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duke of Wurtembiiig's theatre at Stuttgard ; and the year 

 after, for his highiafs's birth-day, that of Novcrrc's grand 

 ballet called " The Triumph of Ncptunr." The ballet 

 mufic of this compoler fupcrfeded that of Lulli and Ra- 

 meau at Piu-is ; aud in our opera, the mufic of the ballets 

 hijloriques, and chaconnes danced by Mad. Heinel and 

 Vellris, was chiefly the produftion of Teller. 



TELLES, in Geography, a fea-port of Africa, in the 

 kingdom of Fc/, on the coaft of llie Mediterranean ; the 

 harbour is fmall but fafe, and the bottom good ; 120 miles 

 E.S.E, of Tangiers. 



TELI.ICHERY, a city of Hindooft.-in, on the coail 

 of Malabar, belonging to the Englifli, and defended by 

 lines. It was long befieged by the forces of Hyder Ali ; 

 but in the year 1782 the troops were defeated, the camp 

 taken, and the general wounded and made prifoner by the 

 Britilh, under the command of major Abiiigdon. The fitua- 

 tion of the town is beautiful and healtliy : pepper is the 

 great ai-ticle of trade, and cardamoms ; 48 miles N.N.W. 

 of Calicut. N. lat. 1 1° 15'. E. long. 75° 20'. 



TELLICO, a town of the Hate of Tenneffee, with a 

 block-houfe ; 50 miles S.W. of KnoxviUe. N. lat. 35° 37'. 

 E. long. 84° 18'. 



TELLIER, Michael, in B'togfaphy, a diftinguiftied 

 Jefuit, was born in 1643, near Pire, in Lower Normandy. 

 He lludied at the Jefuits' college at Caen, and entered into 

 the fociety at eighteen years of age. Having for fome time 

 taught the fchools, he was direfted by his fuperiors to pre- 

 pare an edition of Quintus Curtius, " in ufum Delphiiii," 

 which was printed in 1678. He was afterwards feletted, 

 with other eminent brethren, to eftablifti at the .Jefuits' col- 

 lege at Paris a fociety of learned men, who might retrieve 

 the honour of the body ; but his views were direfted to 

 other objefts, and he became a zealous controverfialift 

 in the fubjefts of difpute between the Jefuits and other 

 orders. Accordingly, in 1687, he publiflicd " Defenfe des 

 Nouveaux Chretiens et des Miffionaires de la Chine, du Ja- 

 pon, et des Indes," which was attacked by Arnauld in his 

 " Morale Pratique," and was announced to the holy office : 

 and lentence of condemnation was averted by a promife that 

 Tellier (hould come to Rome, and make alterations in his 

 work. This prepared the way for numerous publications ; 

 in confequence of which Tellier gained increafing reputa- 

 tion, and was advanced to the offices of revifor, reftor, and 

 provincial. Upon the death of F. la Chaife in 1709, he 

 was chofen, m competition with another candidate, and in 

 confequence of an affumed air of modeily, to fucceed him 

 as confelTor to the king. But whatever modefty he might 

 afluine to ferve a prefent purpofe, lie had little true hu- 

 mility. Ardent, unfympathizing, and defpotic, he was 

 hated by his bretlu-en over whom he tyrannized, in the moft 

 unwarrantable manner. Fontenelle, who well knew his dif- 

 pofition and charafter, hearing of his appointment, faid, 

 " The Janfenills have finned." His firft aft was the demo- 

 lition of the famous houfe of Port Royal, which he razed 

 to its foundation ; he then forced upon the Ration and the 

 magiftrates the bull Unigenitus ; and he proceeded with 

 fuch violence, that the Jefuits themfelves faid, " Father le 

 Tellier di'ives us at fuch a rate that he wall overturn us." 

 Tellier's condud brought dilgrace on the fociety, and was 

 ultimately the chief occafion of its abolition. On the death 

 of Louis XIV. he was exiled, firfl: to Amiens, and after- 

 wards to La Fleche, where he died in 1 7 19, at the age 

 of feventy-fix. The morals of Tellier were regular ; and 

 though fome perfons fufpefted him of hypocrify, others have 

 with greater probabihty beUeved, that he was aftuated by 

 real zeal for the principles which he had adopted. He was a 

 naan of literature, wrote many works, aud was a membep of 



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the Academy of Belles Lettrcs. Nouv. Dldt. D'AIem- 

 bert's Hift. of the Jefuits. 



