DAM 
at the Panathenzan feftivals, but built the odeum, or mufic- 
in which poets and muficians daily exercifed them- 
Vv 
eoaipoavcn: before 
th mufician, ssi flourifh- 
ed in the reig: of queen Ebzabeth, and o feems 
to have been the firft who compofed parts eo ce old 
German melodies that were fu hn Hufls, and the 
Damon’s title to 
his publication is the follo “ Fhe PDlaimes of 
David in ae if ve teith notes “ foure ane fet 
unto them Bb ielm ufe of the govip 
Chritians, for recreating thereto, inffene of fond 
and unfeemelp ballads, 
€ parts not being a received by the public, he 
d others in 1585, and dedicated them to the lord 
i We are in pof{cffion of 
Jilliam Damon ; 
The harmony is clear a 
a 
fimple and uniform, the arts * conftantly fing a tetracord 
ED. 
in mctfo contrario : as LABCKD’ 
DAMOT, in Geography, a province of Abyffinia, on the 
S.E. of the oo is Gojam ; bounded by the Temei on 
n the wel, by the Nile on the ae 
mid Amid on the n 
an 20 in ee con ae to weit. ” But 
this whole ene, furrounded with the river, is called Go- 
jam, in general terms, from a line drawn though the fouth 
end of the lake to Miné, the paflaze of the Nile in the way 
to Narea. See Goyam. 
DAMP, adjedive (from the Dutch dampe), a a 
perceptible degree of moitture in any thing; iuch as in damp 
t walls, damp 
whole. 1. 
ome meal urea 
DAM 
it in a flate fit for ey Ral sae . vapour. ‘The air in 
that ftate is faid to be damp, and an hyg rometer placed in 
it will fhew it to _ a by its ufual movement towards 
m 
ing falts, &c.; be y to water 
will ine | be fea. apd the ances of. a nefs 
will vanifh. 
ill v. 
Bef the above-mentioned affi: inity, there is ae 
ower which enables bodies of every kind to. retain water: 
and this is a fort of ea ial adhefion, (See Cae ARY 
mot powerfully when a given quantity 
of e action G roporiionataly preat 
quantity of furface; hence, all porous bodies have the power 
t tain ¢ nd m ci 
of retaining water to a cer degree, nder certain cir- 
cumftances. Therefore, in a variety of bodies both thofe 
© 
powers contribute to retain water at the fame time, and fuch 
molt probably is the cafe with air itfelf, 
Sometimes bodies contain water proportionate to their 
gree of affinity, yet other bodies will rob them of a portior 
of that water; and fuch is the cafe with dry fixed alkalies, or 
frefh quick- lime, which will feparate water from air a 
reutly very dry. his, however, only proves that certain 
bodies have a a affinity to water than air or certain 
other bodies hav 
In certain rcumieaes a aaeed quantity of moifture is 
crowded ie bodies than they can retains hence they feel 
damp. nus, the air which lies Gin to water gene- 
rally contains more moifture than the air which is more re- 
mote; but the latter by degrees abforbs the fuperfluous 
moifture of the former, and thereby enables it co imbibe 
more of the vapours which rife from the contiguous “water ; 
and thus the procefs of evaporation goes on. uti the 
ree circulation or communication of the air be ane De Gs 
en the air which is confined over the water will hold a 
coufiderable een a fuperfluobs moi{ture, and will theres 
ow fuch is the cafe wit € ar o 
laces. 
dently appears that heating and ventilation are the t 
powerful means of removing dampnefs. The action "oe heat 
oe the attraction of loli de to mater oe increales tl 
finicy between air and the fam i ntflation, when 
the air is dryer than other bo diet har damp by dif- 
fipating the moifture through the atmofpher 
Irom the refult of all the semen nee have hitherto 
been inftituted, it appears, that a cubic foot of air faturated 
with water, contains two grains of water at the temperature 
of 32° Fah. (viz. at the point of melting ice); it contains 
four grains at the temperature of 48°, fix grains at the tem- 
perature of 60°, and eight grains at the temperature of 
68°. 
A remarkable pe aaa aa attends the mixture of aqueous 
that air thus faturated with va~ 
warmer, their capacity for containing water is diminifhed, a 
La haviaels 
