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built. The circulation of property created by the
diamond works rendered it a nourishing town.
Telese, a town of Naples, in Terra di Lavoro,
13 in. E. N. E. of Capua.
Telfair, a county of Georgia. Pop. 2,136. Jack-
sonville is the capital.
Telgen, or Telga, a town of Sweden, in Suder-
mania, on the lake Maeler, 12 m. S. W. of Stock-
holm.
Telget, a town of Prussian Westphalia, 5 m. E.
N. E. of Munster.
Tell, a township of Huntingdon Co. Pa.
Tdles, a town of the kingdom of Fez, with a
small harbour, on the Mediterranean, 100 m. E.
S. E. of Tetuan.
Tellicherry, a town of Hindoostan , in Malabar.
It has a considerable trade, and is seated at the
mouth of a river, 42 m. N. N. W. of Calicut.
Long. 75. 33. E., lat. 11. 48. N.
Tellico,p.v. Monroe Co. Ten.
Tdtow, a town of Prussia, in Brandenburg, on
a lake ofthe same name, 7 m. S. S. W. of Berlin.
Tdtsck, a town of Austria, in Moravia, 16 m. S.
of Iglau.
Temendefust, a town of the kingdom of Algiers,
10 m. E. of Algiers.
Tcmeswar, a strong town of Hungary, capital of
a territory called the Bannat of Temeswar. It
stands on the river Bega, which forms a morass
round it, and tne fortress requires a garrison of
14,000 men. This place formerly passed for im-
pregnable ; but it was taken by prince Eugene,
in a dry season, in 1716. SO. m. N. N. E. of Bel-
grade and 160. S. W. of Buda.
Temissa, a town of Fezzan, where the caravans
from Tombuctoo, Bornou, &c., which travel by
the way of Cairo to Mecca, usually provide the
stores of com, dates, dried meat, and other requi-
sites for their dreary journey. 120 m. E. N. E.
of Mourzook.
Tempelborg, a town of the Prussian states, in
Pomerania, on the S. side ofa lake and on the fron-
tiers of Poland, 43 m. E. by N. of New Stargard.
Temple, a township of Kennebec Co. Me. Pop.
798; ph. Hillsborough Co. N. H. 30 m. S. Con-
cord. Pop. 647.
Templeton, ph. Worcester Co. Mass. Pop.
1,551.
Templin, a town of Prussia, in Brandenburg,
with a great trade in timber. It was totally con-
sumed by fire in 1735, but has been rebuilt in a
beautiful manner. It stands between the Boden-
see and Dolgensee, 18 m. S. W. of Prenzlo and
42 N. by E. of Berlin.
Tenasserim, a town of Birmah, capital of a dis-
trict of its name, situate on a large river, 47 m.
S. E. of Mergui. Long. 98. 50. W., lat. 11. 35.
N.
Tenbury, a town in Worcestershire, Eng. 133
in. W. N. W. of London.
Tenby, a sea-port of Wales, in Pembrokeshire,
253 m. W. of London. Long. 4. 40. W., lat. 51.
44. N.
Tench Island, an island in the S. Pacific; 2 m.
in circumference, discovered by lieutenant Ball,
in 1790. It is low, but entirely covered with co-
coa-nut and other trees. Long. 151. 31. E., lat.
1. 39. S.
Tenda, a town of the Sardinian states, in Pied-
mont, with a fortified castle on a rock. It stands on
the Roia, 65 m. S. ofTurin. |
Tenedos, an island of the Grecian Archipelago,
on the coast of Asia Minor, 14 m. S. of the strait
of Gallipoli. It is 11 m. long and 7 broad, is in-
habited almost wholly by Greeks, and its musca
dine wine is the best in all the Levant. On the
E. side is the town, at the foot of a mountain, with
a harbour defended by a castle. Long. 26. 0. E.,
lat. 39. 50. N.
Tene iffe, one of the Canary Islands, and the
most considerable of them for riches, trade, and
population. It lies W. of the Grand Canary, is
70 m. long and 22 broad, and abounds in wine,
different sorts of fruits, cattle, and game. One
part of this island is surrounded by inaccessible
mountains, of which one in particular, called the
Peak of Teneriffe, isxe2x80x98 12,072 feet above the level of
the sea, and the distance to the Peak from the port
of Oratavia, at the base of the mountain, is above 11
m. This island is subject to volcanic eruptions
and in 1704 one destroyed several towns and many
thousand people. The laborious works in this is-
land are chiefly performed by oxen and mules,
horses being scarce and reserved for the use of
the officers. Hawks and parrots are natives
of the island, as are swallows, sea-gulls, partridg-
es, canary birds, and blackbirds. There are al-
so lizards,locusts, and dragon-flies. St. Christophe
de Laguna is the capital, but the governor resides
at St. Cruz.
Teneriffe, a town of the republic of Colombia,
in the former vice-royalty of New Granada, seat-
ed on the Madalena, 100 m. S. S. W. of St.
Martha.
Tenez, or Tenis, a town of Algiers, in the prov-
ince of Mascara, capital of a district of its name,
with a fort. It has a considerable trade in corn
and is seated on a river, 4 m. from the sea and 85
W. S. W. of Algiers.
Te-ngan, a city of China, of the first rank, in
Hou-quang. 550 m. S. by W. of Pekin. Lon*. 113
21. E., lat. 31. 20. N.
Tennessee, a river of the United States, the larg-
est of all those which flow into the Ohio. Its
commencement is formed in the state to which it
gives name, by the junction of the Clinch with
the Holston, 35 m. below Knoxville. It flows S.
W., on the E. side of Cumberland Mountains, in-
to Georgia, where it makes a circuit to the W. of
called the Great Bend ; it then re-enters the state
of Tennesse, which it passes quite through into
that of Kentucky, where it enters the Ohio, 50
m. above the conflux of that river with the Mis-
sissippi. The Tennessee is 600 yards broad at
its mouth, and is thence navigable by vessels of
great burden for 260 m., to the Muscle Shoals,
in the Great Bend: here the river widens to be-
tween 2 and 3 m. for nearly 30 m.; and these
shoals can only be passed in small boats ; hence
it may be navigated, by boats of 40 tons burden,
400 m. further to its commencement.
Tennessee, one of the United States, bounded
N. by Kentucky; E. by North Carolina; S. by
Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi; and W. by
the river Mississippi, separating it from Missouri
and Arkansas. Its length is about 430 m.; its
breadth 104 m. It lies between 35. and 36. 36. N.
Iat., and between 81. 30. and 90. 10. W. long., and
contains 40,000 sq. m. The western part of the
State is comparatively level. The eastern portion
is mountainous.
The Cumberland Mountains extend through the
state from N. E. to S. W., dividing it into two sec-
tions. In East Tennessee are many parallel
ridges, the most lofty of which, are the Laurel,
Stone, Yellow, Iron, Bald, and Unaka Mountains
All these are peaks of a continued chain. Wei-
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