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modation ; but particvilarlv to the greater attention paid to 

 tlie Itate of tlie bowels. See Medico-Cliirurgical Iranfac- 

 tions, vol. vii. 



TETAR BOLTON, in jlnchvl Coinage, the quarter- 

 oboliis, which is the moil minute coin yet found, benig of 

 2I grains, a.ul its current worth a fartlung and a half. 



TETARIUM, in /Indent Geography, a town of Afia, 

 filuated in tiiat part of Lycaonia, wliich Ptolemy compre- 

 hends in Galatia. 



TETARTEMORION, among the jincients, denotes 



the fourth part of the /odiac. 



TETA RTO-CH RITSOS, Tila^'o-xeuo-o;, in Jncieiit Coin- 

 'g'' 3 g"'*^ '^"'" "^ Philip, Alexander, and Lyfimachus, 

 whicli was a quarter of the Philippus or xt^'^"'- '■> "^ weighs 

 33 grains, and paffed for 5 drachms of iilver, 3^. 9^., now 

 worth intrinfically ^s. 



TETAVI, in Geography, a town of the principality of 

 Georgia, in the province of Caket. 



TETBURY, or Tedbiiry, anciently TV/c^otV, a large 

 and refpedablc market-town in the hundred of Longtree, 

 and county of Glouccfter, England, is fituated 20 miles 

 S. by E. from Glouceiler, and 99 miles W. by N. from 

 London. Its name evidently determines it to have been a 

 military ftation. On the S.E. fide, within the memory of 

 many living, were traces of a ftrong camp, now completely 

 deilroyed, where arrows and javelin-heads have been found, 

 with various EngHfh coins of high antiquity. Roman coins 

 of the Lower Empire have likewife been met with in and 

 near the town. Tetbury confilts principally of four ftreets, 

 crofring in the centre, and contains many good ftone build- 

 ings. The governing officer is a bailiff, wTio is annually 

 chofen. The population sf the parifh, including four ham- 

 lets, in the year 181 1, was 2533, the number of houfes 522. 

 A weekly market is held on Wednefday, and four fairs an- 

 nually. The wool-combing and wool-ftapling branches are 

 carried on here, but to no great extent. The clothing ma- 

 nufafture was formerly attempted, but the want of a con- 

 tinual fupply of water prevented its being brought to per- 

 fe&ion. Even for domeftic ufes, water has, till within a 

 few years, been fcarce ; but in 1 749, a well was funk to 

 the depth of 104 feet, fince which time other wells have been 

 opened, and the inconvenience in a great degree removed. 

 The pariih church confilts of an ancient tower, and a mo- 

 dern body J the former is terminated by a fpire, the latter 

 is built in imitation of the pointed ftyle, appearing exter- 

 nally as a fingle nave with cloifters, but withinfide divided 

 into aifles, by a very flight arcade and cluftered columns, on 

 the principle on which the roof of the theatre at Oxford 

 was conftrufted. The old church, which was built foon 

 after the Conqueft, having become from length of time very 

 ruinous, was taken down (excepting the tower and fpire), 

 and rebuilt at the expence of 5000/. ; and opened for divine 

 fervice in 1784. Two turnpike roads lead through the 

 town in crofs direftions ; one to London and Bath, the 

 other to Gloucefter and Southampton. A deep hollow, in 

 the nature of a moat, at the weft end, made the entrance 

 into the town inconvenient, till the commiffioners of the 

 roads built a high bridge of four arches acrofs it in 1775. 

 Rudge's Hiftory of Gloucefterfhire, vol. i. 1803. Beauties 

 of England and Wales, vol. v. Gloucefterfhire ; by J. Brit- 

 ton an-d E. W. Brayley, 1803. 



TETCHA, a fmall river of Ruflia, which runs into the 

 Ifet, near Dolmatov, in the province of Ekaterinburg. 



TE-TCHUEN, a town of Corea ; 60 miles E.N.E. of 

 Han-tcheou. 



