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fpecics of inftrument, but ti.e time when and place where it 

 *vas firft conftruft.d. Thvre is little- fcience, and «"' '^1^ 

 ingenuity, in the examples of con.pofition given m lUultra- 

 tion of the rules of counterpoii.t : fo that it the young Itu- 

 dent, who perufes tlus work for iiiftrudion, is not a con- 

 jurer before he bofrins the taflc, he will not be made one by 

 the mylleries which it unfolds. 



Yet with patient perfeverance, a young ftudent who has 

 little leifure, and few books to read, may become fuperficially 

 learned with little trouble by this book. Tevo quotes au- 

 thority for all that he advances ; but his authorities are not 

 always good, nor does he diftinguiih good from bad. Se- 

 veral obVcure and even contemptible authors are quoted in 

 the fame folenin manner as the bed. But in citing fo many 

 writers indifcriminately, the chief part ai-e now fo fcarce and 

 difficult to be found, that in fearch of them all the great 

 libraries of Europe may be vilited in vain. To fave the ftu- 

 dent's time, and form his talle in htcrature, as well as judg- 

 ment in mufic, the author fhould have quoted none but 

 writers of the fnft authority, or have told his young readers 

 what (Irefs was to be laid on the reft. 



But fince the time of Tevo, fo many better authorities in 

 corapofition and didaftic TVorks, both on the theory and 

 praftice of mufic, have appeared, that we can hardly recom- 

 mend the " Mufico Teftore" to the perufal of any but thofe 

 who Iiave much time to fpare, who read every thing, and 

 are curious to know the hiftory and ft ate of the art at every 

 period of time. 



TEUOCHIS, in Ancient Geography, a lake and town of 

 Egypt. 



TEVOEN-SOUSON, m Geography, a town of Chinefe 

 Tartary ; 12 miles N.W. of Teldom. 



TEUPITZ, a town of Brandenburg, in the Middle 

 Mark, on a lake; 20 miles S. of Berlin. N. lat. 52° 5'. 

 E. long. 13° 30'. 



TEURERT, or Tevrert, atownof Fez, on the bor- 

 ders of Algiers ; 40 miles E.N.E. of Teza. N. lat. 34° 2'. 

 W. long. 3° 30'. 



TEURISCI, in Ancient Geography, a people placed by 

 Ptolemy in the northern part of Dacia, between the Anerti 

 and the Ciftoboci. 



TEURISTiE, a people of Germany, placed by Strabo 

 in the \-icinity of the Danube and the Alps. 



TEURNIA, a town of Norica, S. of the Danube, be- 

 tween Virunum and Idunum. Ptol. and Plin. 



TEURTEVILLE, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Channel ; 6 miles N. of Valognes. 



TEUSCHNITZ, a town of Bavaria, in the bifhopric 

 of Bamberg ; 34 miles N.E. of Bamberg. N. lat. 50° 

 23'. E. long, ir' 30'. 



TEUSHANUSHSOUGGOGHTA, an Indian town 

 of Pennfylvania, on the Alleghany river. 



TEUTATES, in Mythology, a name or attribute of 

 the Supreme Being, which was worlhipped by the Gauls 

 and Britons as a particular divinity. It is evidently com- 

 pounded of the two Britilh words " Deu-tatt," which fig- 

 nify God the parent or creator, a name properly due only to 

 the one true God, who was originally intended by that 

 name. Thus Lucan, 1. i. v. 445. 



" Et quibus immitis placetur fanguine divo 

 Teutates ; horranfque feris altaribus Hefus." 



When thefe ancient nations funk into indolatry, thoy de- 

 graded Teutates into the fovereign of the infernal world, 

 the fame with the Dis and Pluto of the Greeks and Ro- 

 mans (or, as others think, with Mercury) ; and worlhipped 



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him in luch a manner as could be agreeable to none but 30 

 infernal power. 



TEUTHEA, in Ancient Geography, a confiderable town 

 of the Pckjponnefus, in Achaia, W . of Trita:a. 



