TEN 



TEN 



N. lat. ^4", receiving from both fides a number of large tri- 

 butary ftreams. It then wheels about to the north, in a 

 circuitous courfe, and mingles with the Ohio, nearly 60 miles 

 from its mouth. From its entrance into the Ohio to the 



Mufcle flioals, 250 miles, the current is very gentle, and 

 the river deep enough, at all feafons, for the largell row 



ry gentle, 

 he largell 

 boats. The Mufcle fhoals are about 20 miles in length. 

 The bed of the river in this dlllance confilts of broken floncs, 

 eafily removed ; and the navigation will admit of much im- 

 provement. At thefe flioals the river fprcads to the width 

 of three miles, and forms a number of idaiids, and is of dif- 

 ficult paiTage, except when there is a fwell in the river. 

 From this place to the " Wliirl," or " Suck," where the 

 river breaks through the Great Ridge, or Cumberland 

 mountain, is 250 miles, the navigation all the way excellent. 

 The Whirl, as it is called, is in about N. lat. 35°. It is 

 reckoned a greater curiofity than the buriling of the Patow- 

 mack through the Blue Ridge. The river, which a few 

 miles above is half a mile wide, is here compreffed to the 

 width of about 70 yards. ,Tuft as it enters the mountain, a 

 large rock projefts frem the northern fliore, in an oblique 

 direftion, which renders the bed of tlie river ftill narrower, 

 and caufes a fudden bend : the water of tlie river is of courfe 

 thrown with great rapidity againft the foutheni fhore, 

 whence it rebounds around the point of the rock, and pro- 

 duces the whirl, which is about 80 yards in circumference. 

 Boats pafs the whirl witliout danger or difficulty. Such is 

 the fituation of the fliore, that boats afcending the river may 

 be towed up. In lefs than a mile below the whirl, the river 

 fpreads into its common width, and except the Mufcle fhoals, 

 already mentioned, flows beautiful and placid, till it mingles 

 with the Ohio. Six miles above the whirl are the Chicca- 

 mogga towns, on the banks of the river, and of a large creek 

 of tlie fame name. 



TENNIS, a paftime, or well-known g.ime at ball, in- 

 troduced among our anceftors about the year 1222, the 

 fixth year of Henry III., by perfons of fuperior rank and 

 family, who erefted courts or oblong edifices for the per- 

 formance of this exercife. Some have afcribed the etymo- 

 logy of the word (ennis to the French language, and ac- 

 cordingly have derived the game from France. But the 

 word tene-z, does not aflbrd fumcient evidence of its French 

 origin. , For the holding or keeping pofleffion of the ball is 

 no part of the game ; for, during the play, the ball is in 

 continual motion, or palling from one to another. Others 

 feek the etymology of the name and the origin of the game 

 in a place in France called Tcniiois, (or, by a change of 

 one letter, Sennois, in tlie diftricf of Cliampagne, ) where 

 balls were firll made, and the game, as it is laid, firfl: in- 

 troduced. 



Tennls, in Geography, the ruins of a town of Egypt, fitu- 

 ated on an ifland in a lake of the fame name ; once a large 

 city, built by the Romans, on the fcite of a more ancient 

 Egyptian town ; 28 miles S.E. of Damietta. N. lat. 31° 2'. 

 E. long. 32° 14'. 



Tennis, a lake of Egypt, 55 miles long, and about 

 feven wide, which reaches from Damietta to Tineh, fepa- 

 rated only by a narrow tongue from the Mediterranean. 



