomas Birch, D. D. (7 vols. fol., London, 1742.) THURLOW, Edward, lord, an English states- man, born at Little Ashfield, near Stowmar- ket, Suffolk, in 1732, died in Brighton, Sept. 12, 1806. He was educated at Cambridge, was called to the bar in 1754, entered upon a lu- crative practice, and was appointed king's counsel in 1761. In 1768 he was elected to parliament, in 1770 was appointed solicitor general, in 1771 attorney general, and in 1778, as a reward for his zealous advocacy of the government policy respecting America, he was made lord chancellor in Lord North's ministry, and raised to the peerage as Baron Thurlow. By command of the king he retained the office of lord chancellor in the Rockingham and Shelburne administrations, notwithstanding he was politically opposed to his coadjutors, and lost no opportunity to defeat their leading measures. This led to the withdrawal of Fox ; and in the coalition ministry which succeed- ed, it was stipulated that Thurlow should not hold a seat. He still remained ia confidential relations with the king, and on the accession of Pitt to power, in December, 1783, received again the great seal, which he held for more than eight years. He opposed certain mea- sures of the cabinet, which led to his removal at the request of Pitt, whom he always dis- liked, and with the consent of the king. He was overbearing and passionate, a dictator ^ra- ther than a debater in parliament, but an im- pressive and eloquent speaker. His nephew and heir, EDWAKD HOVELL-THURLOW, second lord (1781-1829), published "Ariadne, a Poem in three Parts" (1814), "Carmen Britanni- cum" (1814), and several volumes of miscel- laneous poems, including translations from Anacreon and Horace. THfRN AND TAXIS. See POST, vol. xiii., p. 748. 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). THCRSTON, a S. W. county of Washington territory, bounded N. E. by the Nisqually river, and W. by the Coast range ; area, 672 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 2,246. Much of the sur- face is mountainous, but there are several rich valleys. An arm of Puget sound extends into the N. E. part, and it is drained by the Des Chutes river and other streams. The Pacific division of the Northern Pacific railroad pass- es through it. The chief productions in 1870 were 10,602 bushels of wheat, 1,778 of rye, 17,515 of oats, 18,375 of potatoes, 16,511 Ibs. of wool, 40,425 of butter, and 3,013 tons of hay. There were 788 horses, 1,134 milch cows, 1,973 other cattle, 4,192 sheep, and 788 swine ; 2 flour mills, 1 tannery, 1 currying es- tablishment, and 3 saw mills. Capital, Olym- pia, which is also the capital of the territory. THYESTES. See ATBEUS. THILACOfE, or Pouched Wolf, a marsupial ani- mal of the dasyurine family, and genus ihy- lacinm (Temminck) or peracyon (Gray), pecu- liar to Tasmania ; both of the generic names indicate the possession of the pouch. In this genus the dentition is: incisors, the outer slightly the largest ; canines ~, large, simply conical, the upper separated from the incisors by a deep concavity in which the apex of the Dog-headed Thylacine (Thylacinus Harrissii). lower is received when the jaws are closed, in this differing from carnivora proper, in which the lower canines pass outside of the upper jaw ; premolars f if, separated from each other ; molars fif, with a large central cusp, and two smaller, one in front and the other behind it. The humerus has the inner condyle perforated, the hind feet have no in-