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aegle£ted, is faid to have fometimes become of the quality 

 of canker, in feme forts of animals. In cafes where it 

 fixes upon the more flcfhy parts of the bodies of the ani- 

 mals, it is often attended with fuch troublefomc itchings, 

 as to caiife them to rub tliemfelves agaiiilt poRs, walls, aJid 

 other places, until they rub off and deflroy the very hair 

 and llcin of the parts. Nay, the animals will, it is faid, 

 fometimes even tear off the flefli with their teeth, if they 

 can come at the parts. 



The cure of the difeafe may moWy be accoraplifhed by 

 the ufe of a ball compofed of from half a drachm to a 

 whole one of calomel, or more, according to circumilances, 

 in union with fome fort of cooling purgative powder : or a 

 powder conftituted of crude antimony, aethiops mineral, and 

 cremor of tartar, of each about half an ounce ; which 

 fhould be given once or twice a day in a quart of oat -meal 

 gruel. At the fame time, wartiing the parts well with Gou- 

 lard water, and afterwards applying a little of an ointment 

 compofed of fulphur, blue ointment, and hog's4ard to 

 them. 



The animals fhould be well taken care of while the cure 

 is going on. 



TETTIGES, TETliytf, grafshoppers, in Antiquity., a title 

 the Athenians affumed to themfelves. See Gegenes. 



TETTIGOMETRA, m Entomology, a name by which 

 the ancients called the nymph of the cicada, or tcttyx ; and 

 they named this nymph, from which they frequently faw 

 that fly hatched, tdtigometrci, which fignifies the mother cf 

 the cicada. See Harvest-F/v, Cicada, and Vegetable- 

 Fly. 



TETTIGONIA, a word ufed by the ancients to ex- 

 prefs the fmallcr fjjccies of cicada, with which they were 

 acquainted. They called the larger achcta. 



It is generally fuppofed, that the tettigonia was the fame 

 with our fmalleft kind, called by the French fija/on ; but 

 M. Reaumur obferves, that as the ancients knew two 

 kinds of the cicada, we know three ; and that our middle 

 one fecms to have been their tettigonia or fmall cicada, and 

 that they were not acquainted with our fmallefl kind, or 

 cigalon, which is not larger than a hornet. 



TETTIGONIA of Linnxus. See Gryllus. 

 Tettigonutj of Fabricius. See Cicada. 

 TETTNANG, in Geography, a town of Germany, and 

 principal place of a lordlliip of the fame name, united with 

 Montfort, ceded to Bavaria by the peace of Prefburg ; 8 

 miles N. of Lindau. 



TETTOVA, a town of European Turkey, in Mace- 

 donia ; 13 miles W. of Skooia. 



TETTUA-MOTU, a cape on the E. coaft of New 

 Zealand, the N.E. point of Poverty bay. N. lat. 38° 36'. 

 W. long. 181° 30'. 



TETUAN, Tetawan, or Tetteget, a town of Africa, 

 in the empire of Morocco and province of El Garb, fitu- 

 ated near the river Bufega, about a league and a half inland 

 from the Mediterranean, and inhabited by Moors and Jews ; 

 who for the moft part fpeak a corrupt Spanilh, in which lan- 

 guage their commercial negociations are tranfafted. They 

 are genteel in their perfons and polite in their manners. 

 The environs of Tetuan are planted with vineyards and gar- 

 dens, which arc kept in good order, and which produce 

 more excellent fruits than thofe in other parts of the em- 

 pire. From the raifins and figs the Jews diftil an ardent fpirit 

 (called Mahaya), which, at the age of a year, refembles 

 the Irifh ufquebaugh, and it is preferred to Englifll brandy 

 and rum. Of this they drink immoderately, and generally 

 take a glafs before eating. Leo Africanus attributes the 

 foundation of this town to the people of Africa. It was 



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afterwards cmbellilhed, and the population iiicreafcd, wiicu 

