DAG 
of Augultines, which in 1486 was incorporated with a mo- 
naftery of the fame order at Berne. 
. DAESION, in Chronology, the Macedonian name for the 
Athenian month Anthefterion, which was the fixth of their 
year, and anfwered C ie latter part of our November, and 
beginning of Decem e Monty 
DESITI ATE, in ee Geograph by, the name of a 
people placed by Strabo in Pannonta, and by Pliny in Dal- 
matia, whofe chief was Baton or Bato 
orar, or Dolfar, in Geograph ys a apa arb 
town of Arabia Felix, in the province of Had n the 
es 
m cape Fartac e 
nis the Goceuke called olibatui, 
chief export from this tow 
and value to that of India. 
which is much inferior in quality a 
Di 
NI, in Biography, an ancient architeét, who, toge- _ 
ther with Peonius of Ephefus, fabricated the temple of 
Apollo at Miletus, a marble building of the Ionic order, and 
celebrated ee : beauty and cae enitctoee Milizia Mem. 
degli Archite 
AFFODIL, in Botany, See Narciss 
Darropit, in Gardening, is a plant Of the bulbous 
rooted flowery ornamental kind, for the borders, clumps, and 
other parts of pleafure grounds. See Narcissus 
AFFODIL, Lily. Faia and PancrATIUM. 
Darropit, Sen. See Pancrati 
DAENE, in Geography, a river of argnees Turkey, in 
my Soa which runs into the Urana between Marenccck 
and Varn 
AF “ in Mufic, the firft melodrama, pia the invention 
of recitative, that was performed to this new kind of narra- 
tive mufic. It was written by Rinuccini, auctor of the firft 
great opera, Euridice, and fet by J ert and Giulio 
Caccini, and privately performed at Florence in 1609, pre 
vious to the public performance of hes iat the firft regular 
opera that was te on a public ftage in wee on the 
nuptials of Henry IV. of France with Mary edicis. 
, in Arar a term fignifying i dew hanging 
upon the grafs. It ischiefly applied when it remains long 
in the mornings upon the grafs-lands. 
DAGANA, in Ancient Geography, Thana-war, a mari- 
time town in the ape part of the ifland of Taprobana, 
which, according to n 
“DAGA ; Jacaves _ Biography, a painter born at 
Paris in the year 
nan nie, ~ aod cee that mafter fome {kill in 
c e refided fo 
ence he peat with eonGaeabl: wealth 
to Cope aad there died in 
dD’ ‘Agar r defioned with, esac elegance, and his tone 
of colouring is pleafing and live His own portrait by 
himfelf j is in the gallery of eminent painters at Florence. 
Pilkington 
DAGEBULLER Kore, in Geography, a confiderable 
of land, gained from the fea in that part of Denmark 
e duchy of Slefwick, belonging to the 
20 eS diftant from the 
mer who firft difcovered it. Tt fcarcely exceeds three leagues 
in circumference, is very fteep, and covered from its fum- 
mit to the water’s edge with the ‘nett trees. A rampart of 
Vou. XI. 
‘Juable land irrecoverably lo 
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bare rock almoft as perpendicular as a wall entirely fur. 
rounds it, with the exception cf feven {mall fandy creeks 
where it is poffible to land. On this ifland are fome hutr, 
which neither formed'a village nor were furrounded by any 
popes of i Hence it is probable that the 
fhipwrights of Corea came hither in fummer with their pro= 
vifions, to build boats, which they fell upon the continent. 
- the creeks of the ifland feveral boats were obferved upon 
he ftocks, conftruéted exaétly on the ra aap The 
5 poin nt of the ifland lies on N, lat. 37° 25". 
of Effex, in Englan nd, on 
the banks er is remarkable for a fingular 
— which happened near it ‘in the ‘winter of the 
year 1 By an unatual {well of tide, and a violent wind 
m 
ing the land-foods, which being neglected, on = oe aff 
of the tides, blew up; by which 
places 20 feet deep, and 300 feet wide. Thr 
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Havermy and Dagenham; and the valuable foil of nearly 120 
acres was carried into the Thames: by which a large fand- 
bank was formed, reaching almoft half way acrofs the river. 
The danger thence arifing to its navigation occafioned an ap- 
plication to parliament for aid to effectually repair the breach, 
and a fmall tax was laid on veilels entering the port of 
London for defraying theespence. After an n ineffeétual ate 
tempt had been made under the direction of Mr. Bofwell, 
nara this gentleman in April 1718. Previonfly to this pe- 
iod, frefh inroads bad been nade by the tide ; and the breach 
ee much worfe. ter various expedients captain 
Perry fucceeded tn effeting his purpofe, but not before the 
works had been three times nearly w 
pidity of the nes 
tant work was 
are were & atrerwards vote 
and 
A pocl oe is left, as a memorial of the event, within the 
and near it a {mall houfe, fupported by the 
ran ene oF gentlemen, who form fifhing parties here 
during the fummer months. 
While the men were digging in the works, an extenfive 
{tratum of various kinds of rotten trees, i a very little in- 
termixture of earth, was difcovered ben the oS 
mong thefe were oak, hornbeam, hazel, ‘willow, and yew $ 
which latter were in an undeca ed fick. n this Toff 
und 
of sat Sosa ar when this breach 
happened a vaft inundation alfo t eon tl 
coatt ; by which all the moors of Sane ra fhire 
nity of Bridg yewater, were completely overflowed much va- 
ft, and a new chdnn él formed in 
the bed of Huntfpil river. See Perry’s- ey poe of the 
ftopping of Dagenham Breach, 8vo. 172 
AGERORT, or Dacrnora, a imal town on the ex- 
tremity of the weftern promontory of the ifland of Dago 
in the Baltic, panei for . light-houfe which_ ier 
abot 
