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Essex. Population 552; 3j miles north-east-by-east of 
Great Coggeshalli 
TEY, Little, a hamlet in the foregoing parish. 
TEY, Merks, another parish in the same county, so 
called from the family name of Merks, its ancient proprietors ; 
half a mile east of Little Tey. 
TEYNHAM, a parish of England, in Kent; 4 miles east 
of Sittingbourn. Population 498. 
TEYNYA, a small island in the Eastern seas, near the 
south-west coast of Mindanao. Lat. 6. 52. N. long. 121. 
40. E. 
TEYSING, or Tauzim, a small town of Bohemia ; 25 
miles north-north-west of Pilsen, and 60 west of Prague. 
Population 1300. 
TEYUPA, a small river of South America, in Para¬ 
guay, which runs south-south-west, and enters the Yaquini. 
TEZA, a town of Fez, in Africa, on the borders of the 
province of Rif; 50 miles north-north-east of Fez. 
TEZCUCO, one of the five lakes in the valley of Mexico, 
at the extremity of which, about three„miles distant, the city 
is placed. 
TEZCUCO, a town of Mexico, in the intendancy of Mexi¬ 
co. It is situated on Lake Tezcuco. It contains 500 
inhabitants, Spaniards and Indians. Lat. 19. 31. N. long. 
98. 52. W. 
TEZOCUCA, a settlement of Mexico, in the district of 
Tezcuco, containing 186 Indian: families. 
TEZONTEPEC, a settlement of Mexico, in the intend¬ 
ancy of Oxaca, containing 180 families of Indians.—There are 
two other inconsiderable settlements of this name in Mexico. 
TEZONTLA, a settlement of Mexico, in the intendancy 
of Mexico, containing 116 families of Indians. 
TEZYOUTE, an assemblage of magnificent ruins, in the 
southern part of the province of Constantina, in Algiers. 
Besides the splendid remains of the city gates, seven of 
which are still standing, there are the seats and upper part 
of an amphitheatre; the frontispiece of a beautiful Ionic 
temple, dedicated to Esculapius; a large oblong cham¬ 
ber, with a great gate on each side of it, intended per¬ 
haps for a triumphal arch; and the Cubbel Ar-rasah, that 
is, “the cupola of the bride,” as the Arabs call a beautiful 
little mausoleum, built in the form of a dome, supported by 
Corinthian pillars; 70 miles south-south-west of Constan¬ 
tina. Lat. 35.24. N. long. 5. 58. E. 
TFENI, a village of Lower Egypt, on the Nile ; 10 miles 
south-east of Rosetta. 
THACK, s. [Sace, Sax.] Thatch : a common northern 
word, and old in our language. Hence also a thackster , a 
thatcher. Prompt. Pare. 
They would in houses of thacke 
Their lives leade. Chaucer. 
THADA, a settlement of New Granada, in the province 
of Choco. 
THAHAR KIEMEN, a post of Chinese Tartary; 15 miles 
north-east of Tcitchitar. 
THAKEHAM, a parish of England, in Sussex; 6| miles 
north-w'est of Steyning. Population 522. 
THAL, a large village of the north-east of Switzerland, in 
the canton of St. Gall; 1 mile west-north-west of Rheineck. 
THALAMA, a settlement of New Granada, in the pro¬ 
vince of Antioquia, on the shore of the river of its name. 
THALAMEGUS, among the Ancients, a ship of pleasure, 
or yacht, used by princes. It was always provided with a 
good cabin, or bed-chamber. 
THALAMI Nervorum Opticorum, in Anatomy, two 
eminences in the brain. 
THALAMII, or Thalamitje, among the Ancients, those 
rowers who sat in the lowest part of the ship. 
THALAMIUM, a port-hole, through which the oars of 
the rowers in the bottom of the ship went. 
THALAMUS, in Botany, a term used to express that part 
of the flower in the capitated or flosculous-flowered plants, 
where the embryo fruits of every separate floscule are lodged, 
and w here afterwards the seeds are contained. This is the 
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bottom of the cup, in the central part of which it adheres to 
the stalk. 
