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See Tezcuco. Texel (tek's el). An island in the North Sea, belonging to the Netherlands. It lies north of North Holland (separated by the Marsdiep). The surface is low. Its neighborhood has been the scene of many naval engagements. Length, 15 miles. Population, about 6,000. Texier (tes-yā'), Charles Félix Marie. Born at Versailles, France, Aug. 29, 1802: died at Paris, July 1, 1871. A French archæologist and traveler. Among his works are "Description de l'Asie Mineure" (1839-48), "Description del'Arménie, de la Perse, de la Mésopotamie" (1842-45), etc. Teyde, Pico de. See Pico de Teyde . Tezcatlipoca (tāth -kät-lē-pō'kä). In Aztec (Mexican) mythology, one of the supreme gods, the soul of the world and its creator, supposed to be endowed with perpetual youth. On the teocalli at Mexico he had a chapel near that of Huitzi lopochtli. Occasional human sacrifices were made to him. The victim (said by some to represent the god himself i) was selected a year before, and was a young man of perfect form. He was kept under a kind of tutelage for the ceremony, but was allowed every pleasure; beautiful girls were given him for companions; and at feasts he was honored as a divinity. On the day of the sacrifice he was stripped of his gaudy clothes, and while ascending to the temple threw away his chaplets of flowers and broke his musical instruments. Tezcotzinco (tās-kōt-sēn'kō). A hill about 5 miles east of the town of Tezcuco, Mexico. It was a garden or park and country residence of the ancient chiefs of Tezcuco. Ixtlilxochiti describes it as a place of wonderful beauty, adorned with fountains, baths, and palaces: but this description is probably exaggerated. It is said to have been a favorite retreat of Netzahualcoyotl (which see). The place is marked by a few ruins overgrown with vegetation. Some small artificial pools are erroneously called the Baths of Monte zum a. Teviot (te'vi-ot). A river in Roxburghshire which joins the Tweed near Kelso. Length, about 40 miles. Teviotdale (tē'vi-ot-dal). A name often given to Roxburghshire. Tewa (tā'wa), or Taywah, or Tegua, or Tehua. ['Houses.'] A division of the Tañoan linguistic stock of North American Indians, occupying the pueblos of Pojoaque, Nambé, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Santa Clara, and Tesuque, in the Rio Grande valley, New Mexico, and the pueblo of Hano which forms one of the Tusayan group in northeastern Arizona. Number (1893), 1,100. Tewfik Pasha (tū'fik pash'a), Mohammed. Born Nov. 15, 1852: died in his palace near Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 7, 1892. Khedive of Egypt, league with Tenochtitlan and Tlacopan, and eventually be son of Is mail Pasha whom he succeeded June 26, 1879. From his acce ion until 1882 Egyptian finances continued under Anglo-French control. In that year occurred the rebellion of Arabi Pasha. Its suppre ion by the British marked the ce ation of French influence, and the virtual establishment of a British protectorate. The revolt of the Mahdists led, in spite of British expeditions, to the lo of the upper Nile and Sudan regions in 18841885. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Abbas Pasha. Tewkesbury (tūks'bu-ri). A town in Gloucestershire, England, situated at the junction of the Avon and Severn, 10 miles northeast of An Tezcucans (tās-köʻkans), or Texcocans (tāskoʻkans), or Acolhuans (ä-kōl'ö-ans). ancient Nahuatl tribe of the valley of Mexico. Some traditions make them the offspring of the semi-mythical race called Chichimecs. About 1120 they settled at Tenayucan or Tezcuco, then on the eastern shore of the lake, and this soon became the most powerful pueblo of the valley. Early in the 15th century they were, for a time, con by the Tepanecs; subsequently they joined in a came subordinate in power to the former place. Their last chief or "king," Ixtlilxochitl, joined Cortés in 1520, and a isted in the siege of Tenochtitlan or Mexico. The Tezcucan historians claim for their nation a preeminence in civilization among the Nahuatl tribes. Tezcuco (tās-köʻkō), or Texcoco (tās-kōkō). A town of the state and republic of Mexico, near the eastern shore of Tezcuco Lake, about 16 miles from Mexico City. It was the ancient capital of the Tezcucans or Acolhuans, who called it Acolhuacan or Tenayucan. (See Tezcucans .) At this place, in 1521, Cortés organized the siege of Mexico Tezcuco and built the brigantines with which he a aulted that city from the lake. Population (1889), with the commune, Tezcuco, or Texcoco, Lake of. The largest of the cluster of lakes in the valley of Mexico. At present it is nearly oval in outline, about 12 miles long, 7 wide, and le than 2 feet deep. Mexico City is about 4 miles from the western shore, and Tezcuco is about the same distance from the eastern side. Low and more or le swampy lands around it mark its ancient limits, which were at least four times as great as at present; Mexico was then on an island in it, approached by causeways, and Tezcuco, Tlacopan, and other towns were on its shore. The water was deep enough in 1520 to float the ships of Cortés. During the Aztec and early colonial periods it was frequently swelled by rains, causing disastrous floods in Mexico; one of these floods lasted 3 years (1629-32). The shrinkage is due to filling in with sediment, drainage, and evaporation. Until 1893 the drains of Mexico opened into the lake, and its polluted waters, forced back through them during the rains, caused great mortality in the city. it is now proposed to empty the lake entirely. Tezcuco is the lowest of the valley lakes, and its waters are brackish. It has no fish, but the singular amphibian called the axolotl was formerly abundant. This has been remedied extensive drainage works,