Tell (tel), The

That part of Algeria which IMG:content-0955.png:[blocks in formation] Tell (tel), William. One of the legendary heroes of Switzerland in the struggle for independence of the cantons Schwyz, Uri, and Unterwalden with Albrecht of Austria (the German emperor Albrecht I.). The story, in its familiar form, is that Tell, who was the head of the independent confederates, having refused to salute the cap which Ge ler, the Austrian governor, had placed for that purpose in the market-place of Altorf, was ordered to place an apple on the head of his little son and shoot it off. He did so, and revealed another arrow with which he had intended to shoot Ge ler if he had killed his son. He was taken acro the lake by Ge ler to Kü nacht Castle to be eaten alive by reptiles; but, a storm coming up, he shot the governor, escaped, and after ward liberated his country. The Tell legend in its Swi form appears for the first time in a chronicle, written between 1467 and 1476, contained in a manuscript known as the "White Book of Sarmen," which places the events after the acce ion of Rudolf to the empire in 1273. It is also found in the "Chronicle" of Melchior Ru of Lucerne, who began to write in 1482. The principal source, however, of the life and deeds of Tell is the "Chronic on Helveticum" ("Swi Chronicle") of Ægidius Tschudi (1505-72), where the year 1307 is given as the date of the Tell incident. Based principally upon Tschudi is Schiller's drama "Wilhelm Tell" (1804), which closely follows the episode as related by the Swi chronicler, and even incorporates some of the speeches word for word. The legend of William Tell is in its ultimate origin a Germanic myth. The earliest extant version of this story of the apple is contained in the Old Norse Vilkina Saga, from the 13th century, whose material, however, according to its own account, was derived from German sources. The story of the famous shot of the archer Eigil is here related with circum stantiality of detail. At the command of King Nidung an apple is placed upon the head of the three-year-old son of Eigil, who is then made to shoot, and strikes it, directly in the middle, with his first arrow. When asked why he had taken two other arrows when only one shot was allowed, he replied boldly, "In order to shoot the king if I had injured the child." Another version of the legend is found in Saxo Grammatic us, who wrote his "Hist or i a Danica" early in the 13th century. The apple-shot is also told in English territory of William of Cloudesley. The legend, which was, apparently, once common Germanic Swi story of William Tell is simply a localization of the property. Tell-el-Amarna. See Tel - el - Amarna . Tell-el-Kebir. See Tel - el - Kebir . Teller (tel'èr), Henry Moore. Born at Granger, Alleghany County, N. Y., May 23, 1830. An American lawyer and Republican politician. lawver He was United States senator from Colorado 1876-82; secretary of the interior 1882-85; and United States senator from Colorado 1885-. Tellez (tel'yeth), Gabriel: pseudonym Tirso de Molina. Born at Madrid about 1570: died in the convent of Soria, 1648. A noted Spanish dramatist. He entered the church before 1613, and became the head of the convent of Soria. Five volumes of his plays were published under his pseudonym between 1616 and 1636: among these the best-known out of Spain is "El Burlador de Sevilla" ("The Seville Deceiver"), "the earliest distinct exhibition of that Don Juan who is now seen on every stage in Europe." In Spain "Don Gil de las Calzas Verdes" ("Don Gil in the Green Pantaloons") is the favorite. Among his other plays may be mentioned "Ver gonzo so en Palacio" ("A Bashful Man at Court"), "La Lealtad contra la Envidia," "Por el Sotano y el Torno," and "Escarmientos para Cuerdos." He pub lished in 1624 "Cigar rales de Toledo," an account of entertainments given by a wedding party at a cigarral or small country house resorted to for recreation in summer. These were stories told, plays acted, poetry recited, etc., a theatrical framework being used to connect the separate parts instead of the narrative adopted by Boccaccio This style was soon imitated by other authors. Tirso in the "Dec a me rone," from which the idea was taken. published another of a graver tone, "Pleasure and Profit," in 1635. Tellez y Giron (tel-yeth' e He-rōn'), Pedro, Duke