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three pairs ; the legume is 6- or 7-*eeded, and rather pu- 

 bescent. It is a native of 1 ! yields a blue 

 colouring-matter, which is used in dyeing. 



T. Senna, Buga Senna, U a glabrous shrub, with 

 having six pairs of leaflets, and the legumes and r. 

 covered with pubescence. It grows on the banks of the 

 river Cauca, near Buga, in Popayan. Its lea 

 purgative quality like senna, and are used by the i, 

 lor the same purposes as that plant is u-. >1. 



In the cultivation of these plants a mixture of loam and 

 peat should be used. They may be easily propagated by 

 seeds, or by young cuttings planted in sand, ami eovered 

 with a bell-glass. Some of the species require the heat of 

 a stove. 



TKl'IC. [Mhxit AN STATKS.I 



TEPLITZ, TOKP1.IT/, or TEPLICE, a town in the 

 ui' Leitmeritz in the kingdom of Bohemia, celebrated 

 for its warm sulphureous springs, is situated in "X) 38' N. 

 lat. and 13" M K. long. The name is Slavonian, and 

 given by the Bohemians and Croatians to warm springs 

 in general. The tradition respecting the discovv 

 these springs is, that a servant of a Chevalier Kolastug, a 

 vassal of Duke Przemysl, who resided in the neighbourhood, 

 was one day driving the swine. when several of the animals 

 perished in the hot springs. This is said to have happened 

 in the year 792. This discovery induced the chevalier to 

 build a castle, and many settlers were soon attracted 

 by the salubrious properties of the water, so that a street 

 m Slavonian, Alice} was formed, which was called Tepla 

 Alice, ' the warm street,' and by contraction Teplice, or 

 Teplitz. 



This small town, which has not above 2500 inhabitants, 

 ;-. situated on a stream called the Saubach, in a beautiful 

 plain or valley four leagues in length and one in breadth, 

 formed by the Erzgebirge and the Mittelgebirge. The 

 town forms an irregular quadrangle, is about half a league 

 in circuit, and has three gates. The principal buildings are 

 1, the palace of Prince Clary, to whom the town belongs, 

 with an extensive garden and park open to the public, 

 in which there is a ball-room and a pretty theatre ; 2, the 

 church of St. John the Baptist ; 3, the tpwnhall, built in 

 1806 ; 4, the chapel of the Cross, outside of one of the gates. 

 The town is connected by a row of handsome houses with 

 the village of Schonau. There are several springs both in 

 the town and in Schiinau, each of which supplies several 

 public and private baths distributed in different establish- 

 ments. ' The quantity of water which the principal spring 

 yields,' says Dr. Granville, ' is truly marvellous, being 

 iiot less than a thousand large pailfuls, or one million 

 one hundred and eighty-nine thousand six hundred 

 and seventy cubic inches in an hour.' The tempera- 

 ture of these springs is said to have increased within 

 the last forty years from 117 to 122 J Fahrenheit, which 

 is the present temperature of the chief spring. The 

 medicinal effects of the hot springs of Teplitz are al- 

 lowed by all physicians acquainted with them to be 

 very beneficial in cases of suppressed gout, chronic 

 rheumatism, diseases of the joints, contracted limbs, old 

 wounds, obstinate cutaneous eruptions, paralytic affec- 

 tions, to which Dr. (iranvillc adds, 'that the specific virtue 

 f tliese baths lies in the power they possess of restoring a 

 cripplc.it matters little from what cause, to perfect motion 

 and elasticity.' The waters have been used almost exclu- 

 sively for bathing; of late they have been recommended 

 and used internally. Prince ( 'lary has spared neither pains 

 norexpei.se to render the place worthy of the patronage 

 ol the kings and princes who habitually visit it, some of 

 whom have built palaces for themselves and public hos- 

 pitals for their invalid soldiers. The number of visitors 

 every year is from 4500 to 5000. Besides the attraction 

 of its waters, it may be added that the expense of living 

 at Teplitz is far less than in any other watcriiur-place 

 in Germany, that the private baths are fitted up in a man- 

 ner unquestionably superior to those of any other Spa in 

 that country, and that there are ample sourcesof recreation 

 and amusement without gaming, which is wholly pro- 

 hibited. 



(.lenny, Handbuchfiir Reisende in dem Oetttrrrich in-lu'n 

 K'titi-rttaale ; Die Ogtterreichische National Encyrlopiidic ; 

 'rtationt Lexicon; Dr. Granville, The Sjxu of Ger- 

 many. > 



TEPTIARES. [RUSSIAN EMPIHK.) 

 TE(iUENDAMA. [GRANADA, Niw.] 



