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capital, U 85 miles E. of Lima. S. lat. 11°. VV. long. 



75' 5°'- 



TARMONBARRY Bridgk, a village of the county 



of Rofcommon, Inland, at which there is a bridge over the 



Shannon. The royal canal, if it (hould ever be completed, 



is to join the Sliannon near this place. It is 4 miles N.W. 



from Longford, ajid above 60 from Dublin. 



TARMON-HILL, a mountain at the fouthern extre- 

 mity of the peninfula, called The Mullet, being a detached 

 part of the county of Mayo, Ireland. 



TARN, a river of France, which rifes in the mountains 

 of Lo/.cre, pafTes by Florae, Ifpanhac, St. Enimie, Com- 

 peyre, Milhaii, St. Rome, Alby, L'lfle, Rabaftens, Ville- 

 mur, Montauban, &c. and joins the Garonne, near Moiffac, 

 in the department of the Lot. 



Tarn, a department of France, being one of the nine 

 departments of the fouthern region, and formerly a portion 

 of Upper Languedoc, in N. lat. 43° 40', bounded on the N. 

 and N.E. by the department of tlic Aveiron, on the S.E. 

 by that of Herault, on the S. by that of the Aude, and on 

 the W. bv the departments of the Upper Garonne and 

 the Lot, and taking its name from the river Tarn, which 

 traverfes it from E. to W. Its territorial extent is 6080 

 kiliometres, and itspopulation comprehends 272,163 perfons. 

 It is divided into 4 circles, 35 cantons, and 356 communes. 

 The circles are Gaillac, including 59,501 inhabitants ; Alby, 

 63,064; Cadres, 106,918; and Lavaur, 42,680 inhabitants. 

 Its contributions in the iith year of the French era, 

 amounted to 2,693,820 francs ; and its expences to 

 252,749 fr. 18 cents. According to HafTenfratz, its ex- 

 tent in French leagues is 30 in length, and 20 in breadth : 

 it is divided into 5 circles and 48 cantons, and its population 

 comprehends 289,148 fouls. Its capital is Alby. This 

 department is diverfihed with hills and plains, and abounds 

 in a variety of produftions, t>/z. grain, flax, hemp, wine, 

 fruits, and paftures. It has confiderable forefts, with mines 

 of iron, copper, lead, coal, quarries of marble, &c. 



TARNA, a town of Sweden, in the lapmark of Umea : 

 145 miles N.W. of Umea. 



TARN AC, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Correze, on the Vienne ; 25 miles N. of Tulle. 



TARNAVAY, a town of Hindooftan, in the county 

 of Calicut ; 20 miles N.E. of Paniany. 



TARNISHING, a diminution of the natural luftre of 

 any thing, efpecially of a metal. 



Gold and filver, when tarnifhed, refume their brightnefs, 

 by fetting them over the fire in certain leys. Copper, 

 pewter, &c. that are tarnilhed, recover their luftre with 

 tripoli and potalhes. 



TARNOGROD, in Geography, a town of Poland, in the 

 palatinate of Belcz ; 52 miles W.S.W. of Belcz, 



TARNOPOL, atown of Auftrian Poland, in Galicia; 

 72 miles E. of Lemberg. N. lat. 49° 30'. E. long. 25° 40'. 



TARNOW, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Gahcia ; 52 

 miles S.W. of Sandomir. N. lat. 49° 56'. E. long. 20° 53'. 



TARNOWITZ, a town of Silefia, in the principality 

 of Oppeln, near which is a filver mine ; 6 miles N. of 

 Ober Beuthen. N. lat. 50° 25'. E. long. 18° 47'. 



TARO, a river which rifes in the fouthern part of the 

 duchy of Parma, and runs into the Po, 9 miles E. of 

 .Bufleto. The country through which it pafles is called 

 Val di Taro — Alfo, a late department of France, formed 

 by the duchies of Plaeentia and Parma. 



