DAG 
rom eaft to weft gives a breadth of 48 miles, and from 
fuuth to en a length of 36 ue The — promou- 
tory is ger fas = long. an any bro 
€ pa n Livonia, ae main ae to Dagoj 
ufually ee so the ifland o f 
little ifle of Hertholm fouthward or northward. any 
dire& their courfe by the village of Vachterby, where a 
foreft of aldere, feen at a great epee ferves for a land- 
mark. In fummer time = pa ery fafe acrofs the 
found, even in mal 1s numerous fhallows, fand- 
banks,-and fenall iflands ae the navigatioa about Dago 
fomewhat perilous in ormy weather. Ships are often 
ftranded here. At low water the fand-banks refemble iflands: 
but after long bie winds they are over pales 
pales an 
ago. } 
are almoit overparthensd with vaffals. 
them go tothe main land, and gain a livelihood by embank- 
ing, bricklaying, plattering, and frequently whole familics are 
fold. The landlords ae de om thei 
ettates, if they were obliged t 
thefe cannot all live by agriculture, mdny turn their hands 
to various arts and handicra eae in which they eee un- 
com only well, T 
oe Dago h 
much fand, 
a fertile foil. 
aah thrives well in rainy feafons. 
ardie were the Ls proprietor in oc eens 
and ra capital eftaés b one of their defcend- 
ants, the countefs Steinboc oe Tooke’ View of Rufhia 
DAGOBERTL. in Biography; king of France, the only 
pears to have any claim to a 
i born A. 
mayor of the palace, to the government of Auftrafia. on 
the death of a oe. in 628, he fuccecded to the other 
year é 
count of his liberality to the aay but he 
ae eae for collecting, ,revifing, and making public 
the of his country. ae re eligi on, be partook of the 
bigo val the times, and iffued an order for all the Jews in 
his palates to fubmit to Chiltan baptifm. Moreri. 
DAG 
hig eaaott a in Ancient Geography, a town of the 
Leffler Arm 
ON » in Mythology, one of the moft lee 
ae of the Philiftines, commonly reprefented as 
monfter, half man, and half ffh; whence fome have derived 
his name, the Hebrew word dag ‘denoting a fifo. Accordi 
to Saiclonn on = poe of this deity. 1s “7 ancient, 
and he was the celus,-fo called from the word 
i ar Phew as language, fae wheat. As 
he was the ee ee of the plough, and taught men t e ufe 
of corn for d, he was, after his death, furnamed ae 
grotes, or the labourer; and being the inventor of a 
ter his death. We have various 
culture, ne was deified a 
c 
he was Jupiter; according to rs, Saturn, Others, 
s_again, reprefent him as Venus, ora female deity, ree 
enus was worfhipped under the ae of a ; 
Dio ictus Siculus relates, that, at Afhu 
the Pailtttines, Derceto, or a (th ‘a 
was worfhipped under the figure 
extremities terminated in the tail ea a a eee repre- 
fented it as 
a ae rofe cut o 
the Red fea, and came to Babylon, and, having taught 
feveral arts, returned again into the fea. Severa fe 
mas d to have ie from this fea in fubfequent 
urope. Jurieu fug- 
gelts, that Noah bile, aig ee from the deluge, was 
difguifed under the n Dagon or Neptune. Fromt 
Scripture we learn, Va when the Pailifines had taken the 
ark of God from the Ifraelites, and brought it to the city 
of Afhdod, or Azotus, or —. . as it was differently called, 
they placed it in oa — le of Dagon, clofe to the image of 
that deity; but w afterwards entered the temple, they 
found the idol fallen 0 nits ce. with its head and hands broken 
of. The Philiftines held this idol in great eh : ve 
erc€ted in honour of it magnificent temples. temple a 
Gaza muft have been very large, finc selene fang Pilled 
down the pillars er fupported it, bined e than 3060 men 
in its ruins. eity continued to havea one at Afhdod, 
during all the ages of yearelp till the time of the Maccabees; 
for we read, that when the army, vanquifhed by Jonathan, 
one of the Maccabees, fled to — and attempted to 
fhelter themfelves in Beth-Dag le of Dagon, 
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temples o is god, and his arms in that of Affaroth, 
benc siti 
divinities lai Mythology, vol. ii. p. 37. ilton’s 
ar. Lo , 
DAGONVILLE, in aie ac a town of France, in 
the iol tok of Bc eufe, and diftri@ of Commercy : 
3 leagues 
DA TT, in Biseahy: fee GAUTIER. 
DAGODA, in aes a town of Peret on the 
Niles 