TELLIGT, in Geography, a town of Germany, in the 

 biihopric of Munfter, with a rich abbey, on the Ems ; 

 3 miles from Munfter. 



TELLIGUO Mountains, or Ircn Mounta'ms. See 

 Iron Mounlains. 



TELLINA, in the Linnoean fyftem of Conchohgy, a 

 dillinft genus of the clafs of Vermes, and order of Teftacea. 

 For the characters of this genus, fee Conchology. Gmeliu 

 enumerates ninety-one fpecies. 



TELLINGANA, in Geography, a province of Hin- 

 dooftan, now called Golconda. 



TELLINGSTEDE, a town of the duchy of Hol- 

 ftein ; 1 1 miles S.E. of Lunden. 



TELLIPOLI, a town on the N. coaft of the ifland of 

 Ceylon ; 9 miles N. of Jaffnapatam. 



TELLO, a town on the W. coaft of the ifland of Ce- 

 lebes, and capital of a fmall kingdom, once united to Ma- 

 caflar. S. lat. 5°. E. long. 120° 2'. — Alfo, a town on the 

 W. coaft of the ifland of Lombock. S. L-.t. 8^ 24'. E- 

 long. 1 15° 45'. 



Tello Laugue, a town on the W. coaft of Sumatra, 

 N. lat. 0° 51'. E. long. 98^ 2 1'. 



Tello Point, a cape on the W. coaft of Sumatra. S. 

 lat. i°5o'. E. long. 100*^ 31'. 



TELLONIUM. See Thelonium. 



TELLONUM, in Ancieni Geography, a place of Gaul, 

 in Aquitania, near the fea-coaft, S.E. of Burdigala. 



TELLOW, in Geography, a town of Brandenburg, in 

 the Middle Mark, famous for its turnips ; 10 miles S. of 

 Berlin. N. lat. 52° 23'. E. long. 13^ 15'. 



TELLUDOPIN, a town of the ifland of Celebes, in 

 Buggcfs bay. S. lat. 2° 35'. 



TELLURE, in Agriculture. See TiLLER. 



TELLURIUM, in Mineralogy, a metal difcovered by 

 Klaproth, combined with gold and filver, in the ores from 

 the bannat of Temefwar, and in the Farzebay mountains in 

 Tranfylvania. The ores of this metal are denominated na- 



raphic tellurium, yelloiv tellurium, and black 



five tcllii 

 tellurium ore. 



Native Tellurium; Gedigcn Syhan, Werner. — The colour 

 is intermediate between tin and filver white, and fometimes 

 inclines to fteel-grey. Tiiis ore is found niaflive and difTe- 

 minated ; it is faid fometimes to occur cryftallized in four- 

 fided prifms ; it occurs alfo in fmall granular concretions. 

 It yields to the knife, and is ratlier brittle. The fpecific 

 gravity, according to Klaproth, is 6. 1 5. Before the blow- 

 pipe, native tellurium melts eafily before ignition ; it burns 

 with a greenifli flame, and is entirely volatilized in a denfe 

 white vapour, which has the acrid odour of horfe-radifh. 

 When expofed to a low heat, it is converted into a yellowifti 

 or blackifh oxyd : by an increafe of temperature it forms a 

 dark brown or black glafs, in which gold grains are inter- 

 fperfed : at a ftiU higher heat the oxyd is entirely volatilized. 

 The conftituent parts are, according to Klaproth, 



Tellurium . . - . 92.55 

 Iron - - - - - 7.20 

 Gold 25 



The proportion of gold is however variable. In *ie va- 

 riety of native tellurium, Klaproth found 9 parts in the 100 

 of gold. Native tellurium occurs in veins with quartz and 

 lithomarge. It is known, in the older works on mineralogy, 

 by the name of aurum problematicum, aurum paradoxicum, and 

 white gold ore. 



Graphic Tellurium; Tellure 7iatif graphique, Haiiy. — This 



is worked as an ore of gold at Offenbanya, in Tranfylvania, 



8 where 



