ou, as in our; th, as in thin; тí, as in this; N, nearly like ng. banks of the small r. Darm. It contains a number of institutions for education, and a library of about 100,000 vols. Lat. 49° 56′ N., Lon. 8° 35′ E. Balbi gives about 20,000 for its pop., but the P. C. states it at 24,500.

DART-MOUTH, a seaport t. of England, in Devonshire, situated on the coast at the mouth of the r. Dart, 30 m. S. by W. from Exeter. Pop. 4,417.

DAR-WAR', a fortified t. of Hindostan, in Beja poor, cap. of a dist. of the same name. Lat. 15° 28' N., Lon. 75° 8' E.

DAU-PHIN, a co. in the S. E. central part of Pa., bordering on the Susquehanna r. Pop. 35,754. Co. t. Harrisburg.

DAUPHINE, do'-fe`-nå, formerly a prov. of France, bordering on the S. E. frontier. It now forms the three deps., Isère, Drôme, and the Upper Alps.

DAVIDS, ST., an ancient city of Wales, in the W. extremity of Pembrokeshire, situated near a rocky promontory, called St. David's Head, 21 m. N. W. of Pembroke. It was once large and populous, but it now presents the appearance of a poor village.

DA-VID-SON, a co. in the W. central part of N. C., bordering on the Yadkin. Pop. 15,320. Co. t. Lexington.

DAVIDSON, a co. in the N. N. W. part of Tenn., intersected by the Cumberland r. Pop. 38,881. Co. t. Nashville.

DA-VIE, a co. in the N. W. central part of N. C., on the Yadkin. Pop. 7,866. Co. t. Mocksville.

DA-VIESS, a co. in the N. W. part of Ky., bordering on the Ohio and Green rivers. Pop. 12,362. Co. t. Owensborough.

DAVIESS, a co. in the S. W. part of Ind., between the E. and W. forks of the White r. Pop. 10,352. Co. t. Washington.

DAVIESS, a co. in the N. W. part of Mo., intersected by a branch of the Grand r. Pop. 5,298. Co. t. Gallatin.

DA-VIS'S STRAIT, between Greenland, on the E., and Cumberland Island, on the W., unites Baffin's Bay with the Atlantic. In the narrowest part it is about 200 m. wide.

Dax, dåx, (Anc. A'quæ Augus/tæ,) a t. of France, in the dep. of Landes, on the Adour, celebrated for its warm springs, the temperature of which is above 180° Fahrenheit; but they appear to possess no medicinal virtues. They are sometimes used for washing clothes. In the middle ages the town was called Civitas Akensis or Aquensis; i. e. the "city of Aquæ," whence the French Ville d'Acqs (town of Acqs), or simply d'Acqs, d'Ax, or Dax. Lat. 43° 43′ N., Lon. 1° 4' W. Pop. 4,776. (M.)

DAY-TON, a t. of Ohio, the cap. of Montgomery co., situated on the Miami r., 46 m., in a direct line, N. by E. of Cincinnati. Pop. 10,976. DEAD SEA (Anc. La/cus Asphalti'tes; Arab. Båhr Loot; i. e. the "Sea of Lot"); is situated in Palestine, between 31° 8' and 31° 47′ 30" N. Lat., and 35° 25′ and 35° 38′ 30′′ E. Lon. Its length is about 45 m.; its greatest breadth 12 m. The towns of Sodom and Gomorrha are said to have been on its western bank, where some few ruins occur.

Fåte, får, fåll, fåt; mẻ, mêt; pine or pine, pin; nỏ, nôt; õõ as in good; The waters of the Lake Asphaltites are pungent and bitter. Asphaltum floats upon its surface, and covers the whole extent of its shores. The Jordan flows into it at its N. extremity, but the lake has no outlet. Near the southern portion of the Dead Sea is a low mountain ridge, about 150 feet high, which is one mass of solid rock-salt, covered with layers of soft limestone and marl. Several of the streams which flow into the sea in this part, are salt as the saltest brine. It appears from the researches of a late writer, Russegger, that the Dead Sea is 1,341 French, or 1,429 English feet below the level of the Mediterranean! (P. C.)

