indelible until its pulses cease to beat forever." Dickens. Close to the cataract, exactly at the spot from whence in former days the Table Rock used to project from the land over the boiling caldron below, there is now a shaft down which you will descend to the level of the river. Anthony Trollope. Tablet of Abydos. 1. An historical monument giving a genealogy of the early Egyptian kings. It was discovered at Abydos, in Upper Egypt, in 1818. Now in the British Museum, London. 2. A monument of historical importance discovered in 1865 in the Temple of Sethi I., at Abydus, Egypt, is conjectured by M. Mairette to be the original of the one now in the British Museum. It contains a list of 76 kings from Menes to Sethi I. Tablet of Sakkárah. A famous monument found at Sakkarah, now preserved in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities at Cairo, Egypt. This tablet, which has been of much use in the solution of the problem of the dynasties of Egypt, has inscribed upon it the names of 58 kings which correspond with those in the list of Manetho. Tabularium. An ancient ruin in Rome, of which only a few remains are now standing, once the public Record Office, where the tabula, or engraved decrees, of the Roman Senate were preserved. "After his lecture was over this morning, Mr. Bunsen took us into the Tabularium, and explained it to us in a very interesting manner. It has been fully explored, only within a few years, and is now one of the grandest monuments of ancient Rome." George Ticknor. Taj Mahal. A renowned monument-justly considered one of the wonders of the world- at Agra in Hindostan. Its cost is estimated at $16,000,000. "The distant view of this matchless edifice satisfied me that its fame is well deserved. So pure, 80 gloriously perfect, did it appear, that I almost feared to approach it lest the charm should be broken. It is a work inspired by love and consecrated to Beauty. Shah Jehan- the 'Selim' of Moore's poem-erected it as a mausoleum over his queen Noor Jehan... Few persons of the thousands who sigh over the pages of Lalla Rookh are aware that the Light of the Harem' was a real personage, and that her tomb is one of the wonders of the world. . . . A building which has no counterpart in Europe, or even in the East. The remains of Moorish art in Spain approach nearest to its spirit, but are only the scattered limbs, the torso, of which the Taj is the perfect type. If there were nothing else in India, this alone would repay the journey.... It is an octagonal building of the purest white marble, little inferior to that of Carrara. Every part - even the basement, the dome, and the upper galleries of the minarets -is inlaid with ornamental designs in marble of different colors, principally a pale brown and a bluish-violet variety. The building is perfect in every part. . . . The dome of the Taj contains an echo more sweet, pure, and prolonged than that in the Baptistery of Pisa, which is the finest in Europe. The Taj is, as I have said, a poem. Did you ever build a castle in the air? Here is one brought down to earth and fixed for the wonder of ages; yet so light it seems, so airy, and when seen from a distance, so like a fabric of mist and sunbeams, with its great dome soaring up, a silvery bubble about to burst in the sun, that even after you have touched it, and climbed to its summit, you almost doubt its reality." Bayard Taylor. Tak Kesra. A well-known and important ruin on the site of the ancient Ctesiphon in Mesopotamia. "It was apparently originally erected as a hunting-box on the edge of the desert for the use of the Persian king, and preserves all the features we are familiar with in Sassanian palaces. It is wholly of brick, and contains in the centre a tri-apsal hall, once surmounted by a dome." Fergusson. Tancarville. A mediæval stronghold on the banks of the Seine below Rouen. It was pillaged at the time of the Revolution, but has now reverted to the descendants of its original owners, the Montmorencys. Tantallon Castle. An ancient and ruined baronial fortress, of un known age, occupying a high rock which projects into the Ger- But scant three miles the band had rode, The train from out the castle drew; "Of cold respect to stranger guest, While in Tantallon's towers I staid,- Tapestries [of the Vatican]. A series of ornamental hangings, after designs by Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520), wrought at Arras in Flanders, first hung in the Sistine Chapel on St. Stephen's day, 26th of December, 1519. They were afterwards carried off to France, but subsequently restored, and are now, it is supposed, hanging in a dilapidated condition, in the upper rooms of the Vatican. One of them, at least, has long been lost. Besides the series of tapestries in the Sistine, another series, twelve in number, of which the cartoons are lost, are still preserved in the Vatican. They are known as "Arazzi della Scuola Nuova," the others being called "Arazzi della Scuola Vecchia.” "The tapestries are the only work of Raphael which does not seem insignificant after seeing Michael Angelo's ceiling in the Sistine Chapel." Goethe, Trans. Tapestry Weavers, The. [Hilanderas.] A noted picture by Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez (1599-1660), of which Mengs said that it seemed to be painted rather by the mind than the hand. In the Gallery at Madrid, Spain. Tappan Zee. An expansion of the Hudson River beginning at Dobbs's Ferry. It is about ten miles long and from two to five miles in breadth. He was never seen afterwards, but may be heard plying his