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to the benefit of the clergy, (hall be marked on the brawn 

 of the left thumb. 



T, or Tau, in Heraldry, is a kind of crofs-potent, or 

 truncated ; found in all the armories of the commanders of 

 the order of St. Anthony. 



The azure T, or Tau, is feen in arms above 400 years 

 old. Its origin, according to fome autliors, is taken from 

 the Apocalypfe ; where the fame is a mark that the angel 

 impreties on the foreheads of the eleA : others take it to re- 

 prefent a crutch, a fymbol proper enough for this order, 

 which was fworn to hofpitality. But the trutli, F. Menef- 

 trier obfervcs, is, that it is the top of a Greek crofier. 



The bifhops and abbots of the Greek church wear it ftill ; 

 and if it be found on the habit of St. Anthony, it is only to 

 Ihew that he was an abbot. 



T Bandage, in Surgery, is fo called from its refembling 

 that letter in fhape. It confifts of two bands of linen, of 

 greater or lefler breadth, according to circumftances. The 

 tranfverfe piece of the bandage ferves to go round the body 

 above the hips. The perpendicular portion is fewed at one 

 of its ends to the middle and back point of the band, which 

 furrounds the pelvis ; and its other or anterior extremity is 

 generally flit into two portions, or tails, about fix or eight 

 inches in length. The perpendicular piece of the T bandage 

 applies itfelt between the glutasi mufcles and to the peri- 

 neum ; while the two tails, which we have juft now de- 

 fcribed, are carried between the thighs and the pudenda to 

 the right and left, and are laftly faftened to the tranfverfe 

 piece, which furrounds the body. The T bandage is chiefly 

 employed for keeping on the dreflings, after the operation 

 for the fiftula in ano, in difeafes of the perinaeum, and in 

 thofe of the anus, groins, &c. 



Befides the common T bandage, furgeons make ufe of 

 another, which they call double, and which is furniflied 

 with two perpendicular pieces, fewed to the tranfverfe one, 

 about four inches apart. The double T bandage is repre- 

 fented to be particularly calculated for cafes of lithotomy, 

 and for difeafes in the perinjeum ; becaufe the two perpendi- 

 cular bands may be made to crofs each other on the part 

 affefted, and leave -the anus uncovered ; an advantage which 

 the fingle T bandage certainly has not. 



The T bandage admits of application alfo in other modes. 

 When the crofs band is broad, it may be applied round the 

 cheft, while the perpendicular portion, being flit into two, 

 may be made to pafs over the flioulders, fo as to keep the 

 bandage from flipping downward. There is no kind of 

 bandage whicli can be more conveniently applied to the 

 cheft, than that which has juft now been defcribcd. See 

 Bandage. 



TA, in Geography, a fortified city of China, of the fe- 

 cond rank, in the province of Se-tchuen ; 650 miles S.W. 



of Pekin. N. lat. 31° 18'. E. long. 107° ij' Alfo, a 



river of China, w"hicn runs into the Eaft fea, N. lat. 36° 55' 

 E. long. 121° 34'. 



Ta, Lough, a lake of the county of Wexford, Ireland, 

 not far from Carnfore Point. It receives two or three fmart 

 rivulets, and having no outlet, the waters accumulate, and 

 gradually overflow the adjacent grounds ; till the peafantry, 

 once in three or four years, let them off, by making a cut 

 through the high fand-bank that parts the lake from the fea ; 

 which cut very foon fills up again. 



Ta, a name given in China to their pagodas. Thefe are 

 moft numerous in hilly parts of the country, upon the fum- 

 mits of which they are frequently erefted. They are gene- 

 rally from { 20 to 1 60 feet high, which height is equal to 

 four or five of their diameters at the bafe ; and they confift 

 moftly of an unequal number, five, feven, or nine giUleries 



TAB 



or ilories, diminifliing as they rife, with as many projefting 

 roofs. 



