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DAMASCUS STEEL, vi. 793.

DAMASCUS WARE, xix. 620.

DAMASK, cloth, vi. 792; xxiv. 464; Persian, xxm. 208, 210; manufacture of, at Dunfermline, Scotland, vil. 542.

DAMASKEENING, or Damascening (q.v.),

vi. 793-

DAMASK STEEL, vi. 793. DAMASUS I., pope, vi. 793 ; xin. 630;

xix. 490.

II., pope, vi. 793.

DAMAUN, town, India, vi. 793. DAMAVAND, mountain, Persia, XV. 65 1 ;

xviii. 619. D AMBOISE, George, French cardinal,

vi. 793- DAMBONITE, volatile body in caoutchouc,

xii. 840. DAMBOVITZA, river, Roumania, xxi.

14. DAMDAMA (Dumdum), town, India, vn.

525; xxm. 673. DAMI, Giuliano, Florentine courtier, xv.

793-

DAMlAT(Damietta), town, Egypt, VI. 794.

DAMIENS, Robert Frangois, assailant of Louis XV. of France, vi. 794.

DAMIETTA, town, Egypt, vi. 794; vn. 768; siege of (1219), xxm. 162.

DAMIRI, Arabian naturalist, vi. 794; xvi. 597.

DAMIRON, Jean Philibert, French philo sophical writer, vi. 795.

DAMMAR, or Dammer, resin, vi. 795.

DAMME, Thomas, Longevity of, xiv.

Q r-Q 050.

DAMNUM ABSQUE INJURIA, in law, vi.

789. DAMOCLES, courtier of Dionysius, vi.

795- DAMODAR, coal and ironstone fields,

India, xn. 737.

DAMON, friend of Pythias, vi. 795. DAMPIER, William, English navigator,

VI. 795; his discoveries in Australasia,

in. 103.

DAMPNESS, Measure of, xii. 569. DAMSON, variety of plum, xix. 230. DAN, town, Judaea, vi. 796.

, Tribe of, xin. 401.

DANA, river, Africa, I. 255.

, family of eminent Americans, VI.

796. , James Dwight, on amber in

America, I. 659; on the Atlantic basin,

in. 16. , Richard Henry, American author,

vi. 796; i. 723. DANAE, mother of Perseus, vi. 797; xviii.

560.

DANALITE, mineral, xvi. 411. DANAPRIS (Dnieper), river, Russia, vil.

306; xxi. 73.

DANAUS, in Greek legend, vi. 797. DANBURITE, mineral, xvi. 411. DANBURY, town, Connecticut, U.S.A.,

vi. 797.

DAN BY, Earl of, minister of Charles II.,

vm. 349-

, Francis, English painter, vi. 797.

DANCE, vi. 798.

, George (d. 1768), English architect,

vi. Soi. , George (d. 1825), English architect

and painter, VI. 80 1.

, Nathaniel, English painter, VI. 801.

OF DEATH, v. 104; xii. 55.

DANCING, as branch of education, VI.

Soi. MASTER, English ballad collection,

xvii. 88. DANCOURT, Florent Carton, French

dramatist, vi. 802.

DANDELION, plant, vi. 802; xxm. 61. DANDHU PANTH (Nana Sahib), xii. Sio;

xvii. 170, 345. DANDOLO, patrician family of Venice,

vi. 802. , Andrea, Venetian admiral, VI. 803;

xix. 406. , Enrico, doge of Venice, VI. 802 ;

XXIV. 143; his relations with the

crusaders, vi. 629. -, Vincenzo, Count, Italian scientist,

vi. 803.

DANEGELD, English land tax, vm. 294, 567.

DANELAGE, district, England, xiv. 656.

DANES, The, vu. 84; their invasions of England, I. 506; vm. 283, 568; xvii. 570; invasions of Ireland, xin. 252; in Lincolnshire, XIV. 656; their influ ence on English literature, vm. 404.

