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TARAZONA, a town of the central part of Spain, in the 
province of CuenQa, in New Castile. The province of Cu¬ 
enca is one of the poorest and most thinly peopled in Spain; 
but this town contains 6500 inhabitants, who carry on a 
trade in the products of the country, particularly wine and 
oil; 16 miles east-by-south of San Clemente, and 112 south¬ 
east of Madrid. 
TARAZONA, a small town of the north-east of Spain, 
in Arragon, on the .slope of the hill of Moncayo. It is a 
bishop’s see, and has three churches and seven monasteries, 
but contains only 4000 inhabitants, whose chief employment 
is the manufacture of some coarse brown cloth; 50 miles 
west-north-west of Saragossa, and 12 south-by-west of 
Tudela. 
TARBAT, a parish of Scotland, partly in Ross-shire, 
partly in Cromarty, occupying the extremity of the penin¬ 
sula formed by the friths of Cromarty, and Dornoch ; about 
7± miles long, and 4J at its greatest breadth. Population 
1379. 
TARBATNESS, the extremity of the parish of Tarbat, 
in Scotland, being the point of land formed by the friths of 
Cromarty and Dornoch. Lat. 57. 59. N. long. 0.24. W. 
of Edinburgh. 
TARBERT, East and West Lochs, two arms of the 
sea on the west coast of Scotland, in Argyleshire, which form 
the district of Kintyre into a peninsula. 
TARBERT, East and West Lochs, two arms of the 
sea on the west coast of Scotland, which penetrate a con¬ 
siderable way into the island of Harris, one from the east, 
the other from the west, forming the southern part of the 
island into a peninsula. 
TARBERT, a small island near the west coast of Ireland, 
and county of Galway ; 2 miles south of Omey island. 
TARBES, an inland town in the south-west of France, 
the capital of the department of the Upper Pyrenees, situ¬ 
ated in a beautiful meadow, on the left bank of the Adour. 
The fertility of the environs, and the grandeur of the sur¬ 
rounding scenery, render the approaches of the town highly 
agreeable. It is the see of a bishop, and has nearly 8000 
inhabitants. It is surrounded with a wall, and defended by 
an old castle. There is here a public square; and the streets 
of the town are tolerably broad, and well paved. The 
houses, though low, are not badly built, being constructed 
of brick or grey marble, and covered with slate. The only 
public edifices w'orth notice are the cathedral, the churches, 
the residence of the bishop, the theatre, and the hospital. 
Here are, on a small scale, manufactures of linen, handker¬ 
chiefs, and paper; also of knives, small copper articles, 
and leather. There is here also a royal stud. On 20th 
March, 1814, the French army under Soult were forced from 
their position here by Lord Wellington; 22 miles east-by¬ 
south of Pau, 48 south-west of Auch, and 126 south-by¬ 
east of Bourdeaux. Lat. 43. 13. 52. N. long. 0. 4. 14. E. 
TARBOCK, a township of England, in Lancashire, near 
Preston. Population 534. 
TARBOLTON, a parish of Scotland, in Ayrshire, in the 
district of Kyle, about 7 or 8 miles long, and 6 broad, of a 
very unequal surface. Population 1966. 
TARBOLTON, a village of Scotland, in the above parish. 
It is neatly built, and is situated 9 miles east of Ayr. Near 
the village stands the ruinous monastery of Feale, or Fail- 
furd, founded in 1252, by John de Graham, lord of Tar- 
bolton. It contains about 450 inhabitants. 
TARBOROUGH, a post township of the United States, 
and capital of Edgecombe county, North Carolina, on the 
Tar. It contains a court-house, a jail, a bank, and an aca¬ 
demy. Large quantities of beef, pork, Indian corn, to¬ 
bacco, &c., are collected here for exportation. Population 
600; 38 miles south of Halifax, and 60 east-south-east of 
Raleigh. Lat. 33. 35. N. long. 77. 44. W. 
TARBRET, a handsome village of Ireland, in the county 
of Kerry, on the Shannon; 124 miles south-south west of 
Dublin, and 24 west-south-west of Limerick. 
