DAT 
not, however, tae ome es the see . ale a 
by whom a tranfportation into a diftan ry, ace 
nied with cok is co a ee as a Gace to be pee 
See “The Hiftory of Dahomy, an inland kingdom of Afri- 
_ cece from authentic Memoirs, with an Introduc- 
tion and Notes. By Archibald Dalzel, Tava governor 
at Whydah, toe now at Cape Coait Caftle, 
A, a {mall ifland in i fea, near the coaft 
of Arabia; one league 5.W. o 
DAHRIJE, a town ye Egypt fituated on the Nile ; 
43 miles S.S.W. of Dam 
IBOTH, in Mstaley, an idol of the Japanefe, i in 
honour of whom t ey have ed many ic 
numerous devotees and wor 
es the roof of the temple with his hand ; 
and his bulk is 7“ enormous, that his hands are more ex- 
. tended than the body of an ordinary man. This idol has 
= sa and face of a woman, » and pas a which 
He is en- 
°c 
profufion of lighted lamps. 
wooden pillars, confifting of trees in their natural and un 
formed ftate, fo 
pel, externally varnifhed, in which th € pre- 
aa = where the people: worfhip, pier on the greater 
thefe, we have by his hand fome 
{ct of Views os Verfailles. At length he quitted the graver 
to engage in commercial purfuits. Teinecken 
DAIKORKU, in Mythology, a Japanefe d city, whom the 
people vewed as the fource of all their riches. This idol is 
feated on a fack of rice, the oriental fymbol of plenty, and 
holding in his hand a hammer, by every ftroke of which he 
confers every kind of domeftic convenience, gay habits, and 
ee riches. 
DAILE, in a fhip, the trough wherein the water runs 
over. the a 
mae 
s 
fad 
a 
“Ee 
ee with which his ow ven years 
did M. Daillé refide in clic ally of a pore ie and ve- 
et out with his pupils on their tra- 
vels. In Italy one of | the young men died, and it was with 
difficulty that the tutor, by the ai 
Paul, was enabled to tranfmit the bedy to France, to be 
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interred with his anceftors. From Italy he eee aaa his 
furviving pupil to Switzerland, Germany, Flanders, Hol- 
land, and En d to his native cou ne in 
ae He 
now engaged i in pS ee preparing memoirs of his friend, 
which had been colleéted by De Ligues, and which were 
afterwards publifhed in oe poate: He was in 1625 
elected minilter of the church at Saucier, where he had 
carcely been a ycar when he was called by the confiltory of 
Paris to take charge of the church at Charenton. Here he 
pent the remainder of his life, and was regarded as one of 
the mott excellent as Mee as judicious aes of the Pro- 
teftant caufe. Hed t Paris, much 
efteemed by the aie as well as by the Proteltents, for 
learning, abilities, integrity, moderation, and his polite 
ee manners. his works he was diftinguithed 
publifhed by M. Daillé 
“D Peres,”’ or ** Cone 
cerning the right Ule of the Fathers,’? which is charac- 
terized as “a very ftrong chain of arguments that form a 
moral saga a againft thofe who would have differ. 
o be decided by the authority of the fa- 
T Agslece for the reformed Churches,’’ 
&c. in which he vindicated them from the charge of {chifm 
d, 3. An Apology for the Synods of Alengon 
and Char »” The firft two were tranflated into the 
Englifh and Latin ee and enjoyed a very high repus 
tation: ; the laft gave rife to a bitter controverly, which i in« 
ae the fame of all the parties engaged init. Bayle. Mo- 
DAINUR, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in the pro- 
vince of Irak-Agemi; 50 miles W. of Amadan, 
Re N, a town of Africa, in the country of Agon- . 
“DAIR A, in & Hie one of the Oceanides, mother 
of Eleufis, by Mer 
o 
ee 
eee an is at prefe 
secbe tial one, called 
bears the title of Aubo. 
a ormer the oracle of the religion of the country. 
See Ja- 
Kerkuk. 
DAIRY, in Rural Economy, a name fometimes applied 
to the different forts of produéts of this kind, and fometimes 
to the place where milk, butter, and cheefe, are laid up and 
preferved ; hence thefe repofitories are further diftinguifhed 
into butter, cheefe, and milk dairies, according as one or other 
of — articles conftitutes the principal objeét of the dairy 
farme as been remarked by a late partial writer, that 
hee are frie forts of grafs lands that anfwer better in this 
ne aga than others. It is not, he fays, well decided, 
though ral experience feems to favour the opinion, 
that the = Feri dL ariel lands may be more profitably 
applied to the ofe of grazing or fattening anima 
than that of the sy 3 but fuch - are not capable of bring 
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