DAWN 
marked by Withering, that hand aa — a this plant 
drive mice away from gra e Silefians 
ftrew them where their pigs "He, un der the \erfeahon that 
they prevent fome of the difeafes to which they are liable, 
It is not eaten either by cows, goats, fheep, horfes, or {wine. 
aT, Peter, in Biography, a French abbé, known 
by his diGionary, Latin and French, compofed for the ufe 
of the dauphin. He compiled alfo a French di€tionary of 
Greek and Roman Antiquities, in gto. This was publifhed 
oad laa little eeua cn oreri. 
DAN L ee — A. 
DANGCANGHAG, in athe = name given 
by the people of is e Pilippne iflnds t 
Spaniards call it gasza. It is the fame i ecies an that fo 
common in Pace e. See Heron. 
E, in Geography,a {mall town of France, in the 
department of the Vienne, chief place of a canton in the 
diftrictt of Chatellerault, with a population of 846 individu- 
als, -The canton has an extent of 150 kiliometres, 9 com- 
munes, and 6753 inhabitants, 
DANGEAU, Louis pz Courcition ne, in Biography, 
abbot of Fontaine- Daniel and Ciermont, was i orn at Paris, 
in 1643. wee marquis de Dangeau, = his 
aula was | defcended from Du Ple = Mornay, a name ce- 
lebrate h-hiftory as an cracle of Calvinifm. "Their 
fon was an i up a Protefiant, but pasar his religion 
at the perfuafion cf Bofluet. He elled when young, 
and, in 1667, a pire ary. 
his return he devoted himfelf to literature, and entered the 
king; in this fituation he ufed his influ- 
ence in rendering his fovereign the patron of letters, and 
was fo far fuccefsful that many men of real merit and genius 
were brought forward by his intereft. He was admitted a 
member of the French academy, and became a moft active 
and zealous affociate, He was particularly attentive to the 
ftudy of grammar, and his eflays on that fubje& were after- 
wards colleéted and publifhed by the abbé Olivet in his 
Opufcules fur la Langue Francoife. The abbé Dangeau, 
himfelfa convert, became zealous in the converfion of others 5 
deemed obitinacy, yet 
was polite, indulgent, well verfed in the manners of the 
world, humane and liberal to the indigent. He did much 
good, "and was truly benevolent with a very moderate in- 
come. died generally refpected, and deeply lamented 
by his friends, in the beginning of the year 1723. Moreri. 
Danceau, in Geography, a {mall town of France, in the 
department of - —- Loire 39 miles N. of Chateau Dun, 
and 18 S.of Cha 
DANGER, “land of; iflands i in ee bane a Pacific 
cean, e1765,andfocall- 
ed on account of the rocks and bai, which rendered accefs 
DAN 
to them dangerous. They hada more fertile and beautiful 
appearance than any before feen, and like the reft, {warmed 
with people, whofe habitations ftood in oe ‘along the 
coat. S. lat. 10° W. long. 169° 2 
Dancer, Point, a cape on the eaft coaft - New Holland. 
S. lat. 28°. E. lon ng- 153° 30’. 
DANGERIA, in Aniiguity, a payment in money made 
by foreft tenants, that they might have liberty to plough 
and fow in time of pan nage. 
eae in Geography, atown of Lithuania ; 
36 miles S. S. W. of Breflaw 
DANGU,a ae town of France in the department of 
the Eure; 3 miles : ifor 
ANICHA, a town of Rolla, in the government > 
Tobolifk,'on the Chatanga ; 360 miles N.N. E. of Tur 
chanfk. N. lat. 70° 45’. E. long. 98° rq’. 
DANIEL, Gasriet, in Biography, a French, hiftorian, 
was born at Rouen in 1649, where he was educated himfelf, 
and where afterwards he taught others, in the colleges of 
the Jefuits. He was invited thence to Paris, to take upon 
him the office of librarian in the houfe of the order. Of 
the Jefuits he was a zealous defender, and wrote in their 
joflification in anfwer to Pafchal: the title of his work was 
«¢ Entretiens de Cleanthe et d’Eudoxe fur les Lettres Pro- 
e Def 
hilofopher’s {yftem: it has been 
much read, and tranflated into Latin, Italian, and Englith. 
But the moe famous work of this author, and for which 
he is diftinguifhed as an hiftorian, is the ‘‘ Hifoire de 
France, depuis PEttablifhment de la Monarchie Francoife.”’ 
It was publifhed in 17 vols. gto. in the year 1756. Voltaire, 
in oo of the author, fays, “ He has rectified the faults 
of Mezerai concerning the firft and fecond race. It has been 
objected to him, ee his diction is not always pure, that his 
{tyle is too feeble; that he has not given fafficient informa» 
tion oe utes ges, manners, and laws; that his hiftory 
detail of oracle operations, in which a writer of 
His great fault is 
% a 
dom, or of its manners. r Daniel, befides the ant. 
enumerated, wrote many oS on philofophical, theological, 
and critical fubje&is. a life ms anes fludy and la~ 
bour, he died at Paris in 1 oo i 
‘ Danist, Prrer, the intimate friend of the celebrated 
George Buchanan, was a native of St. Benoit 
Loire; but-the principal part of his life was fpent at 
Orleans. His profeffion was that of an advocate, and he 
heid the office of reg of the abbey of Fleuri. He was 
ritical ftudies, and attained 
ter his death, 
: libary was -pur- 
chafed by Borga an etau, for the fum of — 
ivree. hee only publications were editions of Petron 
Servius, and of ae curious relique, entitled * Querolus five 
Au lularia,” reohih is the “Aulularia,”’ of Plautus tranfprofed. 
To this comedy, which had not formerly been printed, he 
Na2 prefixed 
si a men of his 
