DE A. 
Conrad Amman, who effected the fame in feveral children 
born deaf, with furprifing fuccefs. 
fcheme to a fixed art, or method, whi 
his Surdens Loquens, cracls) 1692, and De Loq a 
ibi ° 
ie the Philofooh, aia N° 312, we have an account by 
. Waller, of a man and his filter, each about 
fifty years old, a in the fame town with Mr. Waller, 
wh her of them the leaft fenfe of hearing ; yet 
both of them knew, by the motion of the lips only, what- 
ever was faid to them, and would anfwer pertinently to the 
queftion propofed. ems they could both hear and 
{peak when children, but loft their fenfe afterwards ; whence 
they retained their {pcech, which, though uncouth, was yet 
intelligible. 
Such another inflance is that of Mr. Goddy’ 8 aon aa 
Bu 
et 
bpont sieve the motions of the mouths and lips of others, fhe 
had acquired fo mauy words, that out of thefe fhe had formed 
a fort of jargon, in which the could bold converfation whole 
days with thofe that could {peak a ee She knew 
were obliged to light candles to. pea 
» fhe 
what ‘ hei ad fo could d: one ai her in the aa, 
Burn. L . 248. 
t is ete that deaf perfons, and feveral eihen 
thick of hearing, hear better and more eafily, if a loud noife 
be raifed at the time when you fpeak to them, which is 
owing, no doubt, to the greater tenfion of a ear-drum on 
that occafiou. Dr. Willis mentions a dea 
a drum were beat in the room, could fees any thing very 
clearly ; fo that her hufband hired a drummer for a fervant 
that by his means he might hold converfation ais his wife. 
The fame author mentions another, who, liv ing near 
fteeple, could always hear Maia _ if there was a ringing 
of three or four bells; but nev 
ner relates an neoiae method of making 
deaf ene to hear, by app plying thin flips of wood, about 
fix feet long, an in oad, and as thick as the back of a 
_ perceptible and diftin&. This methcd, he obferves, 
be adapted to all perfons afflifted with deafnefs, pro- 
vided the auditory nerves are not injured or de royed at 
their origin. See Buchner’s Eafy and Praéticable Method 
- enabie deaf Perfons to hear, tranflated from the German, 
a further account of the deaf and dumb, and of 
the methods ued for the relief of {uch perfons, fee Dums- 
NESS. 
n who is born deaf, dumb, and blind, is rerarded by 
the ee in the fame ftate as an idiot ; ; being fuppofed inca- 
pable of any undertaking, as wanting all thofe fenies which 
furmfh ~ mind with ideas. man who could neither 
{peak n ear, committed felony and was arraigned, and 
therefore a ted to prifon. A perfon, having made 
¢ ill and lott his fpeech : the fame will was 
i and it was faid to him, that he 
vicar, if it fhould be his laft will, or 
otherwife retain it: he delivered it to "the vicar, and it was 
DEA 
held a good will, When a defendant appeared by oath, to 
be both fenfelefs and dumb, fo that he could not inftru& his 
counfel to 
raw his anf{wer, it was ordered that no attach- 
ment, ther p {fs of contempt, e arded 
againft h’m for not anfwering, without fpecial order of the 
is dumb. 
ecaufe he cannot aia t to it. 
The lord thall have the ee of a copy- 
holder — is deaf and dumb; for elfe he fhall be prejudiced 
in his and fervices ; aad adjudged for the grantee of ' 
the lord ot the prochain amy of the copyholder. Cro. 
ac. 10 
Ap erfon bora deaf and dumb, ng ia eee by figns 
that fhe underltood what fhe was abou o, was allowed 
to levy a fine _ lands ; by a Ch. J. and other 
flices. Cart. 
DEAL, is a ‘walcknow kind of wood of great ufe. In 
its common fate, for eae) purpofes, it confi is of planks 
of fir, fawed fro m the trunk of the tree longitudinally, of 
belie thicknefles, acorn to the ufes to which they are 
pphed. 
good method of feafoning planks Lae deal, is to 
cow. mae into falt-water as foon as they are fawed, and 
keep them there three or four days, oo turning a 
In this cafe they will be rendered much harder, by drying 
afterwards in the air and fun; but neither thie nor any aie 
means yet known, will preferve them from fhrinking. 
Deals are imported chiefly from Chriftiania, and other 
parts of Norway ; from Dantzic, and feveral parts of Pruf- 
fia; from. Peterfburg, Archangel, and other parts of Ruffia, 
They are fold by the piece, or ftandard huudred, or long 
hundred of 120. A ftandard, or reduced deal, is 12 inch 
ae 11 inches wide, and 12 feet in lengt 
of deal ae peat or acrofs sie grain, in moilt 
wane, and contraét agai ry ; and thence have been 
found to nee an sarfal hygrometer Phil. Tranf, N° 480. 
184. See Hycrom 
Deat, in Geogr whys is a market and fea-port town in 
the hundred of Cornilo, and’ lathe of St. Auguftine, in the: 
It is diftaat 18 miles from Can- 
fended from the violence of the waves by a long rampart of 
pebbles, which have been thrown up, by the fea. Th 
parifh is recorded in the domefday book under the name 
of Addelam. In the time of Henr 
king’s letters patent, configned, together hes Walmer, 
to the baleen of the Cinque Por at time it 
by a deputy and affitents, pace ae by the 
mode continued ull 
a concurrent jurifdiGion with the latter ; ; and the inhabit- 
ants of Deal are liable to ferve on juries at Sandwich. 
the time of Leland, this place did not rank as a town ; it 
was, according to that author, no more than a {mall 
Je fifher village, half a myle fro the fhore of the fea,” in- 
habited by a few perfons employed in fifhing, whofe houfes 
conftitute that part of the town called Upper Deal. What 
is 
