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part of the kingdom of Naples, province of the Principato 
Ultra. Population 3300. 
TEOTALCO, a town of Mexico, and capital of a district 
of the same name, in the intendancy of Mexico. 
TEOTIHUACAN, a town of Mexico, and capital of a 
district of the same name, in the intendancy of Mexico; 23 
miles north-east of Mexico. Lat. 19. 41. N. long. 98. 
48. W. 
TEOTIHUACAN, a river of Mexico, on which the former 
capital of Mexico was situated. 
TEOWENISTA, a stream of the United States, which 
falls into the Allegany river. 
TEOZAPOTLAN, a settlement of Mexico. 
TEOZAQUALCO, or Teococuilco, a town of Mexico, 
in the intendancy of Oaxaca, and capital of a district of the 
same name; 204 miles south-east of Mexico. Lat. 17. 27. 
N. long. 96. 12. W. 
TEPACI, a river of South America, in Paraguay, which 
runs east, and enters the Paraguay. 
TEPEACA, a town of Mexico, in the district of TIaxcala. 
The principal square is large; and in the middle of it is a fort, 
which served as a retreat and place of defence to Cortez and 
his army, upon his retiring from Mexico. Its population 
consists of 700 families of Spaniards, Indians, and mulattoes; 
66 miles east-by-south of Mexico, and 15 south-south-east 
of Puebla de los Angeles. Lat. 19. N. long. 98. 2. W. 
TEPEFA'CTION, s. [ tepefacio , Lat.] The act of warm¬ 
ing to a small degree. 
TEPEHUACAN, a settlement of Mexico, in the inten¬ 
dancy of Mexico, containing 550 families. 
TEPEL, or Toepel, a small town of the north-west of 
Bohemia, at the source of a small river also called Tepel, 
which joins the Eyra, near Carlsbad; 66 miles west of 
Prague, and 27 north-west of Pilsen. 
TEPEMAXALCO, a settlement of Mexico, in the inten¬ 
dancy of Mexico. 
TEPETLAC1NCO, a settlement of Mexico, in the inten¬ 
dancy of Vera Cruz, containing 470 families of Indians— 
It is also the name of another insignificant settlement of 
Mexico. 
TEPETLASTOC, a settlement of Mexico, in the inten¬ 
dancy of Mexico ; 4 miles north-east of Tezcuco, containing 
875 families of Indians, mestizoes, and Spaniards. 
TEPEXI, a town of Mexico, in the intendancy of Puebla, 
inhabited by 100 families of Spaniards, mestizoes, and mulat¬ 
toes, and by 1570 Mexican Indians ; 91 miles south-east of 
Mexico. Lat. 18. 21. N. long. 97. 59. W. 
TEPIC, a town of Mexico, and capital of a district of the 
same name. It has a Franciscan convent; and is 97 miles 
north-north-west of Guadalaxara, and 344 north-west of 
Mexico. Lat. 21. 36. N. long. 104. 45. W. 
TE'PID, adj. [tepidus, Lat.] Lukewarm; warm in a 
small degree. 
The tepid caves, and fens, and shores, 
Their brood as numerous hatch. Milton. 
TEPFDITY, s. [ tepidite, old Fr.] Lukewarmness.— 
This kindness, it seems, is not so well improved by her as it 
deserved; but she is surprized by another fit of drowsy neg¬ 
ligence and tepidity. Bp. Richardson. 
TEPIQUE, an abundant river of Mexico, which has its 
rise near the settlement of Santiago de Calintaya; 14 leagues 
from Mexico. It runs more than 200 leagues from east to 
west, until it unites itself with the Guadalaxara. Its course, 
however, is not well ascertained. 
TEPIRU, a settlement of South America, in the province 
of Tucuman, on the shore of the river Dolce. 
TEPITITLAN, two settlements of Mexico, in the inten¬ 
dancy of Mexico. 
TEPLICSKA, a village of the north of Hungary; 10 miles 
south-west of Kesmark, with 1200 inhabitants, chiefly Ca¬ 
tholics. 