DEAL, a t. and seaport of England, in the co. of Kent, 15 m. S. E. of Canterbury. Pop. 6,688.

DEAR-BORN, & Co. in the S. E. part of Ind., bordering on the Ohio r. and the state of Ohio. Pop. 20,166. Co. t. Lawrenceburg.

DEBRECZIN, da-brets/-in, (Ger. Debretzin,) a royal free t. of Upper Hungary, the cap. of the co. of Bihar, and with the exception of Pesth, the largest t. in the kingdom. It is situated in the centre of an extensive sandy plain, which being almost destitute of stone, the strects are unpaved, and the foot-passenger is obliged to wade either through mud or sand, according to the season of the year, with the aid of a few planks laid down for crossing the streets. Debreczin is the first manufacturing town in Hungary; it is also a place of considerable trade. More than nineteen-twentieths of its inhabitants are Protestants. Its Protestant college, with a library of 20,000 vols., is the principal institution of the kind which the Calvinist possess in the Austrian empire. Lat. 47° 32′ N., Lon. 21° 36′ E. Pop. 45,370. (P. C.)

DE-CA-TUR, a co. forming the S. W. extremity of Ga. Pop. 8,262. Co. t. Bainbridge.

DECATUR, a co. in the S. E. part of Ind., W. N.W. of Cincinnati. Pop. 15,107. Co. t. Greensburg.

DECCAN. See DEKKAN.

DEE, a r. in the N. part of Wales, flowing into the sea, about 10 m. S. W. of Liverpool.

DE KALB, a co. in the N. W. central part of Ga., on the sources of the Ocmulgee. Pop. 14,328. Co. t. Decatur.

DE KALB, a co. in the N. E. part of Ala., bordering on Ga. Pop. 8,245.

DE KALB, a co. in the N. central part of Tenn., bordering on the Cumberland r. Pop. 8,016.

DE KALB, a co. in the N. E. part of Ind., bordering on Ohio. Pop. 8,251.

DE KALB, a co. in the N. part of Ill., a little E. of Rock r. Pop. 7,540.

DEK-KAN or DECCAN (from Daks-hina, i. e. "the south"), was anciently understood to comprehend the whole of the peninsula of India S. of the r. Nerbudda, and the southern boundaries of Bengal and Bahar. At present it comprises those countries which lie between the limits just mentioned and the r. Krishna.

ou, as in our; th, as in thin; тH, as in this; N, nearly like ng. DEL/-A-WARE, an important r. of the U. S., which rises in N. Y., on the western declivity of the Catskill Mountains, and afterwards, flowing in a general southerly direction, forms the boundaries of the states of N. Y. and N. J. on one side, and Pa. and Del. on the other, and empties itself into Delaware Bay, about 40 m. below Philadelphia. Its whole course is about 300 m. It is navigable for ships of the largest size to Philadelphia, and for steamboats to Trenton.

DELAWARE BAY, a bay of the U. S., situated between the states of N. J. and Del. Its entrance is about 20 m. wide, from Cape May to Cape Henlopen; its length is above 60 m.

DELAWARE, the smallest of the U. S., excepting Rhode Island, bounded on the N. by Pennsylvania, E. by the Delaware r., Bay, and the Atlantic, S. and W. by Maryland. It lies between 38° 28' and 39° 50′ N. Lat., and 75° and 75° 45′ W. Lon. Length 96 m.; greatest breadth 37 m. Area 2,120 sq. m. Delaware is divided into three counties; viz., Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex. Pop. 91,535, of whom 2,289 are slaves, and 17,957 free coloured persons. Dover is the seat of go

vernment.

DELAWARE, a co. in the S. E. part of N. Y., bordering on the r. Delaware. Pop. 39,834. Co. t. Delhi.

DELAWARE, a Co. occupying the S. E. extremity of Pa., bordering on the Delaware r. Pop. 24,679. Co. t. Media.

DELAWARE, a co. in the centre of Ohio, N. of Columbus. Pop. 21,817. Co. t. Delaware.

