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tJie Old Teilament, they fei-ve to vindicate the genuincnefs of 

 the prefent Hebrew text, by proving it to be the fame that 

 was in ufe when thefe Targums were made, contrary to the 

 cpinioa of thofe v/!io think the Jews corrupted it after our 

 .S;.viour's time. They help to explain many words and 

 phrafes in tlie Hebrew originul, and they hand down to us 

 rr.any of the ancient cuiloms of the Jews. And fome of 

 thefe, with the phrafeologies, idioms, and peculiar forme of 

 fpeech, which we find in . them, do in many iiiftances help 

 as much for the better illuftration and b<;tter underftanding 

 of the New Teftament as of the Old ; the Jerufalem Chal- 

 dee dialeft, in which they are written, being the vulgar lan- 

 guage of the Jews in our Saviour's time. They alfo very 

 mufh ferve the Chrillian caufe againft the Jews by inter- 

 preting many of the prophecies of the Mefliali in the Old 

 Teftament, in the fame manner as the Chriftians do. Many 

 inilances aj-e produced to this purpofe by Dr. Prideaux in 

 his Conned, of the I lift, of the Old and New Teft. vol. iv. 

 ?• 777. &c. , _ 



Thefe Taigums are publilhed to the beft advantage in the 

 lecond edition of the great Hebrew bible fet forth at Bafil 

 by Buxtorf the father, anno 1610, for he has reftified the 

 Chaldee text, and reformed the vowel pointings in it : the 

 Targums having at firft been written without vowel points, 

 which were afterwards added very erroneoufly by fome 

 Jews. 



TARHONA, in Geography, a town of Africa, in Tri- 

 poh ; 25 miles S.W. of Lebida. 



TARI, or Torn, a river of Africa, which runs through 

 the kingdom of Popo into the fea. 

 TARI, in Commerce. See TaRO. 



TARICHI.iE, in Jncient Geogrsphy, iflands fituated on 

 the coaft of Africa, in the Mediterranean fea, between 

 Leptis and Thapfus, mentioned by Strabo. 



TARIDEGO, in Geography, a town of Africa, on the 

 riuer St. Domingo. N. lat. 12° 10*. W. long. 13° 56'. 



TARIENTO, a town of Italy, in Friuli ; 8 miles N. 

 of Udina. 



TARIER of Buffbn, in Ornithology. See MoTACILLA 

 Rubetra. 



TARI ERA, in Ichthyology, the name of a river-fifti 

 raught in many parts of America. 



It is an oblong fifh, with a ftraight back, and a belly 

 fomewhat hanging down ; its under jaw is longer than its 

 upper, and its teeth are extremely fhai-p : among thefe are 

 two longer than the reft in the middle of the under jaw, and 

 four fuch in the upper ; its fcales are large, its back brown, 

 and its belly and fides whitifh. It is a well-tafted iiih, but 

 full of bones. Marcgrave. 



TARIF, or Tariff, Book of Rates ; a table or cata- 

 logue, drawn ufually in alphabetical order, containing the 

 names of feveral kinds of merchandize, with the duties or 

 cuftoms to be paid for the fame, as fettled by authority, and 

 agreed on between the feveral princes and ftates, that hold 

 commerce together. 



TARIFFA, in Geography, a fea-port town of Spain, 

 in the province of Seville, fituated on a bay to which it 

 gives name, on the north fide of the Straits of Gibraltar, 

 fortified with old walls and towers, with a caftle, in which 

 the governor refides. By the Romans it was called " Julia 

 Tradufta," and " Julia Joza." The prefent n.ame is from 

 the Moors ; 27 miles S.S.E. of Medina Sidonia. N. lat. 

 36° 3'. W. long. 5° 41'. 



TARIFILON, in Botany, a name by which Avicenna, 

 and fome other authors, have called the trlfol'tum bitum'inofum, 

 or ftinking trefoil. 