THALE, a large village of Prussian Saxony, in the prin¬ 
cipality of Halberstadt. Population 1200. 
THALERN, a large village of Lower Austria, on the 
Danube, near Mautern. In the neighbourhood there are 
some coal mines. 
THALES, the founder of the Ionic school, and of the 
scientific method of philosophising among the Greeks, was 
born of Phoenician parents, at Miletus, in the first year of 
the 35th Olympiad, or about the year 580 B. C. He ac¬ 
quired wealth and distinction among his countrymen, and 
was employed at an early age in public affairs. In search of 
wisdom, he travelled to Crete, and afterwards to Egypt. 
From the priests at Memphis in the latter country, he is said 
by several writers to have gained his knowledge of philoso¬ 
phy and mathematics. Upon his return to Miletus, he was 
universally respected for his extraordinary wisdom and learn¬ 
ing ; and his acquaintance was eagerly courted by all who 
wished to improve in knowledge or to be ranked among 
philosophers. He was not prevented, however, by these 
engagements from prosecuting his mathematical, philosophi¬ 
cal, and metaphysical studies. In this course of improve¬ 
ment and usefulness, and of imparting, as well as of acquir¬ 
ing knowledge, he protracted his life to the great age of 
ninety years, and died, through mere infirmity, whilst he 
was attending the Olympic games. Thales was ranked 
among the seven wise men of Greece, and might justly be 
reckoned one of this number, whether we consider his sci¬ 
entific attainments, or the moral maxims and aphorisms 
which are ascribed to him. 
TIIALETAS of Crete, a famous lyric poet, celebrated 
by all antiquity as a medical musician, is said to have deli¬ 
vered the Lacedaemonians from the pestilence by the sweet¬ 
ness of his lyre. 
THALGAU, a market town of upper Austria, in the 
circle of Salzburg, in the valley of the same name. 
THALHEIM, a large village in the west of Germany, in 
Wirtemberg, with 1100 inhabitants, all Protestants; 5 miles 
south of Heilbronn. 
THALIA, [so named by Linnaeus, in memory of John 
Thalius, a physician at Nordbuys], in Botany, a genus of 
the class monandria, order monogynia, natural order of 
scitaminae,cannse (Juss .)—Generic Character. Calyx: peri¬ 
anth, scales three, very small, ovate, ciliate, permanent, 
crowning the germ. Corolla: petals five, superior, shrivelling, 
in a double row; three outer longer, oblong, waved, con¬ 
nate at the base, spreading; two inner smaller, from erect 
spreading, oblong, connate with each other and the nectary 
at the base. Nectary petal-shaped, opposite to the smaller 
petals, lanceolate, acuminate, concave. Stamina : filament 
ODe, awl-shaped, inserted into the nectary ; anther club- 
shaped. Pistil: germ turbinate, crowned with the calyx; 
style filiform, bent in; stigma leafy, bent in. Pericarp : 
drupe oblong, gibbous, one-celled. Seed one, awl-shaped, 
bent in.— Essential Character. Calyx three leaved. Co¬ 
rolla five petalled; two inner petals less. Nectary lanceo¬ 
late, concave. Drupe with a one-celled nut. 
1. Thalia geniculata.—Corollas five-petalled, nectary lan¬ 
ceolate. Leaves alternate, ovate oblong, with transverse 
parallel nerves. Stem taller than a man, quite simple The 
American Indians use it for a dart wherewith to kill ani¬ 
mals. 
2. Thalia cannseformis.—Corollas six-petalled, nectary 
bifid, erect. Culm solid, round smooth, branched. Branches 
jointed, divaricating. Leaves on the stem, alternate, spread¬ 
ing.—Native of Mallicollo, one of the New Hebrides, in 
Australasia; and found in the Andaman isles, and at Ran¬ 
goon. 
THALICTRUM [of Pliny, from %aXko) vireo: to 
flourish or look green], in Botany, a genus of the class 
polyandria, order poly gin ia, natural order of multisiliquas, 
ranunculacese (Juss.) —Generic Character. Calyx, none, 
unless the corolla be taken for it. Corolla: petals four, 
roundish, obtuse, concave, caducous. Stamina: filaments 
11C very 
