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tVom the entrance of the Hellefpont. This pofition has 

 always rendered Tenedos important. Vefllls bound to 

 Conftantinople find ftieller in the ports of this ifland, or 

 fafe anchorage in tlie roads, when the winds are contrary 

 and the weather bad. The emperor Juftinian eftablifhed m 

 this ifland a magazine for receiving cargoes of corn tranf- 

 ported from Egypt, l8o feet long, 90 broad, and propor- 

 tionally high. During the troubles of the Greek empire, 

 Tenedos fuftaincd many vicifTitudes. It was for many years 

 a place of rendezvous for pirates. Scantily peopled and 

 ill defendL-d, it paflTcd betimes under the Ottoman domination. 

 The caliph Othman feized it in the year 1302, and in the 

 pofleffion of it, he was enabled to fubdue the other iflands 

 of the Archipelago. Duriug the minority of Mahomet IV. 

 the Venetians retook it after the complete defeat of the 

 Turkilh fleet in the ftrait by the admiral Mocenigo, in 1 656 : 

 but in the following year, thr; admiral having been killed in a 

 fecond engagement, the Venetian fleet retired, and this 

 ifland fell again under the power of the Turks, who have 

 preferved it without interruption till the prefent day. The 

 harbour is fmall, and can only receive merchant veflels : it 

 is formed by a jetty even with the water's edge, and a 

 tongue of land, on which is conftrufted the citadel that de- 

 fends the entrance, and can at mod fecure it againfl; being 

 furprifed by a privateer. The town is built in form of a 

 femicircle, in a valley, and on the declivity of two hills : 

 its population is from 5000 to 6000 fouls, judging from its 

 extent, and from the number of perfons who pay the 

 karatch. Its inhabitants, who are Turks and Greeks in 

 equal numbers, are almofl all occupied in the culture of the 

 lands, few of them being mariners. The ifland is under the ad- 

 miniftration of a waiwode or governor, an aga commandant 

 of the citadel, and a cadi or judge. The defenders of the 

 town are 200 or 300 janizaries. The town is commanded by 

 a pyramidal mountain of fmall elevation, that feems to have 

 been formed by the aftion of a volcano, the traces of which 

 are difcoverable. In the environs is found a granite remark- 

 able for pieces, of various fizes, of felfpar cryftallized. 

 On the right of the mountain, in paffing from the town 

 towards the W., is a fandy plain, far from fertile, and al- 

 moft entirely covered with vines. The hills, in general, are 

 naked, dry, and httle fufceptible of cidture. Thofe on the 

 fouth of the town are calcareous ; and the rock is more or 

 lefs chalky and loaded with fea-(hells. 



Tenedos produces little corn, fruit, or herbage. The 

 vine is the only article of wealth of this country, and its 

 culture the principal occupation of the inhabitants. Mufca- 

 del wine is made in confiderable quantities. From Tenedos 

 are annually exported upwards of 600,000 okes of wine, 

 producing to the farmer more than 30,000 piaftres. This 

 Tvine pafTes to Conftantinople, Smyrna, and Ruflia. This 

 ifland alfo exports a fmall quantity of brandy. The climate 

 of Tenedos is more temperate than that of the Dardanelles : 

 it feldom freezes here, and the fummer heats are moderated 

 by the N.N.E. wind, which blows regularly during the day. 

 The houfes have terraces of flat roofs. The Greek inha- 

 bitants are lefs gay than thofe of the other ifland : in the 

 ftrcets they are filent and melancholy, avoiding through fear 

 the attention of the Turks ; but when they can indulge 

 themfelves in mirth without danger, they furrender them- 

 felves to a fort of extravagant joy and delirium. The coafl: 

 of Troy is frequently the theatre of their orgies and the field 

 of their pleafures : thither they repair on the occafion of a 

 wedding or of a fefl;ival, and there, under the ftiade of a plane- 

 tree or oak, they pafs the whole day in dancing, finging, 

 eating and drinking. The females, however, are kept within 

 the bounds of decorum, and might be compared, from their 



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features and their (hape, to the moft beautiful models which 

 antiquity has tranfmitted to us. N. lat. 39' 53'. E. long. 

 z6°. Sonnini. Ohvier. 



