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where Waldemar II. king of Denmark, is fuppofed to have 
been confined, in the year 1223, untzel, count of 
Sige but Bulching very jullly thinks it more probable 
that T'aunberg, in the duchy of aia Schwerin, was 
the place of the Danith kiog’s confinement 
DANNEMARIE, a {mall town of Fiance, in the de- 
partment of the Upper Rhine, chief place of a canton in 
the diltri&t of Befort, with a population of 724 individuals. 
The canton has 27 communes, and 7630 inhabitants, upon 
a cerciotial extent of 110 kiliometres. 
DANNEMORA, a famous Swedifh iron mine, neat 
Olterby, 26 Englifh miles N.W. of U pial, in the saa 
ment of Upfal, which yields ie belt iron in the w I 
has no fubterraneous galerie ‘ts are co. excava 
tions, like gravel pits, into ares the miners go down and 
from which they are drawn up in a bucket. The richeft 
ore yields 70, the poor et 3° oe cent. ‘The colleétive mafs 
gives upon the average one third of pure metal. Twelve 
thoufand tons are annually. ans from the mine, and yield 
a mafs cf ore occupies 
ynfidered as one, the 
afd ie breadth from three 
ft. The 
richefl pit i3 near 500 feet oa = the Sea a (Story m- 
ningen) has not yet been fatho x of the ore, 
being a calcareous earth, pai ie but little { isiphoe which is 
perhaps the reafon of the fuperior quality of the iron. Cox’ 
Nese 309 perfons are employed in mining and tranfporting 
the ore. The water is drawn out of the pits in fummer by 
pumps worked by water, and in winter by a fteam engine, 
which is not ufed in {ummer, on account of the f{earcity and 
dearnefs of coals, and is often heated with wood. 
In fummer the ore which is dug is laid out in heaps, and 
during the winter months it is conveyed on fledges to the 
Forges 5 the four principal of which are Leufsta, Olterby, 
Gimo, and Akerby. 
The mine of Dannemora confitts of twelve pits belonging 
to thirteen fier proprietors. Baron de Geer pofleffes 
more than one-third of the whole mine. 
Notwithftanding the mine of Dannemora has been wrought 
the Dannemora iron in England is a monopoly 
ands of two Englif ied ufes, one at 
Lon on te other at Hall. They procure it exe tufively 
for the Briti jean eal es, by a f{pccial per with the 
proprietors of the 
DANNGE, a river - Proffia, which runs into the fea at 
Memel. 
DANNOCKS, in Agriculture, aterm provincially applied 0 
to hedging gloves or mittens. 
r Lant, in Zoology, called by the Africans 
Lampt, an. ache of the figure of a fmall ox, but having 
It has black horns, which bend round and are 
its hoofs are black and 
rica, 
DAN 
dant has been transferred from Africa oy ee and ape 
plied to a very different animal. 
DANTE, AuicuHer, in Bingroply. a vesebeated ae 
poet, was born at aie In 1265. was ‘initiat As at 
early ave to the fludy of oe {ciences, oe fo) I: 
ture under Bruae rs fe) Ga ie attached himefelt to the 
profeffors of the pneraners e ats who flourifhed at 
that pe- 
riod; but was his own mater in the art of poetry in whi 
he afienwands fo much excelled. -When he had attained to 
ears of manhood he joined the miittary defenders. of 
country, and was engaged i tions, one againit the 
Aretines, in 1289, the other againft the Pifans, in 1290. 
a the following year he married Gemma, the ‘daughter of 
Manetto de Donati, from whom, after having = feveral 
chi'dren, he feparated. He entered public life, 
coufiderably employéd in the affairs of the Poeun repub- 
lic. In 1300 he was one of the chief magiltrates of Flo- 
rence, an honour which proved the fource of many of his 
misfortunes. At that period ail the towns of Italy were 
diftrated by the eppofite parties of the Guclphs and Ghi- 
bellines 3 and in Florence a further diftin€tion took place ia 
the factions of the Neri and Bianchi, or Blacks and Whites. 
Dante belonged to the latter, of which a more fv il account 
en Luxembourg was ewdled 
mperor, Daote feduloufly paid his court to hin, 1 in Bepes 
that by his means he might be reftored to his 
a bag death of Henry in inh cut off at the hopes ‘of 
‘Avoit this period he went to Paris, where he engaged in 
the itudics af the univerfity. He here made a literary dif- 
piay of his talents by holding a folenin difputation on fome 
theological queftions, in which, according to the manners of 
e age, he was well verfed. From this time he feems to 
have roved about Italy in an indigent and diftrefled condi- 
tion, till he was hofpitably received by the lord of Ravenna, 
a patron and proficient in letters. ante was 
employed in fome political Se and was fert to 
a quarrel which had arifen 
Ca 
a 
iption : 
ee rei pe = tis.’ 
Th ntin to be afhamed of their 
marble or brafs: his ** Divina Commedia” has given him an ~ 
unfading and immortal reputation. The fubje& of this 
work is the defcription of a vifion in which t i 
led through hell, purgatory, and Lait ae it is full of 
extravagances, but it contains a variety of paflages of fine 
_ gular ftrength and Gibney, The a re of “= poem 
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