Taro, in Commerce, a money of account and copper coin 

 ef Naples, Sicily, and Malta. For the accounts at Malta, 

 fee ScuDO. The banks at Naples keep their accounts in 

 diucati, tari, and grani. A ducat contains 5 tari, locarlini, or 



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40 cinquini : a taro, or tarino, is worth 2 carlini, or 20 

 grani. Among the filver coins aro tari, at 2 carlini. By 

 the coinage of 1804, the piece of 12 carlini (hould contain 

 350I Englilh grains of fine filver ; fo that it is worth 

 49(/. fterling ; and the ducat of 10 carlini is worth 41^. 

 fterling nearly, or l/. fterling = 5 ducats 88 grani. The 

 taro of Sicily is worth about 4^., or more accurately, 1/. 

 fterling — I ounce 28 tari 15 grani. 



TAROATAIHETOOMO, is the name of one of the 

 two firft or fupreme deities at Otaheite : the other, who is fup- 

 pofed to have been a rock, is called Tepapa. Thefe produced 

 a fon called Tune, to whom their prayers are generally ad- 

 dreffed, and who is fuppofed to intereft himfelf in the aff'airs 

 of mankind ; and a daughter called Telloivmatatayo,- the 

 Tear, from whom proceed the months and days. From 

 the two firft beings they fuppofe alfo to have fprung an 

 inferior race of deities called Eatuas. Hawkefworth's Voy. 

 vol. ii. p. 238. 



TARODUNUM, in AnclenI Geography, a town of Ger- 

 many, near the Danube, and in the vicinity of Arje Flavix. 



TAROM, in Geography. See Tarum. 



TARON, or TiROAN, a town of Perfia, in the province 

 of Adirbeitzan ; 120 miles S.E. of Tauris. 



TARONA, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Tauric 

 Cherfonefus, S.E. of Taplira, and E. of Satarcha. 



TAROONCHI, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, 

 in Myfore ; 15 miles SS.W. of Chinna Balabaram. 



TAROUC Y.\MDSON, a lake of Thibet, about 53 miles 

 in circumference. N. lat. 31° 52'. E. long. 84° 38'. 



TAROUCA, a town of Portugal, in the province of 

 Beira ; 9 miles S. of Lamego. 



TAROULA, a town on the eaft coaft of the ifland of 

 Tidor. N. lat. 0° 42'. E. long. 127° 20'. 



TAROURS, a town of Hindooftan, in Berar ; 30 miles 

 N.N.E. of Neermul. 



TAROUT, a town of Arabia, in the province of Heds- 

 jas ; 32 miles S.E. of El Catif. 



TARP, a town of Sweden, in the province of Dalland ; 

 12 miles N. of Uddevalla. 



TARPANS, a kind of wild horfes in the Caucafian 

 defert, E. of the river Yaik. They are of a middling fize, 

 roundifti, ftiort, generally of a blueifti-grey coloOr, with big 

 heads, and ewe -necked. They are taken with a noofe, and 

 broken to the faddle by being coupled to a tame horfe. 



TARPAULIN, or Tarpawling, is a piece of canvas, 

 well pitched and tarred over, to cover the hatchways of a 

 fliip at fea, in order to prevent the penetration of the rain 

 or fea-water, which may occafionally rufh over the decks. 



The term is alfo ufed in derifion for a perfon bred at fea, 

 and educated in the mariner's art. We alfo, of late, ufe it 

 to exprefs a painted floor-cloth. 



Tarpaulin Cove, in Geography, a bay on the S. of 

 Maflachufetts, near Falmouth. 



TARPEIAN, Takpkiu.s, in Antiquity, an epithet given 

 to a rock in ancient Rome, of confiderable height ; whence, 

 by the law of the Twelve Tables, thofe guilty of certain 

 crimes were precipitated. It was on this rock that the 

 Capitol was built. 



The Tarpeian rock might formerly be fteep enough on 

 one fide to break a man's neck ; but it could never have 

 been of that furprifing height mentioned by fome writers, 

 if any judgment can be formed from its appearance at pre- 

 fent. See Burnet's Letters, p. 238, and Miffon's N, 

 Voyage, p. 103. 



It took its name from a veftal, called Tarpeia, who be- 

 trayed the Capitol, of which her father was governor, to 

 the Sabines ; on condition that they would give her all they 



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