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For a farther account of it, we refer to Dr. Leyden's EfTay 

 on the " Languages and Literature of the Indo-Chinefe 

 Nations," in the Afiatic Refearches, vol. x. 



TAGALAZ, in Geography, one of the Fox iflands, in 

 the North Facitic ocean. N. lat. 53° 30'. E. long. 

 185° 26'. 



TAGAMA, in /Iticknt Geography, a town of Africa, 

 in the interior of Libya, upon the bank of the Niger. 

 Ptol. 



Tagama, in Geography, a country of Africa, in Nigri- 

 tia. W. of Caftina. 



TAGANROG, a fort of Ruffia, on the f^-a of Azoph, 

 firil built by Peter the Great in 1696; 32 miles W.N.W. 

 of Azof. 



Taganrog is fituated upon the cliff of a very lofty pro- 

 montory, commanding an extenfive profpe£l of the fea 

 of Azof, and the whole European coaft to the mouths 

 of the Don. The number of inhabitants does not at pre- 

 fent exceed 5000. The mole in the haven is fo (hallow, that 

 fhips performing quarantine lie off at the diflance of 10 

 miles, and all vefFels drawing from 9 to 10 feet of vi^ater 

 cannot approach nearer to the town tlian this diflance. This 

 town has funk into decay ; and all the beft houfes are in its 

 fuburbs. If it had water, its fituation is very favourable 

 for commerce ; but it can be carried on here only for three 

 months in the year. In the winter the fea is frozen. Here 

 are three fairs in the year. The iifh caught in great abund- 

 ance in the fea of Azof is dried and fent over all the fouth 

 of Ruffia. Fruit is brought from Turkey, fuch as figs, 

 raifins, and oranges ; Greek wine from the Archipelago, 

 with incenfe, coffee, filk, fliawls, tobacco, and precious 

 ftones. Copper of a very inferior quahty comes from Tre- 

 bifond, and is forwarded to Mofcow. Among the principal 

 exports are caviare, butter, leather, tallow, corn, fur, can- 

 vas, rigging, lines, wool, hemp, and iron. The greatefl 

 advantage this town enjoys is its being the depofitor^' of Si- 

 berian produftions. The Cahnucks form large fettlemcnts 

 in the vicinity of Taganrog. It is the refort of people 

 from a great variety of countries ; infomuch that the inha- 

 bitants of fifteen different countries have been obferved in 

 this place at the fame time. 



TAGAPOLA, a fmall ifland among the Phihppines ; 

 25 miles W. of the ifland of Samar. 



TAGARA, an ancient city of India, known to the 

 Greeks about 2050 years ago. Arrian, in his Periplus 

 Maris Erythraei, fays that it was a large city, and all kinds 

 of mercantile goods throughout the Deccan were brought 

 "hither, and hence convyed in carts to Baroach, or Bary- 

 gaza. Arrian alfo informs us that Tagara was fituated at 

 about 10 days' journey E. of another famous mart, called 

 Plithana, or Pluthana ; that Pluthana was 20 days' journey 

 S. of Baroach ; and that the road to it was through the 

 Bala-gaut mountains. Pluthana, now called Pultanah, is 

 fituated on the fouthern bank of the Godavery, about 217 

 Britifh miles to the fouthward of Baroach. If we divide 

 thefe 217 miles by 20, the number of days travellers fpent 

 in palling from between Pultanah and Baroach, according to 

 Arrian, we fnall have nearly 11 miles ^fr day, or y cofs, 

 xvhich is the ufual rate of travelling with heavy loaded carts. 

 Arrian informs us, that Tagara was about 10 days' journey 

 W. of Pultanah. Allowing thefe lodays to be equal to about 

 100 Britifh miles, Tagara, by its bearing and diflance from 

 Pultanah, falls at Deoghire, or Deogire (which fee), a 

 place of great antiquity, and famous through all India, on 

 account of the pagodas of Eloura. It is now called Dow- 

 latabad, and about four cofs N.W. of Aurungabad. It ap- 

 pears in Arrian's Periplus, that on the arrival of the Greeks 



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into the Dfccan, above 2000 years ago, Tagara was the 

 metropolis of a large dillrift called Ariaca, which ctimpre- 

 hended the great-fl part of fubah Aurungabad, and the 

 fouthern part of Concan. About the middle of the firft ccn- 

 tury, Tagara was no longer the capital of Ariaca, rajah 

 Salbahan having removed the feat of the empire to Pattan. 

