DAC 
was the capi ital of Bengal. It has ftill the remains 
; and within a few years it had 
of a 
it ce; at its aooecunce: was e€ 
that of the bef executed = of brafs ordnance ; although 
its proportions were fau 
Whole length - 22 feet 10% inches, 
Diameter at the breech 3 
——_—— -4 feet con the muzzle 2 10 
- the muzzle 2 2k 
rs 3% 
345413 chic fches of wrought iron ; 
14 pounds avoirdupoife, o 
Weight of an 
The gun cones: ined 234 
and confequently weighed 64,81 
“tthe weight of eleven 32 pounders. 
iroit thot for the gun 465 pounds, 
Dacca is fituated about 100 miles above the mouth of the 
The country 
erdure 
ection from 
Lu pee 120 E.8.E. from Moor thedabad, and 177N. E. 
from Calcutta. N. lat ag? . long. 90° 30". 
DACE, in Ichthyology, the Englith name fer the fith, 
called by authors the /eucifcus. See Cyprinus leuci/cus. 
April 
but they are never a very well-tatted fit, or much 
This fth gives the expert angler great diverfion. The 
dace will bite at any fly ; but he is more th i 
The winter fifhing for dace es aa a very different bait: 
this is a white maggot with a reddifh head, which is the 
produce of the eggs of the beetle and is turned up with 
the plough in great abundance. A parcel of thefe put in 
any veffel, with the earth they were taken in, will keep 
many mouths, and fupply an excellent bait. 
may be put into a Baie i a — 
and ere pee d alive for a long tim 
be properly changed. They 
eat nothing but the animalcula in the water. They will 
grow very tame by degrees. Phil. Tranf. N° 487. p. 23. 
feq. 
DACHARENI, ia Ancient Geography, a people of 
Arabia Felix. Ptolem 
DACHAY, in Gaus a town of ate feated 
i diftri& of 
ran ancien caftle. 
is a communication be this plcen d Schlei- 
ie a country palace of the kings of Bavaria, ce mean 
of a canal. 
DACHETZ, or Dacarce, a fmall town ef Autftria, 
in the margraviate of Moravia, in the diftn of Iglau, on 
the river Teya, with a convent of Francifcan friars, 
DAC. 
DACHINABADES, in ge laa ad a very 
S. of Bar 
populous country of India, za, according. to 
Arrian, in the Periplus of the Beytcean a 
DACHSBACH, in Geography, a town of Germany, 
in the circle of Franconia, mee principality of Canacs 3 
22 miles S. of Bamberg 
Seine Dicssoune,. or Dabo, a {mall town 
,in the depart i 
of po fituated among the 
the Vofges, near the fource of the river Sarre; g miles S 
of Saverne. 
DACHSTEIN, a {mall town of France, in the depart- 
ment of the Lower Rhine, in the diftrict of Strafbourg; 3 
miles N. E. of Molfhe'm 
DACHSTUL, a ean of Germary, in ao circle of the 
per BING; on principal place cf a ip, which 
a feat and vote at the cet of oe circle, 
ee €3 22 miles 
[, in p= Sess the people. ‘of Dacia, who 
inhabited the countr e Danube, from the plains 
occupied by the Senne pees to the mouths of this 
river and the cogft of the Euxine fea.. They had the 
fame language with the Getz. Strabo fays, that they 
i part of this co 3 
t b 
lower part. Pli t Byz., and Dion Caffius fay, 
“hat thefe seule were called oe by the Greeks, and 
Dacians by the Romans. Herodotus calls them Scythians, 
and he gives them the epithet of Gey aes lagaaes they 
thought that, after death, they went to Zamolxis, who was a 
difciple of Pythagoras. He had left them renee inftruGtions, 
which laid the foundation of their religion were a 
rave peop lexan ade war agai and burnt 
their city. The fucceffors of this prince attempted to fub- 
chus, convinced them that they had done 
ing a people as poor as they were brave 
the death of their king Berebiftus, they ‘aaa among 
themfelves, and unable to collect more then 
re 
f a Rowan province, 
that the Dacians oid the Danube, and advanced as 
far as Thrace, Macedonia, and Lilyrium. Suetonius re- 
lates that Crefar defigned to reftrain ‘ice progrefs ; ae this 
defign was accomplifhed by Anguftus. The emperor Au- 
relian, according to Vopifcus, defpairing of preferving 
acia on the other fide of the Danube, formed a new pro- 
aoe of Dacia between the two territories denominated 
It appears, however, that the Dacians inhabited the whole 
extent of country that lies between the the Danube, 
and the Carpathian monn: and this was 
called ‘ Dacia vera,’’ or the province of Trajan. 
the reign of Trajan, Decebalus, king of the Dacians, re- 
volted: upon which their prince, arried his 
arms into Dacia, twice defeated thefe people, es cic 
their country into a Roman province, vas was along 
time eee by the name of ¢ * Provincia Trajan. ad 
e Dac 
C A, the ancient name of two comets of Europe ; : 
the one on this fide of the Danube called ** Daci Acar. 
liani ;”? the other, called ** Dacia “Trajan,” on the 
fide of the river. The latter comprehended Trani 
Moldavia, Wallachia, and the bannat of Tem 
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