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Terra Australis Incognita, a name for a large unknowncontinent, supposed to lie towards the South Pole , and whichfor a long time was sought after by navigators. The voyages ofCaptain Cook seem to have determined that no such continentexists, unless in polar latitudes, to which access is impossible.

Terra Firma, in geography, is sometimes used for a continent,in contradistinction to an island.

Terra Firma, otherwise called New Castile, or Castella delOro, a country of America, bounded on the north by the NorthSea and pait of the Atlantic Ocean, by the same sea and Guiana on the E, bv the country of the Amazons and Peru on the S.and by the Pacific Ocean Veragua on the \V. It lies between62 ° and 83“ of \V. Ion. and between the equator and 12° of lat. N.being upwards of 1200 miles long from E. to W. and 800 broadfrom N. to S. The climate is neither pleasant nor healthy; theinhabitants one part of the year being scorched by the most in-tense and burning heat, and the other almost drowned with per-petual floods of rain, pouring from the sky' with such violence asif a general deluge was to ensue. In so large a tract of countrythe soil must necessarily vary. Accordingly, in some parts it is abarren sand, or drowned mangrove land, that will scarcely produceany kind of grain ; in others it yields Indian corn, balms, gums,and drugs, almost all manner of fruits as well as Old as of NewSpain , sugar, tobacco, Brasil wood, and several other kinds ofdyeing woods; a variety of precious stones, particularly emeraldsand sapphires; venison and other game.

Terra Ponderosa, [Lat. ponderous earth,] in the old systemof mineralogy, the name formerly given to what is now calledBarytes , which see.

TUB RACE, is a walk or bank" of earth, raised in a garden orcourt to a due elevation for a prospect. The name is also givento the roofs of houses that are flat, and whereon we may walk.

TERRACINA, an ancient city of Italy , in the Pope’s terri-tory, in the Campagna at Rome, 46 miles S. E. of Rome . Lon.13. 15. E. Lat. 41.24. N.

TERRAQUEOUS GLOBE, a name given to the earth, orworld we inhabit, as consisting of land and water. For particularsrespecting this globe, see Astronomy , and Terra.

TERRE-PLEIN, or TERRE-PLAIN, in fortification, thetop, platform, or horizontal surface, of the rampart upon which thecannon are placed, and where the defenders perform their office.See Fortification'.

TERRELLA, or LITTLE EARTH , is a magnet turned ofa spherical figure, and placed so as that its poles, equator, s &c. doexactly correspond with those of the world.

TERRIBLE, MONT, a late department of the French empireformed out of the principality of Monaco and county of Nice ; sonamed from

Terrible Mont, a most dreadful precipitous mountain in theabove department.

TERRIER, a book, or roll, wherein the several lands, eitherof a private person, or of a town, college, church, &c. are de-scribed. It should contain the number of acres, and the site,boundaries, tenants’ names, &c. of each piece or parcel.

TERRIER, in zoology. SeeCANis.

TERRING, a town of England, in Sussex , 24 miles E. ofChichester, and 53 S. W. ot London . Lon. 0. 21. W. Lat. 50.50.N.

TERRIORE, a town of Iiindoostan, with a fortress, in the\ Carnatic, 24 miles N. of Tritchinopoli, and 87 S. W. of Pon-dicherry-

TERRITORY , in geography, denotes an extent or compass°fland, within the bounds, or belonging to the jurisdiction, of anystate, city, or oilier subdivision of a country.

Territory North-West of the Ohio , an extensive terri-tory of the United States of America daily improving and in-Cr easi.ng in population, commerce, and arts, and will soon add one0r more stales to the Union.

. Territory South-West of the Ohio , the name formerly8'ven to an extensive government of the United States , now erect-e tl into the new state of Tennessee or Tennassee. SeeTENNASSEE.

TERROR . See Fear, Fright, and Pavor.

TERRORISTS, a name too justly given to that furious partythe French Jacobins, who during the dictatorship of Robes-P'erre, supported and applauded all his worst measures,. while heni urdered the greatest and best men of France , constantly

calling out “ let terror be the order of the day,” and thus pavingthe path of blood, that led to the dominion of Buonaparte .