DANEWERK, or Dannewerk, entrench ments, Schleswig, vil. 89; XXI. 414.

DANEWORT, or dwarf elder tree, vil. 828.

DANICHICH, Dyuro, Servian philologist, xxi. 691.

DANIEL, of Scripture, vi. 803. , Apocalypse of, n. 180. , Book of, vi. 803; in. 640. of Salah, Syriac writer, xxil. 841.

of Tahal, Syriac writer, XXII. 849. , Arnaud, troubadour, XX. 649. , Gabriel, French Jesuit historian, vi. 807.

, Samuel, English poet, vi. 807; xviii. 346.

BAR KHATTAB, Syriac writer, xxn.

855.

BAR MOSES, Syriac writer, XXII.

841.

- NEVSKI, prince of Moscow, XXI. 90.

DANIELE DA VOLTERRA (Ricciarelli), Italian painter and sculptor, XX. 537. DAMELL, John Frederick, English chemist, VI. 808; his electric cell, vm. 93; his hygrometer, xn. 570; his pyrometer, XX. 133. -, Samuel, Thomas, and William,

English painters, vi. 808. DANILOFF, town, Russia, xxiv. 731.

DANILOVGRAD, town, Montenegro, xvi. 781.

DANISH DRAMA, vn. 444.

DANISH LANGUAGE, vn. 89; xxi. 373; dictionaries of, vil. 186.

DANISH LEATHER, xiv. 389.

DANISH LITERATURE, vn. 89.

DANISHMAND, Seljuk dynasty, xxi. 636.

DANKOFF, town, Russia, xxi. 116.

DANNECKER, Joliann Heinrich von, German sculptor, vi. 809.

DANNEWERK, entrenchments, Schleswig, vn. 89; xxi. 414.

DANSE MACABRE, v. 104.

DANTE (Dante Alighieri), Italian poet, VI. 809; xill. 502; his influence on the Renaissance, XX. 384; Gary s translation of the Divina Commedia, V. 170.

DANTON, George Jacques, French Re volutionist, vi. 815; IX. 602,603; xx - 603.

DANTONISTS, French Revolutionary party, IX. 606.

DANTZIC, or Danzig, town, Germany, vi. 818; XX. 16; siege of (1807), IX. 459. DEAL, timber, ix. 223.

DANUBE, river, Europe, vi. 819; in.

116; xn. 362; xxi. 14; delta of, xx.

580; mouths of, ill. 795. DANUM (Doncastcr), ancient town,

England, vn. 361. DANVERS, town, Massachusetts, U.S.A.,

vi. 820. DANVILLE, town, Illinois, U.S.A., vi.

820. -, town, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., vi.

820.

, town, Virginia, U.S.A., xxiv. 259.

D ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste, French geo grapher, VI. 820; his map of India, X. 1 88.

DANZIG (Dantzic, q.v. town, Germany, vi. 818; ix. 459; xx. 16.

DAPHNAIDA, Spenser s poem, xxn. 395.

DAPHNE, in Greek mythology, vi. 821; grove of, II. 131. , genus of plants, xiv. 349.

AND APOLLO, Max Miiller s theory

of, xvii. 138. DAPHNEPHORIA, Greek festival, vi. 821. DAPHNIS AND CHLOE, Longus s Greek

romance, xiv. 868; xx. 635. DARABJIRD, or Darab-Gherd, town,

Persia, VI. 821. D ARANDA, Count, Spanish minister,

ii. 308; XXIL 341. D ARANTHON, Bishop, his relations with

Madame Guyon, XL 342. DARASUN, spa, East Siberia, xxm. 510. DARAZI, Ismael, leader of the Druses,

vn. 484.

DAR-BANDA,groupof Xegroes,xvn.3i9. DARBHANGAH, district, India, xvii.

114; xxm. 407. D ARBLAY, Madame (Frances Burney),