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TRAVE, a river of north Germany, rising in the Oldenburg principality of Liibeck, between Eutin and Ahrensbock. Flowing at first southwards through small lakes and marshes, it then turns west and, confined within flat and sandy banks, enters the Prussian provi ...

TRAVERSE, in fortification, a mass of earth or other material employed to protect troops against enfilade. It is constructed at right angles to the parapet manned by the defenders, and is continued sufficiently far to the rear to give the protection required b ...

TRAVESTY (Fr. travestie, from travestir, to disguise, se travestir, to change one's clothes; Lat. trans, across, and tiestire, to clothe), a burlesque, particularly a grotesque imitation of a serious work of literature or art, in which the subject, characters, ...

TRAVELLER'S TREE, a remarkable tree, native of Madagascar and Reunion, with a straight stem reaching 30 ft. in height and bearing at the top a number of large long-stalked leaves which spread vertically like a fan. The leaf has a large sheath at the base in wh ...

TRAVEMUNDE, a seaport of Germany, in the free state of Liibeck, situated on the Baltic, at the mouth of the Trave. Pop. (1905), 2017. It has an Evangelical church, dating from the end of the isth century, and is a much frequented wateringplace. There are exten ...

TRAVERSE CITY, the county-seat of Grand Traverse county, Michigan, U.S.A., on the Boardman river, between Boardman Lake and the west arm of Grand Traverse Bay, in the N.W. part of the lower peninsula. Pop. (1900), 9407, of whom 2068 were foreign-born; (1910, c ...

TARARE, a town of east-central France, in the department of Rhone, on the Turdine, 28 m. W.N.W. of Lyons by rail. Pop. (1906) 11,643. It is the centre of a region engaged in the production of muslins, tarletans, embroidery and silk-plush, and in printing, blea

TREVET (or TRIVET), NICHOLAS (c. 1258-0. 1328), English chronicler, was the son of Sir Thomas Trevet (d. 1283), a judge, and became a Dominican friar. After studying at Oxford and in Paris, he spent most of his subsequent years in writing and teaching, and die

... rise more than one degree, and if carried to exhaustion a fall is observed. In travelling from very cold to very hot regions a variation of less than one degree occurs, and the temperature of those living in the tropics is practically identical with those dwe ...

... ubject we find reliance placed, especially for the African facts, on reports of travellers who were merely visitors to the regions on which they wrote. CY«uji>f<i/ioi«.— Animal cults may be classified in two ways: (A) according to their outward form; (B) accor ...

... vision of the ferryman's toll, a coin put in the mouth of the corpse to pay the travelling expenses of the soul. But all b not finished with ihe passage of ihe soul lo ihe land of the dead ; ihe soul may return to avenge its death by helping to discover the mu ...

... lay mortar. When between these winged walls there are columns to carry the architrave, so as to form a porch, the latter is said to be in-antis. (See TEMPLE.)

... calcareous bars uniting adjacent septa. Tabulae are stout horizontal partitions traversing the centre of the calicle and dividing it into as many superimposed chambers. The septa in recent corals always bear a definite relation to the mesenteries, being found ...

... . He was a cavalry captain, but, having little- taste for the army, left it and travelled extensively, especially in the East. On his return to Paris, he sought the society of philosophers and artists, visited Voltaire at Ferney for three months, but was more ...

... f the ist earl of Antrim, was born in 1609 and educated as a Roman Catholic. He travelled abroad, and on his return in 1634 went to court, next year marrying Katherine Manners, widow of the ist duke of Buckingham, and living on her fortune for some years in gr ...

... a ville d'Anvers; Mertens and Torfs, Geschiedenis van Antwerp; Genard, Anvers d travers les Ages; Annuaire statisque de la Belgique. (D. C. B.)

... master it: for this purpose he not only searched ancient and modern historians, travellers and narrators of every description, but also poets, orators and philosophers. One of his cherished objects was to reform geography by putting an end to the blind copying ...

... es of Pythagoras and adopted the ascetic habit of life in its fullest sense. He travelled through Asia and visited Nineveh, Babylon and India, imbibing the oriental mysticism of magi, Brahmans and gymnosophists. The narrative of his travels given by his discip ...

... om north Gaul, and its name was known in Italy, though patients probably seldom travelled so far. Like most mineral springs known to the ancients, it was under the protection of a local deity, the Celtic Sul, whom the Romans equated with their Minerva. Stately ...

... ; he was continually engaged in the active service of his order, was frequently travelling upon long and tedious journeys, and was constantly consulted on affairs of state by the reigning pontiff. In 1263 we find him at the chapter of the Dominican order held ...

