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TAMATMA, in Geography, a town of Africa, in the 

 kingdom of Bornou. 



TAMBA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Bcn- 

 guela ; 165 miles E. of Benguela. — Alfo, a town of Hin- 

 dooftan, in Vifiapour ; 20 miles S.W. of Sattarah. 



TAMBA-AWRA, or Tambaoura, a town of Africa, 

 in the kingdom of Bambouk, liaving in its vicinity a gold- 

 mine ; 108 miles S.E. of Gallam. N. lat. 13° 20'. W. 

 long. 9° 25'. 



TAMBAC, or Tambaqua, a mixture of gold and 

 copper, which the people of Siam hold more beautiful, and 

 fet a greater value on, than gold itfelf. 



Some travellers fpeak of it as a metal found in its peculiar 

 Klines ; but upon what authority we do not know. 



The abbe de Choify, in his Journal of Siam, doubts 

 whether this may not be the eledrum, or amber of So- 

 lonx)n. 



The ambafladors of Siam brought feveral works in tam- 

 bac to Paris in the reign of Lewis XIV., but they were not 

 found fo beautiful as was expefted. See TosrBAC and Gold- 

 coloured Metal. 



TAMBACH, in Geography, a town of Germany, in 

 the principality of Gotha ; 6 miles N.E. of Smalkalden. 



TAMBACUNDA, a town of Africa, in the country 

 of Woolly ; 30 miles E.N.E. of Medina. — Alfo, a town 

 of Africa, in the country of Neola ; 52 miles W. of Ba- 

 niferile. 



TAMBERCHERRY, a town of Hindooftan ; 18 miles 

 N.E. of Calicut. 



TAMBILLO, a town of Peru ; 56 miles N. of 

 Oruro. 



TAMBO, a town of South America, in the province of 

 Popayan ; 12 miles W. of Popayan. — Alfo, a town of 

 Paraguay ; 250 miles E. of AfTumption. 



Tambo de Oeros, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of 

 Cufco ; 136 miles W.N.W. of Cufco. 



TAMBONA, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 

 Travancore ; 40 miles N.E. of Travancore. 



TAMBOOKIES, a people of the colony of the Cape 

 of Good Hope, fituated N.E. of the Kouflis, or the Kooffis, 

 N. to the Orange river and tropic of Capricorn, are fup- 

 pofed by Mr. Barrow to be of Arabian extraft, as they 

 widely differ from the Hottentots and tlie Negroes, and are 

 acquainted with the fmelting of iron, and fome other rude 

 arts. He conceives that a belt of this race fpreads acrofs 

 to the Atlantic. The Demaras on the Copper mountains are 

 Kouflis ; and their country is fo barren and fandy, that 

 they cannot keep cattle. The Orange river, called the 

 Groot or Great river, feems to rife about S. lat. 30°. E. 

 long. 28°, and paffes W. by N. till it f;Jls into the fea be- 

 tween the Great and Little Nemakos. It has high catarafts 

 and inundations like the Nile. On the fhores are carne- 

 lians, calcedonies, agates, and variolites. See Orasge- 

 River. 



TAMBOPALLA, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of 

 Arequipa, at the mouth of the Nombre de Dios ; 48 miles 

 S. of Arequipa. S. lat. 17^ 10'. 



TAMBOS, in Peruvian Antiqttlty, buildings placed at 

 certain diftances, for the lodging of the princes of that 

 country, in their travels through their dominions. See M. 

 de la Condamine, in Mem. de I'Acad. de Berlin, torn. ii. 

 p. 435 ; who tells us (p. 438.) that he faw feveral remains 

 of thefe tambos, in his journey from Quito to Lima. 



TAMBOV, in Geography, a city of Ruffia, on the Tzna, 

 capital of a government, and fee of a bifhop ; 228 miles 

 S.E. of Mofcow. N. lat. 52° 48'. E. long. 41° 4'. 



TAMBOUR, in Jrditeaure, a term applied to the 

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Corinthian and Compofite capitals, as bearing fome refcm- 

 blance to a drum, which the French call tambour. 



Some choofe to call it the vafe, and others camtana, or 

 the bell. 



Tambour is alfo ufed for a little box of timber work, 

 covered with a ceiling, withinfide the porch of certain 

 churches ; both to prevent the view of pcrfoiis pafling by, 

 and to keep off the wind, &c. by means of folding-doors, 

 &c. 



Tambour alfo denotes a round courfe of ftone, feveral 

 of which form the fliaft of a column, not fo higli as a dia- 

 meter. 



Tambour, in the Arts, is a fpecies of embroidery. 



Tlie tambour is an inftrument of a fphcrical foi-m, upon 

 whicli is ftrctched, by means of a ftring and buckle, or otiier 

 fuitable appendage, a piece of linen or thin filken Huff; 

 which is wrought, with a needle of a particular form, and 

 by means of filken or gold and filver threads, into leaves, 

 flowers, or other figures. 



Tambour, Fr., a drum ; which fee. 



Tambour de Bafque, a fmall drum ufed by the Bifcayans 

 as an accompaniment to the flageolet, or oftave flute : a 

 tabor and pipe. 



TAMBOURIN, a French dance, much in favour for- 

 merly on the French ftage in all the opera dances of Lulli 

 and Rameau. The air is gay and in common time. 



TAMBOURISSA, or TAMnouRtxissA, in Botany, 

 Sonnerat's name for what is now called Mithridatea ; fee 

 that article. The French appellation of this tree, Bois Tam- 

 bour, or Drum-tree, might be fuppofed to allude to the 

 lightnefs and hollownefs of the wood, or to its ufe, were not 

 this word evidently derived from the Madagafcar name of the 

 fame tree, Amlora. 



TAMBOVSKOE, \\\ Geography, a government of Ruf- 

 fia, bounded on the north by the government of Vladimir, 

 on the eaft by the governments of Nizegorod, Penza, and 

 Saratov ; on the fouth by the government of Saratov ; 

 and on the weft by the governments of Riazan and 

 Voronez ; about 200 miles in length, and from 80 to 

 100 in breadth. N. lat. 51° 36' to 55^ 20'. E. long. 38* 

 30' to 48°. 



TAMBRAX, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 Hyrcania, which, according ta Polybius, was large, and 

 had a royal palace. 



TAMBRAY, in Geography, a town of Hindooflan, in 

 Travancore ; 60 miles N.N.W. of Anjenga. 



TAMBRO, a river of Spain, which runs into the At- 

 lantic, near Muros, in Galicia. 



TAMBUCO, or Tabuco, a town on the eaft coaft of 

 the ifland of Celebes, fituated in a bay to which it givci 

 name. S. lat. 2° 50'. 



TAME, a river of England, which rifes near Winflow, 

 in the county of Buckingham, and runs into the Thames 



at Dorchefter, in Oxfordftiire Alfo, a river of England, 



which rifes near Dudley, in the county of Staflbrd, and 

 runs into the Trent, about 7 miles above Burton. 



Tamk. See Thame. 



TAMEGA, a river of Portugal, which runs into the 

 Duero, 10 miles S. of Am.-irante. 



TAMEG AN, a town of the ifland of Ceylon ; 48 miles 

 S. of Candi. 



TAMERLANE, in Biography. Sec TiMOUR. 



TAMETAVE, in Geography, a town on the E. coaft of 

 Madagafcar. S. lat. 18^ 5'. E. long. 49° 41'. 



TAMIA, in Ancient Geography, a town of the ifle of 

 Albion, in the vicinity of Banatia and Alata Caftra. Pto- 

 lemy alfiirns it to the Vacomagi. 



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