TIPTON, county of Tennessee, bounded N. by Dyer, E. by Haywood, S.E. by Lafayette, S.\V. by Shelby, and IV. by the Mississippi river. Length 50, mean breadth 23, and area 690 square miles. Extending in Lat. from 35° 23' to 48' N., and in Lon. from 12° 32' to 13° W. from IV. C. The declivity of this county is westward towards the Mississippi. Big Hatchee river, rising in the state of Mississippi, enters Tennessee, traversing Hardiman and Ilaywood into Tipton in a north western direction. In the latter, the stream de flects to westward, but with a northern curve falls into the Mississippi above the Second Chickasaw Bluff, dividing Tipton into nearly equal sections. Forked Deer river also, after traversing Madison, Haywook, and Dyer, curves into and falls into the Mississippi in the N.W. angle of Tipton, imme diately above the First Chickasaw Bluff.
Except the flats along the Mississippi, the sur face of Tipton county is hilly, with good soil. Sta ple, cotton.
By the post office list of 1831, there were post offices in Tipton at CovixoTos, the county seat, Branch, Durhamville, Fulton, Hartfield, Randolph, and Richland Grove.
Covington, the scat of justice, is situated on a small branch of Big Hatchee, about 40 miles N.N.E. from Memphis on the Mississippi, in Shel by county, and by post road, 197 miles S.W. by W. from Nashville. Lat. 32' N., and Lon. 12° 47' W. from W. C.
or TIREE, an island of the Hebrides in the county of Argyle. It is about 13 miles long, and its medium breadth 21. It contains 864 square miles, excluding its 24 lakes, which occupy 600 acres. About one half of the island is arable. The high
est grounds do not rise above 350 feet above the sea, and such is the general flatness of its surface, that the waves are often seen from the one shore apparently several feet above the level of the other. The soil varies from a black mossy earth to sand, and the crops are bear, black oats, lint, and pota toes. Kelp used to he manufactured to the extent of 245 tons annually. The minerals in the island are gneiss, is hich forms nearly the whole of the island, granite, whinstone, ironstone, and lime stone, bright green compact fedspar, pargasite, augite, sahlite, tremolite, which arc described in our article SCOTLAND, Vol. XVII. It yields a greenish marble of great beauty, and now in general use. There is a great number of caves in the hill of Kean-mharr, which forms the west extremity of the island. The island yields no fuel —neither wood nor peat, though large roots and branches of trees are found in the mosses. The duke of Argyle is proprietor of the whole island. The valued rent of Tyree and Col is 2801.10s. 3d., and the real rent of Tyree about 1810, kelp includ ed, was nearly 30001.
In 1800 the population was 3200. There were then in the island 1500 horses, 2000 cows, 1300 hogs, and about 880 sheep.
In 1821 there was 721 houses, 733 families, 467 of which are employed in agriculture, 48 in trade, and 4181 inhabitants. Sec 'Macdonald's General new of the .1griculture of the Hebrides, p. 725, and Maculloch's Description of the Western Islands. See also SCOTLAND, in this work.