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in the kingdom of Bavaria, about thirty mile* from Munich, 

 at the tool of the Bavarian Alp*. It it about four miles 

 li.iiir. our mile and a quarter broad, and 3(10 feet deep. 

 ThU lake cave its name to a Benedictine abbey, which 

 was found, d liy the Agilolfingers, in tlie timr of Kinsr 

 IVpin, w a* destroyed l>y tin' Hungarians, restored in IT'.'. 

 and not alxmslu d till some \carsafter the beginning of 

 tin-, century. The abbots were pnnccs, and hail four 

 hereditary offices in their household which were held 

 ..hlcincn. The late king of Bavaria, Maximilian 

 Joseph, had the abbey converted into a fine palace, which 

 he presented to his consort the late Queen < 'aroline, with 

 the lordship depending on it, which is about CO square 

 miles in extent, including the village of Tegcrnsce. with 

 300 inhabitants. This palace i> situated in a beautiful 

 country surrounded with lolly mountains, among which 

 the Waldberg and the Setzberg are sometimes illuminated 

 when there are royal visitors at the palace. The grounds 

 are laid out with great taste, and the village church i 

 handsome, and contains some fine paintings. In the 

 \iciuitv there are quarries of fine marble of various colours, 

 and the mineral springs of Kreiith and Schwaighof. 

 Kreutli is in a very rom.intic situation, at the foot of high 

 mountains, and is much frequented for its sulphureous 

 waters. Near Tegernsce naphtha is found, which is here 

 called St. Quirinus oil, because it was formerly pretended 

 that it issued from the corpse of St. Quirinus, to whom a 

 chapel in the vicinity is dedicated. 



( Hassel, Geograpnie ; Stein, Geogranhitches Lexicon ; 

 Cannabich, Lehrbuch der Geographie; Hiibner, Zeilungs- 

 Ler.inut . \ 



TKHER AN, or TEHRAN. [PERSIA.] 



TEHUACAN. [MEXICAN STATES.] 



TK.Ilf \NTKPEC. [MEXICAN STATES.] 



TEK5N MOUTH. [DEVONSHIRE.] 



TEIGNMOUTH, JOHN SHOKK, LORD, was the 

 elde-t -on oi Thomas Shore, Esq., sometime of Melton in 

 Suffolk, and of his wife Dorothy (other authorities say 

 Deborah) Shepherd. The family was originally of Derby- 

 shire, Lord Teignraouth's great-grandfather having lieen 

 a Sir John Shore, of Derby, M.D., who was knighted in 

 1067. Lord Teienmouth was born, it is believed, in Devon- 

 shire, Octobers, 1751 : his father died in 1739, his mother 

 in 1783, and his only brother, the Rev. Thomas William 

 Shore, who was vicar of Sandal in Yorkshire, and of Ot- 

 terton in Devonshire, in 1822. 



Lord Teigmnouth went to Bengal in 1709, as a cadet in 

 the Company's civil service, and was first stationed at 

 Moorshcdabad as an assistant under the council of revenue. 

 In 1773 his knowledge of that language procured him the 

 appointment of Persian translator and secretary to the 

 Provincial Council of Moorshedabad ; and this was fol- 

 lowed the next year by a seat at the Calcutta revenue 

 board, which he retained till the dissolution of the board 

 in 1781, when he was appointed second member of the 

 general committee of revenue, established by the new 

 charier grunted that year. While holding this' situation, 

 Mr. Shore lived in terms of intimacy with Warren Has- 

 tings, the governor-general ; and when Hastings came 

 home in 1785 he. accompanied his friend to Kngland. 

 During this visit to hig native country he married Char- 

 lotte, only daughter of James Cornish, Esq., a medical 

 practitioner at Teignmouth ; and a few weeks after, in 

 April. 17HG, he set out again for Calcutta, having beer 

 Appointed one of the members of the Supreme Council 

 miller the new governor-general Lord ('ornwallis. To 

 hi activity and ascendency in the council is mainly 

 attributed the adoption of Cornwallis's great measure, tin 

 new settlement, in 1/8!), of landed propeitv in the pre- 

 sidency of Bengal, by which the zemindar-, hitherto only 

 the revenue agents or tax-gatherers of the government, 

 were made the hereditary proprietors of the estates which 

 they tanned, and the ryots, or peasantry, who had till now 

 a right of occupation so long as they paid their assess- 

 ments, were declared the tenants of the zemindars, and 

 made removable at the will of their landlords. The new 

 judicial system which was introduced towards the close of 

 Ixird Cornwallis's government in 1793, also owed its esta- 

 blishment in a principal degree to Shore, who had been 

 mnde a baronet the preceding year. On the retirement ol 

 ('ornwallis, in August, 179:}, Sir John Shore was appointed 

 to succeed him as governor-general ; and he held that 

 high office till the cloe of the year 1797, when he resifpied 



t to the eurl of Mornineton. and was created an Irish peer 

 In the title of Baron ;!i. 