TEPLITZ, Toeplitz, or Teplice, a small town of 
Bohemia; 45 miles north-west of Prague, and 14 west-norlh- 
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west of Leufzmeritz. Near this the Austrians defeated the 
Prussians in 1762. Lat. 50. 38.23. N. long. 13. 51. E: 
TEPLITZ, which is derived from Toepel, a hot spring, 
is the name of several small towns and villages of the Aus¬ 
trian states, all of which have warm mineral springs. 
TEPLIWODA, a small town of Prussian Silesia; 21 miles 
south of Breslau, and 8 north-west of Munsterburg. 
TEPLOW (Gregory Nicolaivitsch), a Russian writer, 
educated in a seminary at Novogorod, where he distinguished 
himself by a Latin translation of prince Cantemir’s Satires, 
and a work on the geography of Russia, neither of which 
was ever printed. In 1740, he was employed in the 
Academy of Sciences, and in forming a catalogue of objects 
contained in the Cabinet of Natural Hisiory. He thus ac¬ 
quired a taste for that science, and particularly for botany; 
in consequence of which he was made an adjunct of the 
society in 1741, and in the following year delivered lectures 
on moral philosophy, that were much approved. The 
empress Elizabeth appointed him tutor and travelling com¬ 
panion to her favourite, count Rasumousky, who, on his 
return from his travels in 1746, was made president of the 
Academy of Sciences. Teplow then became an honorary 
member, directed the institution in the name of the president, 
and drew up rules for its better regulation. At the time of 
the empress’s death, he was a counsellor of state; but as he 
was an enemy to Peter III., he was arrested ; afterwards he 
was restored to favour; nevertheless, two months after his 
being made a member of the council of state, it was dis¬ 
covered that he had joined in a conspiracy to dethrone that 
unfortunate prince. After the deposition of Peter, he pub¬ 
lished manifestations, in order to render him odious, and, as 
Busching says, was the principal agent in putting him to 
death. For this service he is said to have received a reward 
of 20,000 rubles. The empress afterwards made him a 
privy-counsellor and member of the senate, and honoured 
him with the orders of Alexander Newsky and St. Ann. He 
died in March, 1779; and his works in the Russian language, 
are, “ A General View of Philosophy“Instructions to 
his Son;” “A Collection of Songs, with Melodies for three 
Voices;” “Instructions for the Cultivation of foreign To¬ 
bacco, in Lesser Russia,” distributed by order of the empress 
through that province, in 1763. Gen. Biog. 
TEPOLULA, a settlement of Mexico, in the intendancy 
of Mexico, containing 178 families of Indians, besides a nu¬ 
merous population of mestizoes and mulattoes. 
TE'POR, s. [tepor, Lat.] Lukewarmness; gentle heat. 
—The small pox, mortal during such a season, grew more 
favourable by the tepor and moisture in April. Arbuthnot. 
TEPOTE, a river of Paraguay, which runs west, and 
enters the Paraguay. 
TEPOXTLAN, a settlement of Mexico, in the intendancy 
of Mexico, containing 960 families of Indians. 
TEPOZCOLULA, a town of Mexico, and capital of a 
district of the same name; 150 miles south-south-east of 
Mexico. Lat. 71.16. N. long. 79. 51. W. 
TEPWIA, a town on the west coast of the island of Cele¬ 
bes. Lat. 1. 4. S. long. 119. 10. E. 
TEQUALTICHI, a town of Mexico, and capital of a dis¬ 
trict of the same name ; 33 miles east of Guadalaxara. Lat. 
21. 10. N. long. 102.30. W. 
TEQUENDAMA, Cataract of, a remarkable fall of 
the Rio Bogota, in South America. This river has its rise in 
the great plain in which is situate the city of Bogota, and 
which is separated from the surrounding country by steep 
precipices, or very deep ravines, down which the river Bogota 
is precipitated. The face of the rock, which finishes and 
borders the vast plain of Bogota, near the cataract, is so 
steep, that it takes three hours to descend from the river 
Funza to the Rio Meta; and the basin or gulf cannot be 
approached very close, as the rapidity of the water, the 
deafening noise of the fall, and dense mass of vapour, 
render it impossible to get nearer the edges of the abyss than 
4 or 500 feet. The loneliness of the spot, the dreadful noise, 
and the beauty of the vegetation, render this situation one of 
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