TARIJA, in Geography, a jurifdidlion of South Ame- 



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rica, in Peru, but placed under the viceroyalty of Buf no? 

 Ayres. This is reprcfentcd a charming and fertile country, 

 with a ferene (ky and a fine temperature of air, producing 

 wheat, maize, and all other things that are cftential to the 

 fupport of man ; togetlier with the tree, which produces 

 the herb of Paraguay, the cocoa, the vine, and flax, whicli 

 is cuhivated merely for the fake of its feed. In the abun- 

 dance of padures are fed a vaft number of cattle and fheep. 

 The annual tranfports of black cattle alone are computed 

 at little Icfs then 10,000 head, which are valued at from 

 eight to ten piaftres each. The hides tanned and prepa^-ed 

 form fole-leather for the inhabitants of La Plata, Potofi, 

 &c. The demands for Spanifn and colonial merciiandife an- 

 nually exceed 60,000 piaftres; the returns for which are 

 made in productions of the province. St. Bernardo de 

 Tarija is the chief town. Chicas and Tarija form one 

 government. 



Tarija, a river of South America, which runs into the 

 Vermejo, in the province of Tucuman. 



Tarija. See St. Bernardo de Tarija. 



TARIN, in Ornithology, a name given by the French, 

 and from them by many others, to the citrinella ; a bird com- 

 mon in Italy, and kept in cages for its beauty and fine notes. 

 See Frincilla, 



TARINGASONG, in Geography, a town of Thibet; 

 17 miles S.S.E. of Laffa. N. lat. 28° 6'. E. long. 93'. 



TARINGTING, in Ornithology, a name given by the 

 people of the Philippine iflands, to a fpecies of lapwing, 

 which is common on the fea-fhores, and runs remarkably 

 fwift. •' 



TARINURAK, in Geography, a river of Ruffia, which 

 runs into the Lena, N. lat. 61°. E. long. 124° 14'. 



TARISKERI, a town of the iiland of Metelin, on the 

 N, coaft ; 1 2 miles E. of Cape Sigri. 



TARITH, one of the many names given by chemifts to 

 mercury. 



TARITO, in Geography, a town of Thibet; 33 niiles 

 S.E. of Tchontori. 



TARKA, a mountain of Tranfylvania; 28 miles N.N.E. 

 of Udvarhely. 



TARKI, a town of Hungary; 15 miles N.N.W. of 

 Topoltzen. 



Tarki, or Tarhu, a town of Afia, in Dagheftan, capi- 

 tal of the diftrift of Schamgul, feated in N. lat. 42° 50', 

 and fuppofed to contain 10,000 inhabitants, ftands on the 

 Cafpian {hore, in a narrow glen, through which run many 

 ftreams of falt-water. 



TARKIRA-HOUTCHIN, a poft of Chinefe Tartary, 

 in the country of the Monguls. N. lat. 44° 34'. E. long. 

 113° 48'. 



TARKO, a town of Hungary, 6 miles E.S.E. of 

 Szeben. 



TARKSHA, a name of the fabulous bird Garuda, on 

 which, in the mythology of the Hindoos, their god Vifhnu 

 rides. This vehicle, or vahan, in the Sanfcrit tongue, is 

 reprefented as half man half eagle ; and offers an argument 

 for the identity of the Hindoo deity, and the Jupiter of the 

 Greeks. Another name of this bird is Superna; which 

 fee. See alfo Vahan. 



TARMA, ill Geography, a jurifdiftion of South America, 

 in Peru, fituated to the north of Atun Xauxa, about 90 

 miles from Lima, to which dioccfe it belongs, and is one of 

 the moft extenfive in this part of Peru. The climate is 

 temperate, and the foil fertile, except towards the mountains, 

 xvhere it is cold, and the land is chiefly applied to feeding 

 of cattle ; and many mines of filvcr are found. Tarma, the 



capital, 