oars, as above mentioned, being the Flying Dutchman of the Tappan Sea, doomed to ply between Kakiat and Spiting Devil until the day of judgment. Washington Irving. Tara Hill. An eminence in the parish of Tara, in Leinster, Ire land, formerly the seat of the Irish kings, and from which the famous coronation stone was brought to Scotland. See STONE OF SCONE. According to Cambrensis, there is "in Mieth, an hill, called the Hill of Taragh, wherein is a plaine twelve score long, which was named the Kempe his hall; where the countrie had their meetings and folkmotes, as a place that was accounted the high pal ace of the monarch. The Irish historians hammer manie tales in this forge, of Fin Mac Coile and his champions. But doubtlesse seemeth to beare the shew of an ancient and famous monument." The harp that once through Tara's halls. Moore. Tarpeian Rock. [Lat. Tarpeius mons, Ital. Monte Tarpeia.] A rocky eminence or cliff on the southern summit of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals sentenced to death were frequently thrown. It was so named to commemorate the treachery of Tarpeia, who, during the war with the Sabines, in the early period of Roman history, longing for the golden bracelets of the enemy and allured by the promise of receiving that which they wore upon their arms, opened the fortress to the Sabines, and was rewarded by being crushed by their shields which they threw upon her in passing. "The Tarpeian rock is on the southern side of the Capitoline Hill. The soil has gathered round the base in considerable quantities, so that the formidable impressions conveyed by Roman writers are not confirmed by the sight. But a very respectable precipice may still be seen, and a traitor who should now leap from the top would probably be as harmless ever after as Clodius or Catiline." Hillard. The tribune with unwilling steps with drew. While impious hands the rude assault re new: The brazen gates with thundering strokes resound, And the Tarpeian mountain rings around. Lucan, Trans Then on to the Tarpeian rock he leads The way, and to the Capitol, now decked With gold, then rough with bushes wild. Virgil, Trans. of Cranch. Thou hast the whole Universe against thee. No more success: mere sham-suc cess, for a day and days; rising ever higher, towards its Tarpeian Rock. Carlyle. On the 23d May, 1618, the delegates of the Protestants of Bohemia cast from the windows of the royal castle of Prague two Catholic members of the Council of Regency. They pretended it was an old custom of the country, and that like the Romans they precipitated traitors from the top of this Tarpeian Rock. Henri Martin. -where the steep Tarpeian? fittest goal of Treason's race, The Promontory whence the Traitor's Cured all'ambition. Byron. Tassoni's Bucket. See SECCHIA RAPITA. I liked the town [Modena] as I drove in; and, after sleeping an hour or two, I went out in search of Tassoni's Bucket." N. P Willis. Tasso's Prison. A cell in the Hospital of S. Anna in Ferrara, Italy, pointed out as the prison in which the poet Tasso was confined by the Duke of Ferrara. And Tasso is their glory and their shame. Hark to his strain! and then survey his cell! And see how dearly earned Torquato's fame, Tattersall's. And where Alfonso bade his poet dwell. Byron. A celebrated sporting rendezvous and auction-mart for horses in London, established by Richard Tattersall in 1766. The betting throughout the country is governed by the betting at Tattersall's. On the Proposal for a Cast-metal King: gradually a light kindled in our Professor's eyes and face, a beaming, mantling, loveliest light; through those murky features, a radiant, ever-young Apollo looked: and he burst forth like the neighing of all Tattersall's, tears streaming down his cheeks, pipe held aloft, foot clutched into the air,-loud, long-continuing, uncontrollable. Carlyle. And they look at one another with the seriousness of men prepared to die in their opinion, the authentic seriousness of men betting at Tattersall's, or about to receive judgment in Chancery. Carlyle. Taymouth Castle. The seat of the Marquis of Breadalbane near Kenmore, Scotland. Tazza Farnese. [The Farnese Cup.] A celebrated onyx cup, a relic of ancient art, highly ornamented with figures in relief. Now in the Museum at Naples, Italy. Te, Palazzo del. A noble palace in Mantua, Italy. "Giulio Romano's masterpiece." J. A. Symonds. Tebaldeo. A portrait by Sebastian del Piombo (1485-1547). In the Scarpa collection at La Motta, Italy. Tecumseh, The. A noted ironclad vessel of the United States navy in the Civil War in 1861-65. She was one of Admiral Farragut's fleet in the attack upon the defences of Mobile, Ala., Aug. 5, 1864. She was suddenly destroyed by the explosion of a torpedo. "The Tecumseh was about 300 yards ahead of the Brooklyn when she was suddenly uplifted, and almost as suddenly disappeared beneath the waters, carrying down with her Capt. Craven and nearly all his officers and crew. Only 17 of 130 were saved. The Tecumseh had struck a percussiontorpedo, which exploded directly under her turret, making a fearful chasm, into which the water rushed in such volume that she sunk in a few seconds." Lossing. Telegraph Hill. An eminence at the northern extremity of San Francisco, Cal., commanding a fine view. Tell's Chapel. 1. A building situated on a ledge of rock on the slope of the Axenfluh, washed by the waters of the Lake of Uri, Switzerland. It is a small chapel built in memory of William Tell (b. thirteenth century), and on the very spot where he sprang out of Gessler's boat, as he was being carried away a prisoner. The chapel was rebuilt in 1879, in strict adherence to the original design. 