DAG 
about three miles from the fea, on a mountain computed to 
e 22 fathoms in perpendicular height. 
DAGESTAN, DacuesrTan, or a: oO ly a provi ince se 
the firft of thefe is the territory of t 
baal, ftretching about 14 G< 
Koi 
Koifu, called the dry Koifu, ape it is peace of wafer 
except when the fnow diffolves in the mountains, io the ri- 
vulet Urufai-Bulak or Ruffian cane and is in breadth from 
feven to eight German'miles. The plain is moftly in tillage, 
and being well watered by rivers and back that defcend 
from the neighbouring mountains, produces corn. In this 
plain there are only fheds for cattle ; the dwellings of the 
inhabitants being fituated in the manuntaiae, which are co- 
vered with woods, fteep and interfeQed by many narrow 
glens. The capital is Tarki, fituated on the declivity of the 
to contain about 
Armenian and 
Georgian merchants: another lefs confiderable town, called 
Buinacki or Boinak, js fituated on a rivulet 
name, where it iffues from the mountains. 
ftate is the territory of the Uzmey, between the Urufai- 
Bulak and the little Darbach, which is for the moft part 
mountainous, about 8 German miles in length, along the 
coaft, and equally broad. It is watered by three ae con- 
fiderable rivers, the Chamrafeni, the great Buam, and the 
great Darbach, which are divided into fmall erie fe the 
purpofe of navigation, and alfo oe broo = 
tract of country produces abundance of wood a ae rn, 
and is well inhabited. The Uzmey re in Bafebli, a 
the inhabitants are Kaidaks ; on ‘the Darbach, Kerakeidake ; 
and a the mouths of the great Buam and Darbach, 
Berekoz The third ftate is the territor of Derbent or 
Derbend, ‘which i is of inconfiderable extent, being only four 
German miles in length on the fea-coatt, and ex tending from 
1% to 2 miles inland, and owes its irportance folely to the 
advantageous fituation of the city of Derbend. The Darbach 
and Rubas form the northern and fouthern boundaries; be- 
tween aiich rivers lies a broad and partly marfhy level, aa 
fe&ted by many fmall brooks, and interfperfed with beau 
tiful and well cultivated corn-fields. For an account o 
Derbend, fee Dirsenp. The fourth ftate is Tabafferan 
or Tabaffaran, and hes between the Darbach and Rubas, 
towards their fources, _ about fix German miles in- 
land from above the territory of Derbent, as od as po 
y an 
the Tartarian 
at about 70,000 fami lies 5 a 
than 600 years 
DA GGER, in Military Ema Sn a fhort {word or 
inches lo This 
forms ; 
een U 
in Italy, the filetto, as it is there called, is {mall and eafily 
DAG 
concealed ; having ane a very fall handle, and a flat, 
a triangular blade, gro In the fouth 
various murders, fuppofed with that infrument : it was con 
cealed withinthe blade of a common table knife, in which it 
was retained, and could be drawn at pleafure, by means of a 
{pring in the handle. The Malays ufe daggers with fer- 
pentine blades ; thefe are called crecfes, and infli& a molt 
defperate wound; the extent of which, ho 
of moment, it bein 
the thorax, between the collar-bone and the afophagus, or 
gullet. The Perfians, as alfo the people of Afia in general, 
confider the dagger as a part of their full-drefs, and wear 
fometimes two or more of them in their waifts. The handlea 
a thefe are for the moft part ornamented with inlaid gold, 
with precious ftones; and the fheaths are covered with 
ce, aoe with gold ornamints, The gripe is formed, 
in a curious manner, confifting of two crofs bars, at about: 
an inch afunder, lying at right angles between two ftilts, 
that communicate vies the blade ; which is of a pad 
form, and nearly Daggers are prohibit: d by 
tute in this nas and happily are only to” on 
upon the ftage, or in mufeums, &c. ‘The 
e, although the law makes allow~ 
ance for the fatal iffue of fudden quarrels, where a v. 
is in the hand of him who deprives another of life, it 
exhibit confummate fkill : it aa indeed, confidered there as. 
much a f{cience as our exercife with the broad-fword : trials 
of prowels with blunt daggers, being a. very. common Tee 
creation. 
DAGGIAL, the name given by the Mahometans to 
their falfe meffiah or antichrift, denoting a perfon wi 
eye and one eye-brow, who, as they pretend, will make bis, 
appearance at the end of the world, snounted on an afs, in 
imitation of the true Meffiah ; but they further conceives. 
that Jefus Chrift, who is not yet dead, will then fight with. 
im and put him t to death. 
DA 
NO, in Geography, a town of European Turkeyy. 
in Albania, on the Drin; 15 miles S.E. of Seutari 
D AGEN, or Dasho; one of the {mall lands of 
the Baltic fea, in the belonging to Ruffia, 
ay of Riga, 
lies nearly in the goth degree of north fatitudle, and the 24th. 
eaftern longitude, exa@lly oppofite to another Ruffian 
“land called Oefel, from i fs it is feparated by a {mail 
rait. It is diftant from the main land upwards. of 18, and. 
in fome ee above 30 miles 
The ifland of Dago is of an oblong fhape, hevie a pro- 
monto a hich extends weftward far into the fea; a {maller- 
one to the nor ene another to the fouth, and a fourth. 
almoft due eaft. others are lefs confiderable. Each 
of the four princi aa, which hoes not all quite equal,. 
reaches in a ftra ne from about 25 to 35, and along the 
fhore, on pee! of i its finuolities, t a leaft 48 miles. In 
regard to the main of the ifland, the inhabitants. 
reckon it in length from 0.to 36 miles, and 24 in breadt 
but taking the promontories into the account, the ae line 
from 
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