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the cables of (hips. If fome pains be not taken to remove 

 the anchors, the number of which is annually incrcafing, 

 a clear anchorage for a fingle large fhip will not be found. 

 It has been propofed to fuik mooring-chains for large fliips, 

 inftead of their lying at anchor. During the S.E. winds, 

 which blow from September to the end of April, and 

 which is the feafon when all fhips bound for the Cape re- 

 fort to Table bay, the only danger is that of their being 

 driven out to fea from the wear and tear of the cables. 

 However, as the fea is not high, it is hardly pofTible for a 

 fhip to go on (hore, unlcfs it be on the S. point of Robben 

 ifland, which being diftant feven or eight miles, may be 

 always avoided. Within this ifland and the continent 

 there is excellent anchorage, where fhips fo driven out 

 ufually bring up. Here alfo fhips intending to come into 

 Table bay generally wait the abatement of a S.E. wind, if 

 it fhall happen to blow too llrong for their working up 

 againft it. This ifland is too fmall and too far to afford the 

 leail fhelter to Table bay from the N. W. winds that blow in 

 the winter months. Naval officers feem to be divided in 

 opinion as to the preference of Table bay or Simon's bay, 

 (fee Simon'j Bay,) which lies on the eaftern fide of the 

 peninfula, in the great bay of Falfe, and which is the ufual 

 refort of (hipping for five months in the year. Both are 

 defeftive, but the latter appears to be more fecure, from 

 the circumftance of few, if any, fhips having been ever 

 known to drive on (hore from their anchors, whilft fcarcely 

 a feafon palfes without the lofs of fome in Table bay. In 

 the winter months, when the wind blows from N. to N.W., 

 40 or 50 (hips may lie at anchor perfeftly fecure in Simon's 

 bay, and eight or ten may be fufficiently (hcltered in the 

 Ifrongeft fouth-eaftern. From a furvey of the Great Falfe 

 bay in 1797, the exaft fituation was afcertained of a very 

 dangerous rock, placed direftly in the paffage of (hips into 

 Simon's bay. The months in which (hips ufually refort 

 to this bay, are from May to September inclufive. The dif- 

 tance from Cape Town, being 24 miles, and the badnefs 

 of the road, moftly deep fand and fplafhes of water, render 

 the communication at all times difficult, but more efpecially 

 in winter ; and few fupplies are to be had at Simon's town, 

 a name given to a coUeftion of about a dozen houfes. We 

 have a chart of this bay in the fecond volume of Barrow's 



Africa. S. lat. 53° 50'. E. long. 18° 15' Alfo, a bay 



on the E. coaft of Labrador. N. lat. 53° 44'. W. long. 

 20° 57'. 



Table IJland, a fmall ifland near the coaft of Spitz- 

 bergen. N. lat. 80° 57'. E. long. 20° 30'. — Alfo, one 

 of the New Hebrides, in the South Pacific ocean. S. lat. 



15=38'. E. long. 167° 7' Alfo, a fmall ifland in the 



Eaft Indian fea, near the ifland of Paraguay. N. lat. 



9° 15'. E. long. 118° 2' Alfo, a fmall ifland in the 



Eaft Indian fea. N. lat. 14° 8'. E. long. 93° 32'. 



Table Mountain, a mountain of Ireland, in the county 

 of Wicklow ; 15 miles W. of Wicklow. — Alfo, a moun- 

 tain of Africa, near the Cape of Good Hope, fo called 

 from its flat fummit. In fine weather this mountain is vifible 

 at fea at the diftance of 28 or 30 miles. Table mountain 

 fnpplies Table bay and Hout bay with ftreams of water. 



Table Mountains, mountains of North Carolina. N. 

 lat. 36°. W. long. 81° 40'. 



Table Point, a cape on the S. coaft of the ifland of 

 Bali. S. lat. 8° 45'. E. long. 1 15° 1 1'. 



Table River, a river of Louifiana, which runs into the 

 MifTifippi, N. lat. 37° 12'. W. long. 90° 11'. 



