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The flefh of this is accounted more delicious than that of 

 «uy other creature of this kind, though they may all be 

 eaten. Ray and Pennant. 



TATULA, in Botany, a name ufcd by Clufius, and 

 fome other authors, for the ftramonium, or thorn-apple. 



TATZO, in Geography, a town of Hungary ; 40 miles 

 E. of Munkacz. 



TAU, in our Jncient Cujloms, fignifies a crofs. 



" Tradendo difto comiti Thau eboreum." So Mr. Seldcn, 

 in his notes upon Eadmcrus, p. 1 59. " Ego Eadgifa prse- 

 difti regis ava lioc opus cgregium crucis Taumate confoli- 

 davi." See Mon. tom. iii. p. 121. 



Tau, in Entomology, a fpecies of beetle. See ScARA- 

 B.*:us. — Alfo, a fpecies of Phahna bombyx. — Alfo, a fpecies 

 of Mufca. 



Tau, or Taw, in Heraldry, an ordinary, in figure of a 

 T, fuppofed to reprefcnt St. Andrew's crofs, or a crofs 

 potence, the top part cut off. 



It is thus called from the name of the Greek T, tau. 



Tau, \n Ichthyology, a fpecies of Ga^w ; which fee. 



TAUA, ill Jncient Geography, a town of Egypt, and 

 the metropolis of the nomc Phthemphthus. Ptol. and 



Steph. Byz Alfo, a town of Afia, between Namaris and 



Augara. Ptol. — Alfo, a gulf of the ifle of Albion, on 

 the fouth-eallcrn coaft. This eftuary is the firth of Tay. 



Taua, in Geography, a town of Egypt; 12 miles S. of 

 Denutar. 



TAVACCAR.S, in the Materia Med'ica, the name by 

 which many authors call the coccus Maldimt, or Maldive 

 nut. 



TAUAG, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in Farfiftan ; 

 39 miles S.E. of Bender-Rigk. 



TAVAI, an ifland in the Indian fea, near the coaft of 

 Siam, about 20 miles long and 3 broad. N. lat. 1 3'^. E. 

 long. 97° 52'. 



Tavai, a town of Afia, in Lower Siam ; 148 miles 

 S. of Martaban. N. lat. 14° 10'. E. long. 98° 12'. 



Tavai Point, the extreme point of a traft of land on 

 the coaft of Lower Siam. N. lat. 13° 40'. E. long. 98°. 



Tavai or Tovy Poenammoo, the fouthernmoft of the 

 two idands into which New Zealand is divided by Cook's 

 ftrait, which is for the moft part mountainous and apparently 

 barren, and in this refpeft of a lefs favourable afpeft than 

 the other ifland, or Eaheinomautue ; which fee. The ftraits, 

 which are about four or five leagues broad, were difcovered 

 by Capt. Cook at the clofe of the year 1769. The iflands 

 are fituated between the latitudes of 34° and 48° S., and be- 

 tween the longitudes of 181" and 194° W. Tavai- Poenam- 

 moo is faid to be 500 miles long from S.W. to N.E., and 

 from 55 to 140 broad. See Ne-w Zealand. 



TAVANAGUROY, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore ; 

 13 miles W. of Colar. 



TAVARADO, a town of Portugal, in the province of 

 Beira; 7 miles W.S.W. of Montemor o Velho. 



TAVARES, a town of Portugal, in the province of 

 Beira ; 1 3 miles E. of Vifeu. 



TAVASTLAND, a province of Sweden, bounded on 

 the N. by Eaft Bothnia, on the E. by Savolax or the go- 

 vernment of Kuopio, and the Ruffian government of Vi- 

 borg, on the S. by Nyland, and on the W. by the govern- 

 ment of Abo, or Finland Proper ; about 150 miles in 

 length from N. to S., and from 35 to 100 in breadth from 

 E. to W. The country is very fertile, and confifts of fine 

 plains, watered by a great number of rivers and lakes, 

 which abound in firti. It is divtrfified with arable and mea- 

 dow lands ; fo that with refpeft to ihefe natural advantages, 

 it may not only be looked upon as the beft part of Finland, 



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but is indeed fcarcely furpafled in thofe particulars by any 