TETE, a fort belonging to the Portuguefe, in the eoun- 

 iry of Mocaranga, on the Zarabcfe. 

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Tete de Biich, La, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Gironde, fituated on the S. fide of a large bay, called 

 " The Harbour of Arcachon," the entrance of which is 

 dangerous on account of the fand-banks ; 30 miles S.W. of 

 Bourdeaux. 



TETEROA, a harbour on the W. coaft of the ifland 

 of Ulietea. 



TETEROW, a town of the duchy of Mecklenburg; 

 18 miles S.W. of Guftro. 



TETERSKOI, a town of Riiffia, on the Podkamen- 

 flvaia Tungufl^a. N. lat. 59'' 54'. E. long 101° 14'. 



TETHALASSOMENOS, a term ufed by the old me- 

 dical writers, to exprefs wine mixed with fea-water. 

 TETHER. See Tedder. 



TETHERING, the practice of confining animals to a 

 certain range of feeding, by means of ropes, cliains, or other 

 contrivances. 



TETHRONIUM, in ^Indent Geography, a town of 

 Greece, in the Phocide ; being one of thofe which Hero- 

 dotus refers to the vicinity of the river Cephifus. 



TETHUROA, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the South 

 Pacific ocean, fubjeft to Otaheite, compofed of fix or feven 

 low iflets near each other, not many feet above the level of 

 the fea ; abounding in cocoa-nut trees, but not in bread- 

 fruit, which the inhabitants are not allowed to cultivate. 

 The inhabitants are about 3000, chiefly employed in catch- 

 ing of fifh, which they bring to Otaheite, and exchange for 

 bread-fruit ; 24 miles N.Wl of Point Venus. S. lat. 17° 4'. 

 W. long. 149° 30'. 



TETHYS, in Mythology, the daughter of Coelum and 

 Terra, and wife of Oceanus. Her chariot, which is repre- 

 fented as gliding over the furface of the waters, was a fliell 

 of an extraordinary figure, and whiter than ivory. 



Tethvs, in Zoology, a genus of the MoUufca order of 

 Vermes, or worms ; the charafters of which are, that the body 

 is free, fomewhat oblong, flolby, and having no peduncles j 

 the mouth terminating in a cyliudric probofcis, under the' 

 lip ; and two foramina on the left fide of the neck. It has 

 two fpecies. 



Leporius. With a ciliated lip ; found in the Mediter- 

 ranean fea. 



FiMBUiCA. With a crenulated lip ; found in the Adriatic 

 fea. 



TETIMIXIRA, in Ichthyology, the name of an Ameri- 

 can fifli, more ufually known by the name of the pudnino. 



TETIN, in Geography, a town of Bohemia, in the circle 

 of Beraun ; 3 miles S. of Beraun. 



TETITLAN, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Xahfco ; 18 miles S.E. of Compoftcllo. 



TETIUS, in Ancient Geography, a river of the ifle of 

 Cyprus, which ran from the N.W. to the S.E. and dif- 

 charged itfelf into the fea, near the promontory of Dades, 

 after having watered Citium. 



TETIUSCHI, in Geography, a town of Ruflia, in the 

 government of Kazan, on the Volga; 52 miles S. of Kazan. 

 TETOBE, a town of the ftate of Georgia ; 5 miles W, 

 of Tugeloo. 



TETRACERA, in Botany, received that name from 

 Linnaeus, in allufion to the four horn-like points of the cap- 

 fules of the original fpecies, the word being compounded of 

 nr^x!, four-fold, and ns^a;;, a horn. The genus however has 

 fubfequently received an acceflion of feverul fpecies with foli- 

 tary capfules and ftyles, which invalidate the ftrift propriety 

 of its name, and render its fituation in the artificial fyftem 



of Linnaeus ambiguous Linn. Gen. 275. Schreb. 369. 



Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. 1240. Mart. Mill. Dift. v. 4. Juff. 339. 

 Lamarck lUuttr. t. 485. Qsertn. t. 69. (Delima; Linn. 



Gen. 



