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My man shall 
Bring tliee cords, made like a tackled stair. 
Which to the high top-gallant of my joy 
Must be my convoy in the secret night. Shakspeare. 
TACKLEY, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire; 3 
miles north-east of Woodstock. 
TA'CKLING, s. Furniture of the mast. 
Red sheets of lightning o’er the seas are spread. 
Our tackling yield, and wrecks at last succeed. Garth. 
Instruments of action : as, fishing tackling, kitchen tack¬ 
ling .—I will furnish him with a rod, if you will furnish him 
with the rest of the tackling , and make him a fisher. 
Walton. 
TACKUMBREET, a village in the western part of the 
territory of Algiers, where extensive ruins mark the site of 
the ancient Siga, the capital of Mauritania. It is situated 
on the coast of the Mediterranean, at the mouth of the river 
Tafna; 44 miles south-west of Oran. 
TACNA, a town of Peru, in the province of Arica, and 
12 leagues distant from the town of that name, the inhabit¬ 
ants of which indeed, having left it in consequence of its 
being destroyed, first, in 1605, by an earthquake, and after¬ 
wards by the English, established themselves in Tacna. 
TACDARA, a riverof Brazil, in the territory lying be¬ 
tween the two great rivers Cuchivara and Madera, which 
runs east into the latter. 
TACOLNESTON, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 4 
miles west-north-west of St. Mary Stratton. 
TACOTALPA, a settlement of Mexico, in the intendan¬ 
cy of Vera Cruz, which contains 337 families of Indians; 
47 leagues south-east of VeraCruz. Lat. 18. 37. N. long. 
95. 29. W. 
TACOULUM, a town of the south of India, province 
of the Carnatic. Lat. 13. 4. N. long. 79. 50. E. 
TA'CTIC, or Ta'ctical, adj. [ to.k1h«> ronru, Gr.; 
tactique, Fr.] Relating to the art of ranging a battle. 
TACTI'CIAN, s. One skilled in tactics: a modern 
■word. 
TA'CTICS, s. [tixkIikv], Gr.] The art of ranging men 
in the field of battle-—When Tully had read the tactics, he 
was thinking on the bar, which was his field of battle. 
Dry den. 
TA'CTILE, adj. [tactilis, tactum, Latin.] Susceptible 
of touch. 
At this proud yielding word 
She on the scene her tactile sweets presented. Beaumont. 
TACTl'LITY, s. Perceptibility by the touch. 
TA'CTION, s. [tactico, Lat.] The act of touching. 
Cockeram .—They neither can speak, nor attend to the dis¬ 
courses of others, without being roused by some external 
taction. Ld. Chesterfield. 
TACUBA, a town of Mexico, and capital of a district 
of the same name ; 6 miles west-north-west of Mexico, and 
having, leading to it, a beautiful causeway of cut stone, 
being the same by which Cortez made his way into the 
capital. It contains 724 families of Indians. Lat. 19. 28. 
N. long. 99. 10. 30. W. 
TACUBAYA, a town of Mexico; 4 miles south-west of 
Mexico. Its population consists of 342 families of Indians. 
TACUCU, a small river of Guiana, which enters the Ca¬ 
ron i by the west side. 
TACUNGA, a province of Quito, bounded east by the 
valley of Vicioso, north by the province of Quito, north¬ 
west by that of Esmeraldas and also Guayaquil, south-west 
by that of Chimbo, and south by that of Ambato. It is 21 
leagues long from east to west, and 14 wide from north to 
south. It is of a cold temperature, but abounds in cattle, 
which have excellent pastures. It produces wheat, barley, 
and rye, and wools of many kinds, of which some beau¬ 
tiful articles are manufactured. The province is well wa¬ 
tered, and abounds throughout with nitre. 
TACUNGA, the capital of the above district, situated in 
an extensive plain to the south of Quito, near the Cordillera 
of the Andes. The town is large and well arranged, the 
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streets are wide, the houses all of pummice stone, arched 
and handsome. The inhabitants are computed at 12,000, 
the greater part being Spaniards and mestizoes. The natives 
are good mechanics and artizans, and they make cloths, 
baizes, and other manufactures; 44 miles south of Quito, 
and 49 norlh-north-east of Rio Bamba. Lat. 55. 144. S 
long. 73.23. W. 2 
TACURAGUA, a small river of Guiana, which runs 
north, and enters .the Orinoco. 
TACURAY, a smali river of Quito, in the province of 
Mainass, which runs north-north-east, and enters the Guay- 
aga. 
TACUTO, a river of Guiana, which falls into the Ama¬ 
zons. 
TADCASTER, a market town of England, in the West 
Riding of Yorkshire, situated almost in the centre of the 
county, on the south side of the river Wharf, over which it 
has a fine bridge. The town is neat, well built, and pleasant. 
Tadcaster is a place of great antiquity. It is supposed to 
have been the Calcaria of the Romans; and from its situa¬ 
tion was considered by them as one of the outposts or gates 
to the chief military station, the city of York. The ancient 
name seems to have been derived from calx or limestone, 
which abounds in the neighbourhood. In the civil wars 
of England it was always regarded as a post of great im¬ 
portance, and the possession of it was often contested. There 
are yet some vestiges of a trench surrounding great part of 
the town, and probably thrown up in the time of Charles I. 
In 1642 the town was attacked by the earl of Newcastle, 
and was abandoned by Sir Thomas Fairfax, on account of 
the superior force of his opponent. Market on Thursday, 
and four annual fairs; 9 miles south-south-west of York, 
and 188 north-by-west of London. 
TADDINGTON, a township of England, in Derbyshire; 
3 miles south-south-west of Tideswell. 
TADEO, St., a town of New Navarre; 120 miles west 
of Casa Grande. 
TADLEY, a township of England, in Soutliamptonshire; 
6§ miles north-north-west of Basingstoke. Population 535. 
TADLOW, a parish of England, in Cambridgeshire; 6 
miles south of Caxton. 
TADMERTON, Great, a parish of England, in Ox¬ 
fordshire, in which is situated the hamlet of Little Tadmer- 
ton; 4j miles west-south-west of Banbury. Population 
377. 
TADOUSAC, a small settlement of Lower Canada, at 
the mouth of the Saguenay, on the left side of the river St. 
Lawrence. Lat. 48. 2. N. long. 69. 16. W. 
TA'DPOLE, s. [cab, toad, and pola, a young one, 
Saxon.] A young shapeless frog, consisting oniy of a body 
and a tail.—I’ll broach the tadpole on my rapier’s point. 
Shakspeare. 
TAEN. The poetical contraction of taken. 
The chewing flocks 
Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb 
Of knot-grass dew-besprent. Milton. 
TiENIA, or Tenia, in Architecture, a member of the 
Doric architrave, resembling a square fillet, or reglet; and 
serving in lieu of a cymatium. 
TiENIA, in Zoology, a genus of the intestina order of 
worms; the characters of which are, that the body is flat 
and articulated, and that the head is furnished with four 
sucking bladders. Gmelin, in his edition of the Linncean 
system, enumerates eighty-six species, besides several varie¬ 
ties. Their habitations are the viscera of men and of differ¬ 
ent animals. Our limits will not allow us to specify and 
describe them. 
TAENSAPAVA, a river of West Florida, which runs 
into the Ibberville. Lat. 30. 19. N. long. 90. 52. W. 
TAERENDO-ELF, a branch of the river Torneo, in 
Lapland, which is said to communicate with the river Calix, 
though it afterwards takes a contrary direction, and flows 
northward into the Frozen ocean. 
TAF, or Taaffe, a river of Wales, in the county of 
Glamorgan. 
