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the wildest and most picturesque scenes that are to be ob¬ 
served in the Andes. 
' TEQUEPA, a port of Mexico, in the province of Mechoa- 
can, on a river near the Pacific Ocean ; 80 miles south-east 
ofZacatula, Lat. 17.50. N. long. 102. 26. W. 
TEQUERY BAY, on the south-east part of the coast of 
the island of Cuba, between Cape Cruz and Cape Maizi, at 
the east end. It affords good anchorage and shelter for 
ships, but is not much frequented. 
TEQUIA, a settlement of New Granada, in the province 
of Tunja, containing 1500 housekeepers. 
TEQUIARI, a river of Peru, in the province of Poma- 
bamba, which runs east, and enters the Beni. 
TER, a river in the north-east of Spain, in Catalonia, 
which rises among the Pyrenees, and flows southwards to 
Vique, where it takes an eastern direction, till it falls into the 
Mediterranean below Cabo de Creuz. 
TER ABLE, a fort of South America, in Terra Firma; 29 
miles east-north-east of the city of Panama. 
TERAKACO, a peninsula on the east coast of New Zea¬ 
land, of which Cape Table forms the eastern point. 
TERAMA ALTA, a settlement of New Granada, in the 
province of Tunja, containing 600 housekeepers. 
TERAMNUS the same with reoau.vio and Tcpyv, 
Gr„ soft ; properly predicated of legumes and seeds which 
are made tender by boiling], in Botany, a genus of the 
class diadelphia, order decandria; natural order of papi- 
lionaceae or leguminosae.—Generic Character. Calyx: 
perianth one-leafed, two lipped ; upper lip a little larger, 
bifid ; lower three-toothed, teeth acute, erect, approximating. 
Corolla: papilionaceous; standard obcordate, .spreading, 
erect, bent down a little; wings length of the standard, erect, 
approximating, rounded at the tip; keel very small, con¬ 
cealed at the base by the calyx between the lower part of 
the wings, bipartile, covering the stamens. Stamina: fila¬ 
ments ten; five very small and barren, alternate with the 
others, which are fertile, longer, and united at the base; 
anthers roundish. Pistil: germ elongated, pubescent; style 
none; stigma round-headed. Pericarp: legume linear, 
compressed, margined. Seeds, many, roundish, com¬ 
pressed, retuse at the end.— Essential Character. Keel very 
small, concealed within the calyx. Stamina alternate; five 
barren. Stigma sessile, headed. 
1. Teramnus volubilis.—This creeping or climbing plant 
is pretty common in the lower hills of Jamaica, and runs 
generally the length of six or seven feet from the root. The 
leaves are oblong, and covered moderately with down. The 
flowers are small, and disposed in slender spikes at the axils 
of the leaves. The seed-vessels are long, slender and com¬ 
pressed. 
2. Teramnus uncinatus.—Leaves oblong, obtuse, silky 
beneath.—Native of Jamaica. 
TERAMO, a town of Italy, in the north of the kingdom 
of Naples, in the Abruzzo Ultra, on the river Tordino. It 
has some manufactures of woollens, and is the see of a bishop; 
28 miles north-north-east of Aquila, and 115 north of 
Naples. 
TERANE, a town of Egypt, situated in the district to the 
west of the Nile, containing the lakes of Natron. 
TERAPEA, or Tarapia, a small town of European Tur¬ 
key, about 10 miles north-north-east of Constantinople, and 
much admired for the beauty of its situation. 
TE'RAPIN, s. A kind of tortoise. Phillips. —It is ob¬ 
served, that though the heads of snakes, terrapins, and such 
like vermine, be cut off; yet the head will not die in a long 
time after. Hist, of Virginia. 
TERATO'LOGY, s. [regalo; and \eyu. Gr.] Bombast, 
affection of false sublimity. Bailey. 
