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to nine feet deep. The part now working is a curve or elbow, 

 from which the current is divvrtcd into a canal cut acrofs 

 the tongue of land round wliich it winds ; the river being 

 flopped below the licad of the canal by an embankment 

 formed of feverat thoufand bags of fand. The deeper parts 

 of the channel of tlie river are laid dry by large caiflbns, or 

 chain-pumps, worked by a water-wheel. The mud is then 

 carried off, and the cafcalhao is dug up and removed to a con- 

 venient place for wafhing by machinery adapted to tliis pur- 

 pofe. The contrivance for obtaining th- diamonds from tlie 

 cafcaliiao is particularly defcribed by Mr. Mawe, ubi infra. 

 Tejuco is fituated in a fterile diftrift, which produces no- 

 thing for the maintenance of its inhabitants, whofe number 

 IS about 6000 ; and therefore depends for a fupply of provi- 

 fions, on farms fituated at the diftance of feveral leagues. 

 Neverthelefs, Tejuco may be called flourifliing, on account 

 of the circulation of property created by the diamond-works 

 in its vicinity. The annual fum paid by government for the 

 hire of negroes, falaries of officerB, and various neceffaries, 

 ■fuch as nitre and iron, does not amount to lefs than 35,000/. 

 and this, added to the demands of the inhabitants of the 

 town and its neighbourhood, occafions a confiderable trade. 

 The (hops are Itocked with Englifh cottons, baizes, and 

 cloths, and other manufaftured goods ; alfo hams, cheefe, 

 butter, porter, and other articles of confumption, which 

 are brought on mules from Bahia and Rio de Janeiro. Te- 

 juco, from its fituation on the fide of a hill, is very irregu- 

 larly built ; its ftreets are uneven, but the houfes in general 

 are well conftrudled, and in good condition, compared 

 with thofe of other towns in the interior. Its name, fig- 

 nifying in the Portuguefe language a muddy place, is de- 

 rived from places of that defcription near it, which are ren- 

 dered pafTable by being covered with large pieces of wood. 

 The diamonds are locked in the treafury under three locks ; 

 and thofe found in tlie diftrift are depofited every month, as 

 they are received from the works ; they are carefully weighed, 

 and fome of them felefted and kept feparate. The average 

 quantity obtained may be eftimated at from 20,000 to 25,000 

 carats annually, which are fent under a military cfcort to 

 Rio, and there lodged in the treafury. The diamonds are 

 tied up in black filk bags, and depofited in elegant inner ca- 

 binets, all which are locked up in ftrong chefts, bound with 

 iron. Tejuco affords fome good barley, but grafs for cattle 

 is fcarce and dear. Moll parts of the country abound in 

 oranges, pines, peaches, guavas, and a great variety of in- 

 digenous fruits : ginger and pepper grow fpontaneoufly, 

 and many fpices might probably be cultivated with fuccefs. 

 Mawe's Travels in the Interior of Brazil, 1812. 



TEJUGUACU, in Zoology, the name of a fpecies of 

 lizard, common in the Brazils, and called alfo temapara. 



It much refembles the iguana in its general figure, but 

 differs from it in that its whole body is black, only variegated 

 with fome white fpots. It lives principally on tlie fucking 

 of eggs, but it is capable of bearing hunger a long time ; 

 Marcgrave having kept one alive feven months without eat- 

 ing. This fpecies afforded alfo a certain tellimony to that 

 author of the reprodudlion of the tail when cut off. Ray. 



TEIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of ACa Minor, 

 fituated on the Euxine fea, on the frontiers of Paphlago- 

 nia, near the fmall river BiUis, 370 ftadia from the town of 

 Heraclea. It was a Greek Ionian colony, which derived its 

 name and its origin from Ths, a Milefian prieil, according to 

 Arrian and Mela. The wcrfhip of Jupiter named Patarus 

 was praftifcd in this town, according to Demofthenes. On 

 the E. the territory of this town was bounded by the river 

 Parthenius. The town was much augmented when the em- 

 pire of the Perfians was deftroyed. 