Tennis, or Tnifs, a fea-port of Algiers, in the province 

 of Tremecen, at the mouth of a river which riuis into the 

 Mediterranean oppofite a fmall ifland. Some geographers 

 fuppofe this to be the ancient Jol, or Julia Casfarea. Be- 

 fore the Turkifli conquefts, it was the metropolis of one of 

 the petty royalties of this country ; though a few miferable 

 hovels are all that remains of it at prefent. Tennis has been 

 long famous for the many loads of corn that are rtilpped off 

 from thence to Chriftendom ; but the anchoring ground (for 



a harbour it cannot be called) that lies before it, being too 

 much cxpofed to the north and weft winds, is the ocealion 

 that vefFels are frequently call away, uiilefs they meet with 

 calm weather. The Moors have a tradition, tiiat the Ten- 

 nlflians were formerly in fucli reputation for forcery and 

 witchcraft, that Pharaoh fent for the wifeil amongll iliem to 

 difpute miracles with Mofes. It is certain that they are the 

 greatefl cheats in this coimtry, and arc to be as little trulled 

 to as their road i 24 miles W. of Sherfliell. N. lat. 36' 33'. 

 E. long. 1° 10'. 



TENNOLTEI, a town of Thibet; 63 miles N.E. of 

 Haraeliar Hotun. 



TENO, a river of Norway, which runs into the fea, 

 S6 miles W.N.W. of Wardhuys. 



TENON, in Building, &c. the fquare end of a piece of 

 wood, or metal, diminifhed by one-third of its thicknefs, 

 to be received into a hole in another piece, called the morlife, 

 for the jointing or faflening the two together. 



Among joiners, &c. the tenon is made in various forms, 

 fquare, duve-tailed, for double mortifes, &c. 



Vitruvlus calls the icnom, cardiius ; dove-tailed tenons he 

 calhful/fcutles, or fecuricule. 

 Tv.so\- Saw. See Saw. 



TENOR, Tenouu, the purport or contents, or tran- 

 fcript, of a writing, or inllrument in law, &c. 



Warrants iflued for the confirmation of fentences, exprefs, 

 that they fliall be executed according to their form and tenor. 

 — It was impoffible to retain fo long a fpeech word for word, 

 but the fubllancc, or the tenor, is this. 



Tenor, Tenure, Ital., in Vocal Mufic, implies tlie natu- 

 ral pitch or tenouroi a man's voice In finglng. In the vocal 

 mufic of Italy, France, and Germany, there are three feve- 

 ral tenor clefs in ufe at prefent : the foprano ot\ the firit line, 

 for the highefl part ; the contrallo on the third line, for the 

 counter-tenor part ; and the alio tenore on the fourth line, for 

 the tenor part. (See Clef.) In old mufic of the 15th, 

 l6th, and 17th centuries, a tenor clef, called the mezzo 

 foprano, on the fecond line, and even on the fifth line, fre- 

 quently occurs, inilead of the barilono, or F clef, 011 the 

 third line. 



In lullrumental mufic, the tenor clef on the third line is 

 ufed for the alto viola, and fimply viola, or tenor part. The 

 tenor clef on the fourth line frequently occurs in violoncello 

 parts and harpfichord leflbns of the early part of the lall 

 century ; but at prefent, the high notes in the violoncello part, 

 and in the bafe of pieces for the piano forte, are more fre- 

 quently written in the treble clef. 



Tenok, or Tenorijla, is alfo ufed for a pcrfon who fmgs 

 the tenor part in concert ; and alfo for an inllrument proper 

 to play it. 



TENO R E Indifiamcnli mittendo, in Lain, is a writ by which 

 the record of an indiftment, and tlie procefs thereupon, are 

 called out of another court into the king's bench. 



TENOS, in Jlncient Geography, one of the iflands called 

 Cyclades, S.E. of the ifland of Andros, and very near it, 

 N.W. of Delos, and N.E. of Syroe. All hillorians agree 

 in reporting that tills Ifland abounded with ferpents, whence 

 it took the name of OpIiluHa, and in Greece that of the 

 viper, or Ta;nla. It is faid that the inhabitants muft have 

 abandoned it on this account, if Neptune had not refcued it 

 from them. In confequence of this deliverance, they ercdlcd 

 a magnificent temple to his honour, in a wood near the town 

 of Tenos, and here they celebrated feafls in commemoration 

 of him. This temple had very cxtenfive rights of afylum, 

 which were afterwards regulated by Tiberius. The ifland 

 was alfo called Hydraffa, on account of its waters. The 

 town of the fame niimc was fituated near the fea, in the 



S.W. 



