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on t!ic legs, Hindi, &c., and peculiarly tcafing an the ap- 

 proach of rain. 



C.-ECUTiE-ss. With e^'cs that arc ot a very lucid green, 

 marbled with black fpots and ilreaks, and wings marked 

 by large black bands or patches. This is an European in- 

 feft, not uncommon with us in autumn. 



Li;gubris. With black eyes and body, brown wings, 

 and white fpots. Found in Europe. 



MoRlo. With eyes and body wholly black, and glally 

 wings. An inhabitant of Barbary. 



LiNEATUS. With grecnifh eyes, hneated thorax, ob- 

 fcurely bluciih abdomen, and red antcnnx. Found w 

 America. 



Fasciatus. With green eyes, brown body, and wings 

 having a brown fafcia. Found in Sierra Leone. 



Atratus. With bkieifli abdomen, and black wings. 

 An American infcft. 



Peli-Ucens. Black, with fafciatcd eves ; the firft fcg- 

 ment of the abdomen blut>i(h, and whitifli legs. A German 

 fpecies. 



RUFICORNIS. With fafciated eyes, white wings, brown 

 fide, and red antenns. Found in America. 



Paganus. With green eyes, three yellow fafciae, and 

 both fides of the abdomen ferruginoufly fpotted. Found 

 in England. 



IxALicus. Cinereous, with brown eyes ; obfcure abdo- 

 men, with the bafe palely pellucid. Found in Italy. 



Cayennensis. With eyes brown before, and behind 

 green ; black abdomen ; the fecond and_third fegments yellow, 

 the reft white at the margin. This and the next are found 

 in Cayenne. 



Pl'n'c TA rus. Cinereous, with teftaceous eyes, and white 

 wings fpecklcd with black. 



Inanis. Cinereous, like the former, with brown eyes, 

 and pellucid abdomen, having a brown apex. 



BoREALls. With eyes having three purphfh fafciae, black 

 abdomen, and the margins of the fegments whitifh. Found 

 rarely in Norway. 



LoSGlcoRNis. With fpotted eyes, wings half brown, 

 a white fpot, and longer antennje.. Found in Brafil. 



Striatub. Cinereous, with brown abdomen, and three 

 abbreviated white lines. A Chinefe fpecies. 



Bidentatus. Ferruginous ; the abdomen having on 

 each fide two yellow fpots, and the fcutellum bidentated. 

 Found in Auftria. 



Bisi'iNOSus. Brown, ferruginous, abdomen black at the 

 bafe, and fcutellum bifpinofe. Found in Gottingen. 



M«REK.s. Varied with whitifh and black ; black eyes ; 

 white wings ; fide and fafcia black. Found in Cayenne. 



Griseus. Black, with greyifli thorax ; the fecond feg- 

 ment of the abdomen having on the hind part a cinereous 

 fafcia, fhe fourth, fifth, and fixth being on both fides cine- 

 reous, and the wings ferruginous. 



Albipes. With eyes having four fafcis ; the abdomen 

 with a black ring, and the legs white. Found in Bulgaria. 

 M/^RITIMUS. Cinereous, with glafiy wings ; margin 

 and broad fafcia black. Found in Carniola, Auftria, and 

 France. 



TABARA, in Geography, a town of Spain, in the pro- 

 -yince of Leon; 14 miles N.W. of Zaniora. 



TABARABA, a river of Mexico, in the proviuce of 

 Veragua, whicii runs into the Pacific occin, N. lat. 8° 40'. 

 W. long. 82^ 48'. 



TABARCA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 

 Tunis, fituated on the north coall, at the mouth of the 

 Zaine, of which Uttlc but ruins are exiiUng, and a fmall 

 garrifon ; 60 miles N.W, of Tunis. 