Upon the death 01 in April, l~'.l, 



Sir John Shore was elected president of the Asiati, 

 ciety : and taking Ins seat in that capacity mi the 22nd of 

 May, he delivered a discourse on the merits of the late 

 president, which is printed in the fourth volume of the 

 Society's 'Transactions.' Alter his return home Lord 

 Tei^nmouth published, in 1H04. a -Ho. volume, entitled 

 Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspond. 

 William Jones ;' and in 1807 he produced an edition, in 

 13 vols. 8VO., of Jones's Works, with this l.if, 

 Upon his leaving India Lord Teignmouth had I- 



dent of the Asiatic Society by Sir Robert 

 Chambers, in a discourse by whom, delivered at a meeting 

 of the Society on the iHth' of Janimiv . IT'.N. and printed 

 in the sixth volume of their Transactions,' then 

 sketch of the character and career of Ins p In 



ISO I. on the formation of the British and Foreign Bible 

 Society, Lord Teignmouth was elected its first president : 

 and this situation he retained till his death, though for- 

 years before that event he was obliged to devolw 

 duties upon his successor, Lord Bexley. In the prosperity 

 of the Society he at all times took the liveliest inte:'. 



On the 4th of April, 1807, Lord Teignmouth was ap- 

 pointed one of the commissioners for the ; India. 

 or, in other words, a member of the Board of Control : and 

 on the 8th of the same month he was sworn of the P 

 Council. He retained his seat at the Board of ( 'onti. 

 some years; and his death took place on the 14th of I-Y- 

 bruary, 1834. 



Besides the publications already mentioned. Lord I 

 mouth is the author of ' A Letter to the Keveu-nd i 

 topher Wordsworth, D.D., on the subject of the Bible 

 Society,' Svo., London, 1810; and Considerations on 

 communicating to the Inhabitants of India the Knowledge 

 of Christianity.' Svo., London, 1811. (li ///. M'i^. for 

 1834, pt. i.. p.' .V>J 



TEISSIER, ANT OIXE, was born at Montpellier, 28th 

 January, 1632. His family, which was originally of 

 N imes, was Protestant; and his father was receiver-ge- 

 neral of the province of Languedoc, but he was deprived 

 of that appointment, and also of whatever else In 

 sessed, a few months alter the birth of his son, for having 

 joined the revolt of Henri, Due de Montmorenci. or at 

 least given up to him the public money which was in his 

 hands. Montmorenci was taken prisoner at the affair 

 of C'astelnandari, on the 1st of September. Hilt'J : his 

 insurrection was suppressed, and on the ,'JOth of ' 

 ber he was beheaded. After the ruin of his family it 

 was determined that Antoine Teissier should he 

 cated for the ministry of the Protestant church, and 

 with that view he studied theology for some time at 

 the Protestant seminaries of Nimcs, Montauhan, and 

 Saumur. But in the end he made up his mind to 

 adopt the profession of the law, induced, it is said, 

 by the weak state of his health: and after having gone 

 through the usual course of study at Bourges. and ta!.. 

 doctors degree, he commenced practice as an ad\ 

 before the district court called the Presulial. . 

 His bodily strength however proved to be no mon 

 ficient for the bar than it had been thought to he for the 

 pulpit ; and after some time he gave up hi-, profession, 

 and took to literature as a means of subsistence. On the 

 revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 1GST>. Teissier took 

 refuge in Switzerland, having, according to the ' li. 

 phie I'liivei-sclle,' although in extreme ill lined 



very tempting proposals which were made through the 

 chancellor IVAgiiesseau, to induce him to remain in Kiance. 

 But it would no doubt be made a condition that he 

 should abjure Protestantism. He supported In 

 chieflvat first by publishing a French newspaper at Heine; 

 then l>y giving a course of public law idrcnt pulm 

 /.fiiieh; and the works he sent to the press fmni tune to 

 time also brought him something. At length, in Ki'.l2,he 

 was invited by Frederic III., elector of lirandcithiirg 

 afterwards king Frederic I. of Prussia) to come to Berlin ; 

 and there he resided till his death, on the 7th of Septem- 

 ber, 1715. Immediately on his arrival he had been nomi- 

 nated a councillor of state, and appointed to the office of 

 historiographer; and part of Ins time was also occupied 

 for some \eais in superintending or directing the educa- 

 tion of tlie hereditary prince, afterwards Frederic William 



