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Colonel Pasley, however, in 1822, still farther simplified 
this useful machine, at the expense of sacrificing a small por¬ 
tion of its powers, by making the two arms revolve on the 
same pivot, but fixed at the top of the post, to which he 
has given the name of the “ Universal Telegraph.” 
TEGLET, or Mezotelegd, a small town in the south¬ 
east of Hungary ; 12 miles east of Great Waradein, and 40 
south-south-east of Debreczin, 
TELEMBI, a river of New Granada, in the province of 
Pasto, which rises near the town of Pasto, and enters the 
Patia, a little before it runs into the sea. 
TELEMBI, San Luis de, a settlement of New Granada, 
in the province of Pasto, situated on the shore of the above 
river. 
TELEMEEN, a village of Africa, in the Bled el Jereede, 
on the site of the ancient Almora. 
TELEPHIUM [of Pliny. Tij Xeiptov of Dioscorides], in 
Botany, a genus of the class pentandria, order trigynia, 
natural order of portulacese (Juss.J— Generic Character. 
Calyx: perianth five-leaved; leaflets oblong, obtuse, con¬ 
cave, keeled, length of the corolla, permanent. Corolla: 
petals five, oblong, obtuse, narrower below, erect, inserted 
into the receptacle. Stamina: filaments five, awl-shaped, 
shorter than the corolla ; anthers incumbent. Pistil: germ 
three-sided, acute. Style none. Stigmas three, acute, 
spreading. Pericarp: capsule short, three-sided, three- 
valved, one-celled, receptacle free, shorter by half than the 
capsule. Seeds very many, roundjsh. Essential Charac¬ 
ter. —Calyx five-leaved. Petals five, inserted into the recep¬ 
tacle. Capsule one-celled, three-valved. 
1. Telephium imperati, or true orpine.—Root composed 
of yellowish woody fibres, spreading out wide. Stalks and 
branches slender, trailing, eight or nine inches long. Leaves 
small, ovate, grayish, smooth, and pretty stiff, having one 
longitudinal nerve running through the middle. Flowers 
terminating, in short thick bunches, reflexed like those of 
Heliotrope.—Native of the South of France, Spain, Switzer¬ 
land, Italy, and Barbary. 
2. Telephium oppositifolium. Leaves opposite.—Native 
of Barbary, 
Propagation and Culture. —Sow the seeds in autumn, 
on a bed of fresh light earth, in an open situation; for if 
they be sown in the spring, the plants will not come up till 
the following spring. Leave them six or eight inches asunder, 
and clear them well from weeds, which will soon overbear 
such trailing plants. They do not transplant well, and 
therefore should be sown where they are to remain. The 
seeds will soon scatter, and if the ground be not disturbed, 
plants will come up in plenty. 
TELESCOMBE, a parish of England, in Sussex, chiefly 
inhabited by smugglers; 3 miles north-west of Newhaven. 
TE'LESCOPE, s. [ telescope , Fr., from TijXe, far, and 
<TK 0 nreco, Gr., to view.'] A long glass by which distant ob¬ 
jects are viewed.-—The telescope discovers to us distant 
wonders in the heavens, and shews the milky way, and the 
bright cloudy spots, in a very dark sky, to be a collection 
of little stars. Walts. See Optics. 
TELESCO'PICAL, or Telescopic, adj. Belonging to 
a telescope; seeing at a distance.—Mr. Molyneux discoursed 
of telescopic sights. Hist. 11. S. 
TELESE, a petty town of Italy ; 17 miles east-north-east 
of Capua, and 24 north-west of Naples. 
TELESIO (Bernardino), a modern philosopher, the 
descendant of an illustrious family at Cosenza, in Naples, was 
bom in the year 1508 or 1509, and he terminated his life in 
the year 1588. Telesio distinguished himself by his oppo¬ 
sition to the physics of Aristotle, and employed mathema¬ 
tical principles in explaining the laws of nature. These were 
first divulged in a work printed at Rome in 1565, entitled 
“ De Rerum Natura juxta propria principia, Lib. II.” and 
enlarged to nine books in an edition printed at Naples in 
1586. The same system was maintained in other treatises, 
under the titles of “ De his quse in Aere fiunt, et de Terrse 
jMotibus;” “DeMari;” De Colorum Genere,” &c. His 
You XXIII. No. 1615. 
system was in its essence the doctrine of Parmenides, who 
taught, that the first principles in nature, by means of which 
all natural phenomena are produced, are cold and heat. 
