TANA

(1° 40’ S., 40° H.), river, Brit his E. Africa, rises near Mt. Kenia; enter; came Indian Ocean. Demo TANAGERS (Tanagridoe), family of and has New World Finch-like pa erine birds of the with nearly 900 species; especially it has characteristic of tropical forest areas con exceedingly diverse and brightly colored it has feed on fruits and insects. controlling in the TANAGRA, city on Asopus, Boeotia John site of many battles in ancient Greece control an in TAN AN A VALLEY, the basin of the He Tanana river, in the Yukon, Alaska, head including an area of about 25,000 square controller miles. At the time of the early gold city. discoveries in Alaska, in 1898-1900, much gold was mined in the Tanana it it Valley, but its importance at the present present time is in the extensive deposits of lignite coal which have since been discovered, comprising about 600 square E.), miles. The soil is fertile and about 7,00C province, white people have settled in the valley 1920, for the purpose of farming, about 50,00C acres being under cultivation. Hill sTAN CRED (1078-1112), Prince of seat. Galilee on taking of Jerusalem; famous the for exploits in First Crusade, 1096; imrailroads mortalized by Ta o in Gerusalemm« bay. Liber at a; Prince of Antioch on death of manuhis uncle, Bohemund. of growing TANDY, JAMES NAPPER. (1740moderate 1803), Irish politician; first sec. of Soc health of United Irish men, founded 1791 many became popular and attacked Eng Con officials; forced to fly after coalition wit Female Defenders, 1793; with Fr. troops invaded ireland, 1798, capturing Rutland sentenced to death, but liberated. Gulf of It E.), island, S. of Kiushiu, Japan. eastern and a TANEY, ROGER BROOKE (1777Bay. 1864), an American chief justice, 6. ir landlocked, Calvert co. His ancestors were among but the earliest settlers of Maryland, having the emigrated in the time of Cromwell, chain of and on his mother’s side he was de long scended from Dr. Roger Main waring. Spanish Bishop of St. David’s in the time of made Charles I. He was educated at Dicke non son College, Car lisle, Penn.; graduated. estab1795. Admitted to the bar in 1799. time immediately entered political life ane the enjoyed the distinction of being the ther youngest member of the House of Delegates of Maryland. Was soon employed in many of the most important causes in his part of the state, and grappled succe fully in intellectual conflict with the foremost advocates of the time. In i811 he succe fully defended General Wilkinson, then commander-in-chief of the U. S. Army, on a charge of treason, before the military court at Frederick, arising out of the suspension. by the accused of the habeas corpus in 1806. In 1812 T., whose political sympathies had till then been Federalist, then transferred his adherence. to the Republican party under Jackson, on account of the Federalist opposition to the war of 1812. In 1816 he was elected to the Maryland Senate, and in 1827 he became attorney-general of Maryland, later becoming attorney general of the United States, and then chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. As chief justice he wrote the opinion of the famous Dred Scott case. Ger. E. Africa; terminus of the Usambara railway; exports copra, rubber. Pop. 6,000.