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A la ig an ae of learning, 
je e&ture. which ade only can turn 
fic. Mos of the ae paige are © ign and g 
efpeciaily acaong ithe graffes, and 
The author 
oP f 
hades and con. 
oO any certain pro- 
ood, 
of the umbelliferee 
*feen in the pees oe toy dif- 
Gefner ! } ee a e igor i are {carcely ary traces 
ef methodical arangement, much Iels of diferiminating or 
affociating plants by their flowers or fruits. The ftyle, in- 
together defultor A French eau a was 
gainin 1653. Hahier’s Bibl. Bot. 
&. Hiltorigue. Dalech. Hitt. Pl. 
ALECHAMPIA, in Botany, (named 7 Plamier af. 
r Da era the Trench botanift.) Lim oi 
es 653. Wuld. Sp. Pl ov. 4. 515. 
en. 
d order, monoecia Won: 
as long as the calyx; anthers 
roundifh, with four furrows. 
ertile flowers three, between the fame bracteas. Ca 
Involucram common, of three leaves, which are upright, 
roundifh, permanent, the outermoft thrice broader than the 
ref ; persanth of Io Ba ferrated, clofed, perma- 
nent leave or. none. Piff. Geren roundith, with 
e three-lobed, roundith, of 3 
“Seedle folitary, globul ar. Jacq. 
flo 
ally Chie: ers, Tavol. in 4 deep fegments; 
Perianth of fix leaves. Cor. none. Fertile, fnvol. of 3 
eaves; Perianth of 10. Co ne. Capf. three-lobed. 
jfoandens , ihe original {pecies, Jac Mere BS2. ts 
60, Plum. A - 101, a native of Martinico and Hil- 
paniola, is chiefly known by the defcriptions and figures of 
Jacquin and Piumier. It has a rough climbing ftem, with 
green ers on long ftalks. The braéteas are 
deeply three-cleft, ferrated, ag the flowers and feeds. 
D. colorata, found by Mutis in New Granada, has entire 
leaves oe perpli bee. Te arck, in his Encyclo- 
of thefe plants 
ave at prefent known in the gardens oe Europe. Their 
flowers are deftitute of beauty. 
JAAR, in Geography, a fortrefs of Sweden, built 
‘ky ifland, with a garrifon to aie the entrance and 
reeeive the duties of veflels going to Sto 
A » a town of Germany, in he circ 
n. 
cle of Wek- 
phalia, and bithopric of Paderborn ; feven miles E. of Buren. 
Datem, ee DaLHEem 
MBERT, in Biography, feeALemBert. This 
eminent mathematician and plulofopher would certainly 
3: 
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merit a diftin article among mufical eta for the clear 
and geometric arrangement and explanation of the dffuled 
and obfenre theoretical writings of Ram if, in the arti. 
cle Ba e oleate aa we had not already incidentally eX~ 
ufical opinions, before and after 
° 
th 
The vylten of Rameay, founde e Baffe fond. 
tale, was rendered {0 clear, pleafing, and doa es by t 
ficit edition of 4’ Alembert’s Synopts 
believed in France, as Burnet’s Theor of the Earth was 
in England, till examined by Kei!, and proved to be found- 
ed on unphilcfophical principles. 
when d’?Alembert had m 
I f Rameau, and expre 
them in an air of the Encylopedie, Rameau was fo irri- 
a pampnlet in his defence, in which he 
feems to ee loft all refpeét for his 
its being capable 
of French ccntra- sonar. who 
was, nor ever could be, any accurate and good mufic com~ 
pofed, but on the Shas of the Bafe fondamentale a 
M. Rameau; which at prefent is as much neglected a 
fe rgotten in France, as, in the houfes of-the see tock 
ing is in England. 
DALEN, ConNEILLE VAN, called ee Younger, 
; and other 
o ; but this, proba- 
bis having engraved the 
al Fnglifhm tints of this artift 
are ee eee, and pene a corre tafte, and his heads 
in particular are in high ¢ftimation. He fometimes marked 
on ‘anaes . D. not unfrequently ee Amongtt 
us performances are the follow e four 
re ay the Church, aanidcling-fized, aren ce from 
ns; the Graces ny aa es tatue of 
arge print, on two plates, from the fame, much in the man-’ 
ner of Bolfwert; the Virgin prefenting the Breaft to the- 
Infant Cc nrift, middling ‘linck ; Wenus a 
much eftee ; fou 
itian, ey eonlges ae the chef 
: rft, Pietro Aretino, holding a book. 
oe seco. holding a 
Giorgione da Canes feen in front; 
del Piombo. ‘This latter is by fome attributed to Tinto-~ 
IRK, 2 painter, born at Amfterdam in 
59. e was inttruéted by his father, William Dalens, 
a land{cape-painter of no eminence. t the age of 13 he. 
became acquainted, at Hamburgh, with John vesoae in 
whofe co mpany he applied himfelf to the pencil with une. 
He after 
= 
nN 
_ of his 9 
n 1688. ne land{cape, with bi s and other fowl, 
painted by this artift, after the ma acre ig 
in the collection of the EleGor Palatine. Defcam 
DALE ; or eee Es, in Geography, a fovall town 
of Norway, in the diocefe af Dror ntheim, with a provoftfhip,. 
to which ney ten pariics and twenty-nine churches. 
DALENBURG; 
