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fome miles below it, the banks are richly cultivated, or 

 covered with beautiful plantations, the whole overlooked 

 and fheltercd by mountains towering to the clouds ; among 

 which rifes the lofty Benlawers, the third mountain in point 

 of height in the ifland. Here, near the village of Kenmore, 

 is the magnificent feat of the earl of Brcadalbane, called 

 Taymouth ; and in this valley, although the parilhes are 

 twenty, thirty, or forty miles in extent, fcveral parifti- 

 churches are fituated in a traft of a few miles ; a circum- 

 ftance which demonftrates the difcernment of the clergy in 

 ancient times in felefting their place of refidcnce. After 

 leaving the lake about two miles, the Tay acquires a great 

 increale trom the waters of the Lyon ; at Logierat it re- 

 ceires the united ftreams of the Gan-y and the Tummel, 

 and becomes a river of uncommon fizc and beauty. Near 

 Dunkeld it is increafed by the waters of the Bran, and re- 

 ceiving in its com-fe the Ida, witli its tributary ftreams from 

 the eaft, and the Almond from the weft, proceeds by Perth 

 between the hills of Kinnoul and Moncrieff, till it meets the 

 Earn, after which it proceeds eaftward, forming the elluary 

 or Frith of Tay ; which expands to the breadth of three 

 miles, but contrafts to two miles as it approaches Dundee, 

 about eight miles below which, it pours its waters into the 

 German ocean. The hills of Kinnoul and Moncrieff afford 

 extenfive profpefts ; that from the latter is denominated by 

 Pennant die " Glory of Scotland." The Tay is navi- 

 gable as far as Newburgh, in Fife, for veffels of 500 tons ; 

 and veffels of confiderable fize can go up as far as Perth. 

 The Frith of Tay is not fo commodious as that of the 

 Forth ; but from the Buttonnefs or Barray fands to Perth 

 (an extent of nearly forty miles), the whole may be con- 

 fidered as a harbour ; having the county of Fife on one 

 fide, and thofe of Angus and Perth on the other. There 

 are fewer great falls of water on the Tay than in moft other 

 rivers which rife in a highland diftrift ; but it poffeffes 

 feveral cafcades of confiderable height, particularly at the 

 Linn of Campfie, near its junftion with the I(la, where the 

 water is precipitated over a huge bafaltic dike into a pool of 

 great depth. — Beauties of Scotland, vol. iv. Perthftiire, 

 1806.' Gazetteer of Scotland, 1 806. 



Tay, Loch, a lake in Perthftiire, Scotland, extends about 

 fifteen miles in length from the village of Killin, its 

 weftern extremity, to its eafl^rn termination at the village 

 of Kenmore ; its breadth is only from one to two miles. Its 

 depth varies in different parts, from fifteen to a hundred 

 fathoms. The banks on both fides are fertile, and finely 

 diverfified by the windings of the coafts and the varied ap- 

 pearances of the mountains. On a fmall promontory near 

 the eaftern extremity, are the church and village of Ken- 

 more, near which, on a fmall ifland covered with trees, 

 ftand the ruins of a priory, which was dependent on the 

 religious cftabhftiraent of Scone. It was founded, in 1122, 

 by king Alexander I., who depofited there the remains of his 

 queen Sybilla, the natural daughter of Henry I. of England. 

 On the death of Alexander the priory was more liberally 

 endowed, that the monks might perform maffes for the 

 repofe of his foul, a« well as for that of his queen. The 

 loch abounds with falmon, pike, perch, eels, charr and 

 trout. The falmon are peculiarly excellent ; the fiftiery 

 for which commences in December, and ends on the 26tii 

 of Auguft. The earl of Breadalbane has the exclufive 

 right of filhing there at all feafons. Tliis privilege was 

 originally granted for the purpofe of fupplying fifli for the 

 monks of the priory, and at the diffolution was, with the 

 ifland, claimed by this noble family. The waters of this 

 lake have at times fuffered violent and unaccountable agita- 

 tion. An ample account of one of thefe phenomena, wnich 



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occurred on Sunday, September 12, 1780, is publirticd ni 

