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except in dry seasons, to the Great Falls, about 35 miles. 
This river is subject to great periodical elevations and de¬ 
pressions. Much of the country watered by it is very 
fertile. 
TALLARD, a small town in the south-east of France, 
department of the Upper Alps, on the Durance. Population 
1000; 6 miles south of Gap. 
TALLATOM, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 4| 
miles north-west-by-north of Ottery St. Mary. Population 
348. 
TALLEVENDE, a small town in the north-west of 
France, department of Calvados; 2 miles south-west of Vire. 
Population 3000. 
TALLEY, a parish of Wales, in Caemarthenshire; 7 
miles from Llandelovawr. Population 880. 
TALL1KA, atown of the kingdom of Bornou, in Central 
Africa, the first which occurs in the route of the caravans 
after leaving Woolly. It is inhabited by Foulahs of the 
Mahometan religion; 70 miles west-south-west of Fatte- 
conda. 
TALLINGTON, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 
3| miles west-bv-north of Market Deeping. 
TALLMADGE, a post township of the United States, in 
Portage county, Ohio ; 15 miles west-south-west of Ravenna. 
It has an academy and an iron furnace. 
TALLOO HARBOUR, a harbour on the north coast of 
Eimeo, one of the Society islands, in the South Pacific 
ocean. The bay is about three miles long, and two broad, 
with deep and clear water, but is difficult of access, from a 
reef which surrounds it. Lat. 17.30. S. long. 210. E. 
TA'LLOW, s. Jolkr, Icel.; talk, Dan.; ta/g, talgc, 
Su. Goth, and Germ.; which Wachter deduces from the 
Welsh deilliaw, to flow, to proceed, or come from.] The 
grease or fat of an animal; coarse suet.—She’s the kitchen 
wench, and all grease; and I know not what use to put her 
to, but to make a lamp of her, and run from her by her own 
light. I warrant her rags, and the tallow in them, will 
burn a Lapland winter. Shakspeare 
To TA'LLOW, v. a. To grease; to smear with tallow. 
—Now fletes the tallowed keel. Ld. Surrey. 
TALLOW POINT, a mark for anchoring in the harbour 
of Port Royal, Jamaica. 
TA'LLOWCIIANDLER, s. One who makes candles of 
tallow, not of wax.—Nastiness, and several nasty trades, as 
tallowchand/crs, butchers, and neglect of cleansing of gut¬ 
ters, are great occasions of a plague. Harvey. 
TA'LLOWFACED, adj. Having a pale, sickly com¬ 
plexion —Every lover admires his mistress, though she be 
deformed, wrinkled, pimpled, tallowfaced. Burton. 
TA'LLOWISH, adj. Having the nature of tallow. 
Huloet. 
TA'LLOWY, adj. Greasy. 
TALLWATER, a river of Ireland, in the county of Ar¬ 
magh, which runs, with the Callen, into Blackwater, near 
Charlemont. 
TA'LLY, s. [tailler , French, to cut. ] A stick notched, 
or cut in conformity to another stick, and used to keep ac¬ 
counts by. 
So right his judgment was cut fit, 
And made a tally to his wit. lludikras. 
Any thing made to suit another. 
So suited in their minds and persons, 
That they were Iram’d the tallies tor each other: 
If any alien love had interpos’d. 
It must have been an eye-sore to beholders. Drydni. 
To TA'LLY, t>. a. To fit; to suit; to cutout, so as to 
answer any thing. 
Nor sister either had, nor brother ; 
They seem’d just tally'd tor each other. Prior. 
To TA'LLY, v. v. To be fitted; to conform; to be 
suitable.—I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the 
channel. Addison. 
TA'LLY, adv. Stoutly; with spirit. 
You, Ludowick, 
That stand so tally on your reputation, 
You shall be he shall speak it. Bcauin. and FI. 
TALLYA, a town of the north of Hungary; 45 miles 
north-east of Erlau, and 10 north-west of Tokay. It con¬ 
tains 3700 inhabitants, and produces a species of excellent 
wine, which is commonly sold for Tokay. 
TALLYLYN, a parish of Wales, in Merionethshire; 6 
miles from Machynleth. Population 596. 
TALMA (Francis Joseph), the first of French actors, was 
born at Paris on the 15th of January, 1760 His father was 
a dentist. He removed from Paris to London, leaving his 
son at a boarding school which was under the jurisdiction of 
the Mazarin college. Here Talma first became acquainted with 
the celebrated professor of rhetoric, under whose rod he 
smarted, when, some years afterwards, the one became the 
most eminent actor of the age, and the other the most 
dreaded critic. Talma, though the youngest and smallest 
boy in the school, was remarked for his intelligence and sen¬ 
sitiveness. Slight theatrical pieces were performed, as they 
are in many schools here, on the breaking up for the holi¬ 
days. In one of these, written by the master, a part was 
allotted to Talma, then not nine years old. The play was 
on the story of Tamerlane, and Talma acted a secondary 
character, the friend and confidant of Tamerlane’s son. 
The son of Tamerlane dies, and the friend has to bear the 
sad news to the father. The child made the disclosure with 
a flood of tears. The curtain fell:—the audience were af¬ 
fected and astonished. When a muster was made of the 
little actors. Talma was missing. In alarm, all ran to seek 
for him. He was found wrapt in his tragic robe, in a corner 
of a room where he had gone to undress, weeping bitterly 
at the sorrows of the scene. His excitement made him ill, 
and it was a week before he recovered. 
Soon after this. Talma’s father sent for him. He was 
placed in a boarding school near Vauxhall. His stay there 
was only interrupted by a brief visit to France, whence he 
returned, and remained at Lambeth till he was thought old 
enough to begin to study his lather’s profession. 
His father lived at No. 13, Old Cavendish Street, Caven¬ 
dish Square; and was acquainted with Sir John Gallini, 
who was then proprietor of Hanover Square Rooms, in the 
neighbourhood. Talma got together a party of amateurs, 
and they acted Le Frangois a Londres, and Le Depit 
Amoureux. This was Talma’s first appearance on the stage 
in a real play. He performed the Marquis de Polainville in 
the first piece, and Eraste in the second. The success of 
this experiment led to others, and Sir John began to look 
upon the affair as worth following up seriously. Beaumar¬ 
chais’ Marriage of Figaro was then at the height of its po¬ 
pularity, and it was performed at this little theatre. Talma sus¬ 
taining the part of the Count Almavi va. The fashionable people 
flocked to the representation with great eagerness. His pre¬ 
sent Majesty, the Duke of York, and all the leaders of the 
haut ton were among their patrons. Gallini could not but 
see in this encouragement for a larger speculation. Talma 
having occasion to visit Paris, he was empowered to bring 
over Mole and Mademoiselle Contat, to give scenes and re¬ 
citations. But the chains in which the government holds 
the actors in France, could not be broken, and the negocia- 
tion failed. Talma, however, was unsettled by his recent 
successes from the study of his father’s profession. He was 
predisposed to make the best use of any encouragement to 
the pursuit which had caught his fancy. The acquaintance¬ 
ship of Mole offered facilities too tempting to be resisted. 
He had just seen Kemble and Mrs. Siddons. He now saw 
Brizard, Larive, Mole, and others, in his native country. 
He disclosed his ruling passion to Mole. The government 
was just then establishing, under Mole, the school of decla¬ 
mation, which still exists; in which he promised to receive 
Talma as a pupil as soon as it should be formed, and thence 
to transfer him to the stage. Talma returned to England, 
impatient for a summons from Mole. It arrived, and he 
was presented. His first introduction to agroupe of unknown 
judges 
