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TEGORARIN, a town of Africa, in BiWulgerid ; 70 

 miles N.N.W. of Gardeiah. 



TEGUCO, a town of New Mexico, in the province of 

 Culincan ; 40 miles N. of Culiacan. 



TEGUIXIN, in Zoology, a fpecies of li%ard ; which 

 fee. 



TEGULA., in jlncitnt Geography, a town of Sardinia, on 

 the route from Sulci to Nora. Anton. Itin. 



TEGULET, in Geography, a town of Abyflinia ; 180 

 miles S. of Gondar. N. lat. 9° 54'. E. long. 38° 35'. 



TEGUMENT. See Integument, 



TEGYRA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Greece, in 

 Bcetica. 



TEHAE', in Geography, a town of Curdillan ; 30 miles 

 E. of Amadieh. 



TEHAMA, a fandy belt which encompafles the penin- 

 fulaof Arabia, beginning at Suez, and terminating at the 

 mouth of the Euphrates. It is of various breadth ; for the 

 mod part about two days' journey from the fea-fhore to the 

 rife of the hills ; or at leaft this is the breadth of the plain 

 adjacent to the Red fea. It bears every mark of having 

 been anciently a part of the bed of the fea. Its bottom foil 

 is agre'yifh clay, with a large proportion of fand, and having 

 marine exuvix interfperfed to a great diftance from the fea- 

 ihore. It contains large ftrata of fait, which in fome places 

 rife up to hills. Its regular inclination towards the fea indi- 

 cates that it has emerged gradually. The fmall eminences 

 on the confines of this plain are compofed of calcareous 

 itones, with a blackifh appearance, as if they had been burnt 

 by the fun. The adjoining hills contain fchiftus and bafaltes. 

 The fea, it is thought, ftill continues to recede, and the 

 Tehama on that fide is gradually extending its limits. Hif- 

 tory confirms thefe appearances of the gradual receffion of 

 the waters ; and mentions, as fea-ports, feveral places which 

 are at prefent inland, without noticing the prcfent maritime 

 towns, which muft have been of later origin than the 

 formation of the land on which they ftand. Thefe newly- 

 formed lands, however, are barren and unfruitful. 



TEHRAUN, one of the five large diftrifts of the pro- 

 vince of Irak, in the Perfian empire : the other four being 

 Ifpahan, Naen, MuUayer, and Kermanfhaw. Tehraun is alfo 

 the name of the prefent capital of Perfia, which is rendered in- 

 terefting by the furrounding fcenery. To the S. are the exten- 

 five ruins of the grand and once proud city of Rae ; to the E. 

 the mountains of Elburz( famed in the Perfian traditions as the 

 abode of dsemons) ; to the N. the fnow-clad fummit of the 

 lofty Dumavend ; and to the W. a plain enriched with cul- 

 tivation and villages, and forming a delightful contraft with 

 the rugged and ftupendous rocks which (kirt it on the N. 

 and S. Tehraun is about four miles in circumference, fur- 

 rounded by a ftrong wall, flanked by innumerable towers, 

 and a noble dry ditch, with a glacis between it and the wall. 

 The only building of confequence within the city is the 

 citadel, which contains the palace of the fovereign and his 

 officers. It was founded by Kurim Khan, enlarged by the 

 late king, and beautified by the prefent fovereign. The forti- 

 fications can be conlidercd as formidable only in a country 

 where the military art is unknown. The population is va- 

 riable, being in fummer about 10,000, and in winter not 

 lefs than 60,000 people. The environs of Tehraun are not 

 unpleafant ; the plain, to the E. and W., being covered 

 with villages, and abounding in grain. On the N. fide the 

 king has completed a palace, which, from its fituation, and 

 the fine gardens that furround it, is a moft delightful refi- 

 de!\ce. There are many reafons which have probably in- 

 duced the late king to fix upotj Tehraun as the capital of his 

 dominions. Its centrical fituation, and the eafy defence 



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which it affords to the Perfian empire ; the fertiKty and pro- 