of Osuna (or O una). Born at Valladolid, Spain, 1579: died 1624. A Spanish statesman, viceroy of Sicily 1611-15, and of Naples 1616-20. Tellicherri, or Tell i cherry (tel-i-cher'i). A seaport in the Malabar district, Madras, British India, situated on the Arabian Sea in lat. 11° 45' N., long. 75° 29′ E. It has considerable trade Population (1891), 27,196. Tello, or Tel-loh (tel-lo'). A site in Chaldea excavated by De Sarzec between 1877 and 1881. Tellsplatte (telz-plät'te). [G., 'Tell's slab.'] A stone on the Axenberg, north of Flüelen, on the eastern bank of the Lake of Lucerne, where Tempest, The William Tell, according to the legend, sprang out of Ge ler's boat. Tellus (tel'us). [L., 'earth.'] In Roman mythology, a godde , the personification of the earth. Tel me us (tel-mes'us). In ancient geography, a town on the coast of Lycia, Asia Minor, in lat. 36° 36′ N., long. 29° 10' E., on the site of the modern village of Makri. Among the imp or. tant antiquities on site is an ancient theater, well preserved and of good style. The cave a is semicircular, with one precinct i on: its diameter is 254 feet, that of the orchestra 92. The stage structure measures 141 by 40 feet. Teman (tē'man). ['South,' properly 'the country to the right.'] The southern district and people of Edom (Idumea): from Teman, the grandson of Esau (Gen. xxxvi. 11-15). Teme (tem). A river on the boundary between Wales and England, and in western England, which joins the Severn 3 miles south of Worcester. Length, about 70 miles. Téméraire (ta-mā-rar'). 1. Aline-of-battle ship of 98 guns, called "the Fighting Téméraire," captured from the French at the battle of the Nile, Aug. 1, 1798. She fought next to the Victory in the line at the battle of Trafalgar, Oct. 21, 1805, under Captain Harvey. She was broken up in 1838. Turner's picture of "the Fighting Téméraire" was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839. 2. A British armored war-ship, launched in 1876. Her dimensions are: length, 285 feet; breadth, 62 feet; draught, 27 feet; displacement, 8,540 tons. She has an ar mored water-line belt 11 inches thick, and a central single decked citadel with armor 10.8 inches thick. She has 4 25-ton guns mounted en barbette fore and aft upon the upper deck. Temes (tem'esh). A river in southern Hungary which joins the Danube 8 miles east of Belgrad. Length, about 250 miles. Temeser Banat (tem'esh-er bä-nät'). A former administrative division, comprising the present counties of Temes, Kra ó, and Torontál, in Hungary. Temesvár (tem'esh-vär). A free city, capital of the county of Temes, Hungary, situated on the Bega Canal in lat. 45° 47′ N., long. 21° 13′ E. It consists of the city proper, or fortre , and several suburbs. It is an administrative and military center. Among its buildings are a Roman Catholic cat he dral, and a castle built in the middle of the 15th century. Temesvár was besieged and taken by the Turks in 1552; and was several times fruitle ly besieged, but finally taken, by Prince Eugene in 1716 and reunited to Hungary. It was made a royal free city in 1781. It was defended by the Austrians against the Hungarian insurgents in 1849, who were defeated by Haynau Aug. 9, 1849. Population (1890), 39,850. Temiscaming (te-mis'ka-ming), Lake. A lake on the border line between the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, Canada, intersected by lat. 47° 30′ N. Its outlet is the Ottawa River. Length, about 26 miles. Temiscouata (tem-is-kö-ä'tä), Lake. A lake in Temiscouata County, Quebec, Canada, east of Quebec. Its outlet is the Madawaska River. Length, about 22 miles. Temme (tem'me), Jodocus Donatus Hubertus. Born at Lette, Westphalia, Oct. 22, 1798: died at Zurich, Nov. 14, 1881. A German jurist, liberal politician, and novelist: in the judicial service of Pru ia. He was tried for high treason in 1849, and was acquitted but was dismi ed from the service. He wrote "criminal novels." Temminck (tem'mink), Coenraad Jacob. Born about 1778: died in 1858. A Dutch naturalist, noted as an ornithologist. Temora (te-mo'rä). One of the poems of O ian, published in 1763. See O ian . Tempe (tem'pē), Vale of. [Gr. Τέμπη, contracted from Τέμπεα.] A valley in eastern The aly, Greece, deeply cleft between Olympus on the north and O a on the south, and traversed by the Peneius. It has been celebrated