TERRUEL, a considerable town of Spain in Arragon , 75miles S. W. of Saragossa, and 112 E. of Madrid . Lon. 1. 0. W.Lat. 40. 25. N.

TERTIAN FEVER. See Medicine.

TERTIUS, a pramomen very common among the Romans,who often distinguished their children by their numbers in theorder of their birth, as Secundus, Tertius, Quartus, Quintus , Sex-tus, Septimus, Octavus, Decimus, &c.

TERTRE, John Baptist , a learned Dominican, born atCalais, in 1610. After having figured as a soldier, he enteredinto the monastic state, and became a zealous missionary in Ame-rica , whence he returned in 156S. He wrote “ A General His-tory of the French West-India Islands,” in 4vols. 4to. and died at 1Paris in 1687.

Tertre, Francis Joachim Dupokt du, a learned French Jesuit , born at Si. Malo in 1715. He wrote 1. An Abridgementof the History of England, in 3 vols, 13mo. 2. An Abridgement

of tlie History of Spain, in 5 vols. 12mo. and other works. Fiedied in ] ;59.

TERTULLIAN, or QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENSTERTULLIANUS, a celebrated priest of Carthage, was the son of a centurian in the militia, who served as a proconsul of Africa.He was educated in the Pagan religion; but being convinced ofits errors, embraced Christianity , and became a zealous defenderof the faith. He married, it is thought, after his baptism. After-wards he took orders, and went to Rome ; where, during the per-secution under the emperor Severus, he published his “ Apologyfor the Christians ;” and at tlie beginning of the third century heembraced the sect of the Montanists . He lived to a very greatage, and died in the reign of Caracalla , about the year 216.* Manyof, his works are still extant. The best editions are those of Rigault,especially that of Venice in 1746, folio.

TEllVERE, a town of Holland , in the department of theMeuse , and province of Zealand, on the N. E. coast of the isleof Walcheren, 4 miles N. E. of Middleburg . Lon. 3. 42. E.Lat. 51. 36. N.

TER UN Cl US , in antiquity, a very small brass-coin, in useamong the Romans. The teruncius at first was a quarter of theas, or libra; hence, as the as contained 12 ounces, the terunciuscontained three, whence the name, which is formed of the Latin ties uncial.

TESCHEN, a town in Upper Silesia , and capital of a duchyso named, ft is 27 . miles S. E. of Troppaw, and 66 S. W. ofCracow . Lon. 18. 17. E. Lat. 49. 52. N.

TESSELLATED PAVEMENTS, those of rich Mosaic work made of curious square marbles, bricks, or tiles, calledtesselae from their resembling dice.

LESSER A, in Roman antiquity, denoted in its primary sensea cube or dye; so called from tlie Greek word or t ec-erfaa,

jour; respect being had to its number of sides, distinct from thetwo horizontal planes above and below. And it was thus distin-guished from the talus, which being round at each end, containedonly four planes or faces on which it could stand; and thereforewhen thrown had no more than two side-faces in view. Henceludere tabs et ludere tesseris are spoken of by Roman writers astwo different games.

TEST, a vessel used in metallurgy for absorbing the scoriae ofmetallic bodies when melted. See Cupel. Tests are usuallymade of four measures of the ashes of calcined bones and one ofunwashed fern-ashes.

Test Act, in law, in the statute 25 Car. IT. cap. 2, whichdirects all officers, civil and military, to take the oaths, and makethe declaration against transubstantiation, in the court of King’sBench or Chancery, the next term, or at the next quarter-sessions,or (by subsequent statutes) within six months after their admis-sion ; and also within tlie same time to receive the sacrament ofthe Lord’s Supper, according to the usage of the church of Eng-land , in some public church, immediately after divine service orsermon,, and to deliver into court a certificate thereof, signed bythe minister and church-warden, and also to prove the same bytwo credible witnesses, upon forfeiture of 5001. and disability tohold the said office.

TESTACEA, in the Linmean system of zoology, the third

order