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of a military fortrefs. The fituation of this caftle was 

 admirably formed for dofc-nce : it occupied the extrenrc 

 point of the promontory, and was fccured by maccel ibk 

 rocks on every fide, except that facing the town, which 

 was ftrengthened by bold fortifications. 



On the coaft at Tenby are fome iniulatcd rocks of romantic 

 appearance, which exhibit curious excavations. Some ot 

 them are acceflible o;i foot at low water : this is the calc 

 with the ifland of St. Catherine, off the Callle Point, which 

 in one dircftion lias been perforated quite througli by tlic 

 repeated aaion of the tides. The principal ot thele iflands 

 is Caldey, fituated about two miles from the main land. It 

 is about a mile in length, and half a mile wide, and is e<^i- 

 mated to comprife about fix hundred acres of fuiface, ot 

 which nearly a third is in cultivation. Here was a priory, 

 founded, as is fuppofed, by Robert, the fon of Martin de 

 Turribus. The tower of the priory church, furmounted 

 by a (lone fpire, is yet Handing, and many of the conven- 

 tual buildings have been converted into offices, and attached 

 to a handfome modern edifice. 



Near the coaft, to the eaftward of Tenby, are feveral 

 refpedlable gentlemen's refldences, fome of them of ancient 

 date. Among thefe are Cilgetty, formerly inhabited by the 

 Canon family ; Hen-Gaftell, (the old caftle,) the property 

 of Thomas Stokes, efq. ; Merrixton, the feat of Charles 

 Swan, efq. ; Bonville Court, an ancient manfion of the 

 Bonvilles ; and Eare Wear, now called Amroth Caftle, 

 the refidence of captain Ackland ; and on the road from 

 Narbeth is Begelty Hall, the feat of James Child, efq. — 

 Beauties of England and Wales, vol. xviii. Pembrokefhire, 

 by T. Rees. Hiftorical Tour througli Pcmbi-okefhire, 4to. 

 1810, by R. Fenton, efq. Account of Tenby, illuftrated 

 with etchings, 4to. 1812, by Charles Norris, efq. 



TENCE, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Upper Loire ; 12 miles S.E. of Moniftrol. 



TENCH, in Ichthyology, the Englifti name of the tinea of 

 the modern authors, the fullo and gnapheus of the ancients. 



It is, according to the Artedian and Linnaean fyftem, a 

 fpecies of the cyprinus, and is diftinguifhed by Artedi by 

 the name of the blackifti, mucous, or flimy cyprinus (which 

 fee), \vith the end of the tail even. See Tench Fishing. 



Tench's Ifland, in Geography, an ifland in the Pacific 

 ocean, fo called by Lieut. Ball, commander of the Supply, 

 returning from Norfolk ifland to England in the year 1 790. 

 The ifland cannot be more than two miles in circumference : 

 it is low, but entirely covered with trees, many of which are 

 the cocoa-nut ; there were likewife others of a large fize. 

 Thefe trees reached to the margin of a very fine fandy beach, 

 which entirely furrounds the ifland. A great number of 

 canoes were lying on the beach ; and, it is fuppofed, there 

 cannot be lefs than a thoufand inhabitants on the ifland. 

 The natives who wre in the canoes were ftout and healthy- 

 looking men ; their fkin was perfeftly fmooth, and free from 

 any dilorder : they were quite naked, and of a copper colour ; 

 their hair refembled that of the New Hollanders. Some of 

 their beards reached as low as the navel, and there was an 

 appearance of much art being ufed in forming them into 

 long ringlets : fo that it fliould feem as if the prevailing 

 fafliion on this ifland was that of keeping the beard well 

 combed, curled, and oiled. Two or three of the men had 

 fomething like a bead or bone fufpended to a ftring, which was 

 faftcned round the neck. S.lati l°39'. E. long. 150° 31'. 



TENCOA, a town of Mexico, in the province of Hon- 

 duras ; no miles W. of Comayagua. N. lat. 14." 48'. 

