‘with Homer 
DAW 
to the getting of marl out of the face - the cliffs on the fea 
coafts, where it is drawn up by a fort o 
AW, in ae Sec Costs "Monedula : called 
alfo the jackda 
Daw, Surinam. See Corvus elu 
Daw, Black and Yellow. See Orntorus Perficus. 
DAWEL.-Coronps, in the feigieee of the Ceylonefe, 
se Cinnamon. This is called in Low Dutch, trommel 
ancel. The reafon of the name 1s, that the wood of the 
ee which affords ae ae, ~ dried, is light and 
tough, and is ufed t toake dru The eae 13 ahs 
off while the tree is growing, er is °F a pale Tt 
a very bad kind of cinnamon, ardis very tay ae as ich 
but the natives ufe it in medicine. 
WES, Ricuarp, in Blog 
raphy, was barn in 14708, 
and received the early part of his education at Market- Bof.- 
worth, Leiceftefhire, under Dr. Blackwall, author of the 
«* Sacred Claffics.”” e higher branches of ftudy he pur- 
ved ie Enance oa eet ze, where a Gok his de- 
gree ere exhibi much enmity and rancour 
pat Ay tae ed pani, elon ] Tocco in the Greek 
he affected to treat with contempt. bout the year 1738, 
he was appointed matter of the free grammar-{chool at New- 
caltle-on-Tyne, to which office was annexed the matterthip 
of St. Mary’s pl in that town. The profound learn- 
of Mr. Dawes did not qualify him for the difcharge of 
the laborious cna of a {chool-maftzr: his temper was too 
irritable, and his charaéter was fo aie that he was per- 
petually involved in quarre t ten_years he was 
perfuaded to refign cept, in exchange, 
an annuity of Sol, per ann, with which he ear making 
his chief amufement rowing a boat on the river near his 
houfe. He died in 1766; but as a critic mee a fchola 
kad laid a broad bafis for saad reputation, His «* Mif- 
cellanea Critica,’’? which was publifhed in 1745, and which 
has fince been republifhed with /aaone by Mr. Burgefs of 
Oxford, ** contained,”’ fays his biographer, ‘a collection of 
grammatical rem marks on various Gree ena particularly 
the tragedians and Arifto hens intended as a {pecimen o 
what he meant to perfo rm jin an ae of all the Attic poets, 
and Pindar.”? Bio 
Dawes, a WILLIAM, a mae prelate of the 
church of England, was born in the year 1671, near Br 
tree, in Effex. He received his grammar- ae a Mer- 
chant Taylors’ fchool, in London, where he made a very 
rapid progrefs in the learned languages; and in 1687 he 
was oe nee of St John’s Hans Oxford, of which 
ociety he n two years, made fellow. As foon as he 
facceeded on his father s title and eftate, he left yea and 
nobleman in Catharine-hall, 
at 
and, by the royal mandate, created doctor in divinity, in or- 
der to be qualified for the majfterfhip of Catherine-hall, to 
which he was unanimoufly called, in 1696. To this college 
he was afterwards a liberal benefa@or. 
perfons w 
preached on the zoth of January. But in two years after 
DAX 
he was appoicted to the bi ifhopric of Chetter; and in 1713 
to the archdifhopric of York, in which he continued, an 
a ae to his ha tl till the year 1724. when he died, 
full oF honour and eftee He was reckoned the moft po- 
dee apap of the ie His works were collected, and 
ublifhed in 3 i he 1733; to which is prefixed a life o 
the aut cis 
DAWFUSKEE, } in 5 Gurnty. an ifland on the coaft o 
South Carolina, ae ce. e NE. fide . We entrance of 
ieee ae the entran road- _ 
ae = s of an oaland cominad Gran beges the tw 
DAWIDGRODEK, stom of Lithuania, in the palati+ 
nate of Bracle; 56 miles EE. of Bracfe. 
DAWLISH, called in domefday- book Doulis, is a 
in the county of Devon, 
England. name is derived from its ores Dol. ify 
a compound word, fignifying, a fruitful me a pleaf. 
g dell. Ona the la ie fide, It is aes fomoanded by lofty 
hills of varied features; and on the a fide, the fea, 
with the bold over- pana cliffs, fur bea ating effeet ta 
its romantic f{cenery. Dawlifh formerly was an inconfider- 
able place, merely a cove, and a by a few fifhermen ; 
but fince fea-bathing has become fafhionable, it has rifen 
delightfal maritime village | 
Th 
g his 
coalt is not only inviting by it oe fone ery, but 
ie efteemed for the falubrity Ae mild temperature of the 
BE. 
A out one mile wef from Dawlifh is Lufcombe-houfe, 
the feat of Charles Hoare, efqg. This is an elegant modern 
manfion, erected from defigns by Mr. Nafh, archite&, who 
has endeavoured to unite in the plan, the convenient and com- 
wii ant view, 
the foaming waters of = nglith channel. Beauties of 
England and Wales, vol. i 
X, or anciently, Was Aqua Tarbellica, a very ancient 
town of France, chief place of a diftri@ of the fame name in 
the department of the Landes, fituated on the left fhore of 
the Adour, 30 miles N.E. of Bayonne, as many S. by W. 
dime ty 42 of sAire. and 564 S. by W. of Paris. It 
in old times, the principal city of the oo a ha- 
fa celebrated among the es 3 but is not 4 
veftige remaining of its antique {plendou gene a aes and 
deep bafon in the middle of the place, conftant tly filled with 
fmoking and alm pi wonine water, which forms a rivulet that 
flows into the 
Until the 8th a Apr il 1802, ag was the fee of a bifhop 
under the archbifhopof Beardeaux. It has nowa fub-prefect, _ 
two courts of juftice, anda perimonies, and is one of the 
84 maritime diltriéts. 
Dax is chiefly remarkable for its numerous mineral {prings, 
the four moft famed of ite are on the weft fide of the 
Sa for along ti water of Dax ought there- 
fore to be ufed at he. ae or hen after it has come sis 
V2 the 