TEUTHIS, a town of the Peloponncfus, in Arcadia, 

 in which were a temple of Venus, and another of Diana. 



Teuthis, in the Linnxan fyttem of Ichthyology, a ge- 

 nus ot the abdominal fifties ; the charafters of which are, 

 that the head is a little truncated on the fore-part ; that the 

 branchioftege membrane has five rays ; and that the teeth are 

 equ.il, rigid, and near each other, and forming a regular 

 chain. Linnaeus and Gmelin mention two fpecies ; viz. 

 hcpatus, and javus or Java. This genus is now annulled, and 

 the fpecies are transferred to Acanthurus and Chsetodon. 



Hepatus ; Acanthurus Teuthis ; Blue Acanthurus. 

 With the middle of the body paler, and a fpine on each 

 fide of the tail. This is a native of the Indian and Ameri- 

 can feas, ten or twelve inches long, or more ; refembling in 

 ftiape the chaetodons, the head (loping in front from the ori- 

 gin of the dorfal fin ; the colour, when recent, a deep or 

 blackifti-blue ; on each fide of the tody is a very large, ob- 

 long-ovate whitifli patch or fpot, furrounded by a border of 

 a deeper caft ; the ficin is roughened by very fmaU fcales ; 

 the tail is flightly lunated, duflcy on the upper and lower 

 part, and marked towards the bafe by a whitifti ovate fpot ; 

 the teeth are crenated ; and on each fide of the bafe of the 

 tail is a very ftrong fpine, capable of elevation at the ani • 

 mal's pleafure, to an horizontal direftion, from the channel 

 in which it Kes. The fifh figured by Catefby in his Natural 

 Hiftory of Carolina, under the name oi'Teng, is fuppofed to 

 be this fpecies. 



Java or Javus ; Chsetodon Guttatus. Whitifh-grey, 

 with oblong body, fprinkled with very numerous, round, 

 rufous fpots ; length about ten or twelve inches ; colour 

 grey, with a dulky tinge on the upper parts, and every- 

 where fprinkled, except on the head, peftoral, ventral, dor- 

 fal and anal fins, with numerous, fmall, round, rufous fpots ; 

 fcales fmall, none at the bafes of the fins ; gill-covers fmooth ; 

 dorfal and anal fin of moderate breadth; tail flightly in- 

 clining to a forked, or rather lunated ftiape, and fpeckled 

 like the body. Native of Java. This fpecies is fuppofed 

 by Bloch and Cepede to be the ieutlis javus of Linnius. 

 But Dr. Shaw remarks, that Linnxus's defeription does not 

 agree in the difpofition of its colours with thofe of the C. gut- 

 tatus, as it is exprefsly faid to be marked with longitudinal 

 ftreaks : fo it is figured by Gronovius. See Chsetodon 

 Guttatus, changing Japan in the clofe of that article to 

 Java. 



TEUTHOPHACE, a word ufed by the ancients to 

 exprefs a fort of food made of beet -roots and lentils, often 

 prefcribed as a good diet for the fick. 



TEUTHRANIA, in Ancient Geography, a tewn and 

 fmall country of Myfia, fituated towards the E., and near the 

 fource of the Caicus. Herodotus fays that it was once a 

 gulf, and it was gradually formed by the accumulation oc- 

 cafioned by the Caicus. 



TEUTHRONA, a town of Laconia, in a fmall bay, 

 on the Laconic gulf, N.E. of Pyrrhicus. 



TEUTLAN, in Geography, a town of Mexico, in the 

 province of Guadalajara ; 50 miles N.N.W. of Guadala- 

 jara. 



TEUTLEBEN, a town of Germany, in the principality 

 of Gotha ; 4 miles W. of Gotha. 



TEUTONES, in Ancient Geography, a people of Ger- 

 many, who at the time when the Romans became acquainted 

 with them, were politically connefted with the Cirabri, if 



they 



