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ifland. It is called Davis’s ftrait, becaufe it was difcovered 
in 1585 r. Joho pee an experienced navigator, who 
vifited weftern coal o d, and explored this nar- 
the 
row fea, i ce oa erly fo Fen erern pane it is as wide as 
the Baltic 
AVIS Ti own, a town of America; I in the difttri& of a 
and county of Lincoln, containing 308 inhabitants.— 
a town in the ae os i&, and county of Hanerck, eu 
ing 259 inbabitan 
AVIT, in  Sipriagng ea a fhort boom fitted in 
the fore-chann the arm of a crane to hoift the 
flukes of the aes oe ear | the hhip? s fide, till high enough 
to lie cn the gun-wale, and faftened by the fhank painter. 
which bave an eye f{pticed in one end 
of the davit-head ; they are ferved with sobs — ove 
fplice, ale a ith fpun-yarn at the o 
Dav ape, denies the oe which eas the davit 
ut of u 
a 
- 
age Ay, atown of South Ser in the 
audience of Quito, and jurifdiction of Guayaquil. 
DAULIA, in Ancient Geogrephy, a town of Macedonia, 
in the canton of Eordetes, and ncar Scampis. Ptolemy 
Alto, a country of the Phocide, which Preludes another 
diftriG called Tron 
D S, a cw = the Phocide, at fome diftance S.E. 
from Deiphi , Paufanias, and Steph. 
Daulis; but Big “ealls it Aavass, Daulium 
to Paua, this towi was very popuons, and its inhahi- 
tants were the largeft and moft robuft of an the sage 
territory. t Daulis was a temple of rece with t 
flatues of this goddefs. was more anciently called a 
éris. On the ruins of this town isa village, ee 40 
i illage is a river, ich {prings 
m 
country call Afauroneri, i. e. k water, fuppofed to be 
that which the Grecks call Melas. 
LSEN, in Geography, a town of Germany in the 
circle ot Weftphalia, and county of Verden; 4 miles N.N.E. 
of Aes 
AUMA,a eos of Africa, a Negroland, hla a 
oe of the fame n . lat. 8°. W. long. 16° 
DAUM AZAN, 3 a eal town of Larvi in the aut. 
ment of the Arriége, 12 m _ W. of Pamters. 
DA , LEOPOLD, Count of, in Biography, a celebrated 
general in the Auttrian fervice, was born in tne year 1705, 
and intended by his father, who was an imperial general, for 
the hgekiy young 
defirous of treading in the fteps 
ancl . 7 an —_ among = kni oie of ee In 
the year was made cael and diftinguifhed 
him{elf in ee war eck Maria ‘Therela renee in defence 
f her hereditary fucceffion. In the war of 1 £6, he was 
known and diftinguifhed as the moft formidable antagonift 
of the king of Pruffia: in the following year he entirely de- 
feated the monarch, and was, on that account, highly ef- 
teemed by the emprefs-queen, Ih 1758, he faved Olmutz 
by a feries of es prea e ee and oo en- 
ing to a {vere 
‘He died at Vieuna in 1966, highly efteemed 
as al for his private virtues, as for ‘his military talents, 
Through the whole of life he was indefatigable in every thing 
evtru(ted to him: he evinced on almoft every occafion con- 
fummate fill; but has been thought defective in the {pirit 
of sige and .decition, whici enables a general to 
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feize and improve a favourable moment. 
Hitt. 
Neuv. Dia. 
Daun. See Dau 
DAUNIA, in ae a Geography, a country of rT aly in 
that of Pe 
pulia. Pliny fays, t it ‘lay N. W. ucetia, and 
= it was bounded to t the ‘eaft and norch by the Adriatic 
, to the welt by Biferno, the country of the Samnites 
ee that of the Hirpini, and to the fouth by mount Cer- 
vago, which feparated it from a scelia. Its ch as towns 
were Sipuntum, Arpi, Lucer Strabo s, that 
thofe people were ra Bast by the Greeks, st the 
Latins called Apulia 
mae US, Caravalle, a torrent of Italy, which ga ve 
o the country in its vicinity. Tlorace mentions the 
coeur heat of this coun 
5S, Davas, or seer in | Geography, formerly a 
jarifdi@tion of the league of the t 
le gt 
mountains. Ac ewmanauioe ot ee oe the 
midtt of the ae eae a geutle e. The 
whole diftriG is divided into five parifhes, and the inhabitan ts 
are Froteftants. The houfes, howerer, are fo difperfed as 
not even to form onc fingle village, proper:y fo called. Near 
the church of St. John is a fmall cluiter of eight or ten 
houfes ; in - other pgrts the cottages are thickly ftrewed 
€ 
over the pla There are en lakes abounding in fith, and 
fome mines aes copper, and lead ore, "Phe parifh o 
Sartig has a mineral fpring. ‘I'he country produces oats, 
rye, Jarge quantities of rich paiture, yiciding yearly two 
crops of hay. The mountains are ov: fpread with forefts of 
fir and larch, ues with meadows. Above them tower 
the rugged 
Grazing is ao principal occupation of the a of 
the diftriét of Da ‘hey alfo keep pack-horfes for the 
ince of the goods which pafs a rough ee country 
fr rmany and Switzerland into Italy, , and they manus 
ature plenty of wooden wares. ‘They fpeak German, but 
their pronunciation is as a as that of the inhabitants 
of the republic of the Vala 
The general diet of the Crifor sufed to be held at Davos. 
Coxe’s Switzerland. ocr de la Suiffe. 
DAUPHIN, Do tpuin ‘ronom ee D : 
Dau ea in Conc ag, : Si name o ofa ipecies of fhell- 
fifth. Itis one of the round-mo {nails, or cochlex lu-~ 
nares; and + orn ancl: aa the rows oo indented aries 
on all cle turns of the fhell. 
PHIN, in Geography, an ifland in the north part of 
the gulph of Mexico, at the mouth of the river Mobile, 
five miles from Maflacre ifland, with a fhoal every where be- 
tween sae which iflands were {uppofed formerly to have 
been one, and to have been known e name of 
anne fo ae by M. d’Ibberville, from a lar ge heap 
of human bones, found by him at his lan “e Dauphin 
row, ery bar- 
t 
r mile nd, with 
ae reft is covered with thick pines, which come clofe to the 
water’s edge, on the E. fide, forming a large bluff. The 
French attempted a fettlement here, and the cultivation of 
tobacco, dee was faid to be equal to that of Virgina, 
n the S. 
Peach pott, a 
1719 the Spaniards made a fraitlefs wee to take it, 
ee ay the fpace of four days. N. lat, 15’, W. long. 
88° 5 
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