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TaBARCA, or Tabagurr, an idand in the Mediterra- 

 nean, near the coaft of Africa, at the mouth of the river 

 Zaine, which feparates Algiers from Tunis. The Lomel- 

 lines, a noble Genoefe family, have been in poffeffion of 

 the little ifland that lies before Tabarca, at the mouth of 

 the Zaine, ever fince the time of the famous Andrea Doria, 

 to whom the Tunifeans gave it, with the folemn confent of 

 the grand feignior, in ranfom for one of their princes, 

 whom Andrea had taken captive. This place is defended 

 by a fmall caftle, well armed, and in good order, and pro- 

 teifted the coral fifliery which was carried on in thefe feas. 

 But, in the year 1740, that monfterof princes, Aly Balhaw, 

 the reigning king of Tunis, took it by treachery from the 

 Genoefe ; and, contrary to all juftice and the right of nations, 

 put fome of them to the fword ; and the reft, in num- 

 ber 300 or 400, he carried into captivity. N. lat. 36" 55'. 

 E. long. 9° 8'. 



Tabarca. See Plana. 



TABARD, or Taberd, derived from the low I^atin, 

 tabarda, denotes a flaort jacket or coat, open on both fides, 

 with a fquare collar and hanging fleeves. From the wear- 

 ing of this garment, fome of thofe on the foundation of 

 Queen's college, Oxford, are called Taberdarii. 



From an inn in Southwark, whofe fign was the Tabard, 

 afterwards changed to the Talbot, Chaucer and his compa- 

 nions fet out on a pilgrimage to the fhrine of Becket at Can- 

 terbury ; on which was founded his Canterbury Tales. 



TAB A RE K, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak; 

 8 miles S.E. of Caft)in. ' 



TABARIA, or Taberayan, or Tabar'teh, anciently 

 Tiberias, a. town of Paleftine, fituated on the weft bank of 

 a lake, called in the fcriptures the " Lake of Gennefareth," 

 and the " Sea of Tiberias," and at the foot of a high and 

 (harp mountain ; furrounded with walls, except towards the 

 water. This town was built by Herod Antipas, to the 

 honour of Tiberius, and was long the capital of Galilee, 

 and after the deftruAion of Jerufalem, for fome time the re- 

 fidence of the high prieft. This city Herod was obliged 

 to people moftly w ith Galileans and ftrangers, becaufe it be- 

 ing built on a ground which was full of fepulchres, the 

 going over which pollutes the Jews feven whole days, 

 he could fcarcely get any of that nation to fettle there, 

 though he endowed it with confiderable privileges, and gave 

 its inhabitants the greateft encouragement, viz. lands to 

 fome, houfes to others, to take off their qualms of con- 

 fcience about treading on dead bodies. At the deftruftion 

 of Jerufalem the town fubmitted to Vefpafian, and received 

 the Jews which efcaped. In the year iioo, it was taken 

 by the Chriftians under Godfrey; but in 11 16, it was re- 

 taken by the Saracens, through the treachery of Ray- 

 mond III. count of Thouloufe. During the time of Chrif- 

 tianity it was the fee of a bilhop, fuffragan of Nazareth. 

 Near it are fome warm baths. The Chriftians have a church 

 here, and the Jews a feminary. In i 759, it fiiffered much 

 by an earthquake; 16 miles S. of Safad. 



TABAS, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia ; 34 

 miles S. of Dignizlu. 



Tabas, the ancient Tabienne, a town of Perfia, in the 

 province of Chorafan, fituated in a range of hills, 337 miles 

 from Herat and 1 50 from Yezd. It contains a population 

 of about 20,000 perfons, and carries on a trifling trade with 

 Herat and Yezd. 



TABASCO, a province of Mexico, bounded on the 

 north by the gulf of Mexico, on the eaft by Yucatan, on 

 the fouth by Chiapa, and on the weft by Guaxaca, about 

 100 miles in length, but narrow. The climate is not rec- 

 koned healthy, nor is the foil remarkable for its fertilitv. 



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