DAH 
iflands nearly to lat. 20°. The a agate — 
hey were pai 
each a bark, and fo many divers, an din 
wheat, flour, &c. 3 fo that a few cuts erileyaen fur- 
nifhed them with every thing necefflary for the reft of 
The fithery was rented, in later times, to the 
The pearls eee val were of the 
largeft fize, ~ ieee 9 non or roundnefs. 
Tradition fays, his was eet - ae property of 
the roe or ae old kings of Egypt before Mahomet, 
In- the extent between Dahalac and Suakem, there 
was oe pie valuable fifhery, that of tortoiles, from 
which the fine&t fhells of that kind were produced ; 
‘Oe 
~ 
animal itfelf was very plen and 20°. 
n procefs of time Dahalac ependent on ae bafha 
of Jidda, and he appointed an 388 or fubaltern governor, 
whom they 
affaflin. 
The immenfe treafures at the bottom of the Red fea have 
at prefent 
a es 
Mr. Bruce, 
ployed on Ge Red fea, without any violation of territorial 
claims. At Dahalac they have neither horfes, dogs, fheep, 
cows, nor any fort of quadruped, except goats, affes, a few 
half-ftarved ads and antelopes, which a are very nume- 
rous. ae inhabitants have no knowle of fire-arms 3 
and there are no dogs nor beafts of prey in a the ifland to 
kill them ; ‘one few, indeed, are caught mn t 
he language at Dabalac is that of the * « Shepherds 3? : 
Arabic too is fpoken by moft of aa Irom 
this ifland are feen the mountains o ?? running 
in an even ridge like a wall, parallel to the cath aad down 
ruce’s Travels, vol. i. B. 
HMAK, a town A Arabia, in :qhe country of 
16 miles 8.S.E. of Abu-Arifch. 
L, Micnaen, in Biography, a painter, native 
Stockholm, who at an early age came into England, being 
introduced into this country by an Englifh merchant. Dahl 
or a bea travelled to Paris, and refided there fome time. 
H vifited Italy, where he painted, amongft others, the 
por here v, queen Chriftina of Sweden. In 1688 we find 
D 
ahl returned to England, where : acquired “— reputa- 
Yemen ; 
tion as a portrait painter. He died in eens Nn 1743 a 
the advanced ag 87 yea The fo rae porate are 
a few of thofe engraved ater this el Ele ofeph Addif 
1719, by Simon; queen Anne, by ee prince 
George of Denmark, by J. Simon ; the ane f Marlbo 
ee by ditto; ie duke of Ormond, by ditto. Wal- 
pol 
Dace, or Dat, in Geography. See Dat E 
DAHLBERG, Enic, in Biography, a celebrated Swed- 
of united into a tube. Pifl, 
DAH 
ifh general, i ad ae = virtues led him to the higheft 
ae ns uae as born in O¢tober, 1625. His 
cation w: carey aa by dint of application, and 
atk aca oy aitbatee: he made a rapid progre{s in ma- 
thematics, a fcience always o ft importance to thofe 
who are deftine elements 
a) 
_ 
nion his majefty re olved t to march his my acrofs che ice, 
by which he {peedily made himfelf re co Ge wnele coun- 
Copenhagen. From this time he 
ortant offices, both asa military 
So much did he 
ngth of his country, 
was em 
he defended when invaded by t 
at Stockholm in T7031 in the ents year of his ag 
He left behind him a work of great merit entitled “ Sia 
Antiqua Hodierna,”’ in pie vols. folio. This work con- 
ilts of plates only, ‘and the draw wings from which they were 
executed were almoft all taken on the fpot by Dahlberg him- 
log. 
LEN, in Geography, a {mall town of Saxony, in 
ne ae of Meiffen or } eee with 916 inhabitants, belong- 
the counts o nau, and remarkable for Fae 
cies of slbeey trees and large crops of the 
adder 
ee 
DAHLIA, in Botany, — by the late ree — 
in honour of Andrew Da 1, a Swedifh oe ofa 
ae ae of botanical me ene ) ae Gs sae Ve 
1.56. eorgina, Willd. Sp. v ern Ciafs 
-_ shies ingens a polygamia- een. Nat. Ord. Co- 
ynbifer era, Juff. 
bh. Common me double ; the outer of er 
three-toothed petal, fia in number to the eye of the 
calyx. Stam. (in the perfed florets, ) Giancat five, broadeft 
. ie bafe, inferted into the bottom of the petal; anthers 
pea: e bie: germen. 
large, ae middle ones keeled, the reft flat 
Eff. Ch. Calyx double; the outer of many lea 
rolla radiant, its ioe oy in number to the bere of the 
calyx ; ovate, three-toothed. Receptacle chafly.. Stigmas 
downy. Seed-down none. 
This genus comes very near Polymnia, i a Sims has 
obferved in one fpeci > os coccinea, Curt. t. 762, that 
the florets in the centre of the difk are fans thofe in its 
ean fertile, Ae radius being neuter or ea 2 
tthe genus, if all its fpecies gee in this refpe&t, th 
be rete like Polymnia, to the order: Polygamia- nace ; 
aria 
f The 
