DAL 
he Dalmatians ufe the Slavonian language and cuftoms ; 
oe Bahia ane bea atholic religion, Its river . whic h 
o long courfe, are moftly navigable. untry is 
Seedipeved cit mountains ; but thefe are not citi 
a 
as they produce olives, vines, myrties, and a great variety 
of vegetables ; and within gar it 1s faid, there are mines 
of gold and filve 8 pure and temperate. 
Dalmatia being now the ae os bloody contefts, its fate 
will perhaps be decided before we arrive at the article Afon- 
tenegrins, which will give us an opportunity to refume this 
account. See MonTENEGRINS. 
DALMATIAN Isuzs, the, are feveral iflands in the 
Adriatic, on the coaft of Vene tian Dalmatia, which for- 
meriy belonge 
Curzola nigra, or Core cyra. 
Many of thefe ifles are fertile in wine, olives, figs, and other 
ALMATIAN ib is a vaft chain of oe which 
proceeds by the north of Dalmatia towai emus, 
nd is known by many local appellations, as eeu Promi- 
gh, mount Clobu. The latter 
Pinkerton’s Géography, 
n 
r Gnin, mount Prolo 
mountains are chiefly calcareous. 
vol. 1. p. 388. 
LMATIC, an ancient clerical habit, fo called, 
caufe it was previoufly the ordinary drefs of the reese 
i It covered the whole body, and had la 
ch account it was thought to 
loofe fleeves ; on whi e 
But it was alfo 
venient for the miniflry of the deacons. 
we learn from the aéts of St. C 
W ops, as prian, 
the celebrated doétor and martyr of the third century, who 
ut to-fuffer death, delivered his dalmatic to his 
his drefs for the executioners. 
At prefent it forms part of the under-drefs of Roman Ca- 
tholic bifhops, when they officiate pontifically, beiag made 
of thin, light fi fi'k, But it is the outfide and diitin@ive 
veltment of their deacons, being richly ornamented with 
lace, and having a fort of larze open wings attached to it, 
by way of fcevee 
URYMPLE, Sir 
and hiftovian of fume ¢ 
1972 @ was educated at 
progrefs i in the learned lange ges, and formed a predileétion 
for Englifh manners and.cu foms. From Eton he went to 
oo ee he ftudied the civil law, and remained till 
the hia He was called to the ian in his own coun- 
try, hy but as an advocate he was far from pen 
accee he poffcfied much and found lc ae and was capa- 
was 
Davip, in anaes a lawyer 
i nd 
is generally known among 
the Tearned of Euepe diftinguifhed himfelf in this 
fituation by flri€t integrity, patient attention, and uniform 
decorum of behaviour. In doubtful cafes he always inclined 
n vate life, h o 
found and aroun hole deeply read in the claffics, and 
well acquainted with e "department of the belles lettres, 
and with hiftorical acess, leap of his own coun- 
try. Lord Hailes publifhed many works, but thofe which 
chiefly demand our notice, are, 4. Annals of Scotland, 
DAL 
from the Acceffion.of Malcolm Eg to the Acceffion 
of the Houfe of Stuart,”? in 2 vols. ato. his work is fo 
well aaa by iia neces . hitforians of good credit, 
or to de and writings of undoubted authority, that iL 
will long remain a lafting monument of the induftry, 
rapid Progrefs of Chrifianity," in which there is a great 
difplay of literary and critical acumen, and of zeal for the 
caufe of religion, without any of the rancour too often mix- 
ed with theological « ake fy. This was publifhed in 
1786, and was the la of oo lag he fent to 
ame now ra ae) 
Scotland ; and of eflays in many of our penotical works, 
Encyc. Brit 
Dacaymere’ s Point, i in ek ee a ‘cape of the ifland 
of Dominica; 2 miles S. of Charlotte’s town. 
DALTON, Joun, in Biog a an sa divine 
of the church of England, was fou of the Rev. John 
Dalton, — of Dean, near Whitehaven, where hé 
was born, the year 1709. He was educated at 
Queen’s belfece, Oxford, and became tutor to lor 
Beauchamp. During this saat he adapted Milton’s 
Mafk of Comus to the flage, by the infertion of feveral 
fongs and different eieon | feleéted from Milton’s other 
works, as well as of feveral additions of his own, fuited to the 
characters and to the manner of the original author. This 
was favourably received by the public, and Mr. Dalton very 
indvftrioufly ought out a grand-daughter of the poet, who 
3 borne down wi 
his return, Mr 
took orders, and obtuined the reétory of St. Mary Hull, 
London. He was afterwards promoted by the king to a 
prebend of Woreelter, oe he died, July, 1763. He was 
icwing the co.l- 
se aebgn of Raphael ; 
lis broth 
aber thed drawings, 
executed by himfelf, of the procefiio ont Mec ca, 
Darton, in Geography, a {mall market town cf En gland, 
in the county of Lancaiter, and that part of it eed furs 
nefs. It probably received its name from the Saxons: th 
term, in their language, figrify; ing a place fituated in a dale 
or valley. Thus, in the midit a molt fertile tract of 
country, it secly derived its hiftoric confequence, from 
having been lately replaced by 
_better buildings, its appearance’ has beet much sas ani 
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