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TAMIAGUA, in Geography, a river of Mexico, which 



joins the Tufpa at its mouth Alfo, a town of Mexico, in 



the province of Guafteca. 



TAMIEH, a town of Egypt, on a canal which forms a 

 communication between the Nile and the Birket el Kerum ; 

 12 miles N.E. of Fayonm. 



TAMINIZ, a river of Carniola, about four miles in 

 extent ; 4 miles S.E. of Veit. It has no vifiblc communi- 

 cation with any other river. 



TAMINO, a river of Switzerland, virhich runs into the 

 Rhine, 2 miles S. of Sargans. 



TAMISRA, denoting darknefs, a name of one of the 

 hells of the Hindoos, of which they had upwards of a fcore. 

 Another of the Hindoo hells is named Andha Taniifra, 

 meaning utter darknefs ; and as thcfe purgatories are dif- 

 ferently placed, this is fuppofed to be the one fituated in the 

 bowels of the earth, and its degree of puiiiftiment an ag- 

 gravation of the eaficr penalties inflifted in Tamifra. In the 

 Inllitutes of Menu it is ordained, that " a twice-born man, 

 who barely aflaults a Brahman with an intention to hurt him, 

 (hall be whirled about for a century in the hell called Ta- 

 mifra." (Ch. iv. v. 165.) By " a twice-born man" is meant 

 an individual of one of the three firft tribes or fe<fts, they 

 being fufceptible of regeneration by the inveftiturc of tiie 

 %ennaar ; which fee. See alfo O'm, and Sects of Hindoos. 



TAMLOOK, in Geography, a town of Bengal ; 35 

 miles S.W. of Calcutta. 



TAMMAPUL, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Guafteca ; 105 miles N.W. of Panuco. 



TAMMELA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 

 Tavaftland ; 23 miles S.W. of Tavafthus. 



TAMMERFORS, a town of Sweden, in the province 

 of Tavaftland ; 36 miles N.N.W. of Tavafthus. 



TAMMESBRUCK, a town of Saxony, in Thu- 

 ringia, near the Unftrutt ; I mile from Langen Salza. 



TAMMOWISCHKEN, atown of Pruffian Lithuania j 

 3 miles E. of Inftcrburg. 



TAMNUM, in jincient Geography, a town of Galha 

 Aquitanica, upon the route from Burdigala to Auguftodu- 

 num ; now Talmon. 



TAMNUS, in Botany, Tourn. t. 28. Juff. 43, a more 

 correft name, perhaps, than that of Tamls, ufed by Lin- 

 naeus, which will be found in its proper place. The word 

 has been corrupted occalionally into Tamarus and Tanmis. 



TAMOATA, in Ichthyology, the name of an American 

 frefti-water fifh, called by the Fortugueie foldido. 



It is a fmall oblong fifti, with a flat head, fomevvhat like 

 that of a frog. Its mouth is fmall, and from each angle of it 

 there hangs a long fmgle filament, by way of a beard. It 

 has no teeth, and its eyes are extremely fmall. It has eight 

 fins ; two at the gills, of one finger in length, and hard and 

 firm like horns ; two on the belly, of a fofter fubftance ; 

 and one on the middle of the back, another near the tail, and 

 another fmall one oppofite to it on the belly ; its tail is the 

 eighth ; its whole head is covered above with a hard coat 

 like a fhell ; and its body with a fort of coat of mail made 

 up of oblong, hard, fquamofe bodies, dented at their edges ; 

 its colour is a fort of rufty iron-colour. It is accounted a 

 very well-tafted fifh. It lives only in frefh-water rivers ; 

 and, it is faid, when the water where it is dries up, it 

 ivill crawl out upon the land, and go in fearch of more. 

 Marcgrave. 



TAMOLA, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the pro- 

 •vince of Tavaftland ; 20 miles S.W. of Tavafthus. 



