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lake Taffe ; their channels are deep, and they are conncfted 

 by ftrcams from the lake TafTe. The Tcche is much iarger 

 and longer than the other, being upwards of 200 miles in 

 length. The Taffe is a beautiful lake of clear water, about 

 10 miles in circumference. The principal fettlements of the 

 Attakapas are on each fide of the Teche, moftly weftern, and 

 on the Vermillion. Befides the culture of cotton, maize, 

 &c. they have the advantage of extenfive natural meadows to 

 fupport their herds, which, on account of the natural mild- 

 nefs of the climate, are kept without much trouble. The 

 inhabitants of the Attakapas are generally wealthy, and live 

 as luxuriantly as the planters of the MilTifippi. Upon the 

 whole, this part of Louifiana feems deftincd to become one 

 of its richell dittridls. 



TECHIA, a town of the Arabian Irac ; 160 miles N. 

 of Bagdad. 



TECHNICAL, Technicus, formed of t!x«ixo;, artifaal, 

 of Tsx", "'■/, fome'thing that relates to art. 



In this fenfe we fay, technical -words, technical verfes, &c. 

 And in this fenfe Dr. Harris entitles his diftionary of arts 

 and fciences, Lexicon Technicum. 



Technical is more particularly applied to a kind of 

 verfes, in which are contained the rules or precepts of any art, 

 thus digefted to help the memory to retain them. See Arti- 

 fcial Memory. 



Technical verfes are ufed in chronology, &c. Such, e. gr. 

 are thofe expreffing the order and meaiure of the calends, 

 nones, &c. thofe exprefling the feafons, and thofe expreffing 

 the order, &c. of the figns. 



F. Labbe has compofed a fet of teshnical Latin verfes, in- 

 cluding all the epochas in chronology ; and F. Buffier, after 

 his example, has put both chronology and hiftory into French 

 verfe, and even geography alio. 



Technical verfes are commonly compofed in Latin ; they 

 are generally wretched ones, and often barbarous ; but utility 

 is all that is aimed at in them : to give fome idea of which 

 we will here add a few inftances. The cafuifts include all 

 the circumftances which make us partakers with another in 

 a theft, or other crime, in thefe two technical verfes. 



" Juffio, confilium, confenfus, palpo, recurfus, 



Participans, mutus, non obftans, non manifeftans." 



The firft of F. Buffier's technical verfes of the hiftory of 

 France, are thefe : 



" Ses lois en quatre cents Pharamond introduit, 

 Clodion Chevelu, qu' Aetins vanquit. 

 Merovee ; avec lui combatit Attila ; 

 Childeric fut chafle, mais on le repella." 



TEcnKiCAL Words, are what we otherwife call terms 

 of art, 



TECHUKS, in Geography, the moft remote people of 

 Afiatic Ruffia, who fcarcely exceed 1000 families, are ge- 

 nerally found in fmall camps, pitched by the fides of rivers. 

 Their rude tents are fquare, confifting of four poles, fupport- 

 ing {l<ins of rein-deer, which alfo form the covering : before 

 every tent are fpears, and arrows, fixed in the fnow againft 

 any fudden attacks of the Koriaks, who, though of the fame 

 face, are a more malicious and enterprifing people. In the 

 midft is a ftove, and the bed confifts of fmall branches of 

 trees fpread on the fnow, and covered with deer-(kins. 

 Their habitations and food are dirty and difgufting ; and the 

 drefs of the women confifts only of a fingle deer-(kin fattened 

 on the neck, fothat on loofcning one knot the body remains 

 naked. The features are coarfe, but they have not the flat 

 iKjfes, nor little hollow eyes of the Kamtchadales ; and 

 Leffeps proBounces their countenances to have nothing of 



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the Afiatic form, in which aftertion he bad been preceded 

 by Pallas and Tooke. The Koriaks are fuppofed not to 

 exceed 2000 families. 