 However, the rajahs, headed by Salbahan, having revolted, 

 they gave him battle, and he was flain. Tagara became 

 again the metropolis of Ariaca ; at leafl this was the cafe 

 towards the latter end of the eleventh century. When the 

 MulTulmans carried their arms into the Deccan, about the 

 year 1293, Tagara or Deoghir was flill the refidence of a 

 powerful rajah, and remained fo till the time of Shah-Jehan, 

 when the diftrift belonging to it became a fubah of the 

 Mogul empire. Thus Tagara was deferted, and Kerkhi, 

 four cofs S.E. of it, became the capital, now called Aurun- 

 gabad. Thus the ancient kingdom or rajahfhip of Tagara 

 was deftroyed, after it had exillcd, with little inten-uption, 

 above 2000 years. Afiatic Refearches, vol. i. 



TAGASA, a town of Fez, fcated on a river about 

 three leagues from tlie Mediterranean ; 20 miles W. of 

 Melilla. 



TAGASTA, in Ancteitt Geography, a town of Africa, in 

 Numidia, on the route from Hippone to Cjefarea. An- 

 ton. Itin. 



TAG A VAST, in Geography. See Tagoast. 



TAGAZEE, a town of Africa, on the road from 

 Mourzouk to Agades ; 260 miles S. of Mourzouk. N. 

 lat. 23° 32'. E. long. 12° 55'. 



TAGAZOUTE, a town of Algiers ; 45 miles S.E. of 

 Oran. 



TAGEBACHI, an ifland in the Red fea. N. lat. 

 25° 2'. 



TAGETES, in Botany, a name which Fuchfius tells us 

 is appKed by Apuleius to the Tanfy, but which he himfelf 

 adopts for a plant, not very diffimilar in fohage, now vul- 

 garly called the French, or African, Marygold. He is 

 followed by Dillenius, Linnaeus, and every fubfequcnt 

 writer. De Theis derives the word from Tages, an Etruf- 

 can deity, grandion of Jupiter, and teacher of divination ; 

 and fuppofes the beauty of its flowers may have procured 

 the plant this mythological appellation. Of this intention 

 we can find no traces in the above writers. — Linn, Gen. 

 430. Schreb. 561. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 2126. Mart. 

 Mill. Dia. V. 4. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. j. 88. Tourn. 

 t. 278. Juir. 182. Lainarck lUuilr. t. 684. Gsertn. 



t. 172 Clafs and order, Syngenejia Polygam'ta-fuperJJua. 



Nat. Ord. Compofittc oppojittfolite, Linn. Corymbifern:, JufT. 



Gen. Ch. Common calyx perfeftly fimple, of one leaf, 

 tubular, oblong, with about five teeth, and as many longitu- 

 dinal angles. Cor. compound, radiant. Florets of the ele- 

 vated diflc numerous, all perfedl, tubular, longer than the 

 calyx, ereft, cut half way down into five hncar fegments, 

 villous at the infide : thofc of the radius five, ligulate, fe- 

 male, longer than thofe of the dilk, tlieir limb almofl as 

 broad as long, very obtufe, contratted and downy towards 

 the tube, permanent. Stam. in the perfeft florets. Filaments 

 five, capillary, veiy fhort ; ar.lhers united into a cylindrical 

 tube. P'ifl. in the perfeft florets, Gtrmen oblong ; flyle 

 thread-fhaped, the length of the ftamens ; fligma divided, 

 flender, reflexed. Perk, none, the calyx remaining un- 

 changed. Seeds, to both kinds of florets, folilary, linear, 

 compreffed, rather fhorter than the calyx ; crowued with five, 

 more or lets, ereft, pointed, unequal fcales. Recept. naked, 

 fmall, flat. 



Obf. In a cultivated (late, tlie two common garden fpe- 

 cies have ufually, from luxuriance, more fegments in the 



calyx. 