TAMONEA, in Botany, a name of Aublet's, faid by De 

 Theis to be in ufe among the inhabitants of Guiana, but this 

 does not appear from any thing mentioned in the original 



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author. Aubl. Guian. 659. t. 268. Juff. 109. Lamarck 

 lUuftr. t. 542. Verbena lappulacea of Linna:us is referred by 

 Jufticu to this genus. (See Verbena.) We are not certain 

 whether Tamonea ought to be admitted as a genus, and 

 therefore need not ftay to objeft to the name. 



TAMONTACA, in Geography, a town on the weft 

 coaft of the ifland of Mindanao. N. lat. 7° 2'. E. long. 

 124' 36'. 



TAMOOK, a fmall idand in the Sooloo Archipelago. 

 N. lat. 6° 21'. E. long. 121=58'. 



TAMOS, in Ancient Geography, a promontory which 

 formed mount Taurus, in the Eailern ocean. 



TAMPASSOOK, in Geography, a town on the nortlj- 

 weft coail of the ifland of Borneo. N. lat. 6= 2 1'. E. long. 

 116=13'. 



TAMPICO, a fea-port of Mexico, in the province of 

 Guafteca, fituated in the bay of the gulf of Mexico ; 

 30 miles S.E. of Panuco. N. lat. 22" 40'. W. long. 

 98=36'. 



Tampico, a name given to a river of Spanifh North 

 America, called the Panuco ; which fee. 



TAMPING a Hole, in Mining, is ufed for filling the 

 upper part of a hole, bored in the rock for blafting with 

 gunpowder, upon the charge of powder, with clay or ftony 

 matter rammed down very clofe and tiglit : and the clay and 

 flone are called the tamping. This operation i* called, in 

 the North of England, ilemming a hole. 



TAMPION, ToMPlON, Tamkin, or Tomkin, a kind of 

 plug or ftopple, ferving to clofe a vefTel. 



The word is formed from the French tampon, a bung, 

 ftopper, &c. Some derive it from the Enghlh tap. 



In Gunnery, the tampions are wooden cyh'nders put into the 

 mouth of guns, howitzers, and mortars, in travelling, to 

 prevent the duft or wet from getting in. They are faftcned 

 round the muzzle of the guns, &c. by leatliern collars. At 

 fca they are carefidly encircled with tallow or putty, to 

 prevent the penetration of the water into the bore, by which 

 the powder contained in the chamber might be damaged or 

 rendered incapable of fervice. They are alfo fometimes 

 ufed to put into the chambers of mortars, over the powder, 

 when the chambers are not full. Tampions are alfo iron 

 bottoms, to which the grape-fhot defigned for fea-fervice 

 are fixed. 



TAMPISCO, in Geography, a river of Mexico, which 

 runs into the Pacific ocean, N. lat. 10° 38'. 



TAMPOE, in Natural Hijlory, the name of an Eaft In- 

 dian fruit, approaching to the figure of the mangouftan, but 

 liot neai- fo agreeable to tlie tafte. This fruit is very much of 

 the fize, fhape, and colour of fome of our common fummer- 

 apples ; but its flcin is very thick and tough, and it has no 

 crown. The Indians eat it in places where better fruits are 

 fcarce, and in fome places call it the mangouftan. 



TAM-SAN-HOTUN, in Geography, a town of Chinefe 

 Tartary. N. lat. 40= 20'. E. long. 123° 48'. 



TAMSHUC Mountains, mountains of Thibet ; 30 

 milcs N. of Dharmfaleh. 



TAMSWEG, a town of the archbiftiopric of Salzburg ; 

 1 2 miles W. of Muehrau. 



TAMUADA, in Ancient Geography, a river of Africa, 

 in Mauritania Tingitana. 



TAMUGADA, a town of Africa, in Maiu-itania, on the 

 route from Lambefe to Cirta Colonise. 



TAMUS, in Botany, an old name, fometimes written 

 Tamnus, fee that article, and fuppofed to be taken from 

 the U'va Tamlnla of Pliny, which appears to have belonged 

 to the plant now called Black Bryony. To this therefore 

 the above name is at prefent appropriated. — Linn. Gen. 524. 



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