from ancient times for its beauty; but "the scenery is distinguished rather by savage grandeur than by the sylvan which and others attribute to Length, about 6 miles. Tempel (tem'pel), Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht. Born at Nieder-Kunersdorf, Lusatia, Dec. 4, 1821: died at Arcetri, Italy, March 16, 1889. A German astronomer, director of the observatory at Arcetri, near Florence. He discovered several asteroids, comets, etc. Tempest (tem'pest), The. A play by Shakspere, first performed at court in 1611, first printed in the folio of 1623. The subject was taken from a pamphlet "A Discovery of the Bermudas, otherwise called the Isle of Devils," by "one Jourdan, who probably returned from Virginia" (1610). Fleay thinks it was probably abridged by Beaumont about 1613, and the mask inserted. In 1667 Dryden and Davenant produced "The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island" (printed in 1670), a version intended to improve Shakspere's play: the mutilations, or rather additions, are now said by a German scholar to be wholesale conveyances from a play of Calderon. ( Furne .) Tempest, The In 1673 Shad well turned "The Tempest" into an opera, and in 1756 Garrick produced an opera with the same name, based on Shakspere and Dryden: he repudiated the authorship. Sir Arthur Sullivan has written "The Music to Shakspere's Tempest," in twelve numbers: this was first performed in 1862. Templars (tem'plarz). A complaints lemplars mil i tighter the Knights mplars or Knights of the Temple, from the early headquarters ers of the order in the Crusaders' palace at Jerusalem (the so-called temple of Solomon). The order was founded at Jerusalem about 1118, and was confirmed by the Pope in 1128. Its special aim was protection to pilgrims on the way to the holy shrines, and the distinguishing garb of the knights was a white mantle with a red cro . The order took a leading part in the conduct of the Crusades, and spread rapidly, acquiring great wealth and influence in Spain, France, England, and other coun tries in Europe. Its chief seats in the East were Jeru salem, Acre, and Cyprus, and in Europe a foundation called the Temple, then just outside Paris. The members comprised knights, men-at-arms, and chaplains; they were grouped in commanderies, with a preceptor at the head of each province, and a grand master at the head of the order. Templars accused of immorality, IMG:content-0956.png:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0957.png:[ocr errors] and was suppre ed by the Council of Vienne in 1312. Temple (tem'pl), The. The religious edifice of the Jews in Jerusalem. There were three buildings succe ively erected in the same spot, and entitled, from the names of their builders, the temple of Solomon, the temple of Zerubbabel, and the temple of Herod. The first was built by Solomon, and was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar about 586 B. C. The second was built by the Jews on their return from the captivity (about 537 B. C.), and was pillaged or partly destroyed several times, especially by Antiochus Epiphanes, Pompey, and Herod. The third, the largest and most magnificent of the three, was begun by Herod the Great, and was completely destroyed capture of Jerusalem by the Romans (A. D. 70). Various attempts have been made toward the restoration of the first and the third of these temples, but scholars are not agreed in respect architectural details. The ornament and design were in any case of severe and simple char acter, though rich materials were used. The succe ive temples all consisted of a combination of buildings, comprising courts separated from and rising one above another, and provided also with chambers for the use of the priests and for educational purposes. The inclosure of Herod's temple covered 19 acres. It comprised an outer court of the Gentiles, a court of the women, a court of Israel, a court of the priests, and the temple building with the holy place, and, within all (entered only once a year, and only by the high priest), the holy of holies. Within the court of the priests were within the holy priest the threadler incense, and the table for the showbread; and within the holy of holies, the ark of the covenant and the mercy-seat. Temple, The. A lodge in London of the religious and military establishment