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* TAYABAS. 67 TAYLOB. annexed to the province in 1902. Total area, 4429 square miles, of which the dependent islands take up 491, and of these the island of Polillo 294 square miles. The entire mainland portion is occupied bv a high coast range covered with forests and generally inaccessible and unexplored except in the isthmian region, where alone there are means of comnuinication. The northern dis- tricts are undeveloped, but in Tayabas proper there are some agriculture and cattle-raising, and considerable mechanical industries, including weaving, the manufacture of hats, cigar-boxes, and cocoanut oil, and boat-building. Popula- tion estimated in 1901 at 131,045, consisting of Tagillogs in the south and Ilongotes and Negritos in the north. Capital, Lucena. TAYABAS. A town of Tayabas Province, Luzon, Philippines, situated on the east bank of the river of the same name, sixty-five miles southeast of Manila (ilap: Luzon, H 11). It is the centre of a large inland and coast trade, and has a dockyard for native vessels. Population, about 15.000. TAYGETUS, tfi-Ij'e-tiis (Lat., from Gk. lavyeTos), now called Pentedaktylon. The principal mountain range of the Peloponnesus, Greece (Map: Greece, D 5). It extends south- ward through the middle of the peninsula and forms the central one of the three promontories in which Southern Greece terminates. It is an almost unbroken ridge, and reaches in Mount Hagios Elias an altitude of 7903 feet. It formed the ancient boundary between Laconia and Messenia. TAY'LER, Jonx James (1797-1809). An English Unitarian. He was born at Church Row, Newington Butts. Surrey : gradmited B.A. at the University- of Glasgow, 1818: and was minister of a L'nitarian congregation at Manchester, 1820- 53. In 1840 he became professor of ecclesiastical history in Manchester New College, and in 1852 also professor of theology. When the college was removed to London (1853), he became principal. He was co-pastor with Rev. James Martineau of the Unitarian congregation in Little Portland Street ( 18.50-00) ." He published Retrospect of the Religions Life of England (1845; 3d ed. 1870) ; Cliristian Aspects of Faith and Ditty (2 series, 1851-1877) ; Attempt to Ascertain the Character of the Fourth Gospel (1867; 2d ed. 1870). Consult his Life and Letters by J. H. Thoni (London, 1872). TAY'LOE.. A city in Williamson County, Tex.. 35 miles northeast of Austin; on the Mis- souri. Kansas and Texas and the International and Great Northern railroads (Jlap: Texas. F 4). The buildings and groimds of the Fair As- sociation and artesian wells are noteworthy fea- tures of the city. Taylor is the centre ^f ex- tensive cotton interests, and also has consider- able trade in farm produce, live stock, wool, etc., and mannfactiires of flour and cottonseed oil. The International and Great Northern Railroad maintains repair shops here. Population, in 1890, 2.584; in 1900, 4211. TAYLOR, Alfred Swaine (1800-80). A cele- brated English medical jurist, born at Kent. He studied in the united hospitals of Guy and Saint Thomas in 1823, and upon their separation at- tached himself to Guy's, where he studied under Sir Astley Cooper and Joseph H. Green. In 1831 he began to deliver at Guy's Hospital the first English course of lectures on nieilical jurispru- dence. In 1832 he became joint lecturer with Aikin on chemistry at (iuy's, and he held this chair alone from 1850 to 1870. His great work. Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (ISoli), had passed through twelve editions by 1891, and during this period was the standar<I work on the subject. This work won for him in %'^'^ the Swine- prize. He first drew attention to the great incentive for secret murder oli'ered by life insurance, and to the possibility of arsenical poisoning from wall papers and other fabrics. His Handbook on Poi- sons (1848) is his other notable work. TAYLOR, [James] Bayard (1825-78). An American poet, man of letters, journalist, and traveler, born at Kennett Square, Chester Co., Pa. His education was obtained in the common schools of the neighborhood. He became, in 1842, the apprentice of a printer, and here he ])ublished his first volume, Ximena; or the Battle of the Sierra Morena, and Other Poems (1844). In 1844-45 he made a pedestrian tour through Europe, describing his experiences in Mews Afoot : or Europe Seen tcith Knapsack and Staff (1840). The following year, 1847. he joined the New York Tribune, and remained on the staff of that paper as long as he lived, publishing in its pages the sketches of many of his subsequent books. As its special correspondent, he visited California in 1849, where he spent five months among the gold-diggers ; two years later he was in Egj'pt, Asia Minor, and Syria: in 1852-53 in India, crossing from Bombay to Calcutta, and then going to China to join the expedition of Commodore Perry to Japan. From 1802 to 1803 he was secretary of the United States legation at Saint Petersburg, and later cliargd d'affaires there, and was infiuential in securing for the Northern States the sympathy of Russia. In 1874 he was again in Egj'pt, and the same year at the Millennial Celebration in Iceland. For several years previously he had lived in Ger- many, and there in 1870-71 he brouglit out the work for which he is best known, his excellent translation of Goethe's Faust. In 1876 he wrote the Ode in honor of the opening of the Cen- tennial E.xhibition in Philadelphia. In February, 1878, he was appointed ^Minister to Ciermany, and returned again to that country, but died there toward the end of the same year, leaving unfinished biographies of Goethe and Schiller. He was married in 1850 to Miss May Agnew, and in 1857, to Miss Marie Hansen of Gotha, Ger- many, who survived liini, reedited his works, and, with H. E. Scudder, wrote his Life and Letters (1884). Taylor's work is very voluminous, and varied both in kind and in quality. He wrote books of travel, of which the chief are: El Dorado; or Adventures in the Path of Empire (1850); A Journey to Central Africa (1854); A Visit to India. China, and Japan (1855) ; The Lands of the Saracen (1855); Northern Travel (1858); Travels in Greece and Russia (1859) ; At Home and Abroad (1859 and 1802) ; Colorado, a Sum- mer Idi/l (1867) : Bi/TTai/s of Euroi>e (1869); Egi/pt and Iceland in the Year lS7.'i (1874) : and others. His novels include: Hannah Thurston (1S03): John Godfrey's Fortunes (1864): The Story of Kennett (1866)-; Joseph and Bis Friend (1870). His poems were also very numerous;