TENELLA, tuaxa., in /Indent Mujic. As fome con- 

 querors at the Olympic games were not fo fortunate as to 

 have poets for their friends, or fo rich as to be able to pur- 

 chafe odes on their particular viftories, which were rated 

 very high by bards of the firft clafs ; in honour of fuch, the 

 old hymn to Hercules, of Archilochus, was fung by the 

 friends of the conquerors only, if they could not afford to 

 engage a band of profefled muficians. The fchohaft on 

 Pindar's ninth Olympic tells us, that to fupply the want of 

 a cithandift, Archiloehus framed a word in imitation of 

 the found of a cithara, which word [Tenella, TsviXXjc), when 

 there happened to be no mufician prefent, the leader of the 

 chorus chanted forth, and was anfwered by the refl; of the 

 chorus, in the words of the hymn, n Ka,\XivixE, x'^^t^y 

 glorious ViHor, hail! at every comma, or paufe of which, 

 this burden was again repeated. 



TENEMBER, in Geography, an ifland in the Eaft In- 

 dian fea, 12 miles long and 3 broad. S. lat. 6^ 50'. E. 

 long. 132=45'. 



TENEMENT, Tenancy, in Law, a houfe or lands, 

 depending on a manor, or lordfliip ; or a fee, or farm held 

 of a fuperior lord, and which he may recall, when the term 

 or condition is expired. 



Tenement, Frank, is any lands, houfe, office, or the 

 like, in which a man has eftate for life, or in fee. 



Tenement, Bafe, is where a man holds lands, &c. at the 

 will of the lord. 



Yet Kitchin, Briton, &c. make frank tenement and bafe 

 tenement oppofites ; on which footing, frank tenement 

 fliould be where the tenant is at liberty to quit it when he 

 pleafes. 



TENEMENTARY Lands, among our anceftors, 

 were the outlands of manors, which the Saxon thanes, 

 or nobles, let out to tenants under arbitrary rents and 

 fervices. 



TENEMENTIS Legatis, in Law, a writ which lies 

 in London, and other places, where the cuftom is to devife 

 tenements by laft will as well as perfonal goods and chattels, 

 for the hearing of any caufe relating to them. 



TENEN, or Knin, in Geography, a town of Dalmatia, 

 fituated on the borders of Bofnia, and the fee of a bifliop ; 

 48 miles S. of Bihacs. 



TENENDUM, in Law, is a claufe in a deed, in which 

 the tenure of the land is created and limited. The office of 

 a tenendum is to limit and appoint the tenure to the land 

 which is held, and how, and of whom it is held. The 

 tenendum feems now to be incorporated with the habendum, 

 for we fay, to have and to hold, in which claufe the eftate 

 is limited, &c. 



TENENTES Nativi. See Nativi. 



TENENTIBUS in AJifa non Onerandis, in Law, a writ 

 which lies for him to whom a difleifor has made over land, 

 of which he difleifed another ; requiring that he be not dif- 

 turbed in affize, for the damages awarded, if the difleifor 

 have wherewithal to fatisfy them. 



TENEREZZA, tendernefs, feeling, equivalent fo the 

 French term tendrement. 



TENERIA, in Geography, a town of the ifland of 

 Cuba ; 45 miles N.W. of Villa del Principe. 



TENERIFFE, one of the Canary iflands, the fecond 

 in dignity, but the firft probably with regard to wealth and 

 fertility. It is about 70 miles in length, and its mean 

 breadth is about 22 miles ; its furface contains 1540 fquare 

 miles, having, at an average, about 45 perfons to the fquare 



mile. 



