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tliefe tliere are iron, argontaccous copper, and lead ores, 

 naplitlia, afphaltus, &e. The mountains to the right of the 

 Katunia feem to be pai-ticularly rich in ores. 



TELEUTES, or Telengutes, a trihe of Tartars, who 

 are fuppofed to have derived their name from the lake Te- 

 legul in the Altay mountains. They are alio denominated 

 by the Ruffians the wiiite Kalmucks, becaufe they formerly 

 lived among the Soongarians. Abulgafi reckons them among 

 the Mongohan races ; but as their fpecch is manifeftly a 

 corrupt Tartarian, their origin may more confillently be de- 

 rived from that nation. In the year 1609 they did homage 

 for the firft time to the Ruffian empire ; but it was not till 

 towards the middle of the 1 7th century, when fome ftems of 

 them removed higher up the Tom, that they became pro- 

 perly fubjefts of Ruffia : the greater part of them, however, 

 remained with the Kalmucks. Tiie former dwelt partly in 

 the Tomn<oi diftrift of the Tobolfliian, partly in the Kuf- 

 netfkian circle of the government of Kolhyvan ; and their 

 number is fo fmall, that they only reckon about 500 males. 



TELFS, a town of the county of Tyrol, near the Inn ; 

 15 miles W.S.W. of Infpruck. 



TELGEN, a town of Sweden, in vSudermanland, on 

 the lake Mv?ler ; 15 miles S.W. of Stockholm. 



TELGET, a town of Germany, in the bifhopric of 

 Munfter; 5 miles E.S.E. of Munlter. 



TELGHIOURAN, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 

 government of Diarbekir ; 30 miles S. of Diarbekir. 



TELHEIM, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg ; 7 miles 

 S.S.W. of Schweinfurt. 



TELHEIRO, a town of Portugal, in the province of 

 Beira ; 6 miles S.W. of Pinhel. 



TELICA, a volcano of Mexico, near Tecoantepeque. 



TELICARDIOS, in Natural H[jlory, the name given 

 by fome authors to a ilone found in the (hape of a heart. 

 It owes this figure to its having been found in the fhell of 

 fome large bivalve of the cockle kind ; and is more ufually 

 known 'among authors under the name of bucardites. 



TELIGUL, or Telegul, in Geography, a lake of 

 Ruffia, in the Altay mountains, about 120 miles in circum- 

 ference. N. lat. 43° 12'. E. long. 64° 14'. 



TELIPHANO, in Botany, a name ufed by fome au- 

 thors for the doronicum, or leopard's bane. 



TELL, William, in Biography, a celebrated Swifs, was 

 an inhabitant of middle rank of Burgeln, in the canton of 

 Uri, and fon-in-law of Walter Furft. In 1 307 he engaged 

 in the confpiracy againft the Auftrian tyranny. Gefler, the 

 German bailiff, fufpefting a plot, artfully contrived a fcheme 

 for afcertainiug the extent of fubmiffion to the Auftrian 

 yoke. Accordingly he fet up a hat upon a pole, and com- 

 manded that obeyfancc fhould be paid to it. Tell refifted 

 the command ; and, as tradition reports, the arbitrary bai- 

 liff ordered him to (hoot with an arrow at an apple placed 

 on the head of his fon. He cleft the apple without hurting 

 the child ; and being obferved to have another arrow, he 

 was interrogated what he intended to do with it. He un- 

 hefitatingly replied, that if he had wounded his fon, the 

 other fhaft (hould have been direfted to the bailiff's heart. 

 This bold declaration caufed him to be imprifoned. Of 

 this fatl there is no doubt ; though the incident of the ar- 

 row and apple may be fabulous, as it is applied by Saxo 

 GramAaticus to a Dane at an earlier period. The bailiff 

 took Tell with him acrofs the lake of Lucern, defigning to 

 convey him to another canton. In the paffage, a ftorni 

 arofe ; and the veffel being in danger, the fetters of Tell 

 who was known to be a (l<ilful boatman, were taken off, 

 and the helm was committed to his hands. Availing himfelf 

 of this circumftance, he fleered to a rock and made his 

 efcape. Gefler on landing met with his fate from an arroiv 



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of Tell, who afterwards retired to StaufTachcr in the canton 

 of Schwcitz ; and on the following new-year's day, all the 

 Auftrian governors were feized and difmiifed from the coun- 

 \xy ; and this circumftance is faid to be the commencement 

 of Swifs freedom. Toll's death is fuppofed to have been 

 occafioned by an inundation at Burgeln in the year 1354. 

