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TABUE', in Geography, a town of Egypt, on the NUe ; 

 9 miles S.W. of Menuf. 



TABUIL, a town of South America, in the province 

 of Tucuman ; 20 miles E. of St. Fernando. 



TABULAR Spar, in Mineralogy, Spathon tables, Haiiy ; 

 a fpecies of lime-ilone, generally of a greyifh-white colour, 

 but fometimes inclining to greenifh-yellow or reddifh-white. 

 It occurs maflive and cryftallized in reftangnlar four-fided 

 tables. The luftre of the principal frafture is (hining and 

 pearly ; the ftrufture is imperfectly lamellar. Tabular fpar 

 occurs in large diftinft prifmatic concretions, which are 

 promifcuoufly aggregated : it is tranflucent, and phofpho- 

 refces when fcratched with a knife : its fpecific gravity is 

 2.86. It is fometimes friable. When put into nitrous acid 

 it effervefces, and then falls into grains. It is infufible by 

 the blowpipe. The analyfis, as given by Klaproth, is 



Silex 

 Lime 

 Water 



50 



45 



S 



This mineral is of rare occurrence ; its locality, as given 

 by Stiitz, is at Dognafl<a, in the bannat of Temefvar, in 

 Hungary, where it occurs in blue-coloured primitive lime- 

 ftone, with garnets, aftinolite, tremoUte, and variegated 

 copper. It is faid by Eftner to occur at Ozavitza. In 

 the new fyftem of mineralogy propofed by Berzelius, this 

 mineral is denominated a blfilk'iate of lime ; the oxygen con- 

 tained by the different conflituent parts being in the propor- 

 tion of 6.3 and I ; the filex containing twice the oxygen 

 of the lime, and tiie water the fixth part. 



TABULA RIUM, among the Romans, the name of 

 that part of the treafury where the Elephantine books were 

 kept. 



TABULARIUS. See Tabellio. 



TABULARUM Apertura. See Apertura. 



TABULATUM. See Tabella. 



TABUM, a word ufed by medical writers, to exprefs a 

 thin, fanious, and putrid humour, flowing from old ulcers, 

 or from mortified parts, in cafes where the vital powers are 

 not fufficient for the generation of a perfeft or concoAed 

 matter. 



TABY, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in Eaft Goth- 

 land ; 14 miles S.E. of Nordkioping. 



TACA, a town of .Tapan, in the illand of Xicoco ; 20 

 miles S.W. of Tofa. 



TACALALPO, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Tabafco ; 23 miles S.W. of Tabafco. 



TACALAYO, a town of South America, in the pro- 

 vince of Chaco ; 35 miles N. of St. Salvador de Jugui. 



TACALEA, a town of South America, in the province 

 of Carthagena, at the conflux of the Cauca and Madalena ; 

 85 miles S.E. of Carthagena. 



TACAMAHACA, in Gardening, a tree of the orna- 

 mental and fweet-fmelling kind, which is often planted out 

 in flirubberies, borders, and other parts of pleafure-grounds 

 with much propriety and advantage in its appearance, and 

 the gratefid odour which it diff^ufes all around it. See 



POPULUS. 



Tacamahaca, or Tacamacha, a kind of refinous gum, 

 diftilling from the trunk of a very large tree, a fpecies of 

 poplar, growing in New Spain, Canada, and other parts of 

 America ; but in the greateft abundance, as it is faid, in 

 the ifland of Madagafcar. 



The tree is not unlike our poplar-tree, only bigger and 

 taUer ; its leaves long and green, its fruit red, of the fize of 

 our walnuts, exceedingly refinous, and containing a (lone 

 like our peaches. See Populus Balfamifera. 



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The wood of the tree makes good timber for fhips, and 

 the gum it yields ferves there for their caulking, tliougli its 

 chief life with us is in medicine. 



Two forts of this refin are fometimes to be met with. 

 The beft, called tacamahaca in (hells, from its being col- 

 leftcd in a kind of gourd fliells, is fomewiiat undluous and 

 foft, of a pale yellowifli or greenifli colour, a bitterifh aro- 

 matic tafte, and a fragrant delightful fniell, approaching to 

 tiiat of lavender and ambergris. This fort is very rare. 

 That commonly found in the fliops is in tranfparent grains 

 or globes, of a whitilh, yellowilh, brownilh, or greenifh 

 colour, and of a lefs grateful fmcU than the foregoing. 



The firll is faid to exude from the fruit of the tree ; the 

 other from incifions made in the trunk. The tree, as raifed 

 among us, affords in its young buds, or the rudiments of the 

 leaves, a refinous juice of the lame kind of fragrance. 



Tacamahaca is chiefly ufed as an ingredient in warm 

 nervine plafters ; though the fragrance and tafte of the finer 

 fort indicate its being applicable to other purpofes, as an 

 internal balfamic corroborant. Both kinds dirfolve in rec- 

 tified fpirit into a gold-coloured liquor, with a fmall quan- 

 tity of remaining impurity ; they alfo impregnate water 

 confiderably with their fmell and tafte, but give out very 

 little of their fubftance to this menftruum. Lewis. The 

 Indians are faid to ufe it for all kinds of pains. Schroder 

 affirms, that he has feen intolerable pains in the leg removed 

 by it. 



TACAMES, or Atacames, in Geography, a government 

 of South America, in the province of Quito, fituated W. of 

 the weftern Cordilleras of the Andes, bordering northward on 

 the department of Barbacoas, in the government of Popayan, 

 weftward on the South fea, and fouthward on the territory 

 of Guayaquil, and reaching along the coaft from the ifland 

 of Tumaco and the houfe of Hufmal, which he in N. lat. 

 1° 30', to the bay of Caracas, and the mountains of Balfamo, 

 in S. lat. 0° 34'. This jurifdiftion was long negleAed after 

 the conquefl: of it by Sebaftian de Belalcazar, the introduc- 

 tion of the Chriftian religion, and its homage to the king of 

 Spain. At length, however, it was difcovered that by 

 making fettlements here, the intercourfe and commerce be- 

 tweeen Quito and Terra Firma would be facilitated ; and 

 with this view, Paul Durango Delgadillo was, in the year 

 1621, appointed governor of Atacames and Rio de las 

 Efmaraldas. He was fucceeded by Francifco Perez Me- 

 nacho in 1626, and other governors, who failed in the ac- 

 complifliment of the objeft for which they were appointed : 

 at length Don Pedro Vicente Maldonado, in 1 74 1, laid 

 open a direft communication betwixt Quito and the Rio de 

 las Efmaraldas, and in recompence of his fuccefs he was 

 confirmed as governor in 1746, and in the following year 

 the country was formally conltituted a government. This 

 government contains twenty towns, which are but fmall and 

 poor, five of them fituated on the fea-coaft, and the others 

 being inland places. The inhabitants of the five to\vns are 

 Spaniards, Mcflizos, Negroes, and Cafts, which fprung from 

 thefe three claffes. Thole of the other fifteen are in general 

 Indians, among whom are few Spaniards, Mulattos, or 

 Negroes. The fpiritual concerns of the diftrift are entrufted 

 to eleven priefts, who refide in the great towns, and occa- 

 fionally viiit the others, in which are chapels of eafc. 



The temperature of Atacames is like that of Guayaquil, 

 and accordingly it produces the fame kinds of vegetables, 

 grains, and fruits ; lome of them to greater perfeftion, on 

 account of its more elevated fituation. It likewife pro- 

 duces in great abundance vanillas, achote, farfaparilla, and 

 indigo. Confiderable quantities of wax are made here, and 

 the forefl:s of the country afford a great variety of trees of 

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