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the exterior on each fide two inches Uxigcr than the other, 

 and c'.ofed in flying, fo as to appear one (lender feather. 



Thefe birds frequeiit the fea-fliores, banks of lakes, and 

 rivers ; they feed on fmall fifli and water infecls, hovering 

 over the Wattr, and fuddenly darting into it to catch tiieir 

 prey. They breed among fmall tnfts of rufhes, and lay 

 three or four eggs of a dull olive-colour, fpotted with black. 

 All the birds of this genus are very clamorous. Pennant. 



Tern, Black, or Scare-croiu. See SteiiNA Filipes. 



Teun, Surinam, cr Darter. See Plotus Surinamcnjis. 



TERNA, a word ufed by fome authors to exprefs an 

 impetigo. 



Terna, Folia, in Botany and Vegdable Phyjiology, are 

 leaves, whether fimple or compound, feffile or ftalked, which 

 grow three together in a whorl, on any Hem or branch, as 

 in Verbena triphylla. Curt. Mag. t. 367. Such a difpoh- 

 tion of the foliage appears to prevail remarkably among the 

 plants of Mexico, Chili, and Peru, of which, befides the 

 example jull named, many others may be found. (Seethe 

 genera Fuchsia and Hemimeris. ) Among Britilh plants, 

 Erica cinerea has naturally ^o/ia tcrna ; while the generally op- 

 pofite leaves of Lyfunachia 'vulgaris and Lythrum Salicaria 

 occafionally become fo. See Leaf. 



TERNALLA, in. Geography, a town of Hindoollan, in 

 Myfore ; 45 miles E. of Rettinghery. 



TERNARY Measure. See Measure. 



Ternary Numler, in Antiquity, was efteemed a fymbol 

 of perfeftion, and held in great veneration among the an- 

 cient mythologifts. Whence Virgil, 



" Numero Deus impare.gaudet." Eel. yiii. ver. 75. 



Servius on this place remarks, that the Pythagoreans 

 afcribed the ternary number to the Supreme God, as being 

 the beginning, middle, and the end of all things. All the 

 heathen gods had a three-fold power attributed to them, as 

 the tria -virginis ora Diana, the three-forked thunderbolt of 

 Jupiter, the trident of Neptune, the three-headed dog of 

 Pluto. Again, the Parcx were three, the Furies three, 

 Hercules was three nights in begetting, the Mufes were an- 

 ciently three, the Graces three, &c. 



This number was likewife ufed in moft rehgious ceremo- 

 nies, but efpecially in luftrations ; whence Virgil, jEn. 

 Irb. xi. V. 188. 



" Ter circum accenfos, cinfti lulgentibus armis, 

 Decurrere rogos." 



TERNATA, Folia, in Botany and Vegetable Phyfiology, 

 are compound leaves, each of wliich confiils of three leaf- 

 lets, as in the Trefoil and Strawberry. Thefe are called in 

 Enghlh Ternate Leaves, and mud not be confounded with 

 Folia Terna, fee that article, for which laft we have no ap- 

 propriate term in our language. Some plants bear twice, 

 or thrice, ternate leaves. See Leaf. 



TERNATE, in Geography, an ifiand in the Eaft In- 

 dian fea, and the principal, though not the largeft, ajnong 

 thofe called Moluccas or Spice Iflands, of a circular form, 

 and about 21 miles in circumference. In the centre is a 

 lofty volcanic mountain, whofe bafe extends almoft to the 

 fea every way. The upper parts are uncultivated, and co- 

 vered over with Ihrubs and low trees ; but in the plain are 

 many gardens, and abundance of fruit-trees. On this moun- 

 tain are found many hollows or caverns full of fulphur, 

 which emit a thick fmoke, and flame fometimes appears 

 from the fummit, with a noife refembling thunder. The 

 produftions are cocoa-nuts, bananas, yams, oranges, and 

 other fruits ; but the principal article of commerce is cloves : 