of the middle ages known as the Knights Templars. The Temple Church, London, is the only part of it now existing. The first settlement of the Knights Templars of the Holy Sepulchre in London was in Holborn, where in built a house which must have stood near the northeast corner of Chancery Lane. They removed to the New Temple in the Strand in 1184. When the order was suppre ed in the reign of Edward II., their house was given by the king to the Earl of Pembroke; it went next to the Earl of Lancaster, and at his death reverted to the crown. In 1338 it went to the Knights Hospitalers of St. John of Jerusalem, at Clerkenwell, who leased part of it in 1346 to students of the common law, and on the site of the London Temple the two Inns of Court called the Middle Temple and Inner Temple now stand: they have ever since been occupied by barristers, and are the joint property of the Societies of the Inner and of the Middle Temple, which have the right of calling candidates to the degree of barrister. The Inner Temple is so called because it is within the precincts of the City, the Middle Temple because it was between the Inner and Outer Temple. The Outer Temple remained in the po e ion of the Bishop of Exeter when the remainder was leased, and was afterward converted into the Exeter Buildings. Temple, The Mormon. The chief religious building of the Mormons. See Salt Lake Temple (tonpl), Le. A fortified lodge of the Knights Templars established in Paris by the Council of Troyes in 1128, standing where the Marché du Temple now stands. After the abo lition of the order in 1312, the old building was used for various purposes. The chapel (similar in general plan to that in London) stood until 1650, and the great square tower, made memorable by the imprisonment of Louis XVI. in 1792-93, was destroyed in 1810. Temple (tem'pl), Frederick. Born Nov. 30,1821. Archbishop of Canterbury (1896). He graduated at Balliol College, Oxford, 1842; was head-master of Rugby 1858-69; in 1860 became prominent as the author of the first of the "E ays and Reviews"; and in 1868-70 advocated the disestablishment of the Irish Church. He was appointed bishop of Exeter 1869, and bishop of London 1885. He was Bampton lecturer at Oxford 1884. He has published "Sermons Preached in Rugby Chapel" (1861). Temple, Henry John, Viscount Palmers ton. Born at Broad lands, near Romsey, Hampshire, Oct. 20, 1784: died at Brocket Hall, near Hat field, Hertfordshire, Oct. 18, 1865. A British statesman. He belonged to the Irish branch of the Temple family. On April 17, 1802, he succeeded to his father's title. He was educated at Harrow. He became member of Parliament for New town, Isle of Wight, in 1807, and ju of Pitt, and an advocate of Catholic emancipation. In 1830 he entered the Whig ministry of Lord Grey as minister of foreign affairs. His activity in this position was very great. He was interested in the policy which established Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg on the throne of Belgium, and in the maintenance of the Ottoman empire as a defense against Ru ia on the Bosporus and France on the Nile. At the close of the Melbourne administration in 1841, Palmers ton went out of office for 5 years. In with the revolutionary party in Europe, and ardently sup1848, in the ministry of Lord John Ru ell, he sympathized ported the Italian revolution. In 1851 he openly approved the coup d'état of Louis Napoleon, and was dismi ed from the foreign office. He became secretary of state for the home office under the Earl of Aberdeen in 1852. On Feb. 5, 1855, he became prime minister, and retained the office, with the interval of Lord Derby's administration in 18581859, until his death. Temple, Knights of the. See Templars . Temple, Sir William. Born at London, 1628: died at Moor Park, Surrey, Jan. 27, 1699. An English diplomatist, statesman, and author. He was educated at Cambridge; entered Parliament in 1660; concluded a treaty with the Bishop of Munster in 1665; treaty of the Triple Alliance in 1668; was amba ador at The Hague 1668-71; negotiated a peace with the Nether. lands in 1674; was amba ador to the Congre of Nimwegen; formed a plan for a privy council in 1679, and became one of its chief members; and withdrew from public life in 1681. He wrote "An E ay on the Present State and ; became minister at Bru