 province in Sweden. It is likewife ftored with cattle, fifti, 

 and all forts of game. But notwithftanding this country is 

 fo fertile, it is far from being well cultivated ; and, confe- 

 qucntly, the peafaut* are generally very poor. Sometimes, 

 indeed, the corn is much damaged by keen and unexpefted 

 fr,ofty nights. The northern part of Tavaftland is more 

 mountainous and woody than the fouthern. In the morafles 

 and uncultivated fandy wilds, a ferruginous earth is dug up, 

 from whicli the Eifenfand ertz, or iron fandy ore, as it is 

 called, is prepared. The inhabitants lubfift" by agriculture, 

 grazing, and breeding of cattle, and fome of them are em- 

 ployed in the fiflieries. They alfo traffic in corn, peas, 

 beans, flax, hemp, dried fifh, cattle, leather, tallow, but- 

 ter, lime, the bark of trees, &c. 



TAVASTHUS, or Kroneborg, a town of Sweden, 

 and principal place in the province of Tavaftland, built in 

 the year 1650, on a pleafant fpot, by count Pehr Brahe, 

 and endowed with confiderable privileges. In 1713, this 

 town was taken by the Ruffians ; and in the laft war between 

 them and the Swedes, it was laid in afhes. The caftle, 

 which, exclufive of the town, is properly called " Tavaf- 

 thehus," or " Tavafteborg," is well fortified, and ferves for 

 an arfenal and royal magazine ; 80 miles N.N.E. of Abo. 

 N. lat. 6i°l'. E. long. 24° 15'. 



TAVAVIS, or Thaouaouis, a town of Afia, in Grand 

 Bucharia ; 15 miles N.E. of Bucharia. 



TAUBATE', a town of Brafil ; 130 miles W. of Rio 

 Janeiro. 



TAUBE, Frederick William Von, LL.D., in Bio- 

 graphy, was the fon of Dr. Taube, phyfician to queen Ca- 

 roline, confort of George II., and born in London in the 

 year 1728. After the queen's death, the father fettled at 

 Zelle, where he died in 1 742 ; and in the following year 

 his fon was entered at the univerfity of Gottingen. Here 

 he affiduoufly applied to the ftudy of jurifprudence ; and 

 before he left the univerfity, being in his 19th year, he 

 publiftied a diflertation " De Differentiis Juris civilis a jure 

 Naturae," intended to prove that the principles of the Ro- 

 man, Canon, and German law were contrary to the law of 

 nature, and inconfiftent with the rights of man. When he 

 quitted the univerfity, in the year 1747, he travelled into fo- 

 reign countries, and particularly through fome parts of 

 Africa and America. On his return he praftifed the law 

 at Gottingen, but finding, in confeqiience of fome dif- 

 pleafure which he had excited by the freedom with which he 

 cenfured the tedioufnefs of law-fuits, that he had no profpeft 

 of advancement, he removed to Vienna in 1756, where he 

 obtained fome preferment in the army. Soon after an en- 

 gagement in which he was wounded during the feven years' 

 war, he abandoned Lutheranifm, and embraced the tenets of 

 the church of Rome, hoping thus to rife in the Imperial 

 fervice. Having given proof of his talents and fidelity in 

 an honourable office, which he occupied, and being ac- 

 quainted with the Englifli language, he was appointed fecre» 

 taiy to the Imperial ambaffador at the court of London, 

 and repaired hither in Oftober, 1763. Here he married a 

 niece of the celebrated Dean Tucker, with whom he lived 

 in habits of intimacy and friendlhip. In 1766 he returned 

 to Vienna, and was appointed fecretary to the council of 

 trade, which was an office of great fatigue, on account of 

 the journies which it obliged him to take to diftant places. 

 When this college was diffolved, in 1776, he retired to Bruf- 

 fels. Having fulfilled another confidential commifTion with 

 which lie wasentrufted, he returned from Belgrade to Vienna 

 in 1777, and was ennobled by the emperor, and appointed 

 a member of the government of Lower Auftria. His iiealth 



being 



