DAM 
A portrait of Dampier is preferved in the Trinity Houfe. 
‘Dampiet’s Voyages. 
Dampier’s Straits, in Rs lie baie. the N.E 
point of New Ee, and the S.W. point of New Britain ; 
S. lat. 69 15’. E. long. from Paris 146°. 
DAMPIERRE, : fai ll town of France, in the depart- 
ment of the Upper Sadie, chief place of a canton, in the 
di frit of Gray. It has 1344 and the canton 12,123 imha- 
‘itants, difperfed i in 33 communes nn a terior oe of 
255 kiliometres.—Alfo mail t of Fran n the de- 
ura, aaria of Dele with a + popilaton of 
465 ial and chief place of a canto 15 
‘ € upon 1273 eee courtiad 5905 ae 
bitants.—Alfo, a {mail town of France, in the department 
of ae Lower Charente, g miles N. of ait Jean d’Angely.. 
—Alfo, a {mall town of France, in the department of the 
Céte dor, 18 _ N.E. of Dijon.—Alfo, a {mall town of 
ay ae a boa department of Scine and 
>; We of Chev 
D, a ee SF one in the province of 
Segeitan ; ; 180 miles S.W. of Zar 
SEE, a lake of Camas) in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and Ucker Mark of Brandenburg; 9 miles N.W 
of Prenzlow 
EL, Damoisen, or DamorsEAu, an appellation 
ancieatly given to all young people of genteel or noble 
an of either ay e. gr. to the fons and daughters of 
knights, barons, and even of kings. 
Thus, in hiftory, we read of the damfel Bhi damfel 
Louis le Gros, d damfel Rehiords prince of 
ord a diminutive a can an an- 
authors we read Dam Dieu 
Eewus in its feminine 
e.—Others derive hea 
word from domicellus, ¢ or domnicellus, a sae of domnus, 
u Ca ange ebiemes, 
ey w oid the fignory o » M. de | 
a telis - ber ae) held it in the title “damoifean : 
M. de Marca affures us, that the nobleffe of Bern is ftill 
divided into tres bodies, cr clafles; the barons, the cavers, 
and the damfels, domicellos, called in that country do- 
menzers 
The kin ngs of Denmark and Sweden have the fam 
from Pontanus’s Hitt. of Denmark, tb. 
y of Upfal’s Hit. of Suec. lib. in. 
of Cee the vgn paffed to thofe 
of great ae aa barons; and, at length, to thofe of gen- 
tlemen who were not yet koi 
Danse, at prefent, is ated to all maids, or girls, not 
yet married 3 aed they be not of the loweft clafs of 
eople. . 
7 Danser | is a _ ha ae to a kind of utenfil 
putin beds, to w ld m 
It confiits of a it iron “melofed i in a hollow cylinder, 
which is wrapped round sis linen cloth, and keeps its 
warmth along time. Some call it a nun. 
MSON Tree, in Boley. See CurysopHYLLUM : 
See Pru 
G, in Geagrap, a town of Afia, in the coun- 
a of aa pay 54 miles S.W. of Taffafudon. N. lat. 27° 
E. long. 85° 2 
‘DANSTIER, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
‘Ems at Delfzyl 
DAMV ILLE, a {mall town of France, in the department 
of ae ee in the diftrit of Evreux; 12 miles S. of 
-lat. 36° 34%. 
DAN 
Evreux, aie for its good cyder. It has ieee 
and 1s the chief place of acanton, which reckons a 
of 4187 individuals, and 27 communes, upon a sneha 
eee of 190 kiliometres, 
DAMVILLERS, or DaAmvILLIERS, a fmall town of 
of Lu meeentes N. 
It has 809 raeabitenen, and the canton contains a popula 
tion of g117 individuals, and 24 communes, upon a territo- 
rial extent of 240 ee aah Damvillers had been oS 
by Charles V. in 1528 ; but having been ceded to France at 
the peace of the Pyrenées, Louis X1V. demolifhed . fors 
tifications in 167 
DAN, Tribe of, in Aucient Geography, io S.W. of the 
tribe of Judah, between it and the Mediterranean, contiguoua 
tothat of Simeon. It was bounded on the N. by Ephrai 
on is W. by the — ines and the Medite 
imeon, and o . by Judah and pe 
greatelt a te rom on to fouth, did ty ee 40 
n the north fide it was very narrow, and not above 
miles 
25 baa on the fouth. 
ants induftrious and brave; 
nement within their own limits, advanced, fo far as 
Ics foil was fertile, and its inhabit- 
fome of them, difdaining con- 
the city 
of Laifh, in the paces verge aes of Paleftine, sfc new 
fettleme na - "The country aboun with corn, wine, oil, 
fruits, and all other ae ae. i this aie was the 
valley called Nahal Efcol, &c. of the grapes; whence, os 
{pies fent by Mofes brought excellent yaar eae of its fer. 
tility to the camp of the Ifraclites. an had within its 
{mall extent feveral cities of note; the 
oppa, Jamnia, Cafphin, Thimnah, Bet 
a Modin, Elcek, Laki, Gibbethen, and pat 
Dan, a city in the northern at of Paleftine, in the tribe 
of Naphtali, which bad formerly been called Laifh or 
op ies but being taken by a colony of Danites, they gave 
it the name of their own tribe. is city became pete 
for the calf fet up by Jeroboam, which was reforted 
all the r saan tribes on this fide; and as it ftood on ae 
utmoft an udea, as Beer-fheba did on the oppofite ; 
this erounilsice gave rife to common proverb, ‘* from 
Dan to Beer-fheba.”” When 
gave it the name of Paneas, and b 
on of Herod, who called it feeb Phili ippi. 
writers place Dan at the foot of mount Libanus, on the 
banks of the Na at the diftance of 4 miles from Paneas, 
on the io 
Dax, p of lay in Paleftine, between Saraa and 
Eftahol, in ms tribe of Dan. In this camp Sampfon was 
interre ed. 
n Geography, a confiderable river. of America, in 
North goa which unites with the Staunton, and forms 
the Roanoke. The famous Burfted hill is pope a on the 
bank of the Dan in Virginia, near the borders of N. Caro« 
lina. This hill appears to have been an peiee volcano, as 
large rocks of lava, of great weight, lie on its fummit, and 
the crater is partly filled and covered vith, large trees. N. 
f america, in the ftate of Maf- 
ers ampfhire, and 
Ha sedwick and Peterflam, t in Worcefter county. 
or Dagana, in Ancient Geography, a maritime town 
of Afia, i in eis ifland of Taprobana, according to Ptolemy ; 
who adds, that it was dedicated to the moon, —Alfo, a large, 
M rich, 