els in 1665; the Settlement of Ireland" (1668), "The Empire, etc." (1671), "Observations upon the United Provinces" (1672), "E ay upon Government" (1672), "Trade in Ireland" (1673), "Miscellanies," including (1679 and 1692), "Memoirs" (1691 and 1709), and "Introduction to the History of Eng. land" (1695). Temple Bar. A famous gateway before the Temple in London, which formerly divided Fleet street from the Strand. According to ancient custom, when the sovereign visited the City, he asked permi ion of the lord mayor to pa it. In its last form it was a rather ugly archway built by Wren in 1670. It spanned the street with an elliptical arch flanked by two small arches over the footways, and had a second story in which were four niches with statues of sovereigns, and a curved pediment above. It was removed in 1878, and reerected at Waltham Cro , Herts. It is now represented by a monument called the Temple Bar Memorial, a tall pedestal with statues of Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales in niches at the sides, surmounted by the griffin and arms of the city of London. Temple Beau, The. A comedy by Henry Field ing, produced in 1730. ing.] Temple Church. A church within the bounds of the Inner Temple in London. It consists of the Round Church and the Choir. The former is in a rich Norman style; it is 58 feet in diameter, and was finished in 1185. The Choir is Early English. The Round Church contains several beautiful altar-tombs of Templars. Temple Gardens. Gardens belonging to the Temple, London, separated from the Thames by the Victoria Embankment. According to Shak spere, the red and white roses which were a umed as badges of the houses of Lancaster and York were plucked in this garden by Plantage net and Somerset at the end of the brawl which began the civil war. Temple of Concord. See Girgenti . Temple of Fame, The. A poem by Alexander Pope, published in 1715. It differs from Chaucer's "House of Fame," though imitating it. Temple of Gla , The. A poem by Lydgate, partly imitated from Chaucer's "House of Fame." Temple of Heaven or of the Great Dragon. A temple at Peking, perhaps the most notable of Chinese temples. It stands in an inclosure of about a square mile. From the gate a causeway leads to the temple, which is surrounded by subordinate buildings. The temple proper stands on a 3-staged terrace ascended by flights of steps; it is circular, rising in 3 rece ed stages each with a widely projecting roof, that of the highest stage forming a concave cone of blue tiles terminating in a gilded ovoid finial. The date a igned is 1420. Temple of Mexico. See Teocalli . Temple of the Cro . A name commonly given to one of the ruined edifices at Palenque, Mex ico. In a small inner room of this building there is a structure resembling an altar; and above this altar for merly stood the remarkable symbolic group from which the temple derives its name. This consisted of 3 schilde tured slabs joined together, showing a central cro -like symbol, with a human figure on each side, and numerous hieroglyphics. The middle slab, containing the cro , is now in the museum at Mexico; one of the others is at Washington, where it is known as the Palenque tablet; the third is still at Palenque. The meaning of the cro has been a subject for much conjecture and dispute: it was probably a symbol of the fertilizing powers of nature. Another sculpture from the same building is supposed to represent the Maya rain-god. The temple itself is a quadrilateral, and rests on a truncated pyramid. See Palenque Temple of the Sun (at Cuzco). See Cur i cancha . Temptation of St. Anthony. 1. A painting by Pieter Brueghel the younger (1604), in the museum at Dresden. The saint is praying in a cave partly roofed with old planks, and undergoes temptation Teniers, David Venice, a secret tribunal instituted in 1310 and continued down to the overthrow of the republic in 1797. It was composed at first of 10 and later of 17 members, and exercised unlimited power in the supervision of internal and external affairs, often with great rigor and oppre ivene . Tenaino (tē-ni'no). A tribe of North American Indians, nearly related to the Warm Springs Indians. They formerly lived at Celilo, Oregon, on the Columbia River. Their remnants are on the Warm Springs reservation, Oregon, and number 69. See Shahaptian . Tenant of Wild fell Hall, The. A novel by Anne Brontë (Acton Bell), published in 1848. Tena erim (te-nas'e-rim). A river in British Burma which flows into the Bay of Bengal near Tena erim. Length, about 250 miles. Tena erim. 1. A division of British Burma. Area, 46,590 square miles. Population (1891), 978,073.