Строки о Тартарии (СЕНСАЦИЯ !)

The royal English dictionary: or, A treasury of the English language

(Королевский английский словарь: или, сокровищница английского языка)

Printed for R. Baldwin, J. Richardson, 1763

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TARTANE, S. tartana, Ital.] a vessel with one mast and a three-cornered sail, used in the Mediterranean.

TARTAR, S. [tartarum, Lat.] a kind of white or reddish substance, like a hard tone, which sticks to wine casks.

TARTAREAN, Adj. [tartareus, Lat.] hellish.

To TARTARIZE, V. A. to impregnate with tartar.

TARTARY, Great, is a large extent if country, making the third part of Asia, being about 1500 miles in length from E. to W, and 125 in breadth from N. to S. It is .eated between 35 and 53 degrees of N. latitude. European Tartary, as well as Tartary in Turkey, lies near the Black Sea, and Muscovy Tartary is near the Caspian Sea; Asiatic Tartary, of which we are now speaking, is watered by five large rivers, which serve to determine the situation of places namely, the Oby, the Volga or Wolga, the Jenesea, the Lena, and the Amur. Russian Tartary has no fixed bounds, but it may be near 1500 miles in length from E. to W. and 750 in breadth from N. to S. Chinese Tartary is separated from China by a great wall, and is about 750 miles in extent. It is divided into the eastern and western; and that part of it near the wall is without inhabitants. It was formerly supposed to be Cathay, whose capital was Cambalu, which is now well known to be Pekin. Independant Tartary comprehends all that part of it which belongs neither to Russia nor China; and is composed of several kingdoms, namely, Turkestan, Great Bocharia, Little Bocharia, the kingdom of the Calmucks, and Tibet, or Thibet, or Boutan, which is a large country, and part of Tangut. In general, the Tartars are a robust people, have a good constitution, and capable of undergoing hardships. They have broad faces, short chins, large whiskers, and noses even with their faces. They are dextrous in handling their sabres, and shooting with bows and arrows. The men have no other business than that of going to war, and the women take care of domestic affairs. They are pagans; and they have a pontiff called Dali Lama.