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Tackle, Taek, is a fmall tackle ufed occafionally to pull 

 down the tack of the principal fails of a fhip to their refpcc- 

 tive ftations. There is alfo a tackle of this kind conftantly 

 fixed to the tacks of the main-fail in brigs, floops, and 

 fchooners, for the fame purpofe. Falconer. 



TACKRAMAH, in Geography, a town of Africa, on 

 the Gold Coaft. N. lat. 4° 52'. W. long. 3° lo'. 



TACKSMAN, in Agriculture, the tenant or perfon who 

 holds or takes a tack of land of another. In fubfetting, the 

 original perfon of this kind is, it is faid, by the writer of the 

 Peebles Correfted Agricultural Report, confidered as 

 bound to the proprietor, as well as the fub-tenant ; whilft, 

 in alTignment, the original tenant is free, fubftituting the 

 other in his place. In conformity to the analogy of the 

 feudal law, tlierefore, it is faid, as well as to tlie greater 

 fecurity of the proprietor, the Scottifh law is confidered 

 as more favourable to fubfet, than to afTignatiou ; becaufc, 

 jn fubfet, the firft tenant does not relinquifli his pofition 

 as a qujji valTal, and the purpofes of the metaphorical dc- 

 liBus may be, thus, confidered as metaphorically, or ana- 

 logically fulfilled by thj^fia'w juris, or quaft: moreover, too, 

 the fecurity of the proprietor, fo far from being weakened, 

 is greatly ftrengthened, in having his right of hypothec un- 

 impaired, and the fecurity of two inftead of one. Upon this 

 principle, it was confidered, it is faid, by the Scottifli law 

 oracle, Erfkine, that a power of fubfet was implied, in all 

 cafes where the contrary was not direftly cxprefled ; until 

 the decifion, in 1791, came to reftify the mifconceptions of 

 the people, when it was decided, that, in a tack of nineteen 

 years, it was implied, in law conftruftion, without any formal 

 ilipulation in the leafe to that efFeft, that the power of de- 

 leSus was retained ; and that the tack was neither aflignable 

 nor fubfetable. 



But even Erflcine allows, it is faid, that, upon legal prin- 

 ■ciples, an exprefs Ilipulation in the tack againft. afliguees, 

 both legal and voluntary, would prevent the tack from being 

 cvifted by the tenant's creditors : otherwife a tack, unaf- 

 fignable by the tenant's voluntary deed, would, according to 

 iim, be eviftable by adjudication, at the iiiftance of the 

 tenant's creditors ; but even in that cafe, the creditors would 

 Tse guilty of lefe-majejle towards the facred riglit of the de- 

 hflus, were they to bring the reverfion of the leafe to a fair 

 fale to the bell bidder : they are debarred, therefore, it is 

 laid, from fuch unhallowed and irreverend meafures ; they 

 can only enter upon adminiftration, as refponfible faftors 

 of the tenant's concerns. 



TACKUMBREET, in Geography, a town of Africa, 

 ■or, as it may be rather denominated, the ruins of an ancient 

 town called " Siga," or " Sigeum," once the metropolis of 

 Mauritania, fituated on the coaft of the Mediterranean, at 

 the mouth of the river Tafna ; 44 miles S.W. of Oran. 

 N. lat. 35° 30'. W. long. 0° 55'. 



TACKYSERAI, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude ; 35 

 sniles W. of Lucknow. 



TACLAOUR, a town of Thibet. N. lat. 38° 5'. E. 

 long. 80° 51'. 



TACOLA Imperium, in yJndent Geography, a port on 

 the weftern coaft of India, on this fide of the Ganges : and 

 now Junhjeylon. 



TACOMA, in Geography, a town of Mexico ; 16 miles 

 N. of Mexico. 



TACOMA R-Tree, a name by which fome authors call 

 the fugar-cane. 



TACON Mountain, in Geography, a mouHt;iin of Ame- 

 rica, in Maflachufetts, S. of Great Barringlon. 



