DAS 
feom the male, it may bend ae a rings ae Se ie 
the beginning of a tube. s living ring m 
brace, or abforb a nutritive particle of the fluid in hich it 
{wims, and by drawing it into its pores, or joining it by 
compreffion to its extremities, may increafe its own iach 
or craffitude, and, by degrees, the living ring may become a 
living tube. With this new iA oa or accretion of 
parts, new kinds of irritability may commence,”’ &c. nce, 
i only an eee tan of iiabity 
and fenfibility further extended, beget perception, mem 
reafon, and in fhkort all thofe faculties which hay 
fe) the 
Zoonomia; which has long ceafed to be popular who 
wifh to fee a complete refutation of the fophif{ms contained 
in it will read — fatisfaction, ** Obfervations on the Zoo- 
nomia of Dr. win, by Thomas Brown, Efq.”’ publifhed 
ieee, the author pub- 
© pages in 4to. pafs al 
As little eon was paid to a {mall traé& on 
emale education, which had little indeed to attra& notice. 
is,” Mifs Seward obferves, ** a meagre work, of little 
general intereft, thofe rules daa which are laid 
for the p¥efervation of healt It is nee harmlefs, a 
charaGter that can by no means be aecorded to the Zouno- 
mia, as may be gathered from the (eae we have 
thought it neceflary to pafs on that work. Seward’s Me- 
moirs of the Li r. Darwin; alfo Medical Commen- 
ries and Annals 
rwin, Mr. 
HARLES, one of the fonsof Dr. Erafmu 
Darwin, whodied at Edinburgh t = 15th of isk 1778 wile 
profecutiag his ftudies in medici , deferv 
ie matter expectorat 
patient, let him d diffolve : a portion of it in vitriolic acid, and 
another portion of it in cauftic alkaline lixivium, an n 
both folutions ; if ou is a precipitation 
in each folution, it is clear the expefforated matter is pus; 
if there is no precipitation, the matter is fimply mucous. 
Mr. Darwin lett an unfinifhed eflay?on the retrograde motion 
‘ of the abforbent veffels of animal bodies in = . as 
‘This was, fome time after the death of the y 
lifhed by his father, eae os the ieates ae gic 
he had ped the priz 
D iy in Ancient ay, a town of Arcadia, the 
mines of which contributed to the aggrandizement of Mega- 
lopolis ; which lay . of it. 
DAS TZ, in Geography a town of Bohemia, in the 
circle of Chrudim ; ae .N.E. of Chrudim, 
DascuiTz, or aie a town of Moravia, in the circle 
of Iglau ; iS miles N. of Zlabin 
DASCILITIDES, in Ancient Geography, a lake of Afia 
Minor, i in Myla, which, according to Plutarch, was near 
Cyzicum. Tais ‘lake belonged partly to the Byzantins, 
and partly to the ne according to Strabo. It 
was ve called Aphnites 
DASCON aes a gulf fo called by eae which 
lay on the eaftern coaft of Sicily, near Syra 
DASCUSA,a en of Afia, feated on the banks of the 
Euphrates, having 38° 15’ of latitude. 
eerie UM, Drasxixeo, a town of Afiai in Bithy- 
OL. 
DAS 
ree fituated near the lake Dafcilitides. Steph. Byz. me 
tions four other towns of this name; one founded foon after 
the city of Troy; another in Yonia; a third of Caria; and a 
fourth on the confines of the Eolide pe: Phrygia. 
DASHUR, in Geography, a town of Egypt ; 
S. of Cairo 
DASSAR TA, in un Geography, a people placed 
by Plutarch towards the confines a eA and Illyria, 
near the ae Lycu 
AWN, in nears). a river of ena which 
runs into te Betwha; 16.miles W. o 
a {mall town of Son in the principa« 
lity of ge Wei 
DASSEL, a fmnall town of the kingdom of Weltphalia, 
in the late principality of Hildefheim, which was affigned as 
an indemnity to Proflia by the treaty of Luneville, and loft 
again by Pruffia at the peace of uae fone is a in 
a deep sees on the Spoling, which not far ce flow 
into the river Ilme, in a fertile difriGt walled the Hundef. 
ruck. 
15 miles 
DASSEN, an ifland in the Atlantic, near the c 
Africa, between ~ oe of Good Hope and ache bay. 
S. lat. 33° 26’. 
DASPARGEDA. or ARTEMITA, in Ancient Geograiys 
el- Melik, a town of Afia, on the ee ies of the river Delas 
north of its mouth in the Tigris .W. of Apollo aia. 
Chofroes, king of Perfia, had a bee in this town, which he 
preferred to that of Ctefiphon. This palace was deftroyed 
by Heraclius. 
ng. 72°. 
DASTIRA, a town of Armenia Major. 
DAST-Suzas, in Ge ner apy a town ie Pate, in the 
province of Farfiltan ; 70 miles S, of Schira 
MMA, a fuperficial inequality of the inner part 
of the eye-lids, accompanied with a rednefs. Blancard de- 
rives it from daous, hirfutus. 
ASYPUS, in Zoology, a genus of mammalia, in the bruta 
hey have a s; the grinders are fhort, cylin- 
eight in each jaw; and the body 
covered with a bony thet divided into zones. ‘Thefe are the 
armadillo of Englifh writers 
There is only a {mall naeibee of {pecies in this genus, and 
thofe are chiefly inhabitants of South America. The 
readily diftinguifhed from all other Be peal cds, by the aiet 
lar bony co vering or {uit of ba with which na 
ture has at once protected and ae thefe curious aqiale 
their fhelly coat being of confiderable ftrength, and fo admi- 
rably contrived as to accommodate itfelf to every pofture and 
motion of the body. The armadilios are of a gentle difpofi- 
the night time, as they re veft during the day in their pun ows 
and hiding-places. As they arethemfelves confidered excellent 
food, they are fought after, and dug ont cf their fubterra- 
neous cavities, and fold for the table. They are, however, only 
ad young armadillos which are in requett for this purpofe; 
as they ane ° ie the flefh acquires a ftrong muflcy {cent, 
ich renders them very di fagreeable. When stacked the 
ete roll chemi up into the form of a ball, are 
thus fecured in an effe€tual manner from ordinary aca. 
They are faid to drink frequently, and often grow extremely 
fat; they are alfo reprefented to be seiawer! apne pro- 
oe a brood of aan young every m at leatk 
or four times in a The pcs a are diftinguithed 
panel by the auaber of zoncs or ban 
R " ‘Tricincrus. 
