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celibacy and ablkiiicnce ; fo tliey were called Encratitas, or 

 temperate ; Hydroparallata-, or drinkers of water ; and 

 ApotaftitEe, or rcnounccrs. MoOi. Eccl. Hift. vol. i. 



TATIANSKAIA, in G.ography, a fort of Ruffia, in 

 the government of Saratov, on tlie Volga ; 1 2 miles S.E. of 



Tzaritzin. •, xt t' 



TATIEN, a town of Chinefe Tartai-y ; 55 miles N.L. 



of Tam-fan. r a r • 



TATILLUM, in yinment Gcogrnphy, a town ot Atrica, 

 in Mauritania Cxfarienfis, on the route from Cartilage to 

 Cifarea, between Aix and Aufa. Anton. Itin. 



TATISCHEVA, in Geography, a fortrefs of Ruffia, m 

 tlie government of Uplia, on the Ural ; 28 miles W. of 

 Orenburg. 



TATISM KoH, a mountain of Perfia, in the province 

 of Irak ; 12 miles N. of Com. 



TATIUS, Achilles, in Biography, a Greek writer of 

 Alexai-.dria, is fuppofed to havi: lived in the latter part of 

 the third centur)-. He is known to us as the autlior of a 

 work on the Sphere, of which there remains a fragment, 

 being an introduftion to a commentary on the Phenomena 

 of Aratus. A copy of this from a MS. in the Florentine 

 libraiy, by Peter Viclorius, was printed. It was afterwards 

 tranflated'into Latin by Petau, under the title of " Ifagoga 

 in Phsenomena Arati." We learn from Suidas, that Tatius 

 alfo wrote " Erotics," in which he includes " the Loves of 

 Leucippe and Clitophon." This work is preferved, and 

 affords one of the examples of Greek romance. The Latin 

 verfionof it was made by Annibal Cruceius, and pubhihed at 

 Bafil in 1554. The laleR edition of this piece is that of 

 Bodem, Greek and Latin, Lipf. 1776, 8vo. It is ele- 

 gantly written, but of a licentious caft ; and hence it has 

 been inferred that the author was a heathen, when he com- 

 pofed it ; but Suidas affirms, that he afterwards became a 

 Chriftian, and attained to epifcopacy. 



TATNALL, in Geography, a county of the ftate of 

 Georgia. 



TATOBIT, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Bolef- 

 lau ; 5 miles E. of Turnau. 



TA-TOU-CHE, a town on the W. coail of the ifland 

 of Formofa. N. lat. 24= 8'. E. long. 119^ 58'. 



TA-TSIN, a river of China, which runs into the fea, N. 

 lat. 37° 46'. E. long. 118° 19'. 



TATTA, fuppofed to be at or near the ancient Pattr.la, 

 a town of Afia, which, before the building of Hydrabad, was 

 confidered as the chief city of Scind, was founded, according 

 to the tradition of the natives, in the 906th year of the Hegira, 

 and ftands on a rifing ground, four miles W. of the Indus. 

 It has ftill a population of 1 8,000 fouls, and is about four 

 miles and a half in circumference. Its wall, conftrufted for 

 its defence, is now in ruins. Tha houfes of the higher rank 

 are built of bricks, but thofe of the lower clafs of wood, 

 plaftered with mud. The remains of the mofques, and 

 other handfome edifices of this city, are evidences of its 

 former profperity ; and although on the decline, it enjoys a 

 confiderable trade. Its trade is much diminifhed, on account 

 of the bad government of Scind or Sindy, and the hoftile or 

 rapacious difpofition of the Seiks, the prefent poflefTors of the 

 countries of Moultan and Lahore. The country in the vicinity 

 is a fine rich foil, being watered by canals drawn from the 

 river. Agriculture, however, is much iieglefted, and the 

 inhabitants of Tatta indicate extreme poverty and wretched- 

 nefs. To the north of the city is a range of hills, extending 

 fcveral miles in a northerly direciion ; and to the fouth is alfo 

 a range of Table land, reaching almofl to the banks of the 

 Indus. Boats trading to Tatta come no farther than Be- 

 gemab, a village at the diftance of about five miles. The 



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river at this place is about a mile in breadth, and 

 tlioms in depth in the deepeil parts. N. lat. 24° 44'. 

 long. 68° 1 7', as ftated in Kinneir's account of Perfia ; 

 but according to major Rennell, N. lat. 24° 50'. E. long. 

