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Deer ifland. | The foil is a rich black mould, fown with r rice 
from April till Oa There are many fruit-trees and 
a er i cole es - fugar-cane; but no-horfes, 
wild animals are the uger, (pan- 
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eee = re ies that is, ah 
bright black eoloury tail an who go tly 
naked, and are tattooed. They are Senter and 
harmlefs, and fond of excurfions on the river 3 ; there bei os 
Capellah. Like the reft of Africa, the country is not po 
pulous ; and Mr. White in bis “* Journal of a Voyage fro 
adras, *? 1800, 4to. fuppofes, that the inhabitants ier 
this large bay mav be from fix to ten thoufan 
DE LA FOND, in Biography, a fhallow conceited 
author of a treatife on mufic, publifhed in 1725, octavo, 
under the title of * A new Sylow of Mufic,”? in which he 
pretended 2 ent eed Rew Invent the art t, furnith it with new 
technica, orten its ftudy three-fourths of the time 
ufually plowed. on it teach a new and eafier 
method than any yet t known of oe ing and ath tho- 
rouch ee or, a3 he affsCtedty calis it, compound bafe 
AIRE, = mn the claimants to t | fom la of ace 
cons ae mufical fcale of eignt notes alcending, and 
gr commonly called by the French, ia regle 
Si in Geography a ee town of Abyflinia, 
fituated on the top of a e riv t Nile, | W. of the 
Jake of Dembea, in N. He i 1° aa i. kc ng. - €x- 
o N.N.E. and is more confiderable in 
It gives cane to 
the end of Osooer to aoe. m! ‘dale 
DE LA RCH, a weltera water of IMnois river, in 
the N. W. ere of America; 30 yards wide, and na- 
vigable eight or nine miles. 
ELAMATTENOOS 
with the D-laware 
DELANY, Patrice. in Biography, 2 ial Sea of con- 
fiderable celebrity in Ircland, was bora about the year 1686. 
nown where or under whom he ca ihe early 
but he finifhed his ftudies at ‘Primity 
ere he became dittinguifhed for learning, 
was elected feliow of his colicge. e obtained numerous 
pupils, and by seer omen Mr Delany eons a high repu- 
ation, He was the friend and affociate of Dr. Swift, and 
joined him an a ‘Dr. Sheridan in a varie icky of poetical ef- 
futio: ns, in which, howcver, he iadulgcd only in the hours 
of re axatic on from his ftudics. He cultivated the ta- 
iver, abn is pa viele foe 
of Ma 
an [ndian tribe, in alliance 
. per ann.cand alfo was Lanai 
of Chritt- hort which produced a fimilar inc 
afterwards appointed prebend of St. Patrick's eda fat 
he had previoufly relinquithed the advantages and emoluments 
Lili 
chancellor 
Hew 
arificg trom his f<llowthip, fo that. his income was itil very 
DEL 
limited. In 1729 he commenced the ie aaomeaie ofa periodical 
ork 
piper, called ‘* The Tribune,” which w: ork of merit, 
but not ey adapted to the taite * the | public to oa 
come popular orlong-lived. In1731 Dr 
don an introduCtory lett terstoDi, pig hae of Londont 
he fubmitted to his lordihip’s jud 
entitled « Revelation examised a Can 
aude rards pubiithed, with the 
evate. 
Pp iffed through three editions. It con fits of a variety of differ- 
sled on fuoje ea deemed at that period of confiderable im- 
por e, but whic ae fince, orat ee many of them, been: 
very ee attended t uring our author’s abfence from 
ublin he married an irith widow ne of epiedenhe fortune, 
by which he was enabled to indulge his ai rani and 
to live in a ftyie of hofpitality, to which r narrow 
means were pears unequal. This ice. however | in afters - 
7 was the ocealion of much trouble, and expenfive law and 
_ 
{uit 
of the doftor’s fortune and 
attacked, mut for feveral years have bee 
uneafinefs, In the Bi lon 
teretting account of the difpute drawn from tothemic legal 
ources. In 1738 Dr. Delany gave to the world one of the 
belt, if not baa very belt, of hts productions ; ; It was ncn 
* Retleétio 
is rea‘oning very conclulive. There lave, however, we appre 
hend, t eea very few tA i 
been ad rary op 
fubjec was of lefs oredical importance ma was fuppofed by 
the dodtor and his adherents. Dr. Delany’s next poblicaton 
was ** An hiltorical Accouut of the Life oe Rei of David, 
ing of Ifracl,”? which, by the candid and ieee was 
confidered as too m much of an eulogy on a ie eae which, 
in fome refpe&s, is expofed to t cr ty of ani- 
madverfion. (See ea \ D.. Deiany, ys having | o't his wife, 
marricd a fecond time a lady of pee sat and fil in paint- 
‘Yo this ae Dr. Ki ppis has 
mode of exercifiag ber i igenity - the conftruétion a 
Flora of a moft finguiar kind, formed by applying c d 
papers tage seh It confited fre ay 1005 ‘aie cases, 
with Daun ralieled precificn aod truth. In the year 1744 
ny publifhed a volumeof «Sermons os Dae ” 
ar nd i in another ieee wore ade dé nons on the oppofite 
Vices.” Inthe fame year he was ei with the deanery 
a Down, cu cute lly i srough the re commendati iou of the whiza, 
ord . 
iy’. and Writings of Dr. (oastian 
Swift, ‘ontaing cee rae Anecdotes relating to the 
Caarafter and Condu& of that great Genius, and the mot 
ie iene celebrated Stella’? Tne chief objet of this ae 
was to — the dean from fome mifreprefentations con- 
tained in the e lord’s iiideriae in which t 
a 
al fu 
merit. he ablihed 
of his « aa eames with Candour:” and in 1766 
angther 