many birds of paradife, and other beautiful birds, are found 

 here, and plenty of game. The chief quadrupeds are goats, 

 deer, and hogs. The boa ferpent is fometimes found of the 

 length of thirty feet. This ifland was firll fettled by tlic 

 Spaniards, who were driven away by the Dutch, to whom 

 the king of the ifland is, in fome degree, iubjedl. The 

 Europeans have two forts, called " Orange" and " Ter- 

 loehe," between which is a lake, called " Safle," three miU'S 

 in circumference, and 60 fathoms deep, feparated from the 

 fea by a narrow dike, which the Spaniards made a fruitlefs 

 attempt to cut through, to form a port. On this ifland arc 

 three mofques, and a Dutch church, but no place of wor- 

 fliip for the Portuguele. The province or government of 

 Ternate includes the iflands of Ternate, Tidore, Motir, 

 Machian, and Bachian, which are what are properly the 

 Moluccas ; they are the original places of growth of the 

 finer fpices ; and larger nutmegs are dill found in the woods 

 of Ternate, than any other produced out of Banda. Some 

 places, fituated in the eaftern part of the ifland of Celebes, 

 belong likewife to this government ; and the objeft of the 

 Company in fettling there is principally to furnifli provifione 

 tor Ternate, that part of Celebes being very fruitful in rice 

 and other necelfaries. They alfo yield ? confiderable quan- 

 tity of gold, about 24,000 taels, of a dollar and a half in 

 weight, yearly, amounting, at ^L per tael, to 120,000/., and 

 efculent bird's-nells, which are efteemed a great delicacy by 

 the Orientals, and efpecially by the Chinefe ; in exchange 

 for which the inhabitants take opium, Hindooftan piece- 

 goods, chiefly blue cloth, fine Bengal coiTacs and hummums, 

 together with fome cutlery. Ternate does not, in general, 

 require any fupply of provifions from Java, as the ifles of 

 Banda do. This ifland fufured greatly in Auguft 1 770, by 

 earthquakes. More than fixty violent fliocks were felt in 

 the fpace of twenty-four hours, and the fortifications were 

 much injured. N. hit. 0° jo'. E. long. 127° 10'. 



TernaT£, in Zoology, a fpecies of bat. See Vampvri;, 

 and Vespertilio Vampyrus. 



TERNATE A, in Botany, a genus fo named by Tourne- 

 fort, from Ternate, the native country of the plant. See 

 Clitoria. 



TERNAVASSO, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Po ; 6 miles N.E. of Carmagnola. 



TERNAY, Bay of, a bay or harbour on the E. coaft of 

 Chinefe Tartary, fo called by M. Peroufe in 1787. The 

 Dutch navigators called it Port Acqueis. N. lat. 45° 13'. 

 E. long. 137^29'. 



TERNBERG, a mountain of Auftria, near the river 

 Enns ; 6 mites S. of Steyr. 



TERNEUSE, a town and fortrefs of Flanders, fituated 

 on the W. branch of the Schcld, tailed the " Hondt," be- 

 gun by the count of Hohenloe, lieutenant of the prince of 

 Orange, in the year 1583, afterwards augmented by the 

 States : the fortifications have been fince jieftroyed ; 1 2 miles 

 S.E. of Fluihing. 



TERNI, a town of the Popedom, in the duchy of Spo- 

 leto, fituated between two arms of the Nera, and, therefore, 

 anciently called " Interamnium," or " Interanina." It is 

 well built, and the fee of a bilhop, immediately fubjeft to 

 the pope. Its greatefl: trade confifts in oil, befides which it 

 alfo reaps confiderable advantage from its exceUent vine- 

 yards. This was the birth-place of the emperors Tacitus 

 and Florianus, and of Tacitus the famous hiftorian. Be- 

 tween fix and feven Itahan miles frcmi Terni, to the N.W. 

 clofe by the httle town of Cefi, is Mount Eolo, remarkable 

 for its cool breezes, which, efpecially in fummer, ifl'ue from, 

 the chafms and crevices in the rocks of this mountain ; 14 

 miles S.S.W. of Spoleto. N. lat. 2° 34'. E. long. 12° 37'. 

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