 67° 37'. 



TATTAH, a town of Africa, on the frontiers of Drah 

 and Morocco, in the route from Morocco and Sufe to Tona- 

 buftoo ; J 70 miles S. S.E. from Morocco. N. lat. 28° 25'- 

 W. long. 6^ 15'. Tattah and its territory contain 10,000 

 inhabitants. Jackfon's Morocco. 



TATTAHAR, a town of Bengal; 13 miles N. of 

 Toree. 



TATTAMUNGALUM, a town of Hindooftan, in Ca- 

 licut ; 5 miles S. of Palicaudery. 

 TATTA R. See Yool. 



TATTA RAN, a fmall ifland in the Sooloo Archipelago. 

 N. lat. e'' 10'. E. long. 121° 58'. 



TATTERSHALL, a fmall market -town in the wapen- 

 take of Gartree, Liadfey divifion of the county of Lincoln, 

 England, is fituated on the river Bain, near its junftion with 

 the Witham, 9 miles S.S.W. from Horncaftle, and 130 

 miles N. from London. The manor was granted by Willian> 

 the Conqueror to Eudo, one of his Norman followers, whofe 

 defcendants affumed the name of TAtterfhall, from this place. 

 Robert Fitz-Eudo obtained a grant from king John, for 

 the inhahitants of the town to hold a weekly market : and 

 another of the family, in the time of Edward III., received 

 the royal licence to ereft a caftle within his manor of Tatter- 

 fhall. But the prefent fortrefs was built by fir Ralph, after- 

 wards lord Cromwell, treafurer of the Exchequer to Henry V I . 

 The caftle and manor were granted by Henry VII. to 

 Margai-et, countefs of Richmond, and entailed on the duke 

 of Richmond ; who dying without iflue, they were granted 

 by Henry VIII. to the duke of Suffolk ; and in the * 

 next reign pafTed to Edward, lord Clinton, afterwards I 

 eail of Lincoln. By marriage with an heirefs oi the CUn- 

 tons, they are now in the pofleffion of lord Fortefcue. The 

 caftle ftands on a level moor, and is furroundtd by two great 

 foffes, the outer one formed of earth, and the inner faced 

 with brick, ten feet deep. It was originally intended as a 

 place of defence, and was progreffively raifed to great height 

 and extent. In the civil wars it was, however, dilapidated. TiU 

 vei-y lately the principal gateway was remaining : the part 

 at prefent left ftanding, is a fquare tower of brick, flanked 

 by four oflangular embattled turrets, which are crowned 

 with fpires covered with lead. It was divided into four ftories. 

 The main walls were carried to the top of the fourth ftory, 

 where a capacious machicolation furrounded the tower, 

 on which there is a parapet wall of great thicknefs. This 

 was to proteft the perfons employed at the machicolations. 

 The tower is conftrufted upon ponderous groined arches, 

 which fupport the ground-floor. Near the outer moat ftands 

 the parifh church, a beautiful and fpacious edifice, built in 

 form of a crofs. Few churches, perhaps, have fuffered more 

 dilapidations than this. It confifted of a nave, having five 

 large arches on a fide, and eight clereftory windows, placed in 

 pairs ; on each fide is a tranfept, and a magnificent choir. , The 

 windows of the latter were glazed with ftained glafs, which 

 was removed, by a late earl of Exeter, to the chapel of Bur- 

 leigh, on condition that he replaced it with plain glafs, which 

 could have been done for the fum of forty pounds ; but this 

 being neglefted, the infide has fuffered greatly from the 

 weather ; although the walls, roof, and pavement remain almoil 

 entire. The ruined fcreen and ftalls of wood, richly carved, 

 are ;iImoft rotten : behind it is a ftone fcreen, in the arches 

 of which are painted figures. The body of the church and 

 tranfepts had their vrindows richly adorned with the legendary 



hiflories 



