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TERASPURG, a town of Airllm; 2 miles N. of 



Egenbur^. ,, , 



TERATOSCOPIA, formed of T^faf, prodigy, ajid 

 <n„r,^., / confder, a kind ..f divination by tlie appearance 

 and view of monllcrs, prodiijies, fpeftres, and phantoms. 



TERBEDH, in tlie Materia Medka, a name given by 

 Avicenna to the turbilh, a purging drug, mentioned by 

 aU the authors of his time ; but, in general, in a very con- 



fuf?d maimer. 



Garcias tells us, that the Indians ufe it to purge phlegm, 

 and that they add jC'"g^"'" 'o 't by way of correftive ; and 

 Avicenna fays tiic fame thing of its ufe in his time. 



TERBURGH, Gkhakd, in Biography, a painter of 

 domeftic fcenes of cxquifite fljill, was born at Zwoll, m 

 tiie province of Overydel, in 1608, the fon of a pamter 

 little known, from wliom he received the rudimeats of tlie 

 art. He began his career as a painter of portraits in fmall, 

 and had acquired confiderable reputation, when he determined 

 upon travelling through Germany and Italy. Unengaged by 

 the fublimcr beauties of art which the latter country offered 

 to his view, he never [changed his ftyle, but went thence to 

 Paris to praftife it ; and there met with confiderable fuccefs. 

 From theace he returned to Holland, and was highly ap- 

 preciated, and fully employed. He attended the congrefs 

 adembled at Manlier in 1648, for the negociation of the 

 treatv of peace, and there painted his celebrated pidure 

 centaining portraits of the plenipotentiaries and principal 

 perfonages affembled on that occafion, which is regarded as 

 his maller-pi^ce ; and of which there is a print by Suyder- 

 hoef. While engaged upon tliis work, he was invited by 

 count Pigorando, the Spanifh ambafiador at the congrefs, 

 to vifit Spain, and went there in confequence ; where he 

 was mod favourably received, and much employed. The 

 king conferred upon him the order of knighthood, and re- 

 warded him munificently for the piftures lie painted. Be- 

 fides portraits, which conftituted the principal part of his 

 praftiee, he frequently painted converfations, muiical parties, 

 ladiej at their toilettes, and domeftic fubjefts, which he 

 executed with a free, but rather a heavy pencil, not equal 

 to the brilliancy of Metzu and Netfcher, but neverthelefs 

 exceedingly meritorious and agreeable ; particularly in the 

 clofe imitations of his draperitjs. He died in 1 681, at 

 Deventer, where he fettled on his return from Spain. 



TERCERA, or Terceira, in Geography, one of 

 the Azores iflands, fuppofed to have derived its name 

 from its ftanding the third in this clufter of iflands 

 in point of fituation, though the firll in dignity, as ap- 

 pears from a number of circumftances, and particularly 

 from its communicating its naisie to the reft. This 

 ifland is computed at 54 miles in circumference, and 

 about 25 miles in length, by 15 in medial breadth. 

 Its figure is almoft circular, the coafts high, and fo fur- 

 rounded with craggy rocks, that it is deemed impregnable ; 

 every acceftible part on the coaft being defended by ftrong 

 forls, heavy cannon, and a numerous and regular garrifon. 

 The only tolerable port in the whole ifland is the harbour 

 of Angra. The ifland of Tercera is fertile, pleafant, and 

 lioalthy : the very rocks, which elfewhere are dry and 

 barren, produce here excellent vines, though not equal to 

 thofe raifed in the Canaries and Madeira. The land yields 

 large crops of wheat and other grain, pafture for cattle, 

 and a prodigious variety of lemons, oranges, and all thofe 

 fruits peculiar- to hot and cold climates, which are obferved 

 to be propagated to the greateft advantage in temperate 

 countries. Befides Angra, there are feveral other towns 

 and large villages in Tercera, with a number of forts and 

 garrifons, under the direftion of the governor, who has the 



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power of filling up all vacancies tliat happen ajnong the 

 military officers. N. lat. 38° 45'. W. long. 27° 6'. 



Teii'ci!RA, a fmall iflajid in the Atlantic, near the coaft 

 of Sierra Leone. 



TERCERO, a river of South America, which rifes in 

 Tucuman, and joins the Salado on the borders of P;vra- 

 guay. 



TERCHIZ, or Tekshiz. See Turshish. 



TER-CHOOUZ, in Ornithology. See Upupa Epops. 



TERDINA, in the Materia Medica, a name by which 

 Paracelfus, and fome other authors, have called the great 

 garden-valerian. Ger. Emac. Ind. 2. 



TERDOPIO, in Geography, a river of Italy, which 

 runt into the Po, 12 miles E.S.E. of Lumello. 



TEREBELLA, in Natural Hijlory, a genus of the 

 MoUufca order of Vermes ; the charafters of which are, 

 the body oblong, creeping, naked, furnifhed with branchiaj 

 at the fides, more frequently in the tube ; the mouth la- 

 biat?d, toothlefs, and projefting a clavated probofcis ; the 

 tentacula or feelers about the mouth numerous, capillary, 

 and ciliated. Gmeliu enumerates eleven 



Species. 



CiRRATA. Round, body \rith triple lateral pencils. 

 Found in the fandy bottom of the Iceland fea. 



Lapidaria. With eight cirri at the anterior parts of 

 the body, about the mouth four. Found in the Mediter- 

 ranean fea, within the clefts of rocks. 



Cos'CHiLEGA. Whitifli, with numerous filiform cirri at 

 the mouth, the upper longeft ; the branchiae very red. 

 Found in the fea waftiing the coaft of Holland. 



CoMPLANATA. DeprelTed, mouth with four cirri ; the 

 lateral pencil-bearing warts of the body arranged on both 

 fides in a two-told feries. 



Carunculata. Depreffed-quadrangular, with a four- 

 fold feries of ventral pencils, and no cirri. Found in the 

 American and Indian teas. 



RostrAta. Tetraedrous, with a quadruple feries of 

 pencils from the body, and palate elongated. Found 5n the 

 Indian fea. 



Fi,ava. Deprefled, with thirty-feven branchis on both 

 fides, and bifurcated tail. Found in the Indian fea. 



Rubra. Red, deprefled ; tail terminating with two 

 cirri ; the head with two horny moveable jaws. Found in 

 the fea furrounding the iflands of Zealand. 



Aphroditois. Round, gradually attenuated backwards, 

 below fomewhat deprefled with an obfolete furrovif ; no 

 branchiae in the eight firft fegments, in the following three 

 fiinplc, in the laft fenfibly greater, one being turned, pin- 

 nated. Found in the Indian fea. 



BicoRNl.s. With a fimple terminal two-horned difc of 

 the probofcis. Found in the America ocean. 



Stellata. With a pcrfoliated triple difc of the pro- 

 bofcis ; the anterior anned with a truncated horn, radiated 

 with prickles. Found in the American ocean. 



Terebella, (dim. of terebra,) in Surgery, a trepan, or 

 circular faw, for removing portions of the fl^uU. 



TEREBIA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, \n. 

 the Greater Armenia, E. of the fources of the Tigris. 

 Ptolemy. 



TEREBINTACE^, in Botany, the 94th order in 

 JufTieu's fyftcm, the 12th of his 14th clafs, fo denominated 

 from the genus for which he choofes to retain the old name 

 of T'f/-£A;H//^KJ-, but which is the Pi/lacia oi Linnaeus. Many 

 of the plants of this order abound in an eflential oil of the 

 nature of turpentine, or fomething like it. The characters 

 are as follow. 



CalyK 



