Several of these 6 encyclopedias cover each subject below, but between them they say too little to fill a page of its own. They are gathered here so the accounts can sit side by side.
Table Mountain
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a mountain in Pickens co., S. C.; height, 4,000 feet. Also a mountain of South Africa, S. of Table Bay, its highest point being right over Cape Town. It is about 3,500 feet high and level on the top. It joins the Devil's Mount on the E., and the Sugar Loaf or Lion's Head on the W.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a flat mountain forming the southern terminus of the South African tableland. It is about 3,582 feet above sea level. It overlooks, almost overhangs, Table Bay and the port of Cape Town . Quite in keeping with the name the white fleecy clouds which overspread the "Table" in fine weather are called the "table cloth."
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Tagus
Collier's New Encyclopedia: the largest river in the Span-1 ish peninsula, which, rising between the Sierra de Albarracin and the Sierra Molina, on the frontier of Aragon and New Castile, flows S.; then, holding a W. course through the rest of Spain, enters Portugal, when, pursuing a more S. direction, it passes Lisbon, forming the magnificent harbor of that city, and, spreading into a splendid estuary, finally mingles its waters with the Atlantic after a course of 625 miles. Above the capital of Portugal it has a width of 5 miles; at the city a breadth of 2 miles; but, in consequence of its deep banks and impetuous current, the Tagus is but little adapted to mercantile purposes and is at present only navigable to Abrantes.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: the longest river in the Spanish peninsula. It rises in the San Juan Mountains and flows west into the Bay of Lisbon, forming part of the boundary between Spain and Portugal. The total length is 500 miles. The lower part of the course is navigable. The chief Spanish city on the banks of the Tagus is Toledo.
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Tahiti
Aiton's Encyclopedia: ta-he'te, the chief of the Society Islands. It is situated in the eastern Pacific and, with the group, belongs to France. Area, 600 square miles. Population, about 12,000. The inhabitants are Polynesians of the Malay race. Tahiti was visited by Captain Cook in 1769, and was early the seat of an English mission. The island is mountainous. Cocoanuts and bananas, oranges, sugar-cane, and vanilla, as well as a little cotton, coffee, and tobacco are cultivated along the coast. The total exports are valued at about $1,000,000 a year. Trade is carried on chiefly with New Zealand or with San Francisco by means of steamships visiting the islands at intervals of about five weeks. Pearls are exported.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: an island giving name to a small archipelago, also called SOCIETY ISLANDS (q. v.), in the middle of the Pacific; a French possession. Pop. about 12,000. Chief town Papeete, pop. 3,600. Exports consist of copra, mother-of-pearl, vanilla, cocoanuts, and oranges. Value, $2,000,000 annually.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: SOCIETY ISLANDS TREE FERNS IN TASMANIA TEA PICKING IN JAPAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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Tallow
Collier's New Encyclopedia: in chemistry, a name applied to the harder and less fusible fats occurring chiefly in the animal kingdom, the most common being beef and mutton tallow. When pure it is white and almost tasteless, and consists of stearin, palmitin, and olein in varying proportions. Tallow is of two kinds, viz., white and yellow candle tallow, and common soap tallow. The white candle tallow, when good, is brittle, dry and clean. Yellow candle tallow, when good, should be clean, dry, hard when broken, and of a fine yellow color throughout. Soap tallow is used for making soap, and for greasing machinery. A great deal of tallow is also used for the dressing of leather.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Oil
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Tallow Tree
Collier's New Encyclopedia: the Stillingia sebifera, a native of China. The leaves are rhomboidal, tapering at the tip, with two glands at the top of the petiole. The fruits are about half an inch in diameter, and have three seeds, which are covered by a kind of wax used in China, for making candles, whence the name tallow tree. They are boiled in large cauldrons, then sufficiently bruised to enable the fat to be removed without breaking the seeds, and pressed. The candles made from this wax are coated with bees' wax to prevent them from melting in hot weather. The wood is hard, and used for printing blocks, and the leaves for dyeing black. Also Vateria indica, a native of the Malabar coast, which yields white dammer.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: any one of several trees which yield the substance known as vegetable tallow. The common tallow-tree is a native of China. It has been introduced into India and the West Indies and into the southern part of the United States . The seed pods are an inch and a half thick. They contain three seeds each which are coated with a fatty substance from which tallow may be extracted. The Chinese use this tallow for candles. They press an oil from the seeds which makes a serviceable varnish. A black die is extracted from the leaf of the tree. The wood itself is hard and dark-grained and serves many useful purposes.
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Tarpeia
Collier's New Encyclopedia: one of the vestal virgins of Rome, the daughter of Spurius Tarpeius, governor of the citadel on the Capitoline Hill. She agreed to open the gates to the Sabines if they would give her "what they wore on their arms" (meaning their bracelets). The Sabines, "keeping their promise to the ear, crushed her to death with their shields, and she was buried in that part of the hill called the TARPEIAN ROCK (q. v.).
1000 Classical Characters: Daughter of Sp. Tarpeius, the governor of the Roman citadel on the Saturnian hill, afterwards called the Capitoline, who was tempted by the gold on the Sabine bracelets and collars to open a gate of the fortress to T. Tatius and his Sabines. As they entered, they threw upon her their shields, and thus crushed her to death. The Tarpeian rock , a part of the Capitoline, was named after her.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: tar-pe'ya, in Roman legend, the daughter of a governor of the citadel of Rome on the Capitoline Hill. During a siege of the city the Sabine soldiers tempted her to admit them by a gift of what they wore on the left arm. She expected gold collars and bracelets. As the soldiers entered, however, they cast their shields upon the traitress, whom they scorned. She was crushed to death beneath the weight.
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