DAR 
what corpulent, are eco handfome ; and wie general 
difpofition is mild, lefs favage than that of other fe- 
males of the ee Some diftri@s of nee untry are 
dependent on ae emperor of Morsceo. to whofe cee are 
Dara is fubje&, though they are governed by their own 
cheiks 
AAN, or DaraAun, a town of Atia, in Great Tar- 
tary ; about 24 leagues E. of Samarcand. 
DARABA, in dncient Geography, a town of Ethiopia, 
placed by Strabo on the other fide of the foreit of Cemania, 
2nd in the vicinity of the country belonging to the people 
called Elephantophagi. 
DARABGERD, or Darazcuizrp, in Geography, a 
town of Perfia, in the province of Faififtan, faid to have been 
A conliderable ae of glafs is ue on in 
this place: 116 mies E S.E. of Schiras. 
DARABITTA, in Pie Geography, a villace of Pa- 
lefline, at the extremity of Galilee. iausee paffcd through 
itin his way from Tiberias to Jerufal 
D DE, a people of Aides, i in ie interior of Libya, 
placed by Ptolemy on sae coalt of the wetter an, in the 
environs of the river a 
AX, a river of “Afia, i in Syria. 
Xenophon, that Belefis, Sanelied of Syria, had a large and 
beautiful park, and alfo alace, near the fource of this 
river. Cyrus caufed - ne of the park to be cut down, 
and fet fire to the palac 
ADI, a cecple oe Africa, in the interior of Ethi- 
4 
fa) 
(<7 
opia. 
DARADUS, a river of Libya Interior. 
AE, a people of Africa, in Libya, who formed a 
part of the Getulians, and inhabited a diftri@ very remote 
- See Han 
DARAMAJON,a tv on nthe north.weft of the ifland 
of Java; 30 miles E. of 
DARAMPOORY: See Deees 
DARAN, eer in Biography, ach military fur- 
eon, who acquired much celibrity for ie fkill in treating 
difordersin the urethra, particularly for his improved method of 
making bougies, ela ifhedin 1745, ‘¢ Recueil d’Obfervations 
es Maladies de Urethra. It has been 
in 1750, was tranflated into 
Foglifh by Mr. Tomkyns, an eminent furgeon of London, 
who was-2 sbley he fays, from his own experience, to atteft the 
an’s bovgies over thofe that had 
I 
vered with the 
bougies, and was capab 
der, in many cafes, where it would have be 
impoffible, to ufe the common catheter. 
en dangerous, often 
Confiderable im- 
provements have been fince made of this inftrument, but the _ 
merit of the invention ftill remains with Daran. Haller 
Bib. Chirurg. 
ARANL in the Materia Medica, a word ufed by fome 
of the old writers to exprefs the fal ammoniac of the times, 
which was the fame with our fal gemm 
D PORUM, in Geography, a ‘oan . Hindooftan, 
nthe Coimbetore country, 36 miles E.S.E. of Coimbetore, 
and 73 W. of Tritchinopoly. N. Ist. 10° ei E. long. 
DAR 
47° 40——Alfo, a river of the fame sel which has its 
fource from an elevated plain about 60 miles in extent, which 
ft iis _ the eaftern mouth of the or valley ene 
clofed between the branches of the Gauts, aa rifes fuddenly 
like a vat t ee from the level of the furrounding coun- 
APTI, in Logic, a baled of fyllogifm in the third 
gure, wherein the major an nor are univerfal affirmative 
propoftions, and the coueluton a particular affirmative, 
ie 
DA ¢ ‘ Every truly religious man is virtuous. 
RA « Every truly religious man is hated by - world.”? 
PTI“ Therefore, fome virtuous mea are hated by the 
—. sg 
RBY, in Geography, a {mall town in Delaware county, 
Dar 
Pensiylvanis on the E, fide of Darby creek, containing about 
§° houfes and a walker meeting-houfe, and lying 7 mules 
-W. by W. of Philadelphia. There are two townthips of 
. name in the county, called Upper and Lower, from their 
relative fituation. 
DARDA, a town and fortrefs of Hungary, built by th 
Turks in the year 1686, and taken by the Imperialifts a 
16873 3o miles S. of Back. and 44 S.S.E. of re tae 
DA RDANARIUS, U/furer, Monopolift; a e an- 
ciently attributed to fuch as caufed a f{carcity, a ‘Gesuete 
of provifions, particularly corn, by buying and hoarding it up 
to raife its v a and fell it again at an extravagant rate. 
The ardanariue was given Dardanus, 
who is faid " have made a practice of f{poiling and deftroy- 
ing the fruits of the earth by a fort of forcery. Ho f. Lex. 
The fame people are alfo called ico direCtarii, fi- 
tocapeli, annonz ees and fe ou 
ANELLES, Srrairor,in Gengrapy, is yeas 
pe leaguesto the welt of Conftantinople, between rchip 
lago and the little fea of Marmora, and eee rate che 
coaft of Troy to Gallipoliover againft Lampfacus. This fpace, 
about 12 leagues, of an unequal breadth, contains different 
points, in which the continents of Europe and Afia, which this 
ftrait feparates, approach to within the diftance of three or four 
hundred fathoms. Three leagues from its mouth, on the fide 
b rks, 
becoming more eels though not more enlightened, built 
mouth ; but as they are at the diftance of 
1500 fathoms, ce fire i : uncertain, and their piri ins 
fufficient. 
DARDANT, in Ancient Geography, a people of Illyria 
in ncn who inhabited the reat called Dardania. 
DARDANIA, a country of Afia Minor, in the northern 
part of the ‘Troade, when the kingdom of Troy fubfitted ; 
but when this sane was otherwife divided, it formed a part 
ofthe lefler Myfia. It lay between the Hellefpont and the 
fources of the Gra 
Dardania, d 
called Dardanit or Dardanide—ANo, a country of Illyria, 
in Dalmatia; the capital of which the fame —. 
fo, aname given to Mocfia Superior, on the fide of the 
y m 
onia, on 
the fouth by ‘rile on the sie he ree and on the 
north by Dacia Ripenfis. In of time, they gave to 
this country the name of Dacia. Medvirranac- Aloe atown 
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