 the Moors were driven out of Spain. This was the place 

 of relidcnce for many of the confuls of the European 

 powers, till the year 1770, when the reigning emperor, 

 Seedy Mahomed, would no longer permit them to remain, 

 nor again to ciLibhfh themfelves in the place. The port of 

 this town has kept a trading communication with Gibraltar, 

 whence the fhips come to viftual, when the wind is in the 

 weft, and^ does not allow them to make Tangiers. The 

 Oiore of Tetuan is only fafe when the wind is in the weft, 

 at which time (hips ride fecurely ; but when it veers to the 

 caft, they muft remain here no longer. Our fleets often 

 viftual and water here, and this was the cafe with that of 

 the immortal Nelfon, pre\-iouny to his viftory in Aboukir 

 bay. Tetuan is faid to contain 1 6,000 people ; 30 miles 

 S.E. of Tangiers. N. lat. 35" 30'. W. long, f 20'. 



TETYAN Head, a cape on the W. coaft of the i/land 

 of Mindanao ; near which is a harbour that may be entered 

 without danger. N. lat. 7° 20'. E. long. 124° 36'. 



TEVAKUN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Kho. 

 raffan'; 45 miles E.S.E. of Mefchid. 



TAVARA, a town of Naples, in Capitanata ; 5 miles 

 N.E. of Volturara. 



TEUBER, or Teuberinn, Elisabeth, in Biography, 

 a celebrated German opera finger, and kltve of the famous 

 Tefi. She was chiefly attached to the court of Vienna, 

 where fhe refided in 1772. She had fung at Naples in 

 1769 with great applaufe ; but was peremptorily ordered 

 by her phyficians never to fing again. Her health had been 

 fo much impaired in Ruifia, where (he had remained three 

 years, that the whole faculty was unanimous in pronouncing 

 that the exercife of hrr profeflion would be fatal. How- 

 ever, in fpite of this prediction, (he afterwards recovered 

 her health and voice fufficiently, in a journey to Italy, to 

 appear again on the ftage at Naples in 1785 ; where, finding 

 that her voice hid fomewhat lowered its pitch, (he performed 

 the principal man's part in contralto, to the entire fatis- 

 faftion of the public. She was the daughter of a famous 

 violinift in the emperor's fervice ; (he had lefibns in finging 

 from HafFe, in ading from the Tefi, and often fung in the 

 operas of Haydn at Efterha2i. 



TEUCHERN, in Geography, a town of Saxony, in 

 Thuringia ; 18 miles S.W. of Leipfic. 



TEUCHITES, in Botany, a name ufed by fome for 

 ihe fcananth or fchananih, camel's hay, which ought to be 

 written teuochitis. There is a city Teuochis in Egypt, near 

 the borders of Arabia, and the geographers all mention a 

 lake in the neighbourhood of this city ; in this lake it is 

 probable the fcnccnanth might grow ; and being gathered 

 there, and fold in the adjoining city of Teuochis, the 

 purchafers might diftinguilh it with an epithet formed of 

 the name of the place where they bought it. See SccE- 



NANTII. 



TEUCHTLACOT-ZANHQUI, in Zoology, a name 

 by which the natives of fome of the American nations call 

 the rattle-fnake. 



TEUCRIUM, in Botany, an ancienf. name, whether ap- 

 plied to any fpecics of this genus, or of any other, becaufe 

 the plant was difcovered by Teucer the Trojan prince, or^ 

 dedicated to him, or found in the country of Troy, fome- 

 times called Teucria, we muft humbly profefs our inability 



to form any opinion or corjefture Linn. Gen. 287. 



Schreb. 384. WiUd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 13. Mart. Mill. Did. 

 v. 4. Sm. Fl. Brit. 606. Prodr. Fl. Gra;c. Sibth. v. i. 

 390. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3. 365. Schreb. Unilab. 26, 

 Furfli 405. Tourn. t. 98. Jufl". 112. Lamarck Illuftr. 

 t. jci. (Pclium; Tourri. t. 97. Chamiedrj's ; Tourn. 

 3H2 t. 97.) 



