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celebrated naturalist Lacepede, at the opening of the Number of inhabited houses, 534 Darcutr;. 



course of Natural History in the Museum for the year Families that occupy them, 628 II 



1800, and a notice of his life and works was afterwards Do. employed in agriculture, 143 Dea ' - 



published by the learned and eloquent Cuvier. Families employed in trade and manufactures, . 413 * ""V" 



Dauber. ton was a member of the Royal Academy of Males, 1297 



Berlin, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Females, 1461 



of London, on the 9th of January 1755. ( ) Total population in 1811, 2758 



DAUCUS, a genus of plants of the class Pentandria, 



and order Digynia. See Botany, p. 163. See Evans' and Britton's Beauties of England and 



DAVENTRY, or Daventre, pronounced Danetre, Wales, vol. xi. p. 53. Morton's Natural History of 



a market town of England, in the county of ISorthamp- Northamptonshire. Whalley's History and Antiquities 



ton, is situated on the side and top of a hill, and encir- of Northamptonshire, (*-) 



cled with hills to the south and east, on a tongue of DAVID I. and II. See Scotland. 



land between the rivers Nen and Avon, Mr Pennant DAVIESIA, a genus of plants of the class Decan- 



derives the name of the town from Dwy-avon-tre, the dria, and order Monogynia. See Botany, p. 221. 



town of the two Avons; though the inhabitants, from DAVIS'S Straits. See Greenland. 



the way in which the name is pronounced, make it of DAUPHINY. See Alps Higher, Drome, and Iser. 



Danish origin ; accordingly the badge of the town DAX, Dacqs, or Acqs, the Aquae Tarbellicce, and the 



arms is the effigy of a Dane cutting down a tree. Al- Aqua: Augusta of the ancients, is an ancient town of 



though the town contains some good houses, yet in ge- France, and chief place of a district of the same name, 



neral the houses are meanly budt, and the streets are in the department of Landes. It is situated on the left 



badly paved. The church and steeple are built of soft bank of the Adour, and is defended by a castle of 



Kingston stone, and are tolerable pieces of modern ar- no great strength, and by some fortifications which 



chitecture. The remains of a priory, founded in 1090, are in a bad state. Dax, however, is a military position 



are still to be seen. What now remains is supposed to of importance, as it covers a road by which an enemy 



have been the refectory. The doors and windows are could penetrate from Spain into France, without going 



in the pointed Gothic, and there is a large flight of steps by Bayonne. 



leading to the apartments.' The priory was suppressed In the middle of the town is a large and deep basin, 



by Cardinal Wolsey, and the conventual was made the always full of smoking and almost boiling water, and 



parochial church, which was taken down some years forming a small rivulet that runs into the Adour. There 



ago, where the new one was erected. are six convents in the town. It has a weekly market, 



A grammar-school was founded in this town in 1576. and six fans in the year. 



Five boys are educated by a legacy of Lord Avon, for- The mineral springs of Dax, for which it is chiefly 



merly Bishop of Durham, and other twelve are support- celebrated, are situated on the west side of the town, 



ed at school at the expence of the corporation. Three of them serve for bathing, and one for drinking. 



At the distance of nearly half a mile to the south of The water contains a small quantity of muriate and sul- 



Daventry stands Borough Hill, or Danes Hill, as it is phate of lime; its temperature is 56° ; it is clear and 



commonly called, celebrated for the large encampment tasteless, and is used for gout and rheumatism. The 



which occupies the greater part of its summit. It is environs of the town are very agreeable. The adjacent 



like that of Worle Berry in Somersetshire, and in shape country produces corn, wine, and wood ; and the prin- 



resembles the human foot, being about a mile long, and cipal trade of the place, which is greatly facilitated by 



about a quarter of a mile at its greatest breadth ; and the Adour, consists in deals, rosin, tar, wheat, brandy, 



contains about 190 acres. It is variously defended with and wine. 



two, three, or four valla, and an equal number of fosses. Several manufactures of cloths were established in 



This encampment was divided by a rampart near the Dax in the year 1766, and the poor children were 



northern extremity of the hill. The part which it thus brought up to assist in the different works. They were 



cut off from the large fortification, contained about 12 superintended by an Englishman, who was accidentally 



acres, and is nearly of a circular form. At the north- a prisoner in the town. As soon as the proprietors had 



east end of this is a moat, which was the praetorium. On obtained all his methods, they unjustifiably dismissed 



the south-east side of the hill, at the distance of 300 him'; but they found, when it was too late, that his aid 



yards from the preceding encampment, there is a small- was essentially necessary, and the establishment went 



er one, occupying about an acre of ground, and encir- completely to ruin. Population 4398. The position of 



cled by a single fosse and vallum. It has entrances on Dax, as ascertained trigonometric-ally, is West Long, 



the east and west sides, and is of an oblong form. At 1<> 3' 3", and North Lat. 43° 42' 19". (_/') 



the foot of Borough Hill, on the south, is a space of DAY. See Chronology, p. 402. 



six acres, called Burnt Walls, where the remains of DCHOUFOUTKALE. See Dschoufoutkale. 



walls and arched vaults have been discovered ; and in DEAD Sea. See Asphaltites. 



the adjacent wood are traces of a fortification, which DEAFNESS. See Surgery. 



has been called John of Gaunt's Castle. Pennant thinks DEAF and Dumb, Education oj the. See Dumb. 



that the encampment is the work of the Britons, while DEAL, supposed to have been the Dola of Julius 



other antiquarians consider Borough HiH as the site of Caesar, is a market and seaport town of England, in the 



the Roman station. hundred of Bensborough, lathe of St Augustine, and 



Dav entry has a large weekly market, and four an- county of Kent. It is situated on the sea-coast opposite 



nual fairs, held on June 6, August 3, October 2, and the Downs, which being a general rendezvous for all 



October 27, which are famous for the sale of horses, kinds of shipping, has contributed greatly to the prospe- 



There is here a race course about two miles long ; and in rity of Deal. The coast is here bold and open, and by an 



the town there is a considerable manufactory of whips, -extensive bank of beach stones and pebbles thrown up 



The following is an abstract of the population return by the waves, the sea has defended the coast from its own 



for 1811, for the parish of Daventry. violence. The town is composed chiefly of three streets, 



