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JOenbigh- carries the canal over the river Dee, at the bottom of DENDERMOND, or Termonde, a town of France, B*nd£F» 



jhire > Llangollen vale, and is perhaps the most elegant and in the department of the Scheldt, is situated at the mp!ul 



Dendera^ splendid structure of the kind in Europe. The piers junction of the rivers Scheldt and Dender, by the D J . 



are of stone, and all the rest of cast iron. The height last of which rivers the town is traversed. The town ■_ 



of the centre piers is about 1 50 feet, and the number of is surrounded by marshes and fine meadows. It has 



arches about 13. The Ruabon collieries are connect- two parish churches, one of which is collegiate; a col- 



ed with it by means of iron rail-roads. On the north lege, and two convents of men and four of women, 



side of the Dee, a branch extends to Llangollen ; The parish church of Notre Dame contains an excellent 



and, as has been already noticed, to the vicinity of the picture of the adoration of the Shepherds by Vandyck ; 



Oernaut slate quarries. The river Conway is naviga- and in the church of the Capuchins is another of a 



ble for small craft to within two miles of Llanrwst. dying Christ, which has been esteemed the chef-d'eeuvre 



Near this place is a bridge built by Inigo Jones, con- of the same celebrated artist. 



sisting of three arches, the middle one of which is nearly The position of this place is very strong, a3 the sur- 



60 feet wide. rermding country can readily be laid under water. Its 



There are 57 parishes in Denbighshire, and 6 market citadel and fortifications are likewise strong ; and it is 



towns. The number of acres, by recent survey, is considered as a place of great importance in expediting or 



found to be 387,000. It returns two members to par- facilitating the communication between Gand and Ant- 



liament. Is partly in the diocese of St Asaph and part- werp. The principal manufactures of Dendermond, are 



ly in that of Bangor, and in the province of Canterbury, fustains and linen, and some imitations of Indian stuffs. 



It pa) - s one part to the land-tax. The surrounding country produces corn, hemp, and 



The following is an abstract of the population re- flax, and is remarkable for its excellent breed of horses, 



turn for 1811: The population of the town is about 5028. East Long. 



Inhabited houses 13,078 *° *&> and North *f- 51 ° S ' • See Descamps Voyage 



Families that occupy them 13,703 ^XopS"" U) <• i * PA i 



Uninhabited houses 2S1 DENDROBIUM a genus of plants of the class 



Families employed in agriculture 7,973 Gynandna, and order Diandna. See Botany, p. 



Ditto in trade and manufactures 2,283 A-vKTT^vri^wrTy c * \ a 



IVIales 31 129 DENDROMETER, from Se»?g«v a tree, and jitsrgev a 

 P i' ' ' 33*1 J] measure, is a name which was at first given to a trigo- 

 Total population*. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. ". '. ". *. '. '. 6i,2W nometrical instrument, invented by Messrs Duncomb 

 1 L and Whittel, for measuring the trunk, the branches, and 

 The town of Denbigh is pleasantly situated on a the height of a tree, without coming near it. This in- 

 limestone eminence, which commands an extensive strument, and a variety of others for the same purpose, 

 view of the most beautiful part of the vale of Clwyd. are founded on the principle of measuring the angles 

 On the summit of this eminence are the fine ruins of its which the same object, or the same part of an object, sub- 

 castle. All the streets, except one, are very irregular, tends at the extremities of a base actually included in the 

 and the houses, for the most part, are ill-built. It is instrument. We do not conceive any of these instru- 

 £.overned by two aldermen, a recorder, two bailiffs, and naents of sufficient importance as dendrometers, to de- 

 twenty-five capital burgesses. Along with Ruthin and serve a separate description in this article. We shall 

 Holt, it sends one member to parliament. It is prin- therefore content ourselves with a few references, which 

 cipally inhabited by tanners, glovers, and shoemakers ; will enable our readers to judge for themselves. See 

 and sends a considerable quantity of gloves and shoes Duncombe and Whittel's Description of their own Den- 

 to London for exportation. About 50 years ago, a drometer; Transactions of the Society for the Encourage- 

 broad cloth manufactory was established here, but it inent of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, vol. 25, for 

 did not succeed. Between this place and Ruthin, near- an account of Mr Broad's Gauge or Measure for tim- 

 ly 13 acres of lavender are generally grown, which is ber; and the Repertory of Arts, vol. ii. p. 238, for an 

 distilled and sent to London. The population of the account of Mr Pitts' Dentlrometer. The description of 

 town of Denbigh in 1811, was 2714. See Bingley's a variety of new trigonometrical instruments, which 

 North Wales; Aikin's Tour through North Wales; Da- may be employed as dendrometers, and for analogous 

 vies' View of the Agriculture of North Wales; and the purposes, will be found in Brewster's Treatise on Nero 

 article Inland Navigation, for drawings and descrip- Philosophical Instruments. Edin. 1813. See Micro- 

 tions of the aqueduct bridges of Chirk and Pontcy- meteji. (o) 



sylte. (w. s.) DENEKIA, a genus of plants of the class Synge- 



DENDERA, or Tentyra. See Civil Arciiitec- nesia, and order Polvgamia Superfhia. See Botany, 



tijre, vol. vi. p. 573; Plate CXLVIII.; and Plate CLII. p. 300. 



Fig. 2. See also Tentyra. DENIS, St. See Denys, St. 