Lord Bacon observes, that Telesio, no less than Plato and 
Aristotle, places abstract notions at the basis of his system, 
and produces his world of real beings from non-entities. 
This eminent philosopher, however, characterises him as a 
lover of truth and a benefactor to science; and one who 
prepared the way for subsequent improvements. 
TE'LESM, s. [ talism , Arab. See Talisman.] A 
kind of amulet or magical charm.—This is hugely like the 
consecrated telesms of the pagans. More. 
TELESMA'TICAL, adj. Belonging to telesms.—They 
had a telesmatical way of preparation, answerable to the 
beginnings and mediocrity of the art. Gregory. 
TELESPHORUS, a deity invoked by the Greeks for 
health, together with the Esculapius and Hygeia. The figures 
of these three divinities occur on several medals, and on 
some we have Telesphorus with Esculapius alone, and on 
others with Hygeia. 
The figure of Telesphorus is that of an infant clothed with 
a sort of cloak without sleeves, which enfolds its arms, de¬ 
scends' below the knees, and has a kind of hood or cowl 
covering its head. 
TELE'STIC, s. [from t eXo? and <rriypc,, Gr.] A 
poem, where the final letters of each line make up a name. 
Mason .—Acrostics and telestics on jump names. B. 
Jonson. 
TELETZKOI, a lake of Siberia, in the government of 
Kolivan, extending about 52 miles from north to south and 
10 from east to west, supplied by a river which rises in Chi¬ 
nese Tartary, and bordered by a lofty chain of mountains, 
connected with the Altai. 
TELFAIR, a county of the United States, in the south¬ 
west part of Georgia. Population 744, including 218 
slaves. 
TELIA, Cape St, a promontory on the south coast of 
Sardinia. Lat. 38.20. N. long. 9. 20. E. 
TELIGUE, a lake of Independent Tartary, in the steppe 
of the Kirghises, about 150 miles to the east of the Aral. 
TELINGANA, an ancient kingdom ofHindostan, now 
possessed by the British and the Nizam. It was intersected 
by the river Godavery. The districts lying to the north of 
that river were called Andhra; those situated on the south 
of it, Kalinga. The Telinga language is still spoken by the 
Hindoos. Between Ganjam and Pulicat, it contains a num¬ 
ber of Shanscrit words, and has some affinity to the Bengaly. 
TELJE, a small town of Sweden, on the lake of Malar, 
near which is the beginning of the canal intended to be dug 
between the lake and the Baltic. 
TELL (William), a celebrated Swiss, was an inhabitant 
of middle rank of Burgeln, in the canton of Uri, and son-in- 
law of Walter Furst. In 1307 he engaged in the conspiracy 
against the Austrian tyranny. Gesler, the German bailiff, 
suspecting a plot, artfully contrived a scheme for ascertaining 
the extent of submission to the Austrian yoke. Accordingly 
he set up a hat upon a pole, and commanded that obeisance 
should be paid to it. Tell resisted the command; and, as 
tradition reports, the arbitrary bailiff ordered him to shoot 
with an arrow at an apple placed on the head of his son. 
He cleft the apple without hurting the child; and being ob¬ 
served to have another arrow, he was interrogated what he 
intended to do with it. He unhesitatingly replied, that if he 
had wounded his son, the other shaft should have been di¬ 
rected to the bailiff's heart. This bold declaration caused 
him to be imprisoned. Of this fact there is no doubt; though 
the incident of the arrow and apple may be fabulous, as it is 
applied by Saxo Grammaticus to a Dane at an earlier period. 
The bailiff took Tell with him across the lake of Lucern, de¬ 
signing to convey him to another canton. In the passage, a 
storm arose, and the vessel being in’danger, the fetters of Tell, 
who was known to be a skilful boatman, were taken off, and 
the helm was committed to his hands. Availing himself of 
this circumstance, he steered to a rock and made his escape. 
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