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TAHOE. TAHOE, tiVhf.', Lake. A lake in the Sierra Nevada, on the bouiulary bftween Nevada and California (Jlap: California, C 2). It is '-1 miles lonp and 8 miles broad, and lies at an alti- tude of U225 feet. Its greatest depth is over 1500 feet, and its water is remarkably clear It discharges through the Truckee River into 1 yra- mid Lake, and it has been planned to draw its water llirough tunnels for irrigation purposes.

TAHPANHES, ta-ptin'hez (Heb. Takhpan- khrs), or Teh.vpii.n-eiies (Heb. Tekh(iphnckhfs) . A city of Northeastern Egypt mentioned in the Bible" It is probably to be identified with the town called bv the Greeks Daphn;T, which was situated in the Delta about 25 miles southwest of Felusiimi. Daphnse was a military post of some importance in the time of Psammetichus I. (q.v.), who fortified it and established in it a garrison of Greek mercenaries. The site, repre- sented by the modern Tel-Defenneh, was explored by Petrie in 18S6. Consult Petrie, Tunis, Part ii'. (London, 1887).

TAHR. See Thab.

TAIL'FER',. An American colonist, remembered for the polemic entitled A True and Uistoi-ical Xarriitive of the Colony of Georgia in America from the first Settlement thereof until the Present Period (1741). Tailfer, who was a physician and had emigrated to Georgia, disap- proved of the administration of the colony. In 1740 he went to Charleston, where, with the as- sistance of Hugh Anderson and David Douglass, he wrote and published the work mentioned above. In this, with unusual cleverness and poise, he mercilessly attacked Governor Oglethorpe.

TAILLANDIER, ta'yJiN'dya', KENfs Gas- PAKD Ernest, commonly called Saint-Ren^ TAILLANDIER (1817-79). A French writer on literature and history, born in Paris. He studied law, but turned to literature and philosophy, and in 1840 attracted some attention with his long poem Beatrice. In 1841 he studied at Heidelberg, and at the end of that year became a member of the Faculty of Letters at Strassburg. In 1843 he received the doctor's degree at Paris for his <S'cot Erigene et la philosophic scholastique, and then was called to the chair of French literature at Montpellier. From 1803 he was a professor in the Faculty of Letters at Paris, and in 1873 became a member of the Academy. Especially noteworthy are bis writings on German literature and philosophy, which began in 1843 in the Revue des Deux Mondes. His works include: Hisloire do la jeune Allemagne (1848) ; Etudes sur la revolution en Allemagne (1853); Alle- magne et Kussie (1856), a study made timely by the Crimean war ; Histoire et philosophie religieuse ( 1860) ; Literature itrangire, 6cri- vains et partes modernes (1861) ; La Oomtesse d'Alhany (1802); Corrcspondance entre Goethe et Schiller (1863); Corneille et ses contem- porains (1864); Maurice de Saxe (1865), a critical biography; La Serbic au XlXcme siecle: Kara-George ct Milosch (1875); Dix ans de I'histoire d' Allemagne (1875) ; and Le roi Leo- pold ct la reine Victoria (1878).

TAILLE, ti'y'. In Mediajval England and France, an arbitrary tax enacted by a seignior from his vassal. In France, specifically a tax which w'as originally imposed for the maintenance of the national defence, and which in the course of time came to fall on the lower classes only, ex- emption from the tax being in fact the great mark of distinction between the privileged and non-privileged classes, the taillabtcs and non- iaillablcs. See Serf; France.

TAILLE, Jean de la. See La Taille, Jean de.

TAILOR, Robert. An English dramatist, of whose life very little is known. He is remem- bered for his "comedy The Hog Hath Lost His Per/e, which was presented in London in 1613 and was printed the following year. The play, which in plot is similar to Otway's Orphan, is valu- able for its large number of dramatic allusions. A? a drama, however, it has not great merit. Tailor is supposed to be the author of Sacred Hymns, fifty rather meritorious paraphrases from the Psalms.

TAILOR-BIRD. One of a group of small Oriental thrushes or warblers of the genus Orthotomus, which stitch together leaves to sustain their nest. There are many species and allies, but the tailor-bird proper is Orthotomus sutorius, which is common in India and eastward about gardens. It has a back of olive green, is white beneath, the erown of the head is chestnut, and in the male two middle tail-feathers are greatly elongated. The bill is long and very straight and slender. Jerdon writes that it makes its nest of cotton and various other soft materials, and draws one leaf or more, generally two leaves, on each side of the nest, and stitches them together with cotton, either woven by itself, or threads picked uj) about a house. The process has been witnessed, however, by few competent observers. The fullest account extant is in Hume, Xests and Eggs of Indian Birds (London, 2d ed., 1890). The birds of a related genus, Cisticola (see Fantail), "pi}' the .same trade on steins of grass, confining them by stitches above the nest, which is built among them and takes a globular form." See Plate of Pensile Nests OF Birds accompanying article Nidification.

TAIMYR, timer'. A large peninsula of Western Siberia, extending into the Arctic Ocean and forming the northerninost part of the Asiatic mainland (Map: Asia, K 1). It be- longs to the district of Turukhansk in the Gov- ernment of Yeniseisk. By Taimyr Bay the pen- insula is divided into two parts, of which the more easterly is the larger and reaches the parallel of 77° 30' north latitude. This part of the peninsula has many headlands and contains the Byrranga Mountains, which are only about 1000 feet in height. The Taimj'r River rises in 73° north latitude, flows through the large Lake Taimyr (about 1000 square miles), and empties into Taimyr Ba.y under 75° 35'. The flora is poorer than in that part of Greenland which is not covered by the ice-cap. The country is only occasionally visited, by nomadic Samoyeds and Ostiaks. It was first explored by the Russian traveler Alexander Theodor von Middendorflf. TAINAN, ti'niin'. A city of southern For- mosa, known as Tai-wan fu until ISSO, and the capital of the island until 1890. It is on a level plain of considerable extent, 3 miles east of For- mosa Channel, with which it is connected by a canal. Its walls have a circuit of about 6 miles and inclose many open spaces, the principal markets being in the western suburbs, where most of the business is done. The Dutch made