 His grateful countrymen creftcd a rude chapel to his honour 

 on the fpot where he refided, and another upon the rock on 

 which he landed. His pollerity, however, funk into ob- 

 livion, without any permanent diilin(flion ; the laft who bore 

 his name died in 1684, and the laft of the female hne in 

 1720. Coxe. Muller. Gen. Biog. 



TELLA Pashnum, in Natural Hijlory, a name given 

 by the people of the Eaft Indies to a kmdof white arienic, 

 or rat's-bane, found native among them. 



It is well known to be a fatal poifon, and ufed to dcftroy 

 vermin. It lies in the chfFs of rivers among ftrata of ftonp 

 in large white irregular lumps ; when held to the fire, it 

 emits copious fumes, fmelling ftrongly of garhc and fulphur, 

 but it does not readily melt or run. 



Tell.'V Sagrum, a name given by the natives of the Eaft 

 Indies to a kind of earth which they ufe externally to dry 

 up ulcers, and internally in cafes of coughs and colds. It 

 is of the nature of the finer clays, and is found at the bot- 

 tom of tome of their rivers. 



TELLEGROD, in Geography, a morafs on the borders 

 of Norway and Lapland, which cannot be crofTed \»ithout 

 much apprehenfion of danger. During winter it is frozen 

 to the depth of feveral yards, and docs not thaw till the 

 fummer is far advanced. The furface may appear dry and 

 folid, but as the heat ftill penetrates downwards, the icy 

 floor which fupports it, foftening and melting, bends and 

 trembles under the Ihock of preffure, and at laft gives way, 

 fo that horfes, carriages, and pafTengers — all fink into the 

 abyfs. Near the mouth of the Fiord, or firth, a bed of 

 clay-marle is feen diftinftly mixed with fmall fhells. Ap- 

 pearances of a like kind occur along the fouthern Ihorcs of 

 Norway, and the fadl is the more remarkable, fince no foffile 

 ftiells have been ever found in the interior of the country. 

 Tliis marie, however, is only a local formation, and refts on 

 the fundamental gncifs. 



TELLER, an officer in the exchequer, of whom there 

 are four : whofe bufinefs is to receive all monies due to the 

 crown, and tiiercupon to throw down a bill through a pipe 

 into the tally-court, where it is received by the auditor's 

 clerks, who attend there to write the words of the faid bill 

 upon a tally, and then deliver it to be entered by the clerk 

 of the pells, or his clerk. 



The tally is then fplit or cloven by the two deputy cham- 

 berlains, who have their fcals ; and while the fenior deputy- 

 reads the one part, the junior examines the other part with 

 the other two clerks. 



The tellers' places are in the king's gift, and they have 

 befides their chief clerk or deputy, and other clerks for the 

 difpatch of bufinefs. 



Teller, Mahcl's, in biography, a prieft and mufical 

 compofer in the church of St. Gervais, in Maeftricht, pub- 

 hfhed in 1726, his firft work at Augftjurg, under the title 

 of " Mufica facra ftylo plane Italico et Chromatico pro 

 Compofitionis amatoribus, complcftens IX Motetta brevia 

 de Tempore, et II MifTas folemnes, &c." His fecond 

 work was pofthumous, and publifhed likewfe under the 

 folemn title of " Mvifica facra," confifting of four mafTrs 

 and four motets, for four voices, two violins, tenor", bafloon, 

 and a bafTo continue, or figured bafe. 



Teller, Florian, an eminent dramatic compofer of 

 the mufic of grand opera ballets. In ) 763 he compofcd 

 mufic for the ballet of Orpheus and Euridicc, for the 



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