T E S 



T E S 



of the Laciiiian Juno and the town of Locri, according to 

 Diodorus Siculus. 



TESE, in Geography. See Test. 



TESEGDELT, a town of Morocco, fituated on a 

 (harp rock, fuppofed to be impregnable ; 80 miles W.N.W. 

 of Morocco. 



TESENI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia ; 34 

 miles S.E. of Degnizlu. 



TESEREN, a town of Africa, in the country of Ta- 

 filet ; 50 miles N.N.W. of Tafilet. 



TESHOO-LOOMBOO, or LuBnoNG,the refidence of 

 the Tefhoo Lama, and the capital of that part of Thibet 

 immediately fubjeA to his authority, is fituated in N. lat. 

 29° 4' 20". E. long. 89° 7'. It is a large monaftery, con- 

 fining of three or four hundred houfes, tlic habitations of 

 the Gylongs, or priefts, befides temples, maufoleums, and 

 the palace of the fovereign pontiff ; in which is comprifed 

 alfo the refidence of the regent, and of all the fubordinate 

 officers, both ecclefiaftical and civil, belonging to the court. 

 It is Included within the hollow form of a high rock, and 

 has a foothern afpedt. Its buildings are all of (lone, none 

 lefs than two ftories high, flat-roofed, and crowned with a 

 parapet rifing confiderably above the roof, compofed of 

 heath and bru(h-wood, inferted between frames of timber, 

 which form a ledge below, and are fafhioned above into a 

 cornice, capped with mafonry. The building is ftained 

 of a deep garnet-colour ; a cuftom univerfally adopted in 

 thefe regions, for diftinguifhing places of religious efta- 

 bhfhment, and which, when contrafted with the white walls, 

 produces, in the appearance of their town, a very pleafing 

 effeft. All the houfes have windows, the centre, or princi- 

 pal one, projefting beyond the walls, and forming a balcony : 

 they are clofed with black mohair curtains inftead of (but- 

 ters. The principal apartment in the upper ftory has an 

 opening over it, covered with a moveable (hed, which ferves 

 the purpofe of fometimes admitting light and air, and in the 

 winter fealon, occafionally, the grateful warmth of the fun. 

 The tops of the walls are adorned with cylindrical monu- 

 ments ; fome of which are plain, covered with black cloth, 

 crolfed by a white fillet ; while others are made of copper^ 

 burnifhed with gold : as the palace and maufoleums are thus 

 adorned with profufion, the view of the monafterv, on ap- 

 proaching it from the plain, is brilliant and fplendid. The 

 plain of Tefhoo-Loomboo, v?hich is perfeftly level, is en- 

 conipafTed by rocky hills : its length is about fifteen miles, 

 and its fouthern extremity, from E. to W., is five or fix miles 

 broad. The rock, upon the fouthern face of which the 

 monaftery is fituated, nearly occupies the v/hole width of the 

 valley, and approaches fo near to the hills, as to form a nar- 

 row defile, leaving room only for a road, and the bed of the 

 river Painom-tchieu, which runs through it, and at a fmall 

 diftance joins the Burhampooter. A fortrefs commands the 

 pafs. The rock of Tefhoo-Loombco is the loftieft of all 

 that are in its vicinity ; and the monaftery near its bafe is 

 thus guarded from the violence of the N.W. winds. From 

 the fummit of this rock the eye commands a very extenfive 

 profpeft, and the moft interefting objieft in view is the cele- 

 brated river Burhampooter, called in the language of Thi- 

 bet Erechoomboo. Here it receives the tributary waters of 

 the Painom-tchieu. Turner's Tibet. 



TESI TRAMONTINI, Vittoria, in Biography, one 

 of the moft renowned female fingers that Italy has produced. 

 She was born at Florence in 1690 ; began her vocal ftudies 

 under the maeftro di cappella Francefco Redi ; then went to 

 Bologna, and became a pupil of Campcggi ; and received 

 her laft polifh from Bernacchi. But fhe was no lefs admired 

 \0L. XXXV. 



for the dignity, grace, and propriety of her aftion, than her 

 vocal i)Owers. 