Table-ZF/jic/, in Rope-Making. To lay ropes, &c. from 

 a fix-thread line to a two-inch and half rope, a table-wheel is 

 fixed in the wheel-houfe, at the upper end of the rope-walk. 



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in a frame fixed in the ground, with two Aiding checks. The 

 -bands which work the whirls, go feparatcly over each whirl, 

 and ro\nid the turning-wheel. Some have fix fets of whirls 

 of dilferent fizcs, with iron fpindles, and nibbed or fore- 

 lock hooks at the outer end. A tackle-board, twelve inches 

 broad, and three inclies thick, wit!, fix holes for the hooks 

 to go through, is fixed above the cheeks upon cleats. 



TABLEAU, Fr. This word is ufed frequently in 

 mudc, fays Roufllau, to cxprei's the whole defign of a 

 compofition in tlie fcore : as " this fcore is quite a pidure ;" 

 " this opera is full of admirable paintings and imitations of 

 nature." 



TABLET, in Pharmacy. Sec Tabella. 

 lABLIER, Le, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Vendee ; 6 miles S.S.E. of La 

 Roche fur Yon. 



TABLING of Fines, is the making a table for every 

 county, where his majefty's writs run ; containing the con- 

 tents of every fine pa(fed each term. 



It is to be done by the chirographer of fines of the com- 

 mon pleas ; who, every day of the next term, after engroff- 

 ing any fuch fine, fixes one of the faid tables in fome open 

 place of the faid court, during its litting ; and likcwife de- 

 hvers to the flieriff of each comity a content of the faid 

 tables made for that refpeftivc county, the term before the 

 aflizes, to be affixed in fome place in the open court, while 

 the juftices lit. 



Tabling, in Ship-BuiUing, letting one piece of timber 

 into another by alternate fcores or projeftions from the 

 middle, fo that it cannot be drawn afunder either lengthwife 

 or fidewife ; fuch are beams, &c. 



Tabling, in Sail-Making, a broad hem made on the 

 (liirts of fails, by turning the edge of the canvas over and 

 fewing it down. It is to ftrengthen the fail for fewing on 

 the bolt-rope. 



TABO Dagrou, or Little Dieppe, in Geography, a town 

 of Africa, on the Grain Coaft. 



Tabo Dune, a fea-port of Africa, on the Ivory Coaft ] 

 90 miles from Cape Palmas. 



TABOA, a town of Portugal, in the province of Beira, 

 on the Mondego ; 9 miles S. of Vifeu. 



TABOCANA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 

 Quoja. N. lat. 5° 55'. 



TABOCURU, a river of Brafil, which runs into the 

 Atlantic, near the ifland of Maranhao. S. lat. 2° 40'. W. 

 long. 45° 30'. 



TABOGA. SeeTABAGO. 



TABOLATO, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Cuhacan ; 30 miles W. of Culiacan. 



TABON, in Natural Hi/lory, a name given by the 

 people of the Philippine iTlands to a bird called in other 

 places daie, and remarkable for the largenefs of its eggs ; 

 though fome accounts of thefe are certainly fabulous. 



TABONES, in Geography, one of the fmall Philippine 

 iflands, near Mafljate. N. lat. 12° 12'. E. long. 123° 5'. 



TABOO, a town of Africa, and capital of a countr)-, 

 fituated to the E. of Sahara. N. lat. 24°. E. long. 12° lo'. 

 Taboo, a term ufed in the Sandwich iflands to denote a 

 kind of religious intcrdiftion, of very powerful and extenfive 

 operation. With places and perfons that were tabooed, all 

 intercourfe was prohibited. The word was alfo ufed to ex. 

 prefs any thing facred, or eminent, or devoted. Cook'* 

 Third Voyage, vol. iii. p. 164. 



TABOR, or Hradijlie Hory Tabor, i. e. the camp of 



Mount Tabor, in Geography, a town of Bohemia, in the 



circle of Bechin, founded by the Huflites, fituated on a 



mountain, near the river Luznice, is naturally ftrong, and 



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