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104. [There are two temples at Abydos dedicated to the local divinity: the one built by Seti, the other by Ramses. The same series of kings, twice repeated, without any variation, adorns these buildings. One is the Table described above, the other was discovered comparatively lately. Although in an admirable state of preservation, this Tablet adds but little to our knowledge. It mentions some new kings, and shows the correct sequence of others, but is far from giving us a connected series of all the kings of Egypt from Menes to Seti I. - Note, p. 105.] Railway built on the spot. IMG:content-1087.png:[blocks in formation] Tabaristan (tä-bä-ris-tän'). The mountainous region in the southeast of the province of Mazanderan, Persia. Tabaristan, Sea of. A medieval name of the Caspian Sea. Tabariyeh (tä-bä-rē'ye), or Tabariya (tä-bäreya). The modern name of Tiberias. Tabasco (tä-Bäs'kō). A maritime state of Mex Falls, the presence of which is said to have at one time caused a separate fall. Until a part of it fell in June, 1850, it largely overhung the water. Some of it still remains. Table Round. See Round Table . Tables, The. In Scottish history, an organization, consisting of members of the privy council and others, which took the lead in opposition to the introduction of episcopacy into Scotland about 1638-39. They were so called from sitting separately or conjointly at the tables in the Parliament House. Table-talk. A name given to various collections of e ays. The most notable works so entitled are those of Luther, of John Selden (published in 1689, after his death, by his amanuensis), of Hazlitt (1821-57), and of Cole ridge (published by his son in 1835, and republished in 1884). Dyce published in 1856 "Recollections of the bris (te-brēs'), or Tauris (tâ'ris). The capital of the province of Azerbaijan, Persia, situated on a tributary of Lake Urumiah, about lat. 38° 4′ N., long. 46°18′ E.: the second city of Persia, and its chief commercial center. It lies on the main route between Teheran and Turkey and Ru ia. Among the buildings are the citadel and "Blue Mosque." It is noted for its orchards and gardens. It has often been devastated by sieges and earthquakes. Population, 180,000. Tacanas (tä-kä'näs). Indians of northern Bolivia, between the rivers Beni and Madre de Dios. They are divided into many small tribes, some of which have been gathered into the Beni mi ions. The wild tribes are, to some extent, agriculturists, and the women weave cotton cloths; but they are said to be very savage, and are accused of cannibalism. Among the tribes or villages are the Cavinas, Araunas, Lecos, Tacanas proper, Mac a ranis, and Maropas. Their language appears to constitute a distinct stock. Tacchinardi (täk-kē-när'dē), Niccolo. Born at Leghorn, Sept., 1776: died at Florence, March 14, 1859. A noted Italian tenor singer. He appeared first in opera in 1804, made a brilliant succe in Rome and other cities, and visited Paris in 1811. In 1814 he returned to Italy, and was appointed chief singer to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. He retired from the stage in 1831, and became celebrated as a teacher. Taché (tä-shā'), Alexandre An to nine. Born at Rivière-du-Loup, Canada, July 23, 1823: died at Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 22, 1894. A Canadian archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church, brother of E. P. Taché: distinguished for his early mi ionary labors among the Indians. He became bishop of St. Boniface in 1853, and archbishop in 1871, when St. Boniface was made a metropolitan see. He mediated between the Canadian government and the Métis in 1870. His best-known work is "Esqui e sur le nord-ouest de l'Amérique" (1869: translated Taché, Sir Étienne Paschal. Born at St. Thomas, Lower Canada, Sept. 5, 1795: died there, July 29, 1865. A Canadian politician. He entered Parliament in 1841, and was commi ioner of public works 1848-49, and speaker of the legislative council 1856-57. into English). Tacitus (tas'i-tus), Cornel i us. Born about 55 A. D.: died probably after 117. A celebrated Roman historian and noted legal orator. He was pretor in 88 and consul in 97. He was a friend of the younger Pliny. His extant works include "Dialog us de or at or i bus," an "attempt to demonstrate and explain the by the Gulf of Mexico, the Mexican states of Vera Cruz, Chiapas and Campeche, and Guatemala. The surface is low except in the southern part, and the soil is fertile. Area, 9,844 square miles. Population (1895), 134,794. Tabatinga (tä-bä-tēng'gä). A military post and town in the state of Amazon as, Brazil, situated on the Amazon close to the Peruvian frontier. Tabernacle. See