DAM 
carried on its a ie commerce. ~ No Chriftian merchant, 
r European, muft, fays Niebuhr, refide here; although 
there be i in Damietta a confiderable number of Massa 
me. A conful, and nch merchants, once refided 
at Damietta. But the inhabitants, obferving that thefe 
firangers made too free with ee women, rofe up in a 
Since that period the kin 
of France forbade his fubje@ts not only to fettle in this city, 
but even to frequent it. The inhabitants of Damictta are 
generally reckoned more unfriendly to the Chiiftians than 
any of the other inhabitants of Egypt. The memory of 
the Crufades, perhaps, keeps up this inveterate averfion, 
In the neighbourhood of this city are many rice fields: but 
towards the fhore, the ground is covered with fand, and 
confequently barren. As the Bogaz eae fhips from 
entering the Nile, their cargocs are conveyed on board by 
the boats of the country ; and this Cae affords op- 
portunity for much fraud and diffenfion. ‘Fhe badnefs of 
the port of Damietta is fill more detrimental to the com- 
merce of the city. The road where the veflels lie being 
expofed to every wind, the flighteft gale obliges . the cap- 
tains to cut their cabies, and take fhelter at Cyprus, or 
to ftand off to fea. But did not the indolence and deine: 
tifm of the Turks prevent it, it would be eafy, by cutting 
a canal of half a league, to open a paffage for thips into the 
Nile, where there is deep water; and thus Damictta would 
be rendered a noble harbour. 
The tongue of land on which Damietta is fituated, 
ftraightened on one fide by the river, and on the other by 
the weftern extr emity of the lake Menzalé, is only from Pe 
to 4x miles wide from eaft to weft. It is interfeéted-by in- 
numerable rivulets in every direétion, which render it the 
moft fertile fpot in Ep'ypt. ne foil produces, communibus 
annis, 80 buthels of rice for one; the other produce i 
oq 
prives it of a bas nor are its beauties ever im 
paired by fum DeltruGive heats as well as chilling 
colds are equally aabsoe in this happy fpot. The t 
mometer varies only from 9 to 24 degrees above the eae 
Damietta is oS for this charming temperature 
tity of w ee with which it ig fur- 
reat 
reed Calamus is here foundin abundance, and 
Here are alfo forelts 
ns made their papers 
of papyrus, of which the ancient Egyptia 
the lotus alfo, called by the Arabs nuphar, exalts its loft 
fialk above the — and diffufes from its flowers a molt 
r along the marfhes and canals in the interior 
country. 
re — villages round Damietta, in moft of which 
where the mol beautiful iat of the 
neft napkins, 
pale e- 
isa grove of orange-trees, which ferves as a walk for 
DAM 
the inhabitants: at the end of the walk is a ous filed with 
amietta is aan 84 miles a om ak 
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ZINI, IETRO, in Bnei, a painter, ih i 
Caftelfranco, in ey year - At an earl riod he 
ceived inftruétions from Gio. Batifta Novelli, de {cholar of 
part of his art, he afliduoufly fludied fuch prints aad eerie 
as he could obtain aceefs ee acd improved hir 
the works of Lomazzo and Albert 
urer Such was his 
reputation, that at the of 20, he was employ pon a 
public work at ree where he eltablifhed himfelf. Many 
of his 1s well as in Venice, 
Vicenza, and the place ie nativity. Singularly beautifu! 
is the alt = €ture of Beato Simone Stock, in the church of 
. Maria, at Caftelfranco, end ancther which is furrounded 
by 12 froall cre of ftorics from the Old and New Teilas 
ment, which are executed with extraordinary tafte. 
oe in his fhert lif i this das fev ee timea ee 
h 
art. 
Jari 
He was Car on y 
the elseuey in 2. at a ped when fuch h high sole vies 
were formed of him, that it was even thought by fome he 
would have equalled the great Titia Lanz 
MINI, GIORGIO, the brother of Pietro, was alfo a na- 
tive of Caftelfranco, He excelled in portrait and piétures of 
{mall figures, and his reputation was increafing, when, with 
his brother, he died of the plague in 1631, ala a lifter, 
named Damina, who alfo painted portrait. 
aaa ea in Geography, a town of Switcriand in the 
Giey League; ro miles N.N.E. of Ian 
DAMISCHE SEA, a jarge lake of Germany, or expan 
fion of the Oder, in the circle of Upper Saxony, iarthward 
of the town of Damm; 8 miles long and about 12 wide. 
DAMIUPOLIS, in Ancient Geography, a town fituated 
in the environs of Sebaftopolis 
AMM, in Geography, a fmall town of Proffia, in Po. 
merania, near the lake of the fame name; 3 miles E. of 
Stettin. N. lat. 63° 4’. 
A A, in Ancient Geograph by; a town of Serica, 
placed by Ptoiemy above Pia 
DAMMANA, a town of A fiat in Arachofia. Ptol 
DAMMARIE, in Geography, a {mall town of ewes ia 
the deparment cf Eure and Loire, 9 miles S. of Chartres.— 
Alfo, a {mall town of France in the uaa of the 
Meufe, diftriG& of Bar fur Ornain, and canton igny 
DAMMAR TIN, in pea Dominium Martini, a nal 
town of France, in the department of Seine 
chief place of a canton in ae diitriét 
ee E. A Paris, and 15 N.1 ve 
nial enon of 220 kik nae Bs 
AMMARTIN fur Yevre, a {mall town of France in the 
epartment the Marne, diltrict of Ge Menchould, 
with a population of 312 in sees t the. chief 
he 
fe) 27 communes and $124 
inhabitants, ee a criteria er of 380 kiliometres. 
DAMME. 
DAMMER, a ie in ae in the principality of 
Ocis; 4 miles S.E. of Militfch 
DAMMIM, or Daninim, j in Jacieat Geography, a town 
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