TEIUNHANA,inZ/3fl%^, thenameofafmall American 

 lizard. It is about tlie thickncfs of one's little fir.ger, and ha» 

 a (harp nofe. Its tail is very (lender, fix fingers breadtli long, 

 and terminates in a point almoft as fharp as a needle. It* 

 head is covered with fcales ; and its back, fides, and legs, 

 with a tender flvin, as foft as fatin to the touch ; and its tail 

 is covered with extremely minute fcales, of a fqoare figure 

 Ray. 



TEKAT, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in 

 Natolia ; 10 miles N. of Kiangari. 



TEKEBI, a town of Egypt; 22 miles W.S.W. of 

 Damietta, 



TEKEH, a town of Turkilh Armenia ; 40 miles S.E. 

 of Trebifond. 



TEKEREE, a town of Hindooftan, in Candeifli ; 14 

 miles E. of Barrawnay. 



TEKIN, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Caramania ; 

 100 miles W. of Tocat. 



TE-KING, a city of China, of tlie fecond rank, in 

 Quang-tong, near the river Si ; 1064 ™'" S.S.W. of 



Peking. N. lat. 23° 12'. E. long. 111° Alfo, a city of 



China, of the fecond rank, in Quang-tong ; 1065 miles S. of 

 Peking. N. lat. 23° 12'. E. long. 1 10° 50'. 



TEKKIUR DAG, a mountain of European Turkey, 

 in Romania; 32 miles S.S.E. of Adrianople. 



TEKLA, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Chrudim ; 

 6 miles S.W. of Leutmifchl. 



TEKMABAD, a town of Perfia, in the province of 

 Scgeilan ; 70 miles E.N.E. of Boll. 



TEKOA, a village, and anciently a city of Paleftinc, 

 built by Rehoboam, king of Judah, and confiderable ruins 

 appear of its ancient grandeur. It was the native place of 

 the prophet Amos ; 9 miles S. of Bethlehem. 



TEKOLY, a town of Hindooflan, in Bahar ; 53 mile* 

 S.S.W. of Patna. 



TEKUPH^, or Thekupii.t., in the Je-wijh Chronology, 

 are the times in which the fun proceeds from one cardinal 

 point to the next. 



The fame term is alfo apphed to the moment in which the 

 fun enters a cardinal point : thefe four terms, or tckuphat, 

 into which the Jews divided their folar year, are obfervcd 

 among the Jews with a great deal of ceremony ; the rcafon, 

 as we ai-c informed by Munfler, is this : 



That people have a notion, that in each tekupha the fun 

 has a feparate angel appointed to guard and direct it ; and 

 that in the very point where the fun finifhcs one tekupha, and 

 enters upon another, before the one direftor has taken 

 place of the other, the devils have a power to exercife all 

 kinds of tyranny in the water. 



And hence, they fancy, that if any body drinks the 

 fmalleft quantity of water at that time, he will infallibly 

 have a dropfy, or fome other grievous dillemper. 



The tekupha of Tifri correfponded to the autumnal equi- 

 nox, that of Tebeth to the winter folilice, that of Nifan 

 to tlie vernal equinox, and that of Tamuz to the fummer 

 folilice 



TEKY Sound, in Geography, a road on the coaft of 

 Georgia, fouth of the Savannah river, where a large fleet 

 may anchor in ten or fourteen fathoms, and have lafe en- 

 trance over the bar of the river ; the flood tide generally 

 feven feet. 



TEL Aremas, a town of Afiatic Turkey, on the Eu- 

 phrates ; 5 miles W.N.Wof Diarbekir. 



Tel Gi%ir, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 

 of Diarbekir ; 16 miles W. of Merdin. 



Tel K'laran, a town of Afiatic Turkey ; 30 miles S.S.W. 

 of Diarbekir. 



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