 W. long. 90" 22'. 



TENCZA, a town of Auftrijn Poland ; 13 miles W. 

 of Cracow. 



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TEND, in our OIJ Wrilcn, feems to fignify as much as 

 tender, or offer ; as to tend or traverfe an averinent, ice. 



TEND A, in Geography, a tov.-n of Africa, or rather 

 feveral towns clofe together, the capital of a country of the 

 fame name, on the right bank of the Gambia, fituated to the 

 fouth-weft of Bondou, and fouth-eaft of Woolly. N. lat. 

 13° 2'. W. long. 1 1° 55'. — Alio, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Maritime Alps ; late capital of a county 

 to which it gave name, annexed to Piedmont, fituated at the 

 union of the Roia and Brogna. It has only one parifti 

 church, wliich is a beautiful ftrufture, a caftle walled round 

 and flanked with towers, on a rock, which commands the en- 

 virons of the town. In the 1 6th century, it came to the duke 

 of Savoy. The foil is not fertile, being on all fides fur- 

 rounded by the Alps ; it yields, however, good pafturage 

 and timber ; the rivers alfo furnifh the inhabitants with ex- 

 cellent trout ; 22 miles N.E. of Nice. 



TENDE, Col de, the moft remarkable paflage througli 

 the Maritime Alps. See Alps. 



TENDEBA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia 

 Minor, in Caria. 



TENDEBAR, in Geography, a town of Africa, in the 

 kingdom of Kaen. N. lat. 13*^ 15'. W. long. 15' 57'. 



TENDER, in a legal fenfe, fignifies as much as to offer, 

 or endeavour, the performance of any thing, in order to fave 

 the penalty, or forfeiture, incurred by non-performance. 



Thus, to tender rent, is to offer it at the time and place 

 when and where it ought to have been paid ; which will 

 fave the condition of that time, though the landlord refufe 

 to accept it. 



Tender, in Sea Language, is a veffel attending on fome 

 other larger and more confiderable one. It is employed in the 

 king's fervice on various occafions ; as to receive volun- 

 teers and impreffed men, and to convey them to a diftant 

 place ; to attend on fliips of war or fquadrons ; and to carry 

 intelligence or orders from one place to another, &c. 



Tender Plants, in Gardening and Agriculture, all fuch as 

 are too dehcate and tender in their nature and habits to 

 ftand, or be raifed, grown, or produced in the climate of 

 this country, without artificial proteftion or alTiftance, until 

 they have been fufficiently inured to, and hardened, and habi- 

 tuated againft the effedls of it. It has indeed been obfervtd 

 by fir Jofeph Banks, in a paper containing fome hints con- 

 cerning the proper mode of inuring plants of this kind to this 

 climate, inferted in the firft volume of the " Tranfaftions of 

 the Horticultural Society" of London, that, refpeftable and 

 ufeful as every branch of the horticultural art certainly is, no 

 one is more interefting to the pubhc, or more hkely to prove 

 advantageous to thofe who may be fo fortunate as to fucceed 

 in it, than that of inuring plants, natives of warmer chmates, 

 to bear, without covering, the ungenial fprings, the chilly 

 fummers, and the rigorous winters, by which, efpecially for 

 fome years paft, we have been perpetually vifited. Many 

 attempts have, it is faid, been made in this line, and feveral 

 valuable flirubs, that ufed to be kept in our ftoves, are now 

 to be feen in the open gardens ; there is, however, fome rea- 

 fon, it is thought, to believe, that every one of ihcie was 

 originally the native of a cold chmate, though introduced to 

 us through the medium of a warm one ; as the gold-tree, 

 aucuba japonica, the montan, psonia frutefcens, and feveral 

 others, have been in our times. 



In the cafe of annuals, however, it is thought probable that 

 much has been done by our anceftors, and fomething by 

 the prefent generation ; but it mufl be remembered, it is 

 faid, that all that is required in the cafe of an annual, is to 

 enable it to ripen its fruit in a comparatively cold [ummer, 

 after which, we know that the hardeft frofl has no power to 



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