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.ary dulnes* of Beaucaire. 

 nal college or ln^li school uiul 

 ii v. i- the birth-place of 

 Tin- town sv;u, fur a long 

 liitiou the seat of a subprefeeture, 

 .meat : lint about the time of 

 .'ion of the Bourbons, the tubprvfoctur* 



;iirr. Desrriptif d i 

 i/tigt dtim lei Hi'/ \fli de la 



Th, Iher town in Frai 1 '.D.ISCOH. in the 



depai' and n!i thf ii- liuse Foi\: 



-Jim-times distinguished u 



sur-Ariege. D'Anville is dispu iiify it with the 



i I'liiiy ^Hist. AW., lib. u . which 



others would fix at Taragcon un tin 1 Rhone. Taraseon- 

 sur-Ariei:e is ;i small place, 11 mart of tin- ironstone dug 

 in the adjacent Pyrenees. The population is probably 

 about : 



M. [I.u.vn.noN.l 



TAUAXOXA, a considerable district of Aragon in 

 Spain, bordering un the noith and east on the ]ini\inee u! 

 Na\;irre: on the -outh on the province of Soria : ;, 

 the went on the Carregimiento de Uorja. The capital, 

 Tara/ima, the anticnt Turiii-w, i- situated at the foot of a 

 lolly mountain-. inks of 



the liver Quell. i5' X. lat.. r V \V. long. Tum- 



/.oaa . 'fa hi-hup, who is sufi'innan of Saragosna, 



Tlif town is l.adly hniit, and the street* narrow and 

 crooked. With the exception of the cathednil, a liue 

 Gothic pile eieeted in the thirteenth century, there is no 

 oilier building worth notice. Mifiano (Diccicnario Go- 

 grajlcii. sol. viii.. p. 3.U e-timate-. the population ot'Tara- 

 zona at 10,000 inhabitants. ii 1H'J7. The neighbourhood 

 is well cultivated, and yields abundant crops of all sorts of 

 giain. There is also a small town in La Mancha called 

 Tarazona. 



TARHES. a town in France, capital of the department 

 of Haute* Psri'ni'-cs. or High l'_\ n-nr,-> : about UK) miles 

 from Paris, in a diiect line south-south-svcsl ; -l.">3 mile* 

 by the shortest road through Orleans, (Jhuleauroux, Limo- 

 ges, Pt'riguenx, Agen, and Auch: or 533 miles by Limo- 

 ges, Cahurs. Moiitauban, Toulouse, and Aueh, which is the 

 given by Keichard in his llinrraire. It in in 43" 13' 

 X. )at. "amlo"5'K. lonir. 



Tarbes is nientio led in the ' Notitia Provincianim el 



.turn Galiiue,' where it is called Tuiba: it was the 



chief town of tlie Bigerrones, Bigerri, or Uegeiri, a nation 



which has uiveii name to the distiict of Ui^oriv. In the 



town or adjacent to it was a fortress, culled, in the' Xotitia,' 



Cufirum Bigorra, the nite of which is now occupied by 



the cathediai. In the middle ages, Taibes was the capital 



of the county of Bii: ,!lciv,l from the ravages of 



the .Saracens and the .Normans, and was held for a time 



by the English. There wa some sharp iiirhtini; near the 



tuwn, inth. ,e ol \Velhnirton, A. n. lh!4. 



Tarbc* is cituuted in a fertile )>lain, nearly 1000 feet 



above the level of 11 rrcd by the .\<ionr v on the 



ank of which the town stands and by (lie Leche7. 



and bounded on the south by the Pyrenees. The town is 



i ; the streets are well laid out, broad, paved, and 



watered by little foro. in-, which contiihut 



to coolness and cleanliness. There nre two public , 



or squares, that of Muubouricct, which is planted wiili 



.ind that of Murciulieu, remarkable for its sue: I.e- 



;.MI places, there is an agreeable promenade. 



. The house* in the 



town are penerally of t'vo or three stories, well built, of 

 brick, some of maible. and roofi d with dales. They haye 

 for tl. <! Lraulens. The principiil public 



buildings me the catheihal ; the iirelc.-t's office, fin 

 the i tin' bishop, which from its elevated situa- 



tion coinni:tti<U a pleasant pro-pcct | .mil a handsome 



..f the 



> i* used as a prison. Tarbe* has five 



-. on the five muds which lend from 



t-: the suburb* art- that of Kabax- 



. on the right hank of the Adour. which 



;e it lii.m the town: that o! Vie on the north; that 



on the houth; all on the road* leading retfec- 



tive.y to those places ; that of SainUt Anne on th* w*t, 



58 T A II 



on the road to Pan : and Hi. the 



south-west, on the road to I.uiini cllez. 