 the firll volume of the Tranfa6tions of the Royal Society 

 of Edinburgli. It was written by Mr. Fleming, late 

 minifter of Kenmore. He ftatcs, that " about nine o'clock 

 in the morning the water was obfcrvcd to retire about five 

 yards within the ordinary boundary, and in four or five 

 minutes to flow out again. In tliis manner it ebbed and 

 flowed fucccffivcly three or four times within the fpace of a 

 quarter of an hour, when all at once the water ruflied from 

 the eaft and weft in oppofite currents, and rofe in the form 

 of a great wave to the height of five feet above the ordinary 

 level, leaving the bottom of the bay dry to the diftance of 

 between ninety and an hundred yards from its natural 

 boundary. When the oppofite currents met, they made a 

 claftiing noife and foamed ; and the ftronger impulfe being 

 from the eaft, the wave, after rifing to its greateft height, 

 rolled weftward, but flowly dimini(hing as it went, for the 

 fpace of five minutes, when it wholly difappearcd. As the 

 wave fubfidcd, the water flew back with fome force, and 

 exceeded its original boundary four or five yards ; then it 

 ebbed again about ten yards, and again returned, and con- 

 tinued to ebb and flow in this manner for the fpace of two 

 hours, theebbings fucceeding each other at the diftance of 

 about feven minutes, and gradually leffening, till the water 

 fettled into its ordinal"}- level. During ihi whole time that 

 this phenomenon was obfervcd, the weather wa.s calm.' It 

 could fcarcely be perceived that the direftion of the clouds 

 was from north-eaft." On the 13th of July, 1794, the 

 loch experienced agitations fimilar to thofe defcribed by 

 Mr. Fleming, but they were neither fo violent nor fo long 

 continued. — Beauties of Scotland, vol. iv. Perthfliire. 



Tay, a river of Ireland, in the county of Waterford, 

 which runs into the fea, 7 miles W.N.W. from Dungarvan 

 bay. 



TAYA, a river of Auftria, which rifes near Schweigers, 

 paffes by Drofendorf, and enters MoVavia, paffes by Znaym, 

 Laab, &c. and joins the Marfch, 4 miles N.N.E. of 



Hockenau Alfo, a fmall ifland in the Indian fea, near 



the well coaft of Siam. ~ N. lat. 7° 38'. E. long. 98° 30'. 



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

 Celebes, in Gunong-Tellu bay. S. lat. 1° 10'. E. long. 

 121° 30'. 



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

 Negros. N. lat. 10° 1 8'. E. long. 123° 3'. 



TAYBA, a ruined town in the deferts of Syria, which 

 fliews in its prefent ftate, evident marks of its former mag- 

 nificence. 



TAYECUA, a town of South America, in the province 

 of Darien ; 30 miles W. of St. Marie de Darien. 



TAYGETA, in Ancient Geography, a river of the Pelo- 

 ponnefus, in Laconia. 



TAYGETUS, a mountain of Laconia, S.W. of Bryfdes, 

 being a portion of a fmall chain of mountains on the pro- 

 montory of Teiiarus, on the frontiers of Arcadia. It was 

 famous for the abundance of its game. On this mountain 

 was a place confecrated to the iun, called by Paufanias 

 " Talet." Here they facrificed, among other viftims, 

 horfes. 



TAYKYATT, alon^ and ftraggling town of the Birman 

 empire, on the W. fide of the Irawaddy ; .5 miles W.N.W. 

 of Yeoungbenzah. 



TAYL, in Heraldry. See Tail. 



TAYLOR, Brook, LL.D. and F.R.S., in Biography, 

 an eminent mathematician, was bom of a good family, at 

 Edmonton, near London, in the year 1685. In early life he 

 devoted himfclf to mufic, drawing, and painting, in which 

 he was reckoned to excel. At the fame time he purfued 



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