DAU 
PHIN, 2 cae) of America, in the flate 
ontained in that o 
of Penn. 
pagal but ereét- 
or: 
contains 
It is divided into nine townfhips, the chief 
h is Harrifburz; the number of its inhabitants is 
22,270. ee 
the sataraly part 
veral of the mountains is sae d 
of ne ariron, &c. 
were Irifh eigrant, who were afterwards joined by a num- 
ber of Ger 
Die, a name given in ae reign of Elenry IV. of 
France to the ifland of Madagafea 
Davruin Creek, a creck at che S.E. extremity of Ma- 
dagafcar, near fort Daup shin 
AUPHIN Fert, a fo : at the — eaftern extremity of 
the ee of Madazafcar, in the vince o 
‘The d of the ifland about this for is w 
ae ae village ftands on ane nce, encom 
two rows of ftrong paiifades. Within arifes a et of 
earth, four feet high; and large, ftrong bamboos, placed at 
the difasee cf five feet from each other, form a kind of 
fortification which defends thefe vee which, in a 
cafes, are furrounded en feet broad, and 
e dwelling the chief is called mee 
and this comprifes three or four large h aie inclofed by a 
particula : the chief always refides, with hi 
wives and children. Slaves keep guard cot and day at the 
doors of the donac. Fort Dauphin was burnt down i in the 
year 1655; and not rebuilt till 1663. 8S. lat. 25° 415’. 
£&. long. 69° 5’. See Mapacascar.—Alfo a oo 
fort, and fea-port town in the N. part of the ifland of St. Do- 
mingo ; ane 5 net aay Ve a fort in a. ifland of 
Cape Bre 
Davpnin TR: ‘ver, a river of upper Canada, which runs into 
lake Wines on the W. fide, at the head of Martin’s bay. 
N. lat. 52°: 
uPHIN is the title which the eldeft fons of the kings 
of France, and prefumptive heirs to | crown, bore, for 
nearly 450 years, till the year 1791, n, in pine abo 
lith every the moft remote veltige of ae Aaliy national 
affembly decred its {uppreffion, and fabitured ‘the apples 
tion of Prince royal. 
Charles [oie the laft dauphin, fon of Louis XVI. and 
Maria Antoinetta a a ie born on the 27th of March 
1785, was firft named duke of Normandy, and took the 
title of dauphin only eee the death of his elder ‘brother 
Louis Jofeph Xavier Francis, in 1790 joicings 
which took place in France at he birth of this laft prince in 
481, evinced fuc cere and {lic attachment 1 
the royal family, that it forms the ftriking contraft 
with the events which took place eleven years after. Charles 
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prohably haftened his, death. His complaint is reported to 
have been of the pace kind, and it ide re ea i 
medical aid was 
nied him ; but his rts 
fhamefully abrdged: ‘a his = iacaiou abfolutely negledted, 
-ter the dem 
DAV 
and mof wilfully perverted. He expired on the oth of June 
prince as ae o the throne, ftyled him king ever af. 
fe of his j 1 i fated parent, by the name of Louis 
XVIL; te ae 
The title of dauphin was firft borne in France about the 
year 1345, by Philip, a younger foncf Philip de Valois, to 
whom Humbert III. dauphin of the Vien a had cede 
his eee conlifting chicfly of the dau bine. owever, 
after Cha furnamed the Wife, the kings of France 
never Co: ered ‘the appellation of dauphin cn any one, but 
their eldeft fons, and prefumptive heirs of the crown. The 
title itfelf took its rife about the year 1120 n Guigues IV. 
fe of Guy or Guigues the Fat ing of a warlikt difpo~ 
tion, he chofe a dolphin for the creft of his helmet; and hav- 
ing fiznalized himfe.f by fome exploit, he was pro obably di- 
ftinguithed by the name of his armorial bearings, and tranf- 
mitted this name as a new diftinétion to his defcendants. 
he feigneurs, or lords, of Auvergne, have likew!fé borne 
the appellation of dauphin; but the dauphins of Auvergne 
had it not till a good i after thofe of the Viennois, and 
even received it from e manner was th is: Guy 
I. dauphin of Viensoi is, had by his wife et oa 
parte of Stephen, earl of Burgundy, a fon and tw 
daughters. The fon was Guy 1X. his fucceffor. Beatrix, 
one of the ba Sua was married to the ccunt d’ Auvergne, 
who, according to Blondel, was William V. or rather, as 
Chorter and shee ade V1. father of William V. 
This prince loft the greateft part of the county Auvergne, 
which was taken con fa ei his are William, effifted b 
Louis the Young; and was only left eS of the little 
canton whereof Miaieteg is the capital e had a fon 
whom he calied Dauphin, on account of fem r Guigues, 
his uncle by the mother’s fde. From his time ‘bis ae 
holding thr fame petty canton of Auvergne, ftyled themfelves 
eae . Rahat soar and bore a oe for their arms. 
Mechanics, &ea. PHIN. 
Dag, oie LPHINS, in Lainey Hiflory, a name 
given to the commentators on the ancient Latin authors, 
who were employed by order of Louis EV. of France, for 
the benefit of the prince, under the care and dire@tion of M. 
de Mentaufier his governor, Boffuet and Huet his preceps 
tors. ey were thirty-nine in — 
eozraphy, 0 of the fouth-eaftern 
rovinc , before the revotin of 1789. It 
contained the following counties, vz. t 
the Viennois, which form now w the caaaiet of the J/cre, 
which fee; the Valentinois and the Diois, which conftitute at 
prefent the department of the Dréme, which fee; and the 
Gaffcngais, Embrunais, and Briangonnais, which form now 
the aecarinent of es oro Alpes, which fee. Grenoble 
was the capital of th Rs territorial ex. 
at 1006 {quare leagues, 
and its es aa at 804,800 individuals, or 800 inhabitants 
per {quare le lea 
DAUS SARA, or as Daufar, in Ancient Ae 
graphy, arown of A n Mefopotamia, feated upon the 
banks of the Eupbrate, wes S. of Edeffa, and S.E, of 
Nicephorium. 
DAUSENAS, in Geography, a eile of the duchy of 
Courland; 16 miles W.S.W. of Seilbu 
ONA, in Ancient Geogra A of Higher 
fen 24 miles from Sifcia, according to the ae 
of Ant 
D UW, i in Geography, a town in the fouthern part of 
ae vi of Celebes 
AVYING, in Agriculture, a term applied proviacially 
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