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faculties continued active to the last. He died at Berlin, 

 December 8, 1804. (Jorden's l,i'xi<-oi>. i 



TELLERS OF THE EXCHEQUER were the holders 



of an antient office in the Exchequer. They were lour in 



number : their duties were to receive money payable into 



the Exchequer on behalf of the king, to give the clerk of 



the pells i skins or rolls of parchment) a bill of receipt for 



the money, to pay all money according to the warrant of 



the auditor of receipts, and to make weekly and yearly 



books of receipts and payments for the lord treasurer. 



I ///s/.. IDS ; Com. Di<r., tit. ' Court.' D. 4, 14, 15.) The 



office was abolished by act of parliament (4 & 5 Wm. IV., 



e. f5i, together with that of the clerk of the pells and the 



tl offices subordinate thereto, and a new constitution 



'lished, a eomptioller-general of the receipt and issue 



of his Majesty's Exchequer being appointed to perform 



the duties of the four tellers. 4 & 5 \Vm. IV., c. 13.) 



TELLEZ, BALTHEZAR, a native of Lisbon, was born, 

 according to the statement of M. Weiss, in the Biographic' 

 Vniverselle,' in the year 1595. Moreri states that he 

 joined the Society of Jesus in the year 1010. In the eulo- 

 gistic letter of Dom Francisco Manoel, prefixed to Tellez's 



History of Ethiopia,' he is said i at least this seems to 

 be the writer's meaning, which his affected style renders 

 rather obscure . to have studied t<;n years, and taught foity : 



. t- paid attention to literature during the whole ten 



year.-, of hi. < areer as student, but devoted two of them 



more especially to philosophy, and four of them lo 



theoloiry. He lectured upon ln-lh'x /-tires for twenty 



liing in succession the most advanced literary 



s in the Society's colleges at Braira, Evora, Lisbon, 

 and Coimbra. He lectured two years on philosophy, but 

 Mauoel does not mention in what seminary. Lastly, Tel- 

 lez was eight years professor of theology in the college of 

 St. Antonio at Lisbon. At, a later period he was appointed 

 master of the house of the professed Jesuits in Lisbon, 

 and ultimately provincial of the order in Portugal. He 

 died in his eightieth year, on the 10th of April, 1(>75. 

 The published works of Tellez are : 1, A compendium of 

 philosophy, entitled ' Summa Uni\ ersae Philosophise, cum 



rionilms quae inter Philosophos agitantur,' published 

 at Lisbon, in folio, in 1042; at Paris, in two quarto vo- 

 lumes, in 1044: and at Lisbon, in four octavo volumes, in 

 Iii52: 2. ' Chronica da Companhia de Jesus da Provincia 

 da Portugal,' in two volumes, the first published in 1045, 

 the second in 104s, both at Lisbon : 3. ' Historic 



'liiopia a alta,' in one folio volume, ul Coimbra, in 

 1000. He is also said to have lelt in MS. a history of the 

 aUmrs in tile East. The historical works of 

 Tellez are of more value than his philosophical ti< 

 The History of the Jesuits in Portugal is a valuable con- 

 tribution to the history of that accomplished and energetic 

 order. The ' History of Ethiopia,' or, more properly, the 

 history of the Jesuit-Minions in Ethiopia, is indispensable 

 to any one who wishes to study the history or comparative 



aphy of Abyssinia. The first book contains an 

 nc of the geography of Abyssinia, of its political 

 divisions, government, and statistics, as they existed from 

 the time that the Jesuit missionaries first entered the 

 kingdom till their expulsion under Facilidas. The remain- 

 ing five books are chiefly occupied wfth the narrative of 



unary enterprise, but contain important contributions 



to geography, the general accuracy of which has, on the 



whole, been confirmed by the testimony of later travellers. 



Iivthe preface Tellez gives an account of the authorities 



from whom he has compiled his book, Manoel d'Almeyda, 



Atfonso Mendes, .Teronymo Lobo. and Pero Pays ; and he 



availed himself of their information both with taste 



and judgment. 



i"The authority statement* in this sketch are the 



History of Ethiopia,' with the preface by Telle/ himself, 

 and the letter of Francisco Manoel prefixed to it: the 



: Balthezar Tellez. in the Bibliothcca Scrip- 

 of Nicolao Antonio, in the l)ieiio:inaii-, 

 of Louis Moreri, and in the ' Biographic 



TKLL I CHERRY. [HINDUS-TAX, p. 207; MAI.ABAH, p. 

