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&r.g, fov Protcftaiit difTeiiters ; one for Baptifls, one for 

 ■Quakers, and one for Wedeyan Metliodifts. Tlie buildings 

 for charitable purpoics are, a free grammar-fchool, founded 

 by Richard Fox, bilhop of Winciieitcr, about the year 

 1 500 ; two large and well endowed alms-houfes, founded 

 in the 1 7th century, by Mr. Robert Graye and Mr. Richard 

 Huifh ; two other alms-houfes, on a fmaller fcalc ; two 

 work-houfes ; and an hofpital, the mod capital of its kind 

 in the county : it is a fquarc ftrufture, 90 feet on a fide ; con- 

 trived to admit througii every part a free circulation of frelh 

 air ; and forming on the whole a commodious receptacle for 

 ■the diieafed. The firll corner-ftone was laid by lord North 

 in 1772, and the building was completed in 1774. In the 

 centre of the town is a fpacious building, erefted in 1772, 

 uader the fantlion of an aft of parliament ; the lower 

 part is the market-houfe, over wliich is the town-hall, where 

 the borough leilions are held. 



On the ealt part of the town was a priory for Black 

 canons, founded in 1 127, by bifhop Giffard : at the diflo- 

 hition, it was granted to Matthew Colchurft. A leper- 

 houfe was alfo founded about the year .1280, by Thomas 

 .Lambritz ; and a houfe of White or Carmelite friars, in 

 1322, by Walter de Mcryet. Both thefe houfes arc fup- 

 pofedto have been priv.ate property previous to the diflblution. 

 — Colhnfon's Hiftory of Somerfetfliire, vol. iii. Toulmin's 

 Hiftory of the Town of Taunton ; 4to. 1 79 1. Maton's 

 £)bfervations on the Weftern Counties of England, vol. ii. 

 8vo. 1797. 



Tauntox, a river of Maflachufetts, which runs into tlie 



feaat Rhode ifland, N. lat. 41^ 24'. W. long. 71° lo' 



Alfo, a town of Maffiichufetts ; 29 miles S. of Boilon. 

 N. lat. 41° 48'. W. long. 71° 2'.— Alfo, a river of Ame- 

 rica, in the province of Maine, which runs into the fea near 

 New Briftol. 



TAUNTON-DEAN, a valley of England, extending 

 . jout thirty miles in length, in the county of Somerfet, of 

 jertiHty and produce equal to almoft any in the kingdom. It 

 takes its name from Taunton, the principal town. 



TAVOLADOTO, a fmall ifland near the eaft coaft of 

 Sardinia. N. lat. 40° 54'. E. long. 9"^ 5'. 



TAVOLARA, a fmall idand near the eaft coaft of Sar- 

 dinia. N. lat, 40° 52'. E. long. 10° 5'. 



TAVORA, a river of Portugal, which runs into the 

 Duero, 5 miles N.E. of Lamego Alfo, a town of Por- 

 tugal, in the province of Beira ; 6 miles E. of Lamego. 



TAVOYVOVEL, a fmall idand near the eail coall of 

 Lewis. N. lat. 58° 6'. W. long. G'' 29'. 



TAURAGUR, a town of Hindoollan, in Lahore; 24 

 miles W.N.W. of Nogarcot. 



TAURASI, a town of Naples, in Principato Ultra ; 

 22 miles S.E. of Benevento. 



TAURASIA, m /Indent Geugraphy, a town of Italy, in 

 Gallia Tranlpadana. 



TAURAT, in Geography., a town of the idand of Cuba ; 

 38 miles N.N.E. of St. ,Tago. 



TAUREA, among the Romans, a punidiment inflicted 

 by whipping with fcourges made of bulls' hides. 



TAUREAU, in Geography, aa idand on the French 

 coaft, with a fort to defend the harbour of Morlaix. 



TAUREE, a town of Bengal ; 35 miles S.S.E. of 

 Ghidore. 



TAURESIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Eu- 

 ropean Dardania, on the other fide of the territory of Du- 

 ras ; the birth-place of Juftinian, who founded here a magni- 

 iicent town, called after his own name. 



