DAN 
fuless ey oo to the margin, with double broadifh 
inter 
Pe haps the thele ora are a true cover or involucrum in 
this gen y do not originate from ab vein, for each 
double row of capfules is ea into that par 
We have a fern from the ifland of St. Kite s, with a 
winged flalk, an a ae crenate leaflets, whofe whole 
afpec& declares its clofe affinity to thefe Danze, but without 
fructification we dare not eee it with them 
DANAIDES, in the Ancient Mythology; the daughters of 
oe or © Danaus, eleventh king of Argos, and brother of 
fEgyptu 
They were fifty in jacket 
fons on aye uncle #8) 
and were efpoufed to the fifty 
nt of an at which had 
a fon-in- 
of them, aad 
> to ‘be ere 
hat had te rife to this fiCtion 
ells in Argos, where 
ter by pumps, \ wmehs is a painful exercife : 
to this labour took eae to fay, that the 
rods, to punifh “hele prinefcs, had fentenced them in hell to 
of holes. The le nt, conceiving 
obferves, that the name = Danaus relates not to a mar 
“¢ da Nius,”’ and Geiss literally «« the fhip.”” 
is in realit 
The era of Danaus i 18, therefore, the era of the fhip; being 
the precife time del of this facred veffel ane in- 
ae ee and the rites alfo and myfteries with which it was 
he so daughters of Danaus were 50 prieftefles 
n feftiva 
ec will 1 
h 
ll of holes, Every 
d 
ie to 
had likewife particular jars, which were ents to t the god, 
ene ere formed with a 
’ cue when sted came to con- 
fa ie who was - bie of the Egyptian Hyginus 
has preferved the n rty-feven of 
DANAPRIS, in Aa Geography, a “ of Sarmatia, 
the fame with Bory {thenes . : . 
jects, who are 
DAWN 
aoeiedeers see in ee ys ? town of Perfia, 3 ia 
1¢ province of Irak ; 60 pahan 
ieee : Oe Ce 4 name e given by Jor fe 
nandes to a riv f Sarmatia; the of the ancients, 
and the Nicter or or Dae er of the ae It is called 
Danaftus by Ammianus Marcellinu 
DAN NA TA, a name eae by Pooemy to a town of See 
rica, between Abrogana and Oroi 
DANBURY, in Geasraplyy a o wn of America, in the 
ftate of New e€, and county of Gri afton ; conta ning 
165 inbabitants.—Alfo, a poft-town in the co y of Fair. 
ee in 1687, and pees ning 2 
an 
and about 60 dwelling-houfes. 
churches, a court On 
its {mall flreams are on ot and te mills. It lies 
about 70 mile ; w York ore .W. by W. 
of New Haven Th has 3180 inks abita 
Y, a polt-town in Ru aod county, Verm 
E. of Pawlet, eniane 1487 inhabitants; 32 miles N. ‘of 
ennington. 
DANCALI, a {mall kingdom of Africa, on the coat of 
the Red — ere to the frontiers of Abyfinia. It is 
bounde do ealt at ene by part of a kingdom of 
Ce) 
pate ae 
nthe N. and N. W., a dctt part of - one province o 
waro to the S. and the fea 0 on the It has no port, ex- 
aaa a fpaci ous bay, ae “tolerable anchorage, called 
‘ the bay of Bilur,”’ in lat. 13° 3'. and corruptly, the bay 
of ee The king is a ayn ree as are all his pe 
cailed *¢ Taltal ;”’ they are Doe black, 
: which Als 
fon they are {wo ead ey rain ‘ealling from the fides of the 
— and from the ee lands of eles — then 
only with a pene into the fea. of the water 
in nee pee is falt or b oui, and on or a 
er thefe fail, they are obliged to feck, far 
ane of Abyfiinia, water for themfelves, ie afture for 
their miferable goats and fheep. When the Indian trade 
flourifhed, this prince’s revenue arofe chiefly ae a 
camel for a ia ae of merchandize to all par of 
mmerce is hoe confined to the cenying 
of bricks of old or foffile-falt, dug — m pits in their o 
country, which, b 
= they de ie at the ne 
very moderate profit, after vant ca 
a fide eae the dry and burning fees of 
country, the great rifk of being aes by Galla. 
Bruce’s Travels into Abyfiinia, vol. i1. 
DA , an agreeable motion of ie a adjufted by 
art, to the meafures of a piece of mufic, either fung or 
played. 
is French, dance, saiaa of the German dans, 
Bochart derives it 
the Hebrew 
from the Arabic tanza, and om e 
YP} dows, which have all the fame gifs, Ss 
derives the , dancer, to dance, from -t den 
tin e 
aide o thicken ; as holding it a practice aoe hie ancient 
fullers to leap and dance as they fulled fee cloths. 
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