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\V. B. Cooke, and George Cooke, is publlflied in a work 

 in 2 vols, entitled " The Tliamcs, or Graphic lUuftrations 

 of Seats, Villas, &c. on the Banks of that noble River. ''^ 

 Sec alfo an account of the " Police of the River Thaniee," 

 by P. Colquhoiin, efq. a ma^iftrate of London ; 8vo. 1800; 

 and Skrine's " Account o^ Rivers of Note in Great Bri- 

 tain," Svo. 1801. S. Ireland publi(hed " Piifturefque 

 Views on tiie River Thames," 2 vols. imp. Svo. Boydell 

 alfo publiflied a work in 2 vols, folio, confifting of hillory 

 and defcription by Dr. Combe, and views from drawings 

 by Farringdon. 



Under the word Can.^L will be found an ample account 

 of the commerce and navigation of this river, divided under 

 the heads of Thamks River (lower pari) ; Thames 

 River (miMle part) ; Thames and Isis Navigation ; 

 Thames and Medwav Can.il ; and Thames and Se- 

 vern Canal. 



TllAME';, a river of New Zealand. Capt. Cook, Mr. (now 

 fir Jofeph ) Banks, and Dr. Solander, failed up this river in a 

 pinnace ; at about fourteen miles from the entrance, it is as 

 wide as the Thames at Greenwich, and the tide at flood is as 

 ftrong ; it is not quite fo deep, but has water enough for veffels 

 of more than a middle fizc, and a bottom of mud fo foft, that 

 nothing could take damage by running afliore. The courfe is 

 from fouth to north, and the entrance between Cape Colville 



and Point Rodney Alfo, a river of Upper Canada, which 



runs into lake St. Clair, N. lat. 42°45'. W. long. 82° 10' 



Alfo, a river of Conneifticut, which runs into thefea, 4 miles 

 below New London. 



THAMESIS, called Jamifa by Ptolemy, in JttcUnt 

 Geo!;raphy, a river of the ide of Albion. See Thames. 



THAMETHIS, a town of Egypt. See Damietta. 



THAMMUZ, in Mythology, is a name under which the 

 Phoenicians worfhipped Adonis or Ofiris. 



Thamml'Z, in Chronology, a name given by the .lews to 

 the tenth month of the civil year, containing twenty -nine 

 days, and anfwering to our June. 



THAMNA, in Ancient Geography, a celebrated town of 

 Paleftine, on the road from Diofpolis to Jerufalem. It was 

 the capital of the Thamnitic toparchy. 



THAMNATH-SAAR,atown of Paleftine, in Samaria, 

 in the tribe and upon the mount of Ephraim, N. of mount 

 Gaas. This town was built by Jofhua, and his tomb was 

 there in the time of Jerome. 



THAMNERIA, a town of Afia, in Media, in the 

 neighbourhood of the country belonging to the Cadufii. 

 Xenophon. 



THAMNIUM, in Botany, Oxfjnov, a lltth-Jhruhbery, from 

 Sospvo.:, ajhrub, a name choien by Vcntenat, in his Tabl.an du 

 Regn^ Vegetal, v. 2. 35, for the flirubby kinds of Lichen, of 

 which he makes a genus. Its charafter is 



Stems branched in the form of a fhrub. Tubercles fun- 

 gous, coloured. 



Lichen rang'iferinus, and L. Roccella, are mentioned as fpe- 

 cies of this genus, which is now, like the reft of the author's 

 labours in this department, difregarded, the whole tribe 

 ha\-ing been fo much better ftudied and arranged by Acha- 

 rius. See LiriiENES. 



THAMNOCHORTUS, fo called by Bergius, from 

 ?xu»o-, afirub, and x'f^^,agrafs, alluding to the hard fhrubby 

 habit, and natural affinity, of the plant. Berg. Cap. 353. 

 t. 5. f. 8. This genus is now funk in Restio (fee that 

 article) ; and the particular fpecies is R. fcari of us oi Thnnh. 

