DAN 
757. The mof. a and compaét fettlement in 
i ‘is formed ‘by apenas of the principal ftreet of 
Salem, whi ch ads a than miles towards the 
A flitting tide-mill was erected here in 1797. 
Qn the fame dam are a grift-mill, an anchor fhop, a {cythe- 
fhop, whofe hammers are carried by water, and a fhovel- 
manufactory. 
DANVILLE, a thriving poft-town of America, in 
Mercer county, and formerly the metropolis of Kentucky, 
ree ee in a large fertile plain, on the S.W 
fide o ’s river; 35 miles S.S.W. of- Lexington. Tt 
cunlitts of on 50 houles, and a Prefbyterian clare ® and 
contains 270 inhabitants, of whom ios are flav N. lat. 
37° 30’. W. long. 85° 30’.—Alfo, a very ne town- 
{hip in the ftate of Vermonr, and county of Caledonia ; 3 it was 
a few years ago a eas va now contains 1544 inhabit+ 
ants; 8 miles —Alfo, a thriving pott- town 
in PiteSylvania. county, aaa Cine te of Me ame “on Dan 
n road from Ph: ladelph 
of Mohoning creek ; 
CLOW, a oun of Poland, in ae alate of 
sce 64. miles I. of Lember 
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on the piano- forte, in Emanuel _— ftyle, and had more 
expreffion a her fingers than 
» in a Mythology a *peoqunele idol, who pre- 
fides over rae 
DAON, in Gen ae raphy, a town of France, in the depart- 
‘ment of the pre haber and a of Chateau-Gontier ; 2 
leagues’S. of Chateau-Gontier. 
DAONA, in pw ee iphy, a town = alfo a river 
of India, on = other fide of the Gan ems 
,or Daos, in Mythology a ley the ancient 
‘Chaldzans. 
DAOULAS, or Doutas, in Geography, a {mall town 
of France, 1 in the department of Finilterre, and chief piace of 
a canton, inthe diftri@ of Brett. It has but 440 inhabitants. 
‘The canton, which has an extent of 235 kiliometres and 10 
communes, contains-a population of 13,799 individuals. 
DAOURIA — UNTAINS, Mountains of Afiatic Rof. 
fia.) =See Nersuins 
DAOURITA. ‘See ScHoru. 
P 
LIS, in Mythology, an epithet of fupiter, de- 
duced from the great feftivals celebrated in honour of 
DAPHNA, Peusia, in Ancient Geography, a town of 
Egypt, 16 miles from Pelufium, on the route from Memphis, 
near the canal of Pelufium formed y the 
NUS, in Mythology, an epithet of Apollo, 
deduced from the fable of his amours Ww is o' hne. 
DAPHNE, AaGn, in Antiquity, of divination, 
hy from the crackling of laurel ioe ‘awa into the 
“Dar HNE, in Botany, (after the tymph Daphne, in allufion 
DAN ' 
to her ieee ae a panel 3 fome of yee genus 
g, it eae 
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tenable, as compo onnded of ‘another elt eltablithed one, yma) 
Linn. Gen. 192. ~260, Willd. . 
Jof. 77. Clafs ‘and a odtandria monogyui nid. 
Thy melee, Ju 
Gen. Ch. of one leaf, funnel-fhaped ; externally 
ride3 inte rally poet its tube cylindrical; border 
r than the tube, deflitute of 
Cor. nore, Stam. Fila- 
ments eight, inferted in two rows into the tube, and en- 
clofed within it, very fhort ; anthers roundiih, ered. Pift. 
Germen, ovate, fuperior; flyle verv thort; tkigma capitate, 
deprefled. Peric. Drupa roundili, coloured; juicy, of one 
cell. Seed folitary. Some fpecies are dicecious. 
Ef. Ch. Cal. coloured, funnel-fhaped, four- cleft, wither- 
ing, including the ftlamens, Cor, none. Drupa of one 
ced. 
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t 30 or more f{pecies of this elegant. genus are 
ace. an of which f have a lateral, others a terminal, is 
habit i 
ighly and agreeably een 
part of thefe plants is highly Bae 3 and hence they rine 
n coniideration moreover of their habit, i 
names of fpurge-laurel, and f{purge-olive, 
common mezereon, Engl. Bot. t. 1381, fou 
are ony ‘ccaoraly white and appear in the ie 
pring. r fragrance is fo flrong as Ee e, to fome 
cc ne ble in a room. The bark of oe root 
efpecially, is ufed in medicine asa powerful ftimulant. This 
pecies is ae ated by feeds, or by fuckers fram the root. 
D. alpina. (D. a ae Roff, t » is an other 
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Its flow 
D. pee fourge: laurel, Ene pees t. es is frequent in- 
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hardy, and very accepta 
Flowers copious, early, pre cenifh-yellow, sca in the 
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winter, is requifite ; otherwife ‘i plant itfelf is almoft hardy 
enough to bear our climate ; but it fearcely ever flowers in 
the open ground. DD. collina, Sm. Spicil. t. 18. Curt. 
Mag. t. 428. Neapolitan mezereon, is very able to bear our 
hardef winters, though an ever-green, and a native of Italy, 
Greece, &c. Its fweet rofe-coloured flowers, produced in 
Spring, or even in the winter, if mild, and its dark-fhining 
. leaves, 