... , the birthplace of Juvenal and of the emperor Pescennius Niger. The Via Latina traversed it; one of the gates through which it passed, now called Porta S. Lorenzo, is still well preserved, and there are remains within the walls (portions of which, built of la ...

... lumniation (q.v.) given to those temples where the columns had only timber architraves to carry.

... nd soon after set out for London, leaving his wife behind. For several years he travelled through parts of England, acting as usher in a number of schools, and settled finally at Lynn, in Norfolk. During his travels he had amassed considerable materials for a ...

... m he had one son, who died young, and a daughter. During the following years he travelled and visited the camp of Frederick the Great, whose system of drill he admired and afterwards introduced into the Spanish army. After a short period of diplomatic service ...

... about 40 m . AUTHORITIES. — Strabo pp. 388 sq. ; Pausanias viti. ; W. M. Leake, Travels in Ike Morea (London, 1830). chs. iii., iv., xi.-xviii., \\iii.-x\vi.; E. Curtius. Peloponneios (Gotha, 1851), i. 153-178; H. F. Torer, Geography of Greece (London, 1873), ...

ARCHITRAVE (from Lat. arcus, an arch, and trabs, trabem, a beam), an architectural term for the chief beam which carries the superstructure and rests immediately on the columns. In the ordinary entablature it is the lowest of the three divisions, the other two ...

... and volta, a vault), an architectural term applied to the mouldings of an architrave, when carried round an arched opening.

ARCULF, a Gallican bishop and pilgrim-traveller, who visited the Levant about 680, and was the earliest Christian traveller and observer of any importance in the Nearer East after the rise of Islam. On his return he was driven by contrary winds to Britain, and ...

... covered the floor of one of the mosques for three centuries was purchased by a traveller about 1890 for £'ioo. and was finally acquired by the South Kensington Museum for many thousands. This beautiful carpet measures 34 ft. by 17 ft. 6 in., and contains 380 ...

... when its depth exceeds 3 ft. its great rapidity makes it a serious obstacle to travellers. In its lower course it is much used for irrigation, and the valley is cultivated and populous; yet the water is said to be somewhat brackish. It is doubtful whether the ...

... es or refractivities, led to no distinct effect. More recently Ramsay and M. W. Travers have obtained evidence of the existence in the atmosphere of three new gases, besides helium, to which have been assigned the names of neon, krypton and xenon. These gases ...

... , which rises in its southern plateau. The valleys of the Aire and other rivers traverse it longitudinally, a fact to which its importance as a bulwark of north-eastern France is largely due. Of the numerous forests which clothe both slopes of the plateau, the ...

... Plutarch, Pyrrhus, 30-34; Strabo pp. 373-374; Pausanias ii. 15-24; W. M. Leake, Travels in the Morea (London, 1835), ii. chs. 19-22 ; E. Curtius, Peloponnesos (Gotha, 1851), ii. 350-364; H. F. Tozer, Geography of Greece (London, 1873), PP- 292-294; I. K. Kophi ...

... he Lorne volcanic plateau there are numerous dykes of porphyrite which likewise traverse the schists and part of the Ben Cruachan granite. Sheets of quartz-porphyry, lamprophyre and diorite are also represented, the first of these types being quarried at Crara ...

... philosophical education under Plato at Athens till his thirty-eighth year; his travels in the Greek world till his fiftieth year; and his philosophical teaching in the Lyceum till his departure to Chalcis and his death in his sixtythird year. But when we desc ...

... short but brilliant career there he turned to Geneva, studied for three years, travelled, in 1586, in Italy, heard Giacomo Zarabella (1533-1589) lecture on philosophy in Padua, visited Rome, and, open-minded enough to see its good as well as its evil, was sus ...

... d to Greifswald, but only for a few months. He again set out on his adventurous travels, lived in close contact with the first men of his time, such as Bliicher. Gneisenau and Stein, and in 1812 was summoned by the last named to St Petersburg to assist in the ...

... " of Ephesus " who flour ishcd about 100 B.C. After studying at Alexandria, he travelled extensively and published the results of his investigations in a large work on general geography (TA yiuypa.<t>ovntra) in eleven books, much used by Strabo and others. Th ...

... the Korongoeis — with white skins and fair hair, but it has never been seen by travellers. A few villages are nominally Christian, and the Malays have introduced Mahommedanism, but most of the natives have no religion. Dobbo, on a small western island, is the ...

... nsion; he died in Christiania on the 6th of January 1885. From 1841 to 1852 Moe travelled almost every summer through the southern parts of Norway, collecting traditions in the mountains. In 1845 he was appointed professor of theology in the Military School of ...