Thibet

or Tibet, (tib'ět,) an extensive country of S. Central Asia, mostly comprised within the Chinese empire, and lying between Lat. 28° and 35° N., and Lon. 72° and 104° E. The surface exhibits a vast table-land, elevated upwards of 10,000ft. above the sea, and reaching in some parts 15,000ft. in altitude. Thibet is politically divided into Wei and Tsang, or Hither and Further Thibet, the former being that part bordering on China. The principal river is the Sanpoo; and it has several lakes. Here are many beasts of prey, and great abundance and variety of wild fowl and game; with numerous flocks of sheep and goats, and herds of cattle. The principal exports are gold, gold-dust, diamonds, pearls, lamb-skins, goats' -hair, shawls, woollen cloths, rock-salt, musk, and tin cal or crude borax. The Thibet i ans are governed by the grand lama, or high priest of the Buddhist faith, who is not only submitted to and adored by them, but is absolutely regarded as the Deity himself. Even the emperor of China, who is of a Tartar race, does not fail to acknowledge the grand lama in his religious capacity, although, as a temporal sovereign, the lama himself is tributary to that emperor. The Thibet i ans preserve entire the mortal remains of their sovereign lamas only; every other corpse is either consumed by fire, or exposed to be the promiscuous food of beasts and birds of prey. The chief city is La a. Pop. 6,000,000. Thielt, (telt,) a manuf. town of Belgium, p. W. Flanders, 15 m. S.E. of Bruges. Pop. 14,216. Thierry, AMÉDEE SIMON DOMINIQUE, (te-a-re',) a French historian, B. at Blois in 1797, became a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1841, and a senator in 1860. His works comprise a History of Gaul under the Roman Rule (1826); History of Attila and of his Sons and Succe ors in Europe (1856); and a History of the Gauls from the Earliest Period to the Subjection of Gaul (1857). His brother, JACQUES NICOLAS AUGUST IN, B.1795, surpa ed him as an historian of standard excellence. He became blind in 1830; but, receiving a istance from his brother Amédée and his wife Julia Thierry, he continued to i ue to the world his philosophical thoughts in various e ays, which he subsequently reprinted in a collective form. His pp. works are:History of the Norman Conquest of England; Letters on the History of France; Narratives of the Me roving i an Times; Ten Years of Historical Studies; and E ay on the History of the Formation and Progre of the Third Estate. D. 1856, Thiers, LOUIS ADOLPHE, (te-air',) an eminent statesman and historian, and President of the French Republic, B. of humble parentage at Marseille in 1797, was educated for the law, but discarding the idea of following that profe ion, he, at an early age, entered the field of journalism as a contributor to the columns of the " Constitutionnel." Between the years 1823-1827 appeared his [s. 893]