THUJOPSIS DOLABRATA, and Z., a tree of Japan, called by the Japanese Asnero, is a very beautiful tree, growing to the height of 90 or 100 feet, very straight, and siugularly regular in its tapering form.
T'il UL. HIND.
T'hur, . . . . Sox, Gn Taarn, DAN Tur, Ott., PERS., 'WELSH.
Thurm, . . . . GER. Tor, SAX.
T'llUI is the general term by which the sand ridges of the Rajasthan deserts are designated. The term is identical with the tor, thur, and tull of other languages ; thus the Coptic t'hul has the same meaning. T'hul in Hindustan is from the Sanskrit St'hala, meaning ground, a tract, dis trict, and t'llul is the term by which the people designate the sandy desert tracts. The desert running to the Indus is marked with t'hul, t•ooe, and sand ridges, or T'hul-ka-tiba, some of them being very lofty. T'hul means an arid, bare desert ; r000 is equally expressive of desert, but implies the presence of natuml vegetation, in fact, the jungle of the desert The 'word Maroostliali is coinpohnded of the Sanskrit Mri, to die, and Sella, arid or dry land ; which last, in the corrupted dialect of those countries, becomes t'hul, denoting tracts particu larly sterile, the converse of the Greek oasis. Each t'hul has its distinct denomination, as the t'hul of Kawar, the t'hul of Goga, etc.
rhul are numerous in 1Vestern Marwar which is a corruption of Maroo-war, classically itIaroo st'hali or Maroost'han, the region of death. It is also called 3Iaroo-desa, the country of death, which is synonymous with Mor-d'hur used by the bards ; and though the term Marwar is now restricted to the country subject to the Rahtor mce, its ancient application was to the entire desert between the Sutlej and the ocean.
The Om/ sf the Looni embraces the tracts on both sides of the river forming Jhalore and its dependencies. Jhalore is one of tho most im portant divisions of Marwar, but the region south of the river cannot be included in the t'hul. When the Pramam race held paramount rule in Maroost'hali, Jhalore was one of the nine castles of Maroo. Jhalore has only the desert plants, the jhal, babul, and karil.
The Chul of Tirruroe intervenes between that of Gogadeo and the frontier of Jeysulmir. The
name is from Tar, moist, and Itooe. The t'hnl of Khawur lies between Jeysulmir and Barmair, and abutting at Giraup into the desert of Dhat, is in the most remote angle of Marwar. The &Arai find pasture for flocks of sheep and herds of buffaloes in this t'hul.
The Malli-nat'h t'hul is also called Barmair, formerly occupied by the Malli or Mallani, of Chauhan, or, as some declare, of Rahtor origin ; eryreat numbers of camels, the beat in India, are -reared here.
Kherd'hur, the land of Kher from tho kher plant, and Horn it also called Kheriila and Khemloo, 'the home of the Kher, was formerly occupied by :the Gohil race, who robbed the caravans or kafila ea they croased the desert. The Rahtor race drove out the Gobi!, who became the lords of Goga and Ilhownaggar near the Gulf of Cambay, and till lately swept the ocean as far as Sofala or the Gold Coast, as pirates and slave-hunters. Junah and Chotun aro two ancient towns. Between Bartnair and Nuggur Goorali is one immense rooe, containing deep jung,les of khyr or kher, kaijri, karil, keip, p'hok.
G'ogadeo-ka-Chul, the t'hul of Goga, a name celebrated in the heroic history of the Chauhane, is immediately north of Eendovati, and onc de scription will suit both. The sand ridges (eltul ka-tiba) are very lofty in all this tract ; very thinly inhabited ; few vineries ; water far front the surface, and having consrderable jungles.
The T'hul or desert of drift sand in the Sind Sager Doab, has Lein, Muzaffarnagar, Dehra Gliazi Khan, Jampore, and Dhoondoo on its skirts. The sand lies in huge wreaths and hillocks, the latter often reaching the height of 40 or 50 feet above the general level of the country, which is for the most part destitute of vegetation ; a few of the leafless pogh bushes, with some jhund and bur or peeloo, also occur, and there are occasional oases. There are small patches of ground free from sand, like little valleys surrounded by low hills. The soil is everywhere strongly impregnated with kullur (impure nitrate of soda).-7'od's Rajasthan, ii. pp. 296-300 ; Annals, ii. p. 289 ; Captain Dias in I'. I'. 265 of 18G1.