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TALAI-HAI, a town of Chinefo Tartary. N. lat. 

 44" 17'. E. long. 120' 45'. 



TALAI-HOTOC, a town of Thibet ; 105 miles S.W. 

 ©f Haratoube. 



TALALALUM, or Thalatatum, in Ancknt Geo- 

 graphy, a town of Africa Propria, on the route from Ta- 

 capas to the Greater Lcptis. 



TALAMANCA, in Geography, a town of Spain, in 

 New Cailile ; 14 miles N.W. of Guadalaxara. 



TALAMATA, a town of Hindoollan, in Coimbetore; 

 15 miles N. of Damicotta. 



TALAN, a fmall illand in the fea of Ochotlk. N. lat. 

 59° 30'- E. long. 149° 14'. 



TALANGBOANG, a town on the W. coail of Su- 

 matra. S. lat. 4° 21'. E. long. 105° 44'. 



TALANT, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Cote d'Or ; 2 miles N.W. of Dijon. 



TALANTA, a town of European Turkey, in the 



ifland of Negroponte ; 34 miles N.W. of Negroponte 



Alfo, a town of European Turkey, in Livadia ; 1 8 miles 

 N.E. of Livadia. 



TALA-OSO, a town of Chinefe Tartary, in the 

 country of Hami ; 28 miles E.S.E. of Hatamtam. 



TALAPOINS, a name given in Siam to thofe who de- 

 dicate themfelves to religion. See Siam. 



TALAPOOSEE, in Geography, the great N.E. branch 

 ©f the Alabama or Mobile river, in Florida. It rifes in the 

 high lands near the Cherokces, and runs througli the high 

 country of the Oakfufl<ec tribes, in a wcfterly direftion, being 

 full of rocks, falls, and fhoals, till it reaches the Tackabatches, 

 where it becomes deep and quiet ; from thence the courfe 

 is W. about 30 miles to Little TalafTee, where it is united 

 witb the Coofa or Coofa Hatcha. The lower part of this 

 river is, in moft maps, called Oakfufliee. 



TALAPORUM, a town of Hindooftan, in Calicut; 

 20 miles N.N.W. of Tellicherry. 



TALARHO-KARA-PALHASSUM, a town of 

 Chinefe Tartary, in the country of the Eluths ; 715 miles 

 N.W. of Peking. N. lat. 47° 34'. E. long. 102° 34'. 



TALARIUS LuDUS, among the Romans, a game 

 fomewhat refembling our dice -playing, and performed with 

 a kind of gold or ivory dice, which they fhook as we do in 

 a box, before they threw them. There was this difference, 

 however, between their game and ours, that our dice have 

 fix fides, becaufe they are cubical ; but theirs had but four, 

 and were conically (haped. They made ufe of them for 

 divination, as well as playing ; and they concluded upon a 

 good or evil augury, according to what came up. As they 

 ufually threw four of them at a time, the beft chance was 

 when four different fides came up. The fides were called 

 by the name of fome animal, as the dog, vulture, bafilifl<, 

 &c. ; or of fome deity, as Venus, Hercules, &c. Some 

 authors have been of opinion, tliat they were marked with 

 the forms of animals, or images of gods, and not with 

 numbers or dots, as our dice are. 



TALARN, in Geography, a town of Spain, in Cata- 

 lonia ; 22 miles N. of Balag'uer. 



TALASSEE, or Tallassee, a county confifting of a 

 traft of land bounded by Eaft Florida on the S., N. by Ala- 

 tamaha river, E. by Glynn and Camden counties, and W. 

 by a line extending from the W. part of Ekanfanoka fwamp, 

 in a N.E. direftion till it ftrikes the Alatamaha river, at 

 the mouth of the Oakmulgee. — Alfo, a town of the Upper 

 Creeks, in the Miffifippi territory, on the S- fide of Tala- 

 poofee river ; called alio Big Talaflee. 



TALASSIO, among the Romans, an acclamation ufed 

 at marriages. 