DELAWARE, & Co. in the E. part of Ind., on the White r. P. 10,843. DELAWARE, a co. in the E. part of Iowa, a little W. of the Mississippi. Pop. 1,759.

DELAWARES, a once numerous and powerful tribe of Indians, whose territory occupied a portion of New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. They are now almost extinct.

DELFT, an ancient t. of S. Holland, situated on the high road between Rotterdam and the Hague, near the canal of Schie (skee). It is noted as the seat of the manufacture of a species of pottery, to which it has given its name. Delft was the birth-place of the celebrated Grotius. Lat. 52° N., Lon. 4° 21' E. Pop. 15,000. (P. C.)

DELHI or DEHLI, del'-le, a prov. of Hindostan, lying between 28° and 31° N. Lat., bounded on the N. by Lahore, E. by Oude and Northern Hindostan, S. by Ajmeer and Agra, and W. by Ajmeer and Lahore.

DELHI, the cap. of the above, is situated on the Jumna. According to tradition, it was founded 300 years before the Christian era, by Delu. It was formerly much larger than at present; its pop., at the close of the 17th century, is said to have amounted to two millions, and the extent of the ruins seems to justify, in a great degree, this estimate. Among these ruins, there are a number of beautiful mosques and magnificent mausolems, in good preservation. Lat. 28° 40′ N., Lon. 77o 16 E Pop. estimated at 200,000. _(P. C.)

DEL-TA, a triangular portion of Lower Egypt, comprised between

Fåte, får, fåll, fât; mẻ, mêt; pine or pine, pin; no, not; do as in good; the two main branches of the Nile; so called from its resemblance to the Greek letter (A) of this name. It is also applied to similar tracts of country at the mouths of other rivers, as the Ganges, Indus, &c.

DEL-VI-NO, a t. of European Turkey, in Albania, cap. of an inferior pashalic of the same name. Lat. about 39° 55' N., Lon. 20° 10′ E. Pop. estimated, a few years ago, at 8,000. (P. C.)

DEM-BE-A, a large L. of Abyssinia, in a prov. of the same name. Its length is about 65 m.

DEMARARA, dem-er-ål-ra, a r. of S. America, in English Guiana, which falls into the Atlantic, in about 6° 50′ N. Lat., and 58° 7′ W. Lon. Its length is above 200 m.

DENBIGH, den/-be, the cap. of Denbighshire, Wales. Lat. 53° 11' N., Lon. 3° 24′ W. Pop. of the parish, 3,405.

DEN-BIGH-SHIRE, a co. in the N. part of Wales, bordering on the sea. Pop. 88,866.

DEN-DER-AU, (Anc. Ten/tyra,) a ruined t. in Upper Egypt, celebrated for its temple, which is the best preserved and one of the most splendid in all Egypt. Here was discovered the celebrated zodiac which led several of the French savans to suppose that the temple must have been erected at a period immensely remote; not less, according to Dupuis, than 15,000 years ago! (See ESNÉ.)

DENDER MONDE, den`-der-mon/-dẹh, or DENDERMOND, den`-der-mont', (Fr. Termonde, têr`-mond',) a fortified t. of Belgium, in the prov. of E. Flanders, on the Scheldt, 16 m. E. of Ghent. Lat. 51° 36' Ñ., Lon. 3° 58' E. Pop. 7,652. (M.)

DENIS, SAINT, often called, in English, sent den/-ne, (Fr. pron. sân d'nee,) a t. of France, in the dep. of Seine, about 5 m. N. of Paris. It dates its rise from the erection of a church over the tomb of St. Denis (Dionysius), supposed to have been built by Dagobert, in the 7th century. Pop. in 1832, 9,686. (P. C.)