TECKLENBURG, a town of Weftphalia, and capital 

 of a county to which it gives name ; 7 miles S.W. of Ofna- 



bruck. N. lat. 52^ 15'. E. long. 7° 35' Alfo, a county 



and principahty, bounded on the north and eaft by the 

 biftiopric of Ofnabruck, and on the fouth and weft by the 

 biftiopric of Munfter ; about 20 miles in length, and 10 in 

 breadth. This county was formerly more extenfive, includ- 

 ing the county of Lingen, and part of the biftiopric of Mun- 

 fter. The foil is fertile, and yields good corn, and paf- 

 tures for cattle : the river abounds in fifti, and in feveral 

 places are quarries of ftone : the chief manufactures are linen 

 cloth. It is now annexed to Weftphalia. 



TECLITIUM, or Teglitium, in ylncient Geography, a 

 town of Lower Moefia, upon the route from Vininatium to 

 Nicomedia, along the Danube. Anton. Itin. 



TECOANTAPEQUE, in Geography, a fea-port town 

 of Mexico, in the province of Guaxaca, fituated at the foot 

 of a volcanic mountain, near the Pacific ocean ; 160 miles 

 S.E.'of Acapulco. N. lat. 16° 2'. W. long. 99° lo'. 



TECOLATA, or Tetolata, in Ancient Geography, a 

 town of Galha Narbonnenils, upon the Valerian way, between 

 Ad Turrem and Aquae Sextiae. Anton. Itin. 



TECOLITHOS, in Natural Hijlory, the name of a gem, 

 otherwife called Syriacus lapis, and Judaicus lapis, good for 

 dilTolving the human calculus. See Syriacus and Ju- 

 daicus. 



It has this name from rnna, / diffhlve, and XiSo;, a Jlone ; 

 becaufe it diftblves ftones. 



TECOMA, in Botany, fo called by Juffieu, from the 

 Mexican appellation Tecomaxochitl, under which one of the 



fpecies appears in Hernandez Juft. 139. Brown Prodr. 



Nov. Holl. V. I. 471. (Tecomaxochitl alia; Hernand. 

 Mex. 409.) — Clafs and order, Didynamia Angiofpermia. 

 Nat. Ord. Perfonatit, Linn. Btgnonia, JufT. Bignoniacea, 

 Brown. 



This genus is feparated from Bignonia by Juffieu, folely 

 becaufe the partition of the capfule or pod is contrary, not 

 parallel, to the valves ; and he enumerates as fpecies the 

 B.Jians, radicans, and ptntaphylla of Linnaeus, befides the 

 above plant of Hernandez from Mexico. Mr. Brown adds 

 to thefe the B. pandorana, Andr. Repof. t. 86 ; which is 

 B. Pandora, Curt. Mag. t. 865 ; B. pandorea, Venten. 

 Malmaif. t. 43 ; though the laft -mentioned author fays he 

 found the partition of the capfule parallel to the valves, and 

 therefore this fpecies is a Bignonia according to Juffieu. So 

 indeed it remains in Mr. Alton's Hort. Kew. v. 4. 34, with 

 the fpecific name of aujlralis, by the fubftitution of which 

 Mr. Brown has happily got rid of the above pandorean con- 

 fufion ; and there we (hall readily leave it, only remarkftig 

 that it is, according to Mr. Brown, a native of Port Jackfon, 

 and of the tropical part of New Holland, not of Norfolk 

 ifland. The_/?cm is twining. Leaves pinnate, with an odd 

 leaflet, fmooth. Flotuers panicled, white, with a purple 

 throat. For the other fpecies above named, fee Bigxonia, 

 n. 1 1, 14 and 15. We doubt whether the tribe in queftion 

 is fufficiently well known at prefent for botanirts to under- 

 take its generic reformation. Nor can we permit the above 

 name of our diftinguifhed friend Juffieu to pafs without ani- 

 madverfion, as nothing can be more contrary to found prin- 

 ciples of nomenclature, nor to his own declaration againft 

 barbarous names in his preface. The prefent is peculiarly 

 ill applied, as the original Tecomaxochitl of Hernandez ap- 

 pears to be Solandra grandiflora, or very like it, having 

 fimple leaves. 



TECONA, 



