Teide
a famous dormant volcano, the highest summit in the CANARY ISLANDS (q. v.), in the S. W. of the island of Tenerife, 12,200 feet above sea-level. The lower slopes of the mountain are covered with forests, or laid out in extensive meadows, yielding rich grass; but the upper ridges and peak, properly so called, are wild, barren, and rugged in appearance. The Peak El Piton and its two inferior neighbors, the Montana Blanco and Chahorra (9,880 feet), rise from a rugged circular plain of lava débris and pumice, 7,000 feet above sealevel, about 8 miles in diameter, and fenced in by an almost perpendicular wall of rock. From the crevices sulphurous vapors are constantly exhaling. The wall of the crater at the top is formed of broken and jagged porphyritic lava rocks, cks, is elliptical, 300 feet in diameter, and 70 deep. The color of the whole
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Teignmouth
a seaport and watering place of South Devon, England; 15 miles S. of Exeter; on the N. bank of the mouth of the Teign, here spanned by a bridge (1827) 557 yards long. Numerous villas have sprung up on the hills to the N. and along the "Den," a public lawn stretching three-fourths of a mile above the beach, and a promenade pier was constructed (1866). The two Anglican churches, St. Michael (with a good chancel, 1872) and St. James, are poor edifices of the early part of the 19th century; but a fine Roman Catholic church, in Geometrical Decorated style, has been built (1878) in connection with St. Scholastica's Abbey (1865). Other buildings are the public assembly rooms (1826), theater (1849), market house, public baths, etc. Beyond shipbuilding and fishing Teignmouth has no special industries, but there is a considerable trade. The exports are principally pipe and potter's clay and granite, and the imports, coal, culm, timber, etc. Teignmouth was burnt by the Danes (930) and French (1338 and 1690), on the last occasion losing 116 houses. Pop. about 9,000.
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Teixeira De Mattos
ALEXAN- DER LOUIS, a British writer, born at Amsterdam, Holland, in 1865. He was brought to England when nine years old and later acted as London correspondent for Dutch papers. He was editor of "Dramatic Opinions" in 1891, and editor of "Candid Friend" in 1901-1902. He has translated the works of several well known European writers from Dutch, Danish, French, German, and Flemish, among them Carl Ewald, Maurice Mæterlinck, J. H. C. Fabre, and Maurice Leblanc.
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Tejus
the type-genus of Tejidæ, with three species, from Brazil and Mendoza.
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Tel El-Amarna
or TELL EL- AMARINA, the modern name of a mass of ruins a little to the N. of Assiout, on the E. bank of the Nile, representing the capital of the heretic Egyptian king IV. (q. v.). Here was found AMENHOTEP in 1887 a collection of tablets in Babylonian cuneiform, at that period-some time before the exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt-used as a kind of lingua franca for all western Asia. These tablets were mainly reports from the Egypof tian governors Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Babylonia, some of which implored help against the HITTITES (q. v.), then pressing S. Of about 230 tablets 160 went to Berlin Museum and 82 to the British Museum.
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Tel-El-Kebir
a locality midway on the railway between Ismailia and Cairo; the scene on the morning of Sept. 13, 1882, of the capture by Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley of Arabi Pasha's entrenched camp, defended by 26,000 men. The British loss was about 430 killed and wounded, the Egyptians' 1,500.
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Telautograph
an instrument which will at any distance transmit accurately and to the smallest detail in exact facsimile anything that may be written or drawn on the transmitting device. Two instruments are used, one to transmit and one to record. Both are nearly identical in form, size, and general arrangement, and each carries a wide strip of paper controlled by a synchronizing device which causes the one to follow the movements of the other. On the transmitter anything can be written or drawn and the recording stylus of the receiving instrument follows the movements of the transmitting stylus or pencil and thus produces an exact facsimile of the writing or drawing. The Telechirograph invented by Gruhn is a modification of the Telautograph.
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Telegraph and Telephone Wire
These wires, when made from the ordinary bronzes, were found to be insufficiently conductive. A silicon-bronze has now been substituted, which is equal in strength to the best phosphor-bronze, much superior as a conductor of electricity, and much lighter. The alloy, when produced from the prepared compound, contains, in telephone wire, copper 99.94, tin 0.03, silicon 0.02. For telegraph wire, copper 97.12, tin 1.14, silicon 0.05, zinc 1.62, with iron a trace in each. The compound which forms the base for this mixture is obtained by fusing the copper in a lead crucible with carbonate of soda, fluorsilicate of potassium, chloride of soda, chloride of calcium, and glass. The oxides are by this means absorbed by the acid flux of the silica. Silicon-bronze thus obtained has about 70 per cent of the electrical conductivity of copper, while phosphor-bronze has but 30, and steel something over 10.
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Telekinesis
A term denoting the hypothetical faculty of moving material objects by thought alone. The movement of objects without contact-a frequent phenomenon of the séance-room, including in its wider sense rappings, table-tiltings, levitations, the conveyance of apports, practically all material phenomena, with the possible exception of materialisation-is exceeding difficult of explanation on rational grounds, and the attempt to explain it thus, without the intervention of discarnate spirits, has given rise to the telekinetic theory, which holds that all these varied feats are accomplished by the thoughts of medium and sitters, independent of muscular energy, whether direct or indirect. How thought can possibly act in this immediate way on inanimate matter is beyond comprehension in our present state of knowledge. The evidence for telekinesis is very much less than, say, that for telepathy. The telekinetic theory is akin to that offered by the magnetists, who regarded a fluidic or energetic emanation as the cause of the movements.
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