DAL 
DALENBURG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and principality of Luneburgh Zell, on the 
Nerze; 16 miles of Ze 
E, a {mall town of Norway, i in the diocefe of 
Chriftianfand, ae a Maa of five parifhes. 
EN, a town of Holland, in the 
of Co- 
ee ae ia on ce, Vents 8 leagues S. W. 
or 
DALFHEIN, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Lower Rhine, and palatinate of the Rhine; 6 miles N. W 
of Worms 
EIM, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft- 
phalia,. and duchy of Juliers; 3 miles N. N. W. of Waffen- 
erg. 
DALHEM, or Datem, a {mall town of France, i in the 
department of the Ourte, chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
triad of Liege, on the river Bervine ; 6 miles LE. of Liege, 
and 18 N. W. imbourg, wit ich it was annexed to 
rance, in confequence of the wars of the Revolution, having 
formerly belonged to the United Provinces of the Nether- 
lands, at prefent the kingdom of Holland. Dalhem has 732 
inhabitants, and its canton 19 communes, with a population 
of 13,632 individuals, upon a territorial extent of 624 kili- 
ometres. N. lat. 50° 45’. E. long. 8°. 
DALIAS,a a of Spain, in the province of Grenada ; 
6 Be W.S.W. of Almeria. 
DALIN, Ouror Vow j in Biography, a Swedifh hiftorian 
and poet, was born in 1708 at 2 
ice his father was clergyma 
Lund, and in 1735 he publihed, without i name, wee 
paper, entitled ‘* the Swedifh Ar This was fo much 
efteemed, that the ae was spond librarian at Stock - 
holm in 1737; and from thenceforth he acquired great re- 
putation by his literary productions, which obtained a very 
general circulation through the whole kingdom. In 1739 
be began his travels, and in the courfe of the next four years 
vifited the principal places on the continent, and formed an 
acquaintance with any men of great learning and celebrity. 
Tn 1743 he publithed a poem, en petees *¢ Swedifh Liberty,” 
one of the bef poetical produétion that ever appeared in 
Sweden. He was next engaged to cone a hiftory of his 
1749 the hereditary prince was pu 
duties of preceptor he performed fo much to the fatisfaction 
of his employers, that he was ennobled i 
when he affumed the name of Vora Dalin. 
appointed a counfellor of the agent and in two years 
after hiftoriographer to the kin was next advanced 
to the dignity of kmght of the polar ise and counfellor of 
This happened in the {pring of 1763, and in 
a voluminous but very re{pectable writer, 
and his {maller cae have been collected and pamecs in 6 
volumes. Pa he Biography. 
D » Daria, or Davanp, in Geography. See 
ner iee 
par eg ne in Ancient Geography, atown of Afia, 
in yaa Ptol 
EITH, in = Can, a confiderable town, 
though i ! parith, in the county of Mid-Lothian, Scot- 
land, is aeiehually fituated on a ftrip of land, between the 
“ Efk; had bers are richly clothed 
mented w ome feats of fome fa- 
Delhi bofo ee the village, 
the elegant feat of the duke of Buccleugh, was eref&ted on 
the fite of Dalkeith so about te beginning of the laft 
DAL 
century. The sapien and luxuriant plantations around it, 
waters of two wi nding rivers, | whic unite, 
the eae of eee education. 
parifh in 1799, — to 4336, about 3000 of which re- 
fided in the town. But this has fince much increafed. 
ALKEY, a fmall ‘land i in the Irith fea, forming oi 
fouthern limit of the bay of Dublin. It contains sont 
acres, having plenty of herbage. The channel betw n this 
ifland and the main land is called Dalkey Sound, in an ch 
cneies is good oe for hips. oun vi sats meek 
is in eae . 6° 4! W. Lat. 43° ‘ 
DALLAMANO, cen in Biography, a’ painter, 
born at Reggio, in 1679. his artift, though totally il- 
literate, and by fome even faid to have heen an idiot, pof- 
feffed extraordinary talents for painting, and was efpeci:lly 
an excellent colouri e lived many years in the fervice 
of the court . Turin, and “died i in i768. Lan 
DALLANS, Ratpu, an organ-builder of ‘confderable 
L 
merit, and gre reat pradlice in England, at the time 
Reftoration. During the fuppreffion of the ee fer. 
vice, and prohibition of the ae a a eres inftru- 
whole king- 
dom. 
robbed of their pipes for the fake of the 
totally deftroyed by ae fanatics. xcept 
Loofemore of Exeter, Thamar of Peterborough, and Pref- 
churches, and conftru@ting n 
was engaged to build a new organ for 
Windfor ; which, perhaps, from the hafte with which it 
conftruéted, though its appearance was beautiful _ mage 
nificent, did not prove fo excellent as was expecied 
hers for different 
a 
univerfity, eftablithed foon after the reftoration. ‘The pric 
. this laft inftrument was only fifty-one pounds ten fhillings; 
as appears f froma a au ors nen of inftruments, books, an 
other g he panes i the mufic-{chool with 
atl contrite ri ala “inftit 
e of Dallan’s deceafe was caeaiy afcertained by an 
iaicapeon ona ftone i 2 the Cld Church of Greenwich, which 
is thus recorded by Strype: 
R Dalans smaker, deceafed while he was 
making this him February 1672. James 
White, his a. finithed it, and ere&ted this ftone 1673.” 
DALLER, 