TERBURGH (Gerard), a painter of domestic scenes of 
exquisite skill, was born at Zwoll in the province of Over- 
yessel, in 1608. He was the son of a painter little known, from 
whom he received the rudiments of the art. He began his 
career as a painter of portraits in small, and had acquired 
considerable reputation, when he determined upon travelling 
through Germany and Italy. Unengaged by the sublimer 
beauties of art which the latter country offered to his view, 
he never changed his style, but went thence to Paris to 
practise it; and there met with considerable success. From 
thence he returned to Holland, and was highly appreciated, 
and fully employed. He attended the congress assembled at 
Munster in 1648, for the negociation of the treaty of peace, 
and there painted his celebrated picture containing portraits 
of the plenipotentiaries and principal personages assembled 
on that occasion, which is regarded as his master-piece ; and 
of which there is a print by Suyderhoef. While engaged 
upon this work, he was invited by count Pigorandor, the 
Spanish ambassador at the congress, to visit Spain, and went 
there in consequence; where he was most favourably re¬ 
ceived, and much employed. The king conferred upon him 
the order of knighthood, and rewarded him munificently 
for the pictures he painted. Besides portraits, which consti¬ 
tuted the principal part of his practice, he frequently painted 
conversations, musical parties, ladies at their toilette, and 
domestic subjects, which he executed with a free, but rather 
a heavy pencil, not equal to the brilliancy of Metzu and 
Netscher, but nevertheless, exceedingly meritorious and 
agreeable; particularly in the close imitations of his draperies. 
He died in 1681, at Deventer where he settled on his return 
from Spain. 
TERCE, 5. [ triens , Lat.] A vessel containing forty- 
two gallons of wine; the third part of a butt or pipe. 
Ainsworth. 
In the post’s verse 
The king’s fame lies, go now deny his tierce. B. Jonson. 
TERCEL, s. A hawk. See Tassel. 
TERCERA, an island near the coast of Africa, forming 
part of the group of the Azores. The Portuguese are said to 
have given this name to it, from its being the third in succes¬ 
sion that was discovered. The people of Tercera are reckoned 
mild, benevolent, and superior in civilization to those of the 
other islands. The police is better enforced, and the man¬ 
ners of Lisbon generally prevail. The only two places of 
consequence are Angra and Praya. 
TERCERO, a river of South America, in the province of 
Tucuman, which rises in the mountains to the south-west of 
the city of Corduba. It runs east, collecting the waters of a 
smaller river, called Saladillo. It enters the river Parana just 
above the town of Rossario, and 73 miles south of the city of 
Santa Fe. 
TERDOPPIO, a small river in the north of Italy, which 
rises near the southern extremity of the Lago Maggiore, and 
falls into the Po; 12 miles east-south-east of Lumello. 
TEREBELLA, in Natural History, a genus of the Mol- 
lusca order of Vermes ; the characters of which are, the body 
oblong, creeping, naked, furnished with branchiae at the 
sides, more frequently in the tube; the mouth labiated, 
toothless, and projecting a clavated proboscis; the ten- 
tacula or feelers about the mouth numerous, capillary, and 
ciliated. 
1. Terebella cirrata.—Round, body with triple lateral 
pencils.—Found in the sandy bottom of the Iceland sea. 
2. Terebella lapidaria.—With eight cirri at the anterior 
parts of the body, about the mouth four.—Found in the 
Mediterranean sea, within the clefts of rocks. 
3. Terebella conchilega.—Whitish, with numerous fili¬ 
form cirri at the mouth, the upper longest; the branch ire very 
red—Found in the sea washing the coast of Holland. 
4. Terebella complanata.—Depressed mouth with four 
cirri; the lateral pencil-bearing warts of the body arranged on 
both sides in a two-fold series. 
5. Terebella camnculata.—Depressed-quadrangular with 
a four-fold series of ventral pencils, and no cirri.—Found in 
the American and Indian seas. 
6. Terebella rostrata.—Tetraedrous, with a quadruple 
seriesof pencils from the body, and palate elongated.—Found 
in the Indian sea. 
7. Terebella flava.—Depressed, with thirty-seven bran- 
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