 Prodr. 1 J, and Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. 723, though thofe au- 

 thors have ufed Thamnochortus as the fpecific name of another 

 plant, immediately preceding this in Willdcnow, who eau- 

 nierates thirty fpecies of Rejlio. 



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THAMSBRUCK, orTllOMASBRUCK, in Geography, 7 

 towu of Saxonv, in Thuringia ; 8 miles S.E. of Mulhaufei- . 

 N. lat. 51° 5'.' E. long. 16^42'. 



THAMUNDACANA, in jincient Geography, a town 

 of Afia, in Interior Libya, S. of the river Niger. Ptol. 



THAMYRIS, a town of Mafia, near the Danube. It 

 was built, according to Jornandes, by Thamyris, queen of 

 the Gets. 



Thamyris, in Mythology, called by Homer KiOa^ri:, one 

 who plays on the cithara, was the fon of Philammon. (See 

 his article. ) Plutarch, in his Dialogue on Mufic, tells us 

 that Thamyris was born in Thrace, the country of Orpheus, 

 and had the fweeteft and moft: fonorous voice of any bard 

 of his time. Homer, in his catalogue of (hips, where he 

 fpeaks of the cities under the dominion of Neftor, mentions 

 Dorion as the place where Thamyris contended with tlie 

 Mufes, whom he had the arrogance to challenge to a trial of 

 flcill in poetry and mufic. The conditions and confequences 

 of this contention are fully defcribed by the poet. 

 " And Dorion, fam'd for Thamyris' difgrace, 

 Superior once of all the tuneful race. 

 Till, vain of mortals empty praife, he ftrove 

 To match the feed of cloud-compelling Jove ! 

 Too daring bard ! whofe unfuccefsful pride 

 Th' immortal Mufes in their art defy'd : 

 Th' avenging Mufes of the hght of day 

 Depriv'd his eyes, and fnatch'd his voice away; 

 No more his hcav'nly voice was heard to fing. 

 His hand no more awak'd the filver llring." 



Iliad, book ii. 



Homer availed himfelf of the popular ftory concerning the 

 blindnefs of Thamyris, and embelliftied it by his verfification. 

 Probably the whole allegory of this blindnefs had its rife 

 from his having injured the organ of fight by too intenfe an 

 application to the ftudy of mufic and poetry. And it is the 

 opinion of Paufanias, that there was no other difference be- 

 tween his misfortune and that of Homer, than that Thamyris 

 was wholly filcnced by it, and Homer, without being dif- 

 couragcd, continued hie poetical and mufical occupation long 

 after his blindnefs. 



THAN, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in Gu- 

 zerat ; 55 miles N.N.E. of Junagur. 



TH ANjE, in Ancient Geography, a town of Paleftine, in 

 the half-tribe of Manaffeh, on this fide of Jordan. 



THANE, or Thain, Thanus, the name of an ancient 

 dignity among the Englifh, or Anglo-Saxons. 



Skene makes thane to have been a dignity equal with that 

 of the fon of an carl : Camden will have it, that thanes were 

 only dignified by the offices which they bore. 



There were two kinds or orders of thanes ; the king^ s 

 thanes, and the ordinary thanes. The firft were thofe who 

 attended our Englifh-Saxon kings in their courts, and who 

 held lands immediately of the king : whence, in Domefday- 

 book, they are promifcuoufly called thani, ■sjxAJeriiiaites regis. 



Soon after the Conqueft this name was difufed ; and inftead 

 of it, they were called the king's barons, barones regis. 



Their origin is referred to king Canutus, who, taking the 

 chief of the Danifh nobility, to th : number of three thoufand, 

 for his guard, and arming them with battle-axes and fabres 

 with gilt handles, called them thing lith, from the two Danifh 

 words theing or thein, body of nobility, and lith, order of battle. 



The ordinary thanes, or thani minores, were the lords of 

 manors, who had particular jurifdiftion within their limits, 

 and over their own tenants. 



Thefe changed their name for that of barons ; and hence 

 their courts are called courts baron to this day. 



In old authors, charters, &c. we alfo meet with thane as 



fignifying 