TA-CONG-TO-CHE, a town of the illgnd of For- 

 mofa. N. lat. 22° zz'. E. long. 120° 4'. 



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TA-COO, a town of China, in the province of Pe-tche-li, 

 within the mouth of the Pei-ho, or White river, and the fiHl 

 place of any note in the N.E. frontier of the country. The 

 grand cmbalTy to China arrived at this town in Auguft 1795, 

 and found here a confiderable number of yachts, or large 

 covered bai-ges and boats of burden, fit for paffing over the 

 fliallows of the Pci-ho, (wliicli fee,) and dcUined to convey 

 the whole of the cmbafty as far as the river led towards the 

 capital of the empire. Many of thcfe veflcls were eighty 

 feet long, and very capacious ; and yet they were fo con- 

 ftrufted of light wood, as not to fink more than eighteen 

 inches into the water, though they were lofty above it. The 

 cabins were high and airy above : there were births for tlic 

 crew, and beneath the floors were lockers for fccuring the 

 neccffaries. The yacht appropriated to the ambaflador had an 

 apartment, confifting of an anti-chamber, a faloon, a bed- 

 chamber and a clofet ; and its windows were adorned with 

 a great number of glafs-pancs ; whereas the frames of the 

 windows of the other yachts were generally filled with a kind 

 of paper, manufaftured chiefly in Corea, having in its com- 

 pofition an unftuous fubftance, which rendered the paper 

 more durable when expofed to the weather, as it was much 

 lefs affefted by the rain or any kind of moifture, than that 

 which is made in Europe. During the ambaffador's ftay 

 before Ta-coo, he was vifited by the viceroy of the province, 

 •who, by order of the emperor, came from Pao-ting-foo, his 

 ufual place of refidence, at the diftance of a hundred miles ; 

 and who took up iiis abode at the principal temple of Ta- 

 coo, confccrated to the god of the fea, to whom invocations 

 were frequently addreflijd under the appellation of " Toong- 

 hai-vaung," or king of the Eaftern fea. Of this idol there 

 were feveral figures in different brilliant edifices of porcelain, 

 within one inclofure. Sir George Staunton, in his account 

 of this embaffy, has given an engraved reprefentation of tliis 

 Chincfe Neptune, bearing in one hand a magnet, whilft he 

 is fitting on the waves, with firmnefs, eafe, and dignity, and 

 thus confcious of his own fecurity ; and in tlie other, a dol- 

 phin, denoting his power over the inhabitants of the ocean. 

 His beard flowed in all direftions, and his agitated lock* 

 feemed to be intended for a perfonification of the troubled 

 clement. At a fmall diftance from the " Hai-chin-miao," 

 or temple of the fea-god, is the hall of audience of Ta-coo, 

 fituated in the midft of a fpacious court. 



TACOTALPA, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Guaxaca, on the river Alvarado ; 6 miles S.E. qf Alvarado. 

 — Alfo, a town of Mexico, in the province of Tabafco ; 

 30 miles S.W. of Villa Hermofa. 



TA-COU, a river of Cliina, whicli runs into the fea, 

 7 miles E.N.E. of Kiao. 



TACOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore ; 10 mile« 

 S. of Bangalore. 



TAC-POU-CHAI, a town of Thibet ; 250 mile*, 

 S.E, of Lan"a. 



TAC-POU-NAI, a town of Thibet ; 240 miles S.E. 

 of Lafla. 



TAC-POUY CouRou^vAMKiN, a town of Thibet ; 145 

 miles S.E. of Laifa. 



Tac-polv Lafoi, a town of Thibet ; 120 miles S. S.E- 

 of Lafl^a. 



TACPOY, a town of Thibet, and capital of a diflj-icl ; 

 126 miles S.E. of Laflii. N. lat. 27^ 53'. E. long. 



TACQUET, Andrew, in Biography, a mathematician, 

 was born at Antwerp in 161 1, and having entered into llie 

 order of Jefuits in 1629, was a teacher of the languages and 

 mathematics for feveral years. He died in 1660. 1 acquct 

 was the author of feveral mathematical works, among 



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