 dudivenefs of the furroundijig country ; the number of 

 wandering tribes tluit have fettled round it, and th.at may be 

 eafily and foon affembled ; and above all, perhaps, its pro- 

 pinquity to Ailrabad, the native city of Aga Mahomed 

 Khan, and alfo to Mazandemn and Daluftan, countries pof- 

 fclfcd by the Kajer tribe, of which ho was the chief, and 

 on whofe power and affeftion to his pcrfon his authority wa$ 

 in a great meafure founded ;— all thefe confiderations might 

 have induced him to make this city the capital of the em- 

 pire. N. lat. 35° 40'. E. long. 50° 52'. 



TEHROOT, o.r ZKiiEftooT, a town of Perfia, in the 

 province of Kerman, furrounded by numerous gardens ; 8 

 miles N.W. by W. from Subzillan, and about 52 miles 

 from the ruins of Bumm. 



TEHUACAN, or Teguacan, a pleafant town of New 

 Spain, between Oaxaca and Orizava. It is fituated in a delight- 

 ful vale, near a river of the fame name, called alfo Rio Grande, 

 of a nitrous quality, and fo petrifying a nature, that the 

 Ihorcs referable ruinous walls. It has four churches ; and 

 the ftreets, fquares, and houfes are neat and modern. The 

 chief market is that of wheat, which is excellent, and the 

 pomegranates are highly efteemed. Befides numerous fami- 

 lies of Spaniards and Mulattoes, here are about 2080 In- 

 dians. In the vicinity of this town are two wheat-harvefts, 

 one in May, the other in September. 



TEHUELS, a large lake of South America, towards 

 the S. of Chili. 



TEHUKHA, a town of Thibet; 4 miles S. oT 

 Jhanfu Jeung. 



TEICHOPCEUS, Tii^oTOiof, among the Athenians, an 

 officer who had the care of the city walls ; their number wa« 

 the fame with that of the tribes, every tribe having the 

 choice of one. 



TEIGN, in Geography, dLTivtroi England, in the county 

 of Devon, which runs into the Englilh Channel at T*ign- 

 month. 



TEIGNMOUTH, a market-town in the hundred of 

 Exminfter, and county of Devon, England, is fituated, at 

 its name imports, at the mouth of the river Teign, and if 

 flieltcred on the eaft and north-eaft by a chain of hills, near 

 the foot of which it ftands. It is diftant from Exeter i z 

 miles S. by E., and from London 187 W.S.W. A fmall 

 rivulet divides the town into two parts or parifhes, called 

 Weft and Eaft Teignmouth. The town is recorded to have 

 bee« burnt in the tenth century by the Danes, who, having 

 landed here, and defeated the king's lieutenant, ravaged the 

 country to a confiderable extent. It was alfo nearly eon- 

 fumed in the reign of queen Anne, when the French landed 

 and fet fire to it : one of the new ftreets, erefted with the 

 money procured by a brief for the diftreffed inhabitants, 

 was named French-ftreet, as a memorial of the calamity. 

 Siiice that period the tow]-, has become of much greater im- 

 portance, and is now one of the moft falhionable watering- 

 places in the wcftern part of England. The principal re- 

 fort of company is Eaft Teignmouth, where the public 

 rooms and theatre are fituated : the former, a neat building, 

 contains tea, coffee, aflcmhly, and billiard-rooms ; the theatre 

 has been recently built on a fpot of ground given by lord 

 Courtenay, and was firft opened in the fummer of 1802. A 

 walk or promenade leads from the public rooms towards the 

 fouth, over an cxtrnfivc flat called the Dan, on which is a 

 fmall fort creftrd for the defence of the town. The viaw 

 hence, up the river, is extremely beautifid ; the rrourd 

 gradually rifing on each fide into vcrdar.t hiilf, well culti- 

 vated, and adorned with woods. The cli.Ts overhangi.'ig the 

 fea have a fingular appearance, being, with the exception of 

 D d a few 