TARCIIONANTHUS. [Tarchon, an Arabic name for 
artemisia dracunculus, or tarragon, and ca/ftot, a flower; 
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having a flower like that of tarchon or tarragon], in Botany, 
a genus of the class syngenesia, order polygamia aequalis, 
natural order of nucamentaceae, corymbiferse (Juss.J — 
Generic Character. Calyx: common turbinate, one-leafed, 
commonly half-seven-cleft, coloured internally, shorter than 
the corolla, sharpish, permanent. Corolla: compound uni¬ 
form; florets about twenty. Corollets hermaphrodite, nu¬ 
merous, equal. Proper one-petalled, funnel-form, five¬ 
toothed. Stamina: filaments five, capillary, very short. 
Anther cylindric, tubular, length of the corollet, tailed at 
the base. Pistil: germ superior, oblong. Style tw'ice as 
long as the flower. Stigmas two, gaping. Pericarp none. 
Calyx unchanged. Seeds solitary, oblong. Down hairy, 
investing the seed all round. Receptacle hairy, very small, 
hairs length of the calyx. The down is singular in this, 
that it does not crown but invest the seed.— Essential Cha¬ 
racter. Calyx one-leafed, commonly half-seven-cleft, tur¬ 
binate. Seeds covered with down. Receptacle villose. 
1. Tarchonanthus camphoratus, or shrubby African flea- 
bane.—Leaves oblong, flat; calyx one-leafed, five-cleft. 
Stem strong, woody, rising to the height of twelve or four¬ 
teen feet, sending out many woody branches at the top, 
which may be trained to a regular head. It retains the 
leaves all the year.—Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
2. Tarchonanthus glaber, or smooth African flea-bane.— 
Leaves smooth, entire, and toothed. This resembles the pre¬ 
ceding very much. It varies with wider and narrower, en¬ 
tire and toothed leaves. 
3. Tarchonanthus ericoides, or heath-like African flea- 
bane.—Leaves acerose; calyxes four-leaved. This is a stiff 
branching shrub, seldom attenuated at the top. Flowers 
clustered, lateral, bigger than the leaves, on short peduncles. 
—These are both natives of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Propagation and Culture. —These plants are too tender 
to live through the winter in the open air in England, but 
requiring no artificial heat, may be placed with myrtles, 
oleander, &c. in winter, and in summer may be exposed to 
the open air in a sheltered situation. 
TARCZA, or Tatzmansdop.f, a large village of the 
west of Hungary, in the county of Eisenburg, with a mineral 
spring in high repute. 
TARCZAL, a small town of the north of Hungary; 2 
miles west of Tokay. The wine produced at this place can 
scarcely be distinguished from Tokay. 
TA'RDATION, s. [tardo, Lat.] The act of hindering 
or delaying. 
TARDEBRIGG, a parish of England, in Worcestershire; 
3 miles east-south-east of Broomsgrove. Population 2429. 
TA'RDIGRADOUS, adj. [tardigradus, Lat.] Moving 
slowly.—It is but a slow and tardigradous animal, prey¬ 
ing upon advantage, and otherwise may be escaped. Brown. 
TA'RDII.Y, ado. Slowly; sluggishly. 
He was indeed the glass. 
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves; 
Speaking thick, which nature made his blemish. 
Became the accents of the valiant: 
For those that could speak slow and tardily. 
Would turn their own perfection to abuse, 
To seem like him. Sha/cspeare. 
TA'RDINESS, s. Slowness; sluggishness; unwilling¬ 
ness to action or motion. 
A tardiness in nature. 
Which often leaves the history unspoke, 
That it intends to do. Sha/cspeare. 
TA'RDITY, s. [tarditas , from tardus, Lat.] Slowness; 
want of velocity.—Suppose some observable tardily in the 
motion of light, and then ask how we should arrive to per¬ 
ceive it ? Dighy. 
TA'RDY, adj. [tardus, Lat., tardif, Fr.] Slow; not 
swift. 
Nor should their age by years be told. 
Whose souls, more swift than motion, climb. 
And check the tardy flight of time. Sandys. 
10 G Sluggish ; 
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