DEN-MARK (Dan. Dan'-e-mark'), a kingdom of Europe, between 53° 20′ and 57° 45' N. Lat., and 8° 5′ and 12° 46′ E. Lon.; bounded on the N. by the Skager Rack, N. E. by the Cattegat, S. E. by the Baltic, S. by Lübeck, Hamburg, Mecklenburg and Hanover, and W. by the N. Sea. It comprises continental Denmark, which may be termed the north-western peninsula of Germany, and the large islands of Zealand and Fünen, besides several smaller ones lying near them. The length of the continental portion is about 304 m.; greatest breadth about 106 m. The entire area of the kingdom is computed at 21,472 sq. m. Pop. 1,950,000. (B.) Capital, Copenhagen.-Adj. DA/-NISH; inhab. DANE.

DEPTFORD, ded/-ford, a t. of England, in the co. of Kent, on the Thames, 4 m. S. E. of London, remarkable for its fine docks and royal dock-yard, and its numerous buildings for the manufacture and preservation of naval stores. Pop. 23,165.

DER -BEND' Or dêr'-bênd', a t. of the Russian empire, in Georgia, on the W. coast of the Caspian Sea. It is defended on the W. by a precipitous mountain ridge, on the N. and S. by massive stone walls, not less

ou, as in our; th, as in thin, TH, as in this; N, nearly like ng. than 30 ft. high, and, in many places, 10 ft. thick, which are continuous to the sea. There are two large gates, (through which the road passes along the shore of the Caspian,) that may be shut at pleasure. Hence the name of the town, which signifies the “shut-up gates." Lat. 42° 12' N., Lon. 48° 20′ E. Klaproth supposes it to contain 4,000 families (B.), but others estimate the population much lower.

DER-BY or dar/-be, (the latter pronunciation was formerly universal,) the cap. of Derbyshire, England, on the r. Der/-went, an affluent of the Trent, 114 m. N. N. W. of London. Pop. 32,741.

DERBYSHIRE, der/-be-shi̟r, a co. in the N. central part of England. Pop. 272,217.

DERR, dir, a t. of Africa, in Lower Nubia, of which it is regarded as the capital, on the right bank of the Nile. Lat. 22° 47' N., Lon. 32° 20 E. Estimated pop. 3,000. (B.) In the vicinity are the ruins of an Egyptian temple, cut in the rock, the construction of which Champollion attributes to Sesostris.

DE RUYTER, de-ri/-ter, a township of Madison co., N. Y.

DESAGUADERO, dễs-å-gwâ-D3⁄4l-ro, i, e. "outlet," a r. of Bolivia, which forms the only outlet of L. Titicaca. After traversing a long valley of its own name, it loses itself, by evaporation, in a small lake called Lago del Desaguadero, or sometimes the L. of Ullagas (ool-yå'-gås).

DESHA, desh-à', a co. in the S. E. part of Ark., at the mouth of the Arkansas r. Pop. 2,900.

DES MOINES, de-moin', a r. of lowa, which flows into the Mississippi r.

DES MOINES, a co. in the E. part of Iowa, bordering on the Mississippi r. Pop. 12,987.

DE Sol-To, a co. forming the N. W. extremity of Miss. Pop. 19,042. Co. seat, Hernando.

DES/-SAU, (Ger. pron. des'-sou,) a t. of Germany, the cap. of the duchy of Anhalt-Dessau, on the Mulde, two miles above its junction with the Elbe. Dessau is well supplied with institutions for public instruction; among which, we may mention its college for young ladies, its admirable gymnasium or high-school, and its school for the education of Jews, which is much celebrated. Lat. 51° 48′ N., Lon. 12° 17′ E. Pop. about 10,000. (B.)

DETMOLD. See LIPPE.

DE-TROIT, (Fr. Détroit, da'-trwà', i. e. "strait" or

narrow pass

age,") a name given by the French to the river which connects L. St. Clair with L. Erie, and forms a part of the boundary between Mich. and Canada. It is 28 m. long, and is navigable for large vessels.

DETROIT, cap. of Wayne co. and formerly of the state of Mich. is situ ated on the Detroit r., from which it takes its name. By its position on the great chain of lakes, and by means of the connecting rivers and canals, it has a ready communication, by water, with all the more im‹ portant places in the union. As might be expected, its growth haɛ recently been very rapid. Its pop. in 1819, was only 1,110; in 1830, about double that number; in 1850, it amounted to 21,019. Detroit was