 :M2.1 



M'VA. [C'ONCHACKA, vol. vii., pp. 428, 429.] 

 i.l.I'MDKS. [CONCHACEA, vol. vii., p. 428.] 

 TKLLU'RHJM, a metal which was discovered in 

 by Mi'illcr t,i K ... but its properties were 



minutely examined by Klaproth sixteen years afterwards, ' 



and he gave it the name it now bears. It is a scarce 

 metal. Its properties are the following: its colour is 

 silver-white, and it is very brilliant : it is crystalline and 

 brittle, of a lamellar fracture, easily pulverized, and a worse 

 conductor of electricity than antimony or bismuth. Its 

 specific gravity, according to Klaproth, is 0-115, while 

 Magnus makes it 0-137,9. Ii is nearly as fusible as anti- 

 mony, and at a high temperature it boils, and may be 

 distilled. When strongly heated in contact with air, it 

 burns with a lively blue flame, green at the borders, and 

 forms a white vapour, which has an acid odour. 



The principal ores of tellurium are the following : 



Xitfirn Tellurium. It is found crystallized and masshe. 

 Primary form a rhomboid; occurs in minute six-sided 

 prisms, the terminal edges of which are usually replaced. 

 Cleavage parallel to the faces of the prism. Fiaclure in- 

 distinct. Hardness : scratches sulphate of lime, and in 

 scratched by the carbonate. Easily frangible. Colour tin- 

 white or steel-grey. Lustre metallic. Specific gravity 

 57 to 0-1 15. 



Before the blowpipe very fusible, burns with a greenish 

 flame, and is volatilized in a white vapour. It is soluble 

 in hydrochloric acid. 



MaMfff I 'urifty. -.Granular. . Colour splendent tin- 

 white. Lustre metallic. Opaque, Specific, gravity 0-115. 



It occurs in Transylvania. 



Klaproth's analysis gives, 



Tellurium . . 92 -55 

 Iron . . . 7-20 



Gold . 0-25 



100- 



'// 'ji/iii- Tr Hurt n in. Aiirn-iii-^'-iiliffrniix Tellurium. 



Occurs cryitallized. Primary form a right rhombic prism ; 



occurs in attached flattened cry.-tals, which are generally 



minute. Fracture uneven. Hardness: scratches talc, and 



atched by calcareous spar. It is brittle. Colour 



;rey. Lustre metallic. Opaque. Specific gravity 



' 



Before the blowpipe it readily fuses into a globule, and 

 iced to a metallic button of a brisrh! yellow colour. 

 Soluble in nitric acid, except a. yellow metallic residue. 



It occurs accompanying gold in narrow veins traversing 

 porphyry at Oii'enbanya, and also at Xagyau', in Transyl- 

 vania. 



Analysis by 



Klii|itnth, 

 00 



Tellurium . . 

 Gold ..... :> 

 Silver ..... 10 

 Lead ....... 



Herr.fliiis. 



02- 



24.' 



11-3 



1-5 



100 98-8 



Berzelius found also a little sulphur, arsenic, antimony, 

 iron, and copper. 



Yellow Tellurium. Occurs in imbedded crystalline 

 laminae. Primary form a, right rhombic prism. Traces 

 of cleavage. Fracture uneven. Hardness: scratches 

 gypsum, and is scratched by calcareous spar. Rather 

 brittle. Colour silvery-white, inclining to brass-yellow. 

 Lustre metallic. Opaque. Specific gravity 10-078. 



By the blowpipe melts into a metallic globule. Partly 

 soluble in nitric acid. 



It occurs at Nagyag in Transylvania, and in the Altai 

 Mountains in Siberia. 



Analysis by Klaproth : 



Tellurium 44-75 



Gold 

 Lead . 

 Silver . 



Sulphur 



20-75 

 19-50 

 8-50 

 0-50 



100- 



Jl/iir/; Ti-lliirinm. Occurs crystallized, and in imbedded 

 foliated masses. Primary form a square prism. C'lea 

 parallel to the terminal plane, in thin flexible laminii'. 

 Fracture indistinct. Hardness: scratches talc, and i; 

 scratched by gypsum. Colour dark lead-grey. Lustre 

 metallic. Opaque. Specific gravity 7'tH"3. 



liefoiv the blowpipe is fusible on charcoal, and cover* 

 'h oxide of lead ; reducible into a iru'y metallic 

 , uhirh eventual!) lca\cs a button of gold. 

 li.iind at. Nagyag and Ofienbiuiya. in Trail > i\ ama. 