Quant/., who heard her at Drcfden in i 7 19, in the famous 

 opera that was performed on occafion of the nuptials of the 

 prince royal of Poland, fing with Senefino, the Bcrfelli, 

 wife of Lotti, Dnreftantc, and the Fauftina, charafterizcs 

 her in the following mafterly manner. 



" Vittoria Tcfi had by nature a mafculine, ftrong, con- 

 tralto voice. In 17 19 flie generally fung, at Drcfden 

 aW olliiva, fuch airs as are made for bafe voices ; but after- 

 wards, befides the majcflic and fcrious ftyle, (he had occa- 

 fionally fomething coquettifh in her manner, which was very 

 pleafing. The compafs of her voice was fo extraordinary, 

 that neither to fing high nor low gave her trouble. She wak 

 not remarkable for her performance of rapid and difficult 

 paffages ; but fhe fccmcd born to captivate every fpcftator 

 by her aftion, principally in male parts, which (he performed 

 in a moft natural and intelligent manner." Life of Quantz, 

 written by himfelf. 



She fung at Naples in 1725, and at Vienna in 1748, where 

 fhe remained till the time of her deceafe, in 1775, at 85 years 

 of age. 



She was the miftrefs of the Teubcrinn and the De Amicis, 

 both as juftly famed for their a£ling as finging. 



We were told at Vienna in 1772, that fhe had long quitted 

 the ftagc, though the remembrance of her talents was fo 

 deeply impreifed in the minds of many excellent judges, that 

 whenever fhe was mentioned, it was to the difadvantage of all 

 fubfequent female fingers. She had been very fprightly in 

 her day, and yet was in high favour with the emprefs-queen 

 in her latter years. Her ftory is fomewhat Angular. She 

 was connefted with a certain count, a man of great quality 

 and diftinftion, whofe fondncfs increafed by pofTefTion to 

 fuch a degree as to determine him to marry her : a much 

 more uncommon rcfolution in a perfon of high birth on the 

 continent, than in England. She tried to diffnade him ; 

 enumerated all the bad coiifcqucnces of fuch an alhance ; but 

 he would liften to no reafoning, nor take any denial. Find- 

 ing all remonftrances vain, (he left him one morning, went 

 into a neighbouring ftreet, and addreffing herfelf to a poor 

 labouring man, a journeyman baker, faid fhe would give him 

 fifty ducats if he would marry her ; not with a view to their 

 cohabiting together, but to ferve a prcfcnt purpofe. The 

 poor man readily confented to become her nominal hufband : 

 accordingly they were formally married ; and when the count 

 renewfed his fohcitations, ftie told him it was now utterly im- 

 pofTible to grant his requeft, for fhe was already the wife of 

 another ; a facrifice file had made to his fame and family. 



Since that time (he had lived many years with a man of 

 great rank at Vienna, of nearly her own age ; probably in a 

 very chafte and innocent manner. 



TESIA, in Geography, a town of New Mexico, in the 

 province of Mayo ; 45 miles E.S.E. of Santa Cruz. 



TESIN, a town of Syria, celebrated for its ohve oil ; 18 

 miles N.E. of Antioch. 



TESINO, a department of Italy, formed of the Pavefe. 

 It contains 156,471 inhabitants, who eleft twelve deputies. 

 Pavia is the capital. — Alfo, a river of Italy, which rifes in 

 mount St. Gothard, and paffing through lake Maggiora, 

 empties itfelf into the Po, at Pavia. 



Tesino, or Tejftn, a town of the county of Tyrol ; 24 

 miles N.E. of Trent. 



TESKELA, a town of Finland ; 70 miles E. of 

 Biorneborg. 



TESKOWA, a town of Poland, in Volhynia ; 40 miles 

 E. of Lucko. 



3 C TESORO, 