2. A chapel in a village near Altorf, Switzerland, built in 1522 on the spot where the house stood which was occupied by William Tell. Téméraire. See FIGHTING TÉMÉ RAIRE. Ac Tempe. A narrow rocky gorge in Greece, about five miles in length, between Mount Olympus on the north and Mount Ossa on the south, through which flows the river Peneus. On the right side of the vale is the inscription cut in the rock : "Lucius Cassius Longinus, the Proconsul, made the road through Tempe." cording to the legends of the Greek mythology, this fissure was cut through by Neptune with a stroke of his trident, thus opening a passage for the waters imprisoned in Thessaly, the defile receiving from this circumstance the name of Tempe (from Gr. Teuvo), or The Cuts. From Tempe's vale next ancient Peneus came, That fertile vale immortalized in fame! Lapped in Thessalia's forest-mantled hills Ford. (Lover's Melancholy.) The smooth Peneus from his glassy flood Reflects purpureal Tempe's pleasant scene. Fair Tempe! haunt beloved of sylvan This privileged spot [Whitefriars or "Alsatia "] stood in the same relation to the Temple as Alsace did to France and the central powers of Europe. In the Temple, students were studying to observe the law; and in Alsatia, adjoining, debtors to avoid and violate it. Cunningham. Temple, The. Nothing is now left of this old fortress and prison in Paris, though much of it was standing a century ago. There were two Commanderies of the Knights Templars at Paris in the thirteenth century, of which this strong and important feudal fortress was one. It was granted to the Knights of St. John (subsequently the Knights of Malta) after the suppression of the order of Templars in 1312. Louis XVI., with Marie Antoinette his queen, his son the Dauphin, his daughter and his sister, were confined in the prison in the tower of the Temple in 1792. The tower was subsequently used as a prison, but was pulled down in the early part of the present century. Sir Sidney Smith, Toussaint l'Ouverture, and Pichegru were imprisoned in the tower. Temple. THE TEMPLE. Temple Bar. A noted historic boundary in London, between the east end of the Strand and the west end of Fleet Street, dividing the City of London from the liberty of Westminster. The original division was by posts and rails, a chain and a bar placed across the street and named from its immediate vicinity to the Temple. The Bar, or house of stone, which until lately stood on this site, was erected by Sir Christopher Wren. It had a large flattened arch in the centre for the carriage-way, and a smaller arch on each side for foot passengers. Above the centre, on iron spikes, were formerly placed the heads and limbs of persons executed for treason. The last of these spikes was not removed till the present century. Mr. Rogers, the poet, who died in See PRESENTATION IN 1855, remembered "one of the heads of the rebels upon a pole at Temple Bar." The gates were originally shut at night and guarded by watchmen, and have occasionally been in recent times closed in cases of apprehended tumult. It was formerly the case upon the visit of the sovereign to the city, to keep the gates closed until admission was formally demanded, when the gates were opened, and the lord-mayor surrendered the city sword to the sovereign, who re-delivered it to his lordship. This noted structure is now taken down and removed. "With the removal of Temple Bar an immensity of the associations of the past will be swept away. Almost all the well-known authors of the last two centuries have somehow had occa sion to mention it. Fleet Street, just within its bounds, is still the centre for the offices of nearly all the leading newspapers and magazines." Hare. "It is my practice, when I am in want of amusement, to place myself for an hour at Temple Bar, and examine one by one the looks of the passengers; and I have commonly found that be tween the hours of eleven and four every sixth man is an author." Dr. Johnson. While we surveyed the Poets' Corner, I said to him [Goldsmith], "Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis." When we got to Temple Bar he stopped me, pointed to the heads upon it, and slyly whispered," Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis." Dr. Johnson. How they exult in the idea that the King himself dare not enter the city, without first knocking at the gate of Temple Bar, and asking permission of the Lord Mayor; for if he did, heaven and earth! there is no knowing what might be the consequence. Irving. The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest, near that leadenheaded old obstruction, appropriate ornament for the threshold of a leaden-headed old corporation: Temple Bar. Dickens. Each man an Ascapart, of strength to toss For quoits both Temple-bar and Charing cross. Pope. Once more I greet thee, Temple Bar, Risen amid my dreams; Temple Church. A church situ- Butler. Temple Emanuel. The principal Jewish synagogue in the city of New York, an imposing building, in the Saracenic style, with a magnificent interior. It is considered the finest specimen of architecture of its kind in America. Temple Gardens. An open space belonging to the Inns of Court, London, fronting the Thames. Here Shakespeare represents the choice of the York and Lancastrian roses as emblems by the partisans of the two houses. Suffolk. Within the Temple Hall we were too loud: The garden here is more convenient. ... Plantagenet. Let him that is a true |