DAN 
le any tranfaction that characterizes a perfeetly independent 
DANTZIGERS, or Prussians, in Ecclefiaftical Hif/> 
ek a feét of the refined anabaptifts (fee FLEMinGIANS), 
fo called on account of their adopting the manners and dif 
cipline of the Pruffian 
DAN > in Geography, a town of Africa, in the 
kingdom of Tomani. 
N The, in German the Donau, is the moft 
ca Brege, which 
own, are far more “corifiderable than the 
ftreamlet that flows into them from Donefchingen foon after 
their junCtiion, yet this little ftream alone has the hononr of 
it is yet certain that it sorts muc water upon 
equal ground, and is already a much mightier river than the 
Inn far above Ratifbon, even before it has received four 
{maller rivers. Suabia , therefore, i is the true birth-place of 
the majeitic Danube, with which only the Volga, amongtt 
the European rivers,, can vie. 
The Danube is one of the few rivers he flow from eaft 
o Ulm, where, in 
jibe its banks, with 
ularly in ne right that preceded the. 
Lov » part 
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From Ulm the Danu e continues en merical courfe to 
outh- ard 
i=} 
This fouth- at courfe 
to Vilohofen, where there is a wocden bridge of teea 
arches. In this part the Danube abounds in rocks, fome 
abcve water, and fome helow, which occafion a great noife, 
oe to the rapidity of the = running over or againft 
e fame courfe ae o Paffau ; at the end of 
which town there is a confluen cof three rivers, the Inn on 
the right hand, the Iltz on ie left, and the Danube in the 
middle. After Hee iunction, bi Danube becomes mor 
I fide, for a confiderable 
way below Pate, ha nee hills and rocks, covered with 
{pruce fir-trees, 
As far as, ecient: or the entrance into eoleria a, the 
etween. two. high 
mall rivers 
detach themfelves.again from it ; and oe are Heanently 
formed in the middle of this world of wa 
Towards. Lintz the Danube runs aol “fall caft, through , 
s . Agelocum, and Legeolium. 
DAN 
a flat saan with high mountains covered with trees at a 
diftance. At Lintz there is a bridge over the Danube of 
twenty very wide arches. 
t Spieburg le is a — Ens is here in n fight 
upon the right ha rfe of the Danube n 
comes nein’ | imegula aed ieelings a while to the Tout 
ioe then to N. The river is fometimes like a fe ea, fo w 
her ce any dead | in fight ; ena times it i is 
broke and divided into {mall ftreams by flan 
often 
t Stein. which is on 
r, there is a wooden bridge of twenty- 
five wide arches, which leads to Krems on the right-hand of 
the Danube. 
anube rolls on to the S.E. towards Vienna, the - 
es lefs fav The vine grows on the hills, 
and innumerable iflands divide the Danube 
m Vienna the Danube flows t §.E. towards : 
Prefburg, and below the town of Haimburg quits Aultria 
and Germany to enter Hungary. From Prefbu - 
fouth, and even a little to the fouth-weft, and then again 
fouth-eaft, towards Belgrade and Widdin, when it runs on 
eaftwards, dividing Bulgaria from Wallachia, and difcharges 
itfelf at laft by feveral channels into the Black fea, in the - 
province of Beflarabia. It is fo deep between Buda and 
Belgrade, that men of war have been navigated upon it, and - 
yet it is ae navigable to the Black fea, .on account of the - 
catara 
The Date abounds in fifth; pbadang) the hufo; Tfin. 
in Latin antaceus,.in the Ruffian language beluga, of which - 
is made. the glue known in commer: by the name of ifn- - 
glaft i in Latin icebyclla but this fifh-is much more pien- 
titul in the Vol 
The Danube is fuppofed to have been .the northern 
boundary of the Roman empire in Europe ; towaide ita - 
mouth the ancients called it the /fer ; which fee 
The courfe of the Danube, with regard to “tts ‘lengths i 
compared with the Thames, is as 7 to 1, or fix times longer 
than the Thames. 
Danusz, in Mythology, a river worfhipped by the i 
thians, on account of the great extent of its water. This 
thou 
the bridge, and fome way under it, as willing to fup 
port it. 
DANUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Albio 
marked in Antonine’s Itinerary between educa or : 
It is the prefent Doncatter, 
DANVERS, in Geography,.a townthip of America, in: - 
the ftate of Maffachuletts and eounty of Effex, adjoining 
Salem on seen N.W. in which it was formerly comprehended 
b me of Salem village. It confilts of two parifhes, 
and eoatcine 2643 inbabitants; apd it wag. saa! Zeta in. 
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