-2. A town in the division of Tena erim, British Burma, situated on the river Tena erim, near the coast, lat. 12° 6' N., long. 99° 3′ Ε. Tenayucan. See Tezcuco . Ten Brink. See Brink . Tenbury (ten'bu-ri). A town in Worcesters hire, England, situated on the Teme 17 miles west-northwest of Worcester. Tenby (ten'bi). A watering-place and seaport in Pembrokes hire, Wales, situated on Car mar then Bay in lat. 51° 40′ N., long. 4° 43′ W. Population (1891), 4,542. Tenchebrai, or Tenchebray. See Tinchebray . Tencin (ton-san'), Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de. Born at Grenoble, France: died 1749. A French leader of society in the reign of Louis XV.: mother of D'Alembert. She wrote various works. Tencteri (tengk'te-ri). [L. (Cæsar) Tenchtheri, (Tacitus) Tencteri , Gr. (Ptolemy) Τέγτεροι.] Α German tribe first mentioned by Cæsar, who describes them as having been driven by the Suevi (59 в. c.), together with the Usipites, out of their original homes. They were crushingly defeated by Cæsar in Gallic territory near the confluence of the Maas with the Rhine. They afterward joined other tribes in wars against Rome. They were probably merged ultimately in the Alamanni. Tenda (ten'dä), Col di. A pa in the Alps, 16 miles south of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy. According to one cla ification, it separates the Ligurian and Maritime Alps. Height, 6,142 feet. Tendelti. Same as Fasher . Tender Husband, The, or the Accomplished Fools. A comedy by Sir Richard Steele, pro- duced in 1705. Tendra (ten'drä). A narrow island in the Black Sea, near the coast of Ru ia, about 45 miles southwest of Kherson. Length, about 40 miles. Tendra Bay. An inlet of the Black Sea, nearly inclosed by Tendra. Tenedos (ten'e-dos). [Gr. Τένεδος .] A small island in the Ægean Sea, belonging to Turkey, situated off the Troad, on the northwestern coast of Asia Minor, in lat. 39° 50′ N., long. 26° E.: the Turkish Bogdsha-Ada i. It was settled by Æolians; is noted in the legends of Trojan times; was subjugated by the Persians; and was in alliance with Athens in the 5th century B. C. Length, about 7 miles. Tenerani (ta-nā-rä'nē), Pietro. Born at Torano, near Carrara, Italy, Nov. 11, 1789: died at Rome, Dec. 14,1869. An Italian sculptor. Among his works are "Psyche with Pandora's Box," "Cupid Extracting a Thorn," " Psyche and Venus," "Descent from the Cro ," "Christ on the Cro ," etc. Teneriffe (ten-er-if'), or Tenerife (tā-nā-rē'fā), or Teneriffa (tā-nā-rēf'fä). The largest of the Canary Islands. It is traversed by mountains, and con tains famous Peak of Teneriffe. On it is the capital of the group, Santa Cruz de Santiago. Length, 60 miles. Population, about 100,000. Teneriffe, Peak of. See Pico de Teyde . Teniers (ten'yerz; F. pron. tā-nyar'), David, the elder. Born at Antwerp, 1582: died there, July 29, 1649. A Flemish historical, genre, and landscape painter: a pupil of Rubens. He painted mostly peasants with landscape. His "Temptation of Saint Anthony" and "Dutch Kitchen" are at the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Teniers, David, the younger. Born at Antwerp (baptized Dec. 15, 1610): died near Bru els, April 25, 1690. A noted Flemish genre, landscape, and portrait painter, influenced by Rubens: son and pupil of D. Teniers the elder. He lived mostly at Antwerp and Bru els, and was master of the Antwerp gild in 1632, and dean 1644-45. He was well re ceived at the court in the Netherlands, and obtained many important commi ions from other courts. His subjects nior lord of the admiralty in the Duke of Portland's administration in the same year. From 1809 to 1828 he was secretary of war. At this time he was a Tory, a disciple Tablet . from a young woman richly dre ed and attended by fan- tastic demons. The architecture and scenery of the back- ground present a free rendering of Tivoli. 