TE'RAMO, PROYINCIA 1) I, called aJso Abruzzo UU 

 tra I., is an administrative division of the Abnizzi in the 

 kingdom of Naples, stretching east of the great Apennine 

 ridge, and sloping down to the Adriatic sc;i. It is bounded 

 on the east by the Adriatic, north by the Papal province 

 of Kermo and Ascoli, wc-t by the Neapolitan province of 

 Aquila, and south by that of Chieti. The principal rivers 

 are the Tronto, which marks the boundary between it and 

 the Papal State, the Tordino, which flows by the town of 

 Teramo, and the Vomano, v. tlow from 



-tern slope of Monte Corno, called also the 'Gran 

 i'lialia,' the highest group of the Apennines ;.~>OO 

 feet above the seal, which rises on the borders of the pro- 

 vinces of Teramo ruiU Aquila, occupvint: great part of the 

 area of both. The river Pescara, in its lower course, 

 marks the boundary between the province of Teramo and 

 that of Chieti. 



The province of Teramo is divided into two admim 

 five districts, Teramo and Penne, containing seventy-two 

 communes: the whole population amounted in 1S37 to 

 200,719 inhabitants, i Sernstori, Statistic:! <i r //.i/i.) The 

 - estimated at about 1000 square miles. Most of the 

 population are employed in agriculture. There are some 

 manufactories of silk, delft ware, liquorice, paper, cream 

 of tartar, and leather; copper-ore is dug, anil smelted and 

 worked at Chiarino. The principal towns are, 1, Teramo, 

 a bishop's see, the chief town of the province, and the 

 residence of the intendente or king's lieutenant ; it ! 

 tribunale civile, or court of first instance, and a'Gian 

 Corte Criminate ;' a royal college, a clerical seminary, 

 several churches and convents, and about 8000 inhabii 

 The surrounding country is productive in corn, fruit, and 

 pulse. 2, Penne, or Civiti di Penne, is a town with about 

 (XXX) inhabitants. 3, Civitella del Tronto, a small fortified 

 town on the frontier of the Papal State. 4, Atii. a small 

 town which gives the title of duke to the anticnt family of 

 Acquaviva. i Pelroni, Criiitiniriito ili'i l{<u/i doininj tli qitH 

 del Faro; Neigebaur, Gema/tli' Italient.) 



TE'liAPHIM (D^lfi; Sept., fWwXn). This is award 







of somewhat uncertain etymology and signification. That 

 the teraphim were of human form seems evident from 

 1 Sam., xix. 13. They appear to have been superstitiously, 

 if not idolatrously, reverenced as penates, or household 

 gods (Gni.. xxxi.'l'J. :tl. :i:i: 1 XK//;., xix. 13-17: 2 A. 

 xxiii. 24). In some shape or other they were used as domestic 

 oracles (comp. Zech., x. 2; Jin/ a., xvii. 5: xviii. fi. (i. M-20; 

 Has., iii. 4\ This is confirmed by 1 Xxw/.. \v. '2:1. 

 teraphim are mentioned in connection with the arts of 

 divination. With this the alleged Syriac etymology of the 

 word coincides ; for, according to Bar Bahlul, tp/1 means 

 in that language, tin ii/i/iiin r. u/ic ir/m < 



TERBURGH, GERARD, a very eminent painter of 

 scenes of domestic life, of the higher classes of sucich, v.as 

 born at Zwoll, near Overyssel, in the year KiOS, and was 

 instructed in the rudiment's of his art by his father, who is 

 not much known as a painter, but appears to have | 

 some years at Home. Some think that he perfected him- 

 self under another master at Huarlcm : however this may 

 be, he bad acquired considerable reputation in the Nether- 

 lands as a painter of porlraitsof a small size, before be ie- 

 solveil to travel for his improvement. Heiii.-t visited Italy; 

 but what ever advantage be may have derived from the works 

 of the great Italian masters, he never changed his style, and 

 proceeding from Italy to France, piactised wild pi-cat 

 success at Pans. From France he returned to Holland, 

 when 1 he was highly esteemed anil fully employed. He 

 visited Miiiuter during the sitting of the celebrated con- 



-it which the treaty that terminated the Thirty "> 

 \\urwas concluded. Here he painted his most celebrated 

 picture, containing the portraits of the sixty-nine plenipo- 

 tentiaries assembled on that important occasion. Count 

 Piiroranda, the Spanish ambassador at Minister, induced 

 him to visit Spain, where he painted the portraits of king 

 Philip IV. and all the royal family, and of many of the 

 most distinguished nobilifv. His performances irave such 

 satisfaction to the Spanish' kinir, that he conferred on him 

 the honour of knighthood, and presented him with a gold 

 chain and medal, a sword, and silver spurs. After finally 

 returning to his own country he married, and was made 

 burgomaster of the town of Devcntcr. vvlicic lie lived in 

 affluence, and died in 1081, at the age of seventy-three years. 



The subjects which Terburgh generally painted were 



