DAR 
r-Gion frem the —- bodies ; this ee however, 
will be varticularly examined under the article 
DARK 
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SLAND, is the lage of two iflands at the 
wea ci za Simcoe, in Upper oa 
DARLINGTON, a market and tou town in the 
county of Durham, England, is fituated on the fide of a hill, 
which flopes to the river Skerne, over which is a bridge of 
four arches. The name is {uppofed to be derived from Der or 
ar,an ancient appellation of the river, /nge, the Saxon term 
for a meadow, and fon, a town or village. it is a place of re- 
mote antiquity. In the time of the Saxon king Ethelred, a 
nobleman named Stere, the fon of Wulf, obtaincd permiffion 
ofthe king, that Darling-on, with itsappendages, fhould bere- 
ftored to St. Cuthbert. To which the king, the archbifhop 
of York, and Aldwine, bifhop of Durham, became witneffes. 
And in the furvey, contained in ** the Balden Buke, > Dar. 
aaa is particularly noticed. It is a large populous trad- 
ing town, and borouch by ee ee ; conlifting of feveral 
well built {treets, iffuing rom a centra k 
lege for a dean, and fiece Pee cation The church is a 
rae ftructure in the form of a crofs, with a tower crown= 
ed with a a which rifes to the height of one-hundred 
and eighty-feet. The tower {prings from uniform arches in 
the seed fappore by cluftered columns; but the arches 
n 
ve cheap. ere i y 
orfted ftuffs, fuch as morreens, tammies, &c. ; another of 
teens of different So ‘particulary diapers, hucka- 
backs, and checks. ure of cotton has lately 
been introduced, under on aac of Mr. John Murrell, 
machinery. eis a mill for oe woo another for 
{pinning hemp; and here was ereéted the firft mill for 
grinding optical glaffes in the kingdom was an inven- 
tio the late ingenious John Kindrew, a native of this 
ace ere is a fociety for the improvement of agriculture ; 
was ined about the year 1767 for dar a 
but owing to a powerful oppofition, it was never i a 
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lington contained 945 houfes, and 4670 inhabitaots. Its 
ket for wool, corn, cattle, and other ile is on 
Mondays; aa it has four annual fairs. ‘The n fends 
two members to parliament; and the nee a cee tual 
curacy. At Oxenhall, about three miles rlington, are 
fome deep cavities, vulgarly called Hell Kettle. Of their 
DAR 
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origin the Chronicles of Tinemouth priory give this account : 
D. 1149, upon Chriftmas-day at Oxenhall, in the out- 
{kirts of Darlington, in the bifhopric of Durham, the earth 
raifed itfelf up to a great height, in the manner of a lo fty 
tower, and remained all that aay until the evening, as it were 
fixed and immoveable, when it funk down with fuch a horrid 
of England 
from the Britith ou hal, a 
and kiddle or kidle, a dam, 7. e "Ha i Kiddle 
the earth above fiated may have bee aeceu ene 
explotion of inflammable fubftances ees the flrata. In 
1805 was difcovered a fulphureous {pring in the vicinity, of 
ftrong medical powers; and it is now much frequented by per- 
fons labouring under fcorbutic and ee ae aad Hut- 
chinfon’s Hillory of Durham, 3 v 
oo a diftriG of Aen Carolina, bounded S. 
and S.W. by Lynche’s creek ; about 35 miles long, and 
21 broad. 
ARLINGTON, a townfhip of America, in the county of 
Durham, Upper oe lying to the weit ot Clarke, and 
fronting a Onta 
DARM DITERA, a town of Afia, in Thibet; 3 
leagues N. ‘of Saran 
DARMSTADT. a _andfome town of Germany, and 
capital of the oun duchy of Heffe Darmittadt, one of the 
members of the con a of the Rhine, and the ordinary 
sage of ae grand duke. It is fituated on the river of 
he ame; 18 miles S. of Frankfort on the Mavn, 
21 SF E. of Maynts, ne N.E. 36 N.W 
of Heidelberg. N. e pa is a very 
ftately building, and ao is a houle built on fh guaeele for 
military evolutions, fufficiently capacious to admit 1500 
men to perform their eee exercife, _ ccommodated 
with fixteen ftoves. See ARMSTADT. 
L, a river of “Wales, which runs into the 
.W.0 
RNEL, in Botany. Se 
Darnet, i in i Nawal ae name of a ecyablebeie weed, 
which is frequently met w mong wheat, rye, and other 
— Jee 
plied, fometimes to white 
damnel ie eee and what, in the fouthérn diftrias, 1s 
often aaa bare crup. Ir has much fimilarity to 
often miftaken for ray, or rye 
annual, while the ray-grafs has an abiding root. The feeds 
of this troublefome weed ripen at the iame time with the 
ould be 
of Africa, in Lib bya. 
NETAL, in eae a {mall tie of Brance, 
n the department of the er Seine, not far from Rouen, 
eure le for its ‘excellent eaiah manufa aure, particularly 
of - and white printed, and of handkerchiets of different 
fize 
DARNEY, a {mail se of France, in the department 
of the Volges, chief Ay 
Mirecourt. It has 
taius a population se noe add in 19 communes, | 
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