More than one of these 7 encyclopedias carries each of the following subjects — but every one of them treats it in a sentence or two and then moves on. They are gathered here so the different 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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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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Tarpeian Rock
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a name given to the Capitoline Hill from Tarpeia, the traitress. Later, the name was restricted to a cliff or steep declivity of the Capitoline over which criminals were hurled to their death. The exact location of the rock is now a matter of mere tradition.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a rock on the Capitoline Hill at Rome, named from the maid Tarpeia. Traitors were cast down this rock and so killed.
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Tarrytown
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a village in Westchester co., N. Y.; on the Hudson river, and on the New York and Hudson river railroad; 27 miles N. of New York. Its precincts include Sleepy Hollow. The Hudson here has an expansion called Tappan Zee, and the village is built on rising ground, commanding an extensive view. It contains a Revolutionary Soldiers' Monument and other objects of interest, Irving Institute, a number of libraries, a National bank, and weekly newspapers. It has manufactories of plumbers' tools, tile, automobiles, and shoes. It is celebrated as the place where Major André was captured, and also as the place where the remains of Washington Irving were interred. Pop. (1910) 5,600; (1920) 5,807.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a village on the east bank of that part of the Hudson known as Tappan Sea. It is twenty-four miles north of New York City. A monument marks the spot where Andre was captured. Sleepy Hollow, made famous by Washington Irving, lies north of the village. Sunnyside, his residence, is situated to the southward. See Andre ; Irving
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Tarshish
Aiton's Encyclopedia: in sacred geography, a fardistant locality known to the sailors of Tyre and Sidon. "Ships go down to Tarshish," says Holy Writ. Tarshish lay beyond the pillars of Hercules , that is to say, west of the Strait of Gibraltar. The locality has been identified with the district about the mouth of the Guadalquiver.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a place frequently mentioned in the Old Testament. It is now generally identified by Biblical critics with the Tartessus of the Greek and Roman writers, a district of Southern Spain, near the mouth of the Guadalquivir, settled by the Phœnicians.
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Tartar
Collier's New Encyclopedia: the substance called also argal, or argol, deposited from wines incompletely fermented, and adhering to the sides of the casks in the form of a hard crust. What is called tartar emetic is a double tartrate of potassium and antimony, an important compound used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, diaphoretic, sedative, febrifuge, and counter-irritant. Tartar of the teeth is an earthy-like substance which occasionally concretes on the teeth and is deposited from the saliva. It consists of salivary , animal matter, and phosphate mucus lime.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Cream Of Tartar
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Tartars
Collier's New Encyclopedia: or TATARS, certain Tungusic tribes in Chinese Tartary, but extended to the Mongol, Turkish and other warriors, who' under Genghis Khan and other chiefs were the terror of the European Middle Ages. The name, originally Turkish and Persian Tatar, was doubtless changed to Tartar, either consciously or unconsciously, because they were supposed to be like fiends from hell (Greek tartaros, "hell"). The term is used loosely for tribes of mixed origin in Tartary, Siberia, and the Russian steppes, including Kazan Tartars, Crim Tartars, Kipchaks, Kalmucks, etc., and has no definite ethnological meaning. In the classification of languages Tartaric is used of the Turkish group. See MONGOLIAN OLIAN; TU- RANIAN; TURKS.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: tar'tarz, or Tatars, a term applied with little discrimination to the inhabitants of the steppe region of eastern Russia and central Asia. It is difficult to distinguish between Tartars, Turks, Mongols, Talmucks, etc. Under Genshis Khan the rule of the Tartars extended from the Chinese coast on the Pacific so far west-ward as to include Poland. Tamerlane or Timur was another great leader of the Tartar origin. The Great Wall of china was built to keep these people out of the fertile valleys of the "flowery Kingdom." See Steppe ; Timur ; China ; Great Wall
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