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TEFFT 279 TEHERAN, or TEHRAN Brown University and Rochester Theolog- ical Seminary, graduating in 1860. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1862, and was pastor at Prescott, Wis., 1862-1863; Winona, Minn., 1863-1866; Norwich, Conn., 1866-1869; Mankato, Minn., 1869-1871, and Colchester, Conn., 1871-1874. He was instructor and acting principal at Nashville Normal and Theo- logical Institute, 1874-1893, and president of Hartshorn Memorial College, Rich- mond, Va., 1893-1912. He wrote "Curi- osities of Heat" and "Institutes of Moral Philosophy." TEGEA (tej'e-a), a city of Arcadia, in ancient Greece. It took part in the bat- tle of Platfea in 479 B. c; was on the side of Sparta in the Peloponnesian and Corinthian wars, but opposed her at the battle of Mantinea in 362 B. c; and joined the Arcadian Confederacy and the ..Etolian and Archaean Leagues. Tegea contained a famous temple to Athena Alea, which was burned about 394 B. c, but restored by Scopas. It was a peripteros of Doric architecture, 154 feet long by 72 feet wide, with re- spectively 13 and 6 columns. The E. pediment bore sculptures representing the slaying of the Calydonian boar; the W. pediment, the combat of Achilles and Telephus. The columns of the cells were Corinthian and Ionic. TEGNER, ESAIAS, a Swedish poet; born in Kyrerud, Varmland, Nov. 13, 1782. In 1799 he entered the University of Lund, where he studied theology and philosophy, and became "Adjunkt" of Esthetics in 1805, and Professor of Greek in 1812. After he had been elected to the Swedish Academy (1818), and graduated in theology, he was appointed Bishop of Wexio, where he remained till his death. His first great works were his "Svea" (1811), crowned by the Academy; the idyl "Nattvardsbarnen" (1821), and "Axel" (1822), whose subject is drawn from the age of Karl XII. It was by his "Frithjofs Saga" (1825) that Tegner won his highest fame. This poem has been translated into almost every Euro- pean language. Its German translations number 19, of which the best are by Simrock (1875), Zoller (1875), Von Kleinburg (1875), and Mohnike (1877). Two works left incomplete at his death are "Helgonabacken" and "Gerda," the latter an epos placed in the time of Val- demar the Great. Tegner 's "Samlade Skrifter" have been published by his son- in-law, Bottiger (7 vols. 1847-1850), and his posthumous works by El Tegner (3 vols. 1873-1874). His rich humor and lively fancy, his warm and manly feel- ing, and his wealth of high thoughts expressed in noble forms, entitle him to rank among the greatest poets of his time. He died in Wexio, Sweden, Nov. 2, 1846. TEGUCIGALPA, the capital of a de- partment of the same name in Hondu- ras; situated in a fertile valley 3,400 feet above the sea; on both sides of the Rio Grande, with mountains rising round about. It has an active trade and gold and silver mines. Pop. about 30,000. TEHERAN, or TEHRAN, the capital of Persia; 70 miles S. of the shore of the Caspian Sea; on a wide plain, dotted here and there with mud-built villages, and pierced with many circular pits, which reach down to the great subter- ranean watercourses, on which, in this region, the life of animal and plant is altogether dependent. To the N. runs in a general E. and W. direction the lofty range of the Elburz mountains, rising in Demavend to the height of nearly 20,000 feet above sea-level. The old wall and ditch (4 miles long) were leveled in 1868, and the space thus gained made into a much needed circu- lar road or boulevard. Fortifications, consisting of a bastioned rampart and ditch, were at the same time commenced on a much more extended scale. This enceinte, with its 12 gates and inclosing an area about 10 miles in circumference, was completed in 1873. The town rap- idly extended beyond its old limits, more especially on the N. side, where many fine streets, gardens, and buildings soon made their _ appearance, among which may be specially mentioned the handsome buildings and grounds of the British Le- gation. The Shah's palace, entirely re- constructed since 1866, occupies the cita- del, and is both spacious and cheerful, its large courtyards being laid out with gardens and numerous fountains. Be- sides his town palace, the Shah has five others in the immediate neighborhood, which he occupies at different seasons of the year. The foreign legations and rich natives are also in the habit of resort- ing in summer to the cool slopes at the foot of the Elburz, where many of them have commodious houses and fine gar- dens. The bazaars, some of which are very handsome structures, are filled with every kind of native and foreign mer- chandise. From Teheran lines of tele- graph radiate in almost every direction to the extremities of the kingdom, by far the most important being the lines of the Indian Government Indo-Euro- pean Telegraph Department and those of the English Indo-European Telegraph Company. In 1886 a short line of rail-