Ta, Ta, one of the four fyllables ufed by the ancient 

 Greeks in folmifation, or the firft leflbns in finging. 



TAAIF, in Geography, a town of Arabia, in the pro- 

 vince of Hedsjas, fituated upon a lofty mountain, in a country 

 fo agreeable, that the Arabs compare its environs to thofe 

 of Damafcus and Sana. This city fupplies Jidda and Mecca 

 witli excellent fruits, particularly raifins ; and carries on a 

 confidcrable trade in almonds, which abound in its territories. 

 Near Taaif is the lofty mountain of Gazvan, which, accord- 

 ing to Arabian authors, is covered with froft and fnow in 

 tlie midft of fummer. 



TAAMBOOTERA, a large town of the Birman 

 empire, on the Irawaddy. 



TAAPAN, a town on the eaft coaft of Mindanao. N. 

 lat. 7° 38'. E. long. 124^5'. 



TAAS, or Ta«s, a city of Arabia, in the province of 

 Yemen, fituated at the foot of the fertile hill of Sabber, and 

 encompafled with a wall, between 16 and 30 feet thick, and 

 flanked with feveral towers. Within the circuit of the wall 

 ilands the fortrefs of Kahhre. The city has only two gates, 

 each fortified vi^Ji three towers ; affording a very infufticient 

 defence againft any alTault but that of Arabs, unfldlled in 

 the ufe of artillery. The faint who is the patron of Tases is 

 the famous Ifmael Mulk, reported by tradition to have been 

 once king of this country. His remains are interred in a 

 mofque bearing his name. Near this mofque is a garden, 

 which was poflefled by Ifcliia, his fon. The city has feveral 

 other deferted and ruinous mofques. The laft lords of Taaes 

 have chofen to diftinguifli themfelves, not by mofques, but by 

 noble palaces, and have contented themfelves with a fmall 

 kubbet for their oratory and burial-place. Thefe palaces 

 are now the ornaments of the city. Near the city are the 

 ruins of two ancient cities : one called Thobad, fituated 

 near mount Sabber ; and the other Oddena, upon the fum- 

 mit of mount Sabber, over-againft Kahhre. This was for- 

 merly the refidence of the kings of the country. Its only 

 remains are the ruins of fome mofques. Taass has under- 

 gone feveral revolutions ; but after various events, which we 

 cannot recite, the Imam fent a Dola to this city, and it is 

 now under the fame government as the other cities in his 

 dominions; 48 miles E.N.E. of Mocha. N. lat. 13° 33'. 

 E. long. 44° 10'. 



TAASINGE, an ifland of Denmark, about 16 miles in 

 circumference, fituated between Funen and Langeland, with 

 a town upon it of the fame name. N. lat. 55". E. long. 

 10" 37'. 



TAAUT, TuoYT, or That, in Ancient Mythology, the 

 name of a deity among the Phoenicians, and probably the 

 fame with the Egyptian Thoyt, That, or Hermes, the 

 Theutate or Teutat of the Greeks, and the Mercury of the 

 Latins. His cofmogony has been tranfmitted to us by the 

 Phoenician writer Sanchoniathon, whofe account is preferved 

 by Eufebius, De Prsep. Ev. lib. i. cap. 10. To him the 

 Phoenicians afcribe the firft invention of letters. See Mer- 

 cury. 



TAAWIRRY, in Geography, an ifland in the South 

 Pacific ocean. There are two fituated within the reef of 

 the ifland of Otaheite, and on the eaft fide of the main ifland. 

 Within thefe iflands there is anchorage within the- reef 

 that furrounds them. The French veffels under ttie com- 

 mand of M. Bougainville lay here. The name of the other 

 ifland is Boourou. 



TAB, the ancient Arofn, a river of Perfia, in the pro- 

 vince of Fars or Farfiftan, formed by the junftion of two 

 ftreams, "within a few miles of the town of Zeitoon, Both 



thefe 