TAURI liberl Iibertas — nlu fome ancient charters, taunts 

 liber figniiies a common bull kept for all tenants witliin fuch 



.1 manor, or liberty — " Cum libcrtate faldiae, liberi taurl 

 et liberi apri, &c." See Free Bull. ' 



Tauui, ill yfnrieni Geography, a people of Sarmatia, in 

 the vicinity of Scythia. According to Herodotus, thefe peo- 

 ple had a cudom of facrificing to Iphigenia, tiic daughter 

 of Agamemnon, the llrangers whom chance threw on their 

 coalls, and alfo the Greeks who fell into their hands. 



TAURIA, r-Mf!M, in Antiquity, a fciUval in honour of 

 Neptune. Pot. Archseol. torn. i. p. 432. 



Tauria, in Ancient Geography, an idand of the Medi- 

 terranean fea, between New Carthage and Cxfarea of Mau- 

 ritania. Anton. Itin. 



TAURIANA, a town of Italy, in Brutium. 



TAURICA Chersonesus. See Chehsosesvs Taurica 



and Crimea. 



TAURIDA, Tauriciieskaia, or province of Tauris, 

 in Geography, a province of Ruffia, being part of the go- 

 vernment of Catlierinendaf or Ecaterrinendaf or Ekateri- 

 nodav, bounded on the N. by the rivers Dnieper and the 

 Konflcija, on the W. and S. by the Black fea, and on the 

 E. by the fea of Azoph. This fertile peninfula, whidi is 

 the great mart of commerce in the Black fea, was colonized 

 for the purpofes of trade by the Greeks, Romans, Genoefe, 

 occupied by the Turks under Mahomet II., and governed 

 by the khan of the Tartars, a vaffal to the Porte. On tiie 

 peace of Kninardi, in 1774, it was declared an independent 

 fovereignty, taken poifeffion of by Catharine II. on the ab- 

 dication of the khan Sahin Gerai, in 1783, and confirmed 

 to Rudia by the Porte in the fame year by the treaty of 

 Conflantinople. The emprefs revived feveral of the ancient 

 Greek names. M. Pallas has exhibited an animated and de- 

 lightful pifture of this province in his account of a journey 

 made in 1794, for which we refer to Tooke's Rudia, vol. i. 

 For a farther account of it, fee Crimea. See alfo Russia. 

 Taurida, Mountains of, are extended and lofty, forming 

 the fouthern fide of tile province, and the diore of the 

 Euxine fea. The range extends from Theodofia in a (Iraight 

 line weftwards, quite up to Balbeck. At Karafobafar two 

 towering pinnacles dioot up, and at Akmclchat a very cle- 

 vated one, called Aktau. The fmaller mountains ftand diilinct. 

 and fcattered. It is very probable that this range is partly 

 a continuation of the Caucafian, and p;ully of the Carpa- 

 thian mountains ; and that thefe two principal chains arc 

 connefted by it : which alfo feems apparent from the nature 

 and qualities of the mountains oppofite to thofe of Taurida, 

 which extend beyond the Danube, tlirough Bulgaria, and 

 are called Pulkanian. The greater part of thefe mountains 

 of Taurida confifts of chalk-mafles with petrifactions, and 

 many beds of fand and marie, and chalk-hills with flints. 

 Hence it is prefumed that they are not to be claded with 

 the original, but only with the alluvial or depofited moun- 

 tains. A part of them is thought to owe its origni even to 

 the fubterranean fires. Whether this be the cafe or not, it 

 is faid that lead, copper, and iron ores are found in them, as 

 well asjafper, agate, and mountain cryllal. They are very 

 rich in lime-ftone, marble, date, fand-ftone, coals, napkha, 

 and common fait. The ide of Taman confifts merely of 

 beds of fand and marie, without lime-llone. The height of 

 the Taurida mountains is moderat-e ; and they are in a great 

 degree deflitute of foreils. The trees that grow upon theiu 

 are thofe of the richeft. foliage, fuch as oak, beLc!i, chcfnut, 

 &c. But what they want in wood is made up very amply 

 by the rich .ind beautiful herbs of the vallies. The rivers 

 that take their rife from thefe mountains ai'e the Alma, 

 Katlha, Kabarda, Salgyr, Karuflu, and many leflerftreaniA, 

 that form pleafing natural cafcades. 



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