TALATUM, in /Indent Geography, the name of a 

 temple of the fun, crefted in Laconia, on the fummit of 

 mount Taygetus. 



TALAVAN, in Geography, a town of Spain, in Eftre- 

 madura ; 25 miles S. of Plafencia. 



TALAVERA /,( Real, a town of Spain, in Eftrc-ma- 

 dura ; 13 miles S.E. of Badajos. 



Tai.avera la Reyna, a town of Spain, in New Cailile, 

 on the Tagus, filuated in a valley, and fortified ; famous 

 for its earthen-ware ; 35 miles W. of Toledo. 



Tai.aveua hi Vieja, a town of Spain, in New Caftilc ; 

 6 miles W.S.W. of Toledo. 



TALAVERUELA, or Talavera de Badajos, a town 

 of Spain, in Ellremadura, on the Guadiana ; 9 miles E. of 

 Badajos. 



TALAUMA, in Botany, a word probably of Soutli 

 American origin, applied in the herbarium of Surian, now 

 pofTefied by Jufiieu, to the plant on which Plumier origi- 

 nally founded his genus Magnolia. See under that article, 

 fp. 2, our rcafons for not receiving Talauma, for the prefent 

 at leaft, as a diftinft genus. 



TALBERT's Island, in Geography, a fmall ifland in 

 the Atlantic, on the coaft of Georgia, the N. point of 

 which is in N. lat. about 30° 44', where St. Mary's river dif- 

 charges itfelf into the ocean, betv.-een this ifland and Amelia 

 ifland on the N. N. lat. 30° 36'. W. long. 81^ 42'. 



TALBOT, an ifland on the coaft of Eaft Florida, eight 



miles long and two wide Alfo, a county of Maryland, on 



the E. coaft of Chefapeak bay, bounded E. by Choptank 

 river, which divides it from Carolina county, and S. by tlie 

 fame river, which feparates it from Dorchefter. The foil 

 of this county is rich and fertile; and it contains 14,230 

 inhabitants. 



Talbot, in Zoology, a fort of dog, noted for its quick 

 fcent, finding out the tracks, lodgings, and forms of beafts, 

 and purfuing them with open mouth and continual cry, with 

 fuch eagernefs, that if not taken off by the huntfman,-he is 

 often fpoiled. 



TALC, in Mineralogy, Idem, Hauy. Tlie name talc, in 

 the prefent fyftoniatic arrangcmmeut of Werner, is placed 

 both as the head of a genus and a family. Brongniart rc- 

 ftrifts the name to thofe minerals which poflcfs the follow- 

 ing charafters : they are foft and unftuous to the touch, and 

 leave upon the nail, or on the furface of cloth on whicii 

 they arc rubbed, a white mark, wlilch lias fometimes a nacry 

 luftre. The textin-e of talc is lamellar, or fibrous : the 

 laminae are flexible but not elaftic. Talc has always a fhin- 

 ing luftre, and is fometimes fplendent and nacry ; it is tranf- 

 lucent and often tranfparent ; it yields eafily to the nail. 

 The lamina of which it is compofcd, open a little by the 

 aftion of fire or of the blowpipe ; the fragment fwclls, and 

 the extremities of the lamina; arc w ith difficulty fufible into 

 a white enamel. Thefe chai'afters, which are eafily recog- 

 nifed, ferve to diftinguifti talc from chlorite and nacrite, which 

 are very fufible ; and from fteatite, ferpentine, or the unc- 

 tuous clays, which are compaft, iiave an earthy or fcaly 

 frafture, and but little unftuofity. Talc has another re- 

 markable property ; it acquires pofitive electricity when 

 rubbed with refin. Talc is fufceptible of cryftallization, 

 and forms hexagonal lamim. The primitive form of the 

 cryftal is a right rhomboidal prifm, in which tlie angles at 

 the bafe are 120° and 60°. Its fpecific gravity varies from 

 2.58 to 2.87. The prevailing colours are white, apple- 

 green, and yellow. 



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