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as they were called, harassed the forces of the Parlia- 

 ment, long after the i-. -t of the kingdom had submit- 

 ted to their power. In Hi.s.'i, tile unfortunate Duke of 

 Monmouth landed at Lymc. 



The following returns respecting this county were 

 made to parliament in compliance with the Population 

 \ct in 1811. 



inhabited 23,210 



Families occupying them 26,821 



Houses building 171 



^ uninhabited 84-1 



Families employed in agriculture . . 12,982 



in trade, manufactures, &c. 9,607 



not comprized in these classes 4,232 



Males 57,717 



Females 66,976 



Total population in 1811 124,693 



Population in 1801 119,100 



Increase 



5,593 



See Hutchin's History of Dorsetshire ; Boswell's 

 Cii'il Division of the County of Dorset, including a No- 

 mina Villarum ; Stevenson's Agriculture of Dorse tfliirc; 

 Maton's Observations on the Southern Counties; A Sketch 

 of the Geology of some parts of Hnmjishire and Dorset- 

 shire, by Dr Berger, in the Geological Transactions ; 

 and Britton and Brayley's Beauties of England and 

 Walet, vol. iv. p. 821. (w. s.) 



DORSTENIA, a genus of plants of the class Te- 

 trandria, and order Monogynia. See BOTANY, p. 126. 



DORT. See DORDRECHT. 



DORT, SYNOD or. See ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 



DORYANTHES, a genus of plants of the class Hex- 

 amlria, and order Monogynia. See BOTANY, p. 194. 



DORYCNIUM, a genus of plants of the class Dia- 

 clelphia, and order Decandria. See BOTANY, p. 280. 



DOUAY, Dot'Ai, or Duacttm, is a town in the Ne- 

 therlands, advantageously situated on^the navigable ri- 

 ver Scarpe, which communicates by canals with Lille, 

 St Omers, Dunkirk, and the Northern Sea, and by 

 means of the Scheldt with Valenciennes, Cambray, and 

 Toiimay. 



The principal public buildings are a very handsome 

 square, a fine arsenal, a school of artillery, a lyceum, a 

 society of agriculture, the church and the town-house, a 

 public library, a theatre, and a cabinet of natural history. 

 In the church of the village of LoLun, which is close to 

 the town, there are many tombs of the middle ages, re- 

 markable for their sculpture. Douay has long been ce- 

 lebrated for its English colleges, to which the Roman Ca- 

 tholics of England were generally sent to be educated. 



The principal manufactures carried on at Douay are 

 those of cambric, camlet, woollen and cotton coverlets, 

 flannels, hats, starch, tobacco, oil, soap, earthen-ware, 

 glass bottle?, thread, thread lace, and gauze. Two 

 thousand two hundred and four pieces of cambric were 

 annually manufactured here before the revolution, each 

 about two-thirds of an ell wide, and twelve ells and a 

 half long. The annual amount of its linen manufacture 

 wa* 271,140 francs. There are also at Douay several 

 alt works and houses for refining sugar, a foundry for 

 cannon, and a manufactory for white-iron goods, which 

 are in great repute. Douay is the entrepot for the flax 

 trade, with all the departments of the empire. The ca- 

 nal from Douay to Lille was completed in 1686, by 

 Louis XIV. There are two annual fairs here, the first 

 of which is held on the 1st of August, and lasts only a 



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day ; while the second, which is held on the 1*1 of Si p- 

 tiniber, lasts nine davs. Population. 1S..",(X). (r) 

 DOIT.I.F M-MI-. See . \-TIIO\OM\ , p. (J80. and 819. 



Dot T.l.FK. Sec i IK, rucrrr. 



DOL'BS, the name of one of thr departments of 

 France, which derives its name from that of the prin- 

 cipal river, which waters it in the direction from south 

 to -outh-wot. It i- hounded on the north by the de- 

 partment of the 1'ppcr Saone ; on the west by th 

 Upper Saone and Jura; on the south by the depart- 

 ment of Jura and by Swit/crland ; and o'n the east bv 

 Swit/erland and the department of the I'ppcr llhinc." 



The principal rivers are the Doulis. the De-soubre. 

 the I.ouve. and the ( 'gnon, none of which are n:r. i 

 The two fir.-t are scarcely floatable. The Doub- 

 in Mount Jura, near Mourthc, below Pontarlier, and 

 passes by St Hippolyte, Montbeliars, Baumes-lc dame-. 

 Besangon, and Dole, and falls into the Saone, near Ver- 

 dun, after a course of about 180 English miles. 



The department is divcr-ificd by hills and plains. It 

 is almost arid towards Switzerland; but is extrcinch 

 rich in the canton alxive the river Douhs, and near it* 

 confines with the department of the I'ppcr Saone. It 

 produces wheat, oats, wines and chce.-c, and affords 

 pasturage for cattle. It contains miiu - of coal and iron, 

 and quarries of marble and slates. The principal iron 

 mines are those situated in the communes Oye, Palet, 

 La Cluse, Mijoux, Monperreux, MeUibief, Longevities, 

 Noire-Fontaine, Pont-ele-Roide, Cuze, Cutriel, Ornans. 

 liougemont, Itougeinontot, La Bretiniere, \-e. They 

 supply 6 furnaces, 23 small forges, 31 martinets, 3 ma- 

 nufactories for iron wire, and 2 foundries. There is 

 also freestone and abundance of turf in the department. 

 The marshes near Besangon, RufFy, Morteau, Portarlier, 

 &c. are extensive. 



This department has a superficial extent of 5340 

 square kilometres, and 270 square leagues. The fo- 

 rests occupy 124 or l'2~> hectares, or 244 or 245 arpens, 

 anel belong almost wholly to individual proprietors. 

 The average contribution of each individual to the ex- 

 pence of the state, is about seven shillings sterling. 

 The contributions in the year 1803 amounted to 

 1,886.833 francs. 



The following is a list of the principal towns, with 

 their population : 



Besangon 30,000 



St Hippolyte 5,050 



Pontarlier 3,880 



Beaumes-les-dames 2,300 



Besangon is the capital. The total population of the 

 department is 227,075. See Herbin's Statistique tie la 

 France, and Chantreaux's Science defHisloire, &c. (*) 



DOVER, a seaport town of England, in the county 

 of Kent, and one of the Cinque Ports, is situated upon 

 the Knglish Channel, in a valley almost encircled with 

 lofty chalk hills. The form of the town is remarkable, 

 and has a very romantic appearance when seen from 

 tlie -urrounding heights. It consists of three long streets, 

 stretching in the directions, east, south-wc-t. and north, 

 and converging to one point. The town is divided in- 

 to the two parishes of St Mary and St James, which 

 have churches of the some name. 



The church of St Mary's, which is supposed to have 



been built in 1216, is a spacious edifice. It consists of 



a nave and aisles, with a tower at the west end, and is 



about 120 feet long, and 5 broad. The architecture of 



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Double 



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 Dover. 



