Tay
a river in Scotland. One of its sources is Loch Tay, a picturesque sheet of water in the County of Perth. This loch is about fifteen miles long and a mile wide. It is from 100 to 600 feet deep and is well stocked with fish. Other lochs contribute their waters to the River Tay which flows eastward into an estuary and is about 120 miles in length. The estuary is navigable for ships. It is crossed by a railway at Dundee. In 1879 the Tay Bridge of thirteen spans was blown down by a storm, carrying a passenger train with it. The new bridge, over two miles in length, and having eighty-five spans and two lines of rail, was open to traffic in 1887.
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Tay (LOCH a lake in Perthshire)
LOCH, a lake in Perthshire, Scotland, 355 feet above sea-level, and extending 14½ miles N. E. from Killin , 15 to to Kenmore, ½ to 1½ miles broad 100 fathoms deep, and covering 6,550 acres. It is a magnificent Highland lake, flanked on the N. W. by Ben Lawers (4,004 feet), and containing near its foot a wooded islet, with a fragment of an Augustinian priory, founded in 1122 by Alexander I., who here buried his queen, Sibylla. In September, 1842, Queen Victoria was rowed up Loch Tay, launched on which a steamer was first in 1883, and a railway to which, at Killin, was opened in 1886.
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Tay (River of Scotland draining)
a river of Scotland, draining nearly the whole of Perthshire, and pouring into the German Ocean a greater bulk of water than any other British river; rises on Benloy, on the Argyllshire border, at an altitude of 2,980 feet. Thence it winds 118 miles E. N. E., S., S. S. E., and E.-for the last 25 miles as a tidal estuary, 1½ mile to 34 miles broad, which separates Perth and Forfar shires from Fife. In the first 25 miles of its course it bears the names of Fillan and Dochart; it then traverses Loch Tay, and it afterward passes Aberfeldy, Dunkeld, Stanley, Perth, Dundee, and Broughty- Ferry. Its principal affluents are the Tunnel (58 miles long, and sometimes regarded as a N. head stream), Isla, Almond, and Earn. The Tay, as it is the most beautiful of Scottish rivers, so it is unrivaled for its salmon fisheries. Vessels of 100 tons can ascend as high as Perth, but even to Dundee the navigation of the firth is much impeded by shifting sandbanks.
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Taygete
Daughter of Atlas and Pleione , one of the Pleiades, from whom Mount Taygetus in Laconia is said to have derived its name . By Zeus ( Jupiter ) she became the mother of Lacedaemon and of Eurotas.
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Taygetus
a part of a lofty ridge of mountains in Greece, which, traversing Greece, the whole of Laconia from the Achæan frontier, terminates in the sea at the promontory of Tænarus. Its outline, particularly as seen from the N., is of a more serrated form than the other Grecian mountains. In winter it is covered with snow, which renders the vicinity extremely cold. In summer it reflects a powerful heat upon the Spartan plain, from which it keeps the salubrious visits of the W. winds, and thus makes it one of the hottest places in Greece. sity,
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Taylor
a borough of Pennsylvania in Lackawanna co. It is on the Lackawanna River and on the Central of New Jersey, the Delaware and Hudson, and the Delaware, Lackawanna , and Western railroads. It is the center of an important coal mining region and has manufactories of silk. Pop. (1910) 9,060; (1920) 9,876.
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Taylor
ALONZO ENGLEBERT, an American university professor , born at Alden, Ia. , in 1871. He studied at Cor" nell College, Ia., at De Pauw University at the University of Berlin , and the University of Pennsylvania , becoming an M.D. in 1894. In 1899-1910 he was professor of pathology in the University of California, and has been Rush professor of physiology and chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania since 1910. He was appointed as secretary on the War Trade Board in 1917. He is a member of the Association of American Physicians and of the American Association of Pathologists.
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Taylor (BAYARD an writer and traveler)
BAYARD, an writer and traveler; born in Kennett Square, Chester co., Pa., Jan. 11, 1825. He learned the trade of a printer; contributed to various magazines; made a journey through Europe on foot in 1844- 1845; on his return published "Views Afoot in Europe ," and in this way gained a position on the staff of the New York "Tribune." He afterward traveled extensively, giving his experiences in "El- (1850); "Central Africa" dorado" (1854); "The Land of the Saracens" (1854); "Visit to India, China , and Japan" (1855); "Northern Travel" (1858); "Crete and Russia" (1859); "Byways of Europe" (1869); and "Egypt and Iceland" (1874). He also published several novels; various volumes of verse, such as "Rhymes of Travel" (1848); "A Book of Romances, Lyrics, and Songs" (1851); "Poems and Ballads" (1854); "Poems of the Orient" (1855); "The Masque of the Gods" (1872); and translation of Goethe's "Faust" in the original meters. He resided in Germany for lengthened periods , was for some time United States secretary of legation at Petrograd, and latterly was United States minister to Germany. He died in Berlin Dec. 19, 1878. a
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Taylor (BERT LESTON an American writer)
BERT LESTON, an American writer, born at Goshen , Mass., in 1866. He was educated at the College of the City of New York and later entered journalism. He became known in connection with a humorous column in the Chicago "Tribune." headed "A Line-o'- R Type or Two." His works include: "Lineo'-Type Lyrics"; "The Well in the Wood"; "The Log of the Water Wagon"; "The Charlatans"; "Extra Dry "; "A Line-o'- Verse or Two"; "The Pipesmoke Carry"; "Motley Measures." He died in 1921. American
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Taylor (City of Texas in Williamson co)
a city of Texas, in Williamson co. It is on the Missouri , Kansas and Texas , and the International and Great Northern railroads . It is the center of an important cotton region, and its industries include live stock, wool, and the manufacture of machine-shop products, flour, cottonseed oil. The repair shops of the International and Great Northern Railroad are here. It is watered largely by artesian wells. Pop. (1910) 5,314; (1920) 5,965 .
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