2. A painting by Tin to ret to, in San Trovaso at Venice. The saint sits calmly, with four tempters about him, one a demon, and two women, young and beautiful. Ten, Council of. In the ancient republic of are from peasant life in Flanders, from sacred history, etc. He painted hundreds of pictures, among them "The Temptation of St. Anthony," "Seven Works of Mercy,' "The Denial of St. Peter," and "The Prodigal Son" (all at the Louvre, with about 30 others), "Marriage of Teniers" (Rothschild collection, London), "Kirme " (Bru els), Temptation of St. Anthony" (Berlin), "Archers of Ant werp" (Hermitage, St. Petersburg), "Village Festival" Teniers, David (Vienna), "Rinaldo and Armida" (Madrid), "Marriage Festival" and "Judith" (Metropolitan Museum, New York), and "Incantation Scene," " Parable of the Laborer," "Boors Feasting," "Village Fête," and "Charles V. Leaving Dort," etc. (all at the rooms of the Historical Society, New York). Tenimber. See Timorlaut . Teniquech. See Chemehuevi . Tenisaws. See Taensa . Ten is on (ten'i-son), Thomas. Born at Cottenham, Cambridge shire, England, 1636: died 1715. An English prelate. He was bishop of Lincoln; became archbishop of Canterbury in 1694; and was appointed one of the lords justices during the absence of William III. in 1695. Tennant (ten'ant), William. Born at An strut her, Fifes hire, Scotland, May 15, 1784: died near Dollar, Scotland, Feb. 15, 1848. A Scottish poet. His chief work is the mock-heroic poem "Anster Fair" (1812). He also wrote "Thane of Fife," etc. Tennemann (ten'ne-män), Wilhelm Gottlieb. Born at Brembach, near Erfurt, Pru ia, 1761: died at Marburg, Sept. 30, 1819. A German philosopher, profe or of philosophy at Marburg from 1804. His chief work is "Geschichte der Philosophie" ("History of Philosophy, "1798-1819): abridged in "Grundri der Geschichte der Philosophie" (1812). Tennent(ten'ent), Sir James Emerson. Born at Belfast, Ireland, April 7, 1804: died at London, March 6, 1869. A British traveler, politician, and author. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin; traveled in Greece, where he met Lord Byron; and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1831. He married a daughter of William Tennent of Belfast, and adopted her He returned as member of Parliament for Belfast in 1832, and was colonial secretary at Ceylon 18451850, and permanent secretary of the board of trade 18521867. He published a "Picture of Greece" (1826), "Letters from the Ægean" (1829), "History of Modern Times" (1830), "Belgium" (1841), "Christianity in Ceylon" (1850), "Ceylon, Physical, Historical, and Topographical" (1859), "Natural History of Ceylon" (1861). Tennes (ten'nēz). King of Sidon (Phenic i a). He betrayed his city and people to Artaxerxes III. Ochus, king of Persia, in order to purchase his own life. About 40,000 inhabitants of Sidon killed themselves on this occasion, the city was destroyed by Ochus, and even Tennes himself was executed. Tenne ee (ten-e-se'). The principal tributary of the Ohio River. It is formed by the union at King ston, East Tenne ee, of the Clinch and Holston (which rise in Virginia), and flows southwest in Tenne ee past Chattanooga, then west through Alabama, touching the northeast corner of Mi i ippi, and then north through Tenne ee and Kentucky, to join the Ohio at Paducah, Kentucky. Total length, including the Holston, 1,100 to 1,200 miles; navigable the greater part of its course. The chief obstruction is at the Muscle Shoals in Alabama. Tenne ee. One of the South Central States of the United States of America. Capital, Nashville; chief cities, Memphis and Chattanooga, It is bounded by Kentucky and Virginia on the north; North Carolina on the southeast; Georgia, Alabama, and Mi is sippi on the south; and Arkansas and Mi ouri (separated by the Mi i ippi River) on the west. It is mountainous in the east, containing the Alleghanies and the Cumber land plateau, and is lower in the center and west. The leading agricultural productions are Indian corn, cotton, and tobacco. The manufactures (iron, cotton, etc.) are increasing. The State has 96 counties, sends 2 senators and 10 representatives to Congre , and has 12 electoral votes. This region was claimed in early times by North Carolina, and by the French and Spaniards. The leading settlement was made from Virginia and North Carolina in 1769. The temporary State of Franklin was formed in 1784. North Carolina ceded its claims to the United States, and the Territory of Tenne ee was formed in 1990 was admit