:iimune. in - S712; in 



1831, y7(K>: in 1S30, are copper-mills and 



manui.. .U. papci 



yards; the town is the general mart for t: 

 department ; there i :, 

 for agricultural prodiu . kind and : 



frecpieiited by tl - 

 lise stock. a marble-t, '.I-AII. 



Tarb, iliordmate court ol j>. mer- 



fiscal and other gcjser; -. ; a 



communal ! svith a library, and school but 



1 an Intectiire ; u lice school of drawing and 



'id. lor winch there are 1 



and a handsome riding-school, just ou ..MI. 



The aiTondissement of Tin be- ha* an ar. 'jiiar* 



and comprehend* 1H7 commune- : tlic j 

 in KM. was lOi.02'2; in IKUi. IHl.M'J: and 

 into eli-sen canton-, or d,- h under a justice of 



ace. The bishopric of T.. sixth 



niipivhends the department : the 

 bishop is a Miffiagun of the \iich. 



i Mihin, / 

 Malti' Urn. 



'I'ARDl'GKADA, < . fn>t family of 



\(\. comprisins;, of .cia. the ^ 



only. [Ai ; I'.N.u-.] The '/'../ -.in the eiglali 



oi<lei- in llliirer's method, and coinprie the Sloth- 



,/,v ; but the latter cannot he said to base any 

 claim to such a collocation. [Bk.\H. sol. iv., pp. ;HJ. !>l. ] 



TARDI'VOLA, Mr. Snainson's name tor a genu* of 

 ubfamily TANAC.KI.V.K. and thus chaiacterued by 

 him : - 



Bill lengthened, conic, somewhat slender : the sides not 



iribbous : the commissure slightly or not at all sinnuled. 



U'niir.s sen short ; the first quill shorter than the four 



.Inch arc equal and lonirest. Tail lengthened, cu- 



1 or graduated, l-'eet larire. Tarus and toe- lonir. 



Outer toe miller shorter than the inner. Claws slender, 



sliirhtly curved. 



Kxainple, Turtlirnln t.):iifin<ra. [TANAGKHS.] 



TAHK. We liardly knosv whether nil the svords tare, 

 trel, cln/f, stilt/*'. /, are still used in commerce ; 



they all hold their places in svorks of arithmetic. Tare 

 is said to be the allowance for the weiirht of the box or 

 hair in whu:h goods are packed : trrt, an nllowai 

 4 b. in lOllb. for waste: rln'T, un allowance of '2 b. in 

 3cwt.. that the sveiabt may hold pood when -oM by re- 

 tail : the ifiofs weight, that of the poods and package all 

 toirelher: the tuttu weisrhl. that svhicii remains when 

 tare only is allowed : the//'/ weight, that which remains 

 svhen ail allowances are made. \V< shall merely 

 what we knosv of these v, 



'I'n-r wiitten ii.rti in some of our older arithmetical 

 is made from the Italian tarnrt, to nbatc. In that 

 lanirnasi- turn is a technical term implying ahati'inent of 

 any kind, not for weiirht of package only. \\'c I" 

 dnft'\o have been the Knirhsh word svhicii oriirinalls 

 fur the allowance tor imckace : in our older arithme- 

 .. Ian 1 and clotle 1,'enerally iro together, and the 

 latter seems to be for the package, the former lor other 

 abatement-.. I 'lull' or rloi/s/i is defined in an old dic- 

 tionary as that wherein any tliinir is jmt for c*ri 

 Humphrey Baker i \'>li-2 s']ienks only of t off'e ; 



MnUfWD ( hVfJ . of lara. clofte. and'tret. hut the ti.st two 

 ire uwd logethrr. \\ e cannot find cloft used in the 

 . iven to it l>\ mir modern books of arithmetic until 

 about the end of th.- sesenteenlh century. 



Tret seems to be from the Italian Irilnrr. to crumble. 

 Stevimik, in his Ijitii un lumk-kivpii.: 



trrlriinriitu/H in the sense of deduction from tin 

 chaiired lV'i t no <!* no explanation; the 



Italian form nttn wan formerly used for net svei^ht. It 

 lieing well known that these teuns t'c'iiernlly . 

 from the Italian. \ve must snppo-e --nttle to be liom ',/- 



i fine and snlnable. and 

 i applied to the finer part, an separated from the- co: 



! our old wiiter Ma-lei-un. Ant Innetike.' 15:12) 

 IIM8 snttle weiirbt in a manner which nuikes us imau'ine 

 we MA the origin of the hnmlrrd weight being a hundred 