Salt Lake City . Tabirá (tä-bē-rä'). [Origin of name doubtful, po ibly Piro.] The proper name of the ruined pueblo on the mesa of Jumanos in New Mexico, now called "la gran Quivira." Tabirá was a Francis can mi ion in the 17th century, but was abandoned about 1670, on account of the Apaches, at the same time as the village, the inhabitants of which retreated to the south and to the Rio Grande. ical dialogue entitled "Table Talk" to a volume of poems published in 1782. Tablet of Sakkarah. See the extract. The most interesting, as also the most perfect, monument of this kind is the one that was found during the French excavations at Sakkarah, and which is now in the Gizeh palace. Unlike the others, it is not of royai origin, It was discovered in the tomb of an Egyptian priest named Tûnari, who lived in the days of Ramses II. According to the Egyptian belief, one of the good things reserved for the dead who were deemed worthy of eternal life was to be admitted to the society of their kings, and Tûnari is represented as having been received into the august a embly of fifty-eight. Here again in the Tablet of Sakkarah, as before in that of Abydos, is raised the same question: Why these fifty-eight kings more than any others? Mariette, Outlines, p. 106. Tabnit (täb'nit). King of Sidon (Phenic i a) in Tabitha (tab'i-tha). [LL. Tabitha , Gr. Ταβιθά; an Aramaic name meaning 'a female gazel': the first part of the 4th century B. c., father of its Gr. translation is Δορκάς .] A Christian woman at Joppa, mentioned in Acts ix. as making garments for the poor: also called Dorcas. She was miraculously restored to life by the apostle Peter. Tablas (tä'bläs). One of the Philippine Islands, southeast of Mindoro. Length, about 30 miles. Table (tā'bl) Bay. An arm of the ocean, on the southwestern coast of Cape Colony, South Africa. On it is Cape Town. Table Diamond, The Great. A famous royal Indian diamond, ranked by Tavernier, who saw it in Golconda in 1642, as the third in size and quality seen by him. It weighed about 242 carats. It was then in the hands of a dealer, the king having been obliged to raise money on it. It has disappeared, and it has been suggested that the Ru ian Table diamond may be a part of it. The latter diamond weighs 68 carats. Table Mountain, or Tafelberg (tä'fel-berg). A mountain immediately south of Cape Town, South Africa, remarkable for its flattened summit. Height, about 3,500 feet. Eshmunazar. Tabor (tä'bor). [See Taborites .] A town in Bohemia, situated on the Luschnitz 48 miles south of Prague. It was founded as a stronghold by the Hu ites under Ziska in 1419. It gave name to the Taborites. Population (1890), 8,440. Tabor (ta'bor), Mount. A wooded mountain in Palestine, 6 miles east of Nazareth, on the border of the plain of Esdraelon: famous in Old Testament history. According to a tradition it was the scene of the Transfiguration; and in the monastic ages it was peopled with hermits. Height, about 1,800 feet. Taborites (tā'bor-its). [So called from their great fortified encampment formed, in 1419, on a hill in Bohemia named by them Mount Tabor, probably with reference both to Bohemian tabor , encampment, and to Mount Tabor in Palestine.] The members of the more extreme party of the Hu ites. They were fierce and succe ful warriors under their succe ive leaders Ziska and Procopius, causing wide-spread devastation, till their final defeat in 1434. See Hu ites . Tabriz (tä-brēz'), or Tavris (tä-vrēs'), or Te dialogue between literary celebrities of the time of Vespas i an"; a biography of his father-in-law Julius Agricola ("De vita et moribus Julii Agricolæ"); the "German i a," a celebrated ethnographical work on the Germans; the "Historiæ," a narrative of events in the reigns of Galba, Otho, Vitelli us, Vespas i an, Titus, and Domitian, of which only the first four books and the first half of the fifth book survive; and the "Annales," a history of the Julian dynasty from the death of August us. Of the last work only the first four books and parts of the fifth and sixth have come down to us. Tackers (tak'erz). In English history, a section of extreme Tories who in 1704 attempted to carry their point by "tacking” a “rider" to a revenue bill. They were defeated. Tackle ton (tak'l-ton), Mr. A character in Dickens's "Cricket on the Hearth." He is a toy merchant who has mistaken his vocation in life, and, "cramped and chafing in the peaceable pursuit of toy making," becomes at last the implacable enemy of children. Tacna (täk'nä). 1. A province, provisionally under Chile an government, but formerly belonging to Peru. (See Ar Arica.) It borders on Peru. Area, 8,685 square miles. Population (1895), 24,160.-2. The capital of the province