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another volume of difconrfes and differtations made r 
avpearance. “This was the laf work publithec 
DPeianv: we have uot, however, enumerated all bis nes 
lications ; many fingle fermons oy fmali tra&ts do not a; ppear 
to command feparate notice. The doG@or died at Bath, in 
the month of May 1768, in the en year of hisage. Asa 
writer he poffefied refpeStab! e ta! nts, which he ee in 
is p! tety and berevo- 
; but the warmth of his temper was 
metim ertain portion of irritabitiz 
and impetnol ty. hes excelled bien incharity, and hofpitality. 
. is i whi on during the left meee years of his life, 
as ae ay per ann., funk under the exercife of thefe vircues, 
and he left ii, behin id = but his books and furniture. 
abfent man, in prosf of which 
ee wit 
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ppointed to preach before t 
and not knowing the ufual etiquette of the bafinels, 2 ens 
tered the royal chapel after fervice was commenced; not know. 
ang the place appropriated to the 
the def by the reader. The 
tions went and pulled him b ae fleeve, but th 
grined at. being interrupted during the olewnity ct pegs 
refilted the intruder, who in vain be egged him to come out ; 
and faid, * There was no text:” the doétor faid he had a 
text, and it was fome time before he could be brought tou 
derftand that the text muft be written out for the eee 
Biog. Brit. 
DELARAM, in Geography, a town of Perlis in the pro- 
vince of Segiltan ; 90 miles N. E. of Zareng. 
D S, a river of Wales, in the county of Brecknock, 
_ runs into the Yrvon, five miles S. W. of Bealth. 
or Silla, Diala, ia Ancient Geogra; by, a river of 
Afia, it in Perla to the lett of the Tigris, into which it dif- 
charges itfelf, after having watered the towns of Apollonia, 
Aitargeda, &c. in flowing fromits fource in mount Zagrus. 
DE LA WAR, a town of America, in the ftate of Vir- 
King Wiliiam’s county, fituated on the broad 
f the Pamunky and 
m here affumes the name of 
The town lies 20 miles N. by W. of Witiamf- 
ginia, and 
pony. 
York-river. 
w ARE, one wee United States of N. Amer 
fituated between 38° 29! 30”, and 39° 54’ N. mane a 
between 75° and 75° 48! sw. oie being 92 miles in length 
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24 mules in breadth, and containing 2000 f{quare miles, 
fta 
or 1,209,090 acres. This ftate is bounded E. by the river 
and bay of the fame name, the Atlantic ocean ;-on the 
a line from Fenewick’s ifland, in N. lat. 38° 29’ pm 
drawn weft till it interfe€ts what is commonly called the 
tangent line, dividing it from the ftate of eae on the 
WwW. by the faid tangent line, pafling northward t up the penin- 
fula, till it touches the weitern part of the alloc circle ; 
and thence on the N. by the faid circle, defcribe ata- 
o ncattle, ae divides 
rived its name from Lord 
De La wee was infromental in eftablithiny the firft 
fettlement “ot Virginia. i 
three counties, Viz. New 
ae an ewes, 
ftate is indented with numerous creeks, or rivers. ue aoe 
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oe 
wheat, and potatoes, and various kin 
- the January f{effion 1796 pafled an 
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frag, and Bohemia rive-s, all of which fall into Chefa. 
peak bay, and {cme are navigable for 20 or 70 miles into the 
country by veffels of 50 or 60 tons re ting the upper 
part of the county of a this flate is, eaeaily {pe eak- 
ing, low and level, unds at particular a eel of the 
year with ace at ae which renders it unfit 
pofes of agricu ee and 
tunts. 
throgwh a ate - Delaw 
aa fide. It is Cefignated in Suffe 
f Neweaftle, counties br a : 
on a tbe waters defcerd on eac 
¥ e Delaware, and on th to the CleGpeale 
Sen ee dirg the fwamps already mentio ned, Delaware 
i3 an agricultural Rate; including a fertile tra& of eee 
which yields a varizty of ufcful ey Alon 
Delaware, and eisht or ten miles into the Asati 
country, the foi! is general ly a rich clay. Thence to the 
{warps above mentioned, it is light, fandy, and cf an inferior 
quality. 
the bills of Brandywine are rough aad ftony ; but with ade 
and fome few other Daa air the lower country form 
almott one extended pia In the county of Newcaftle ie 
foil is a ftrong clay ; in Kent it has a confiderable a e 
of fand ; and | in Suffix the fand predominates. Whea 
the beft “quality i is erage in this ftate, and it is muc 
va'ued and fought for, not only through ‘the States of the 
Union, but in abtne markets, hace wheat, which yields 
the beft fuperfine flower, this ftate generally produces 
plentiful crops of Indian corn, barley, rye, oats, flax, buck- 
ds of fruit in great per- 
It abounds in natural and artificial meadows con- 
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feétion. 
or Cyprefs fwamp, lying partly in this flate, and partly in 
the ftate of Maryland. This morafs extends fix miles from 
E. to W., and ay twelve from N. 
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area of nearly 0,000 acres of land. It contains a great va- 
riety of plants, trees, wild beatts, birds, and repti Al- 
moft the whole of the foreign exports of Delaware are fro 
Wilmington; the trade from this ftate to Phil Sie is 
&c. to a eet conf dcrble amount, 
are annuall ly fent from the waters of the Delaware ftate; of: 
which the Chrilliana is much the moft produétive, and pro~ 
= y much more fo than any other creek or river of like 
gnitude in the Union; 245,000 barrels of flour, and 
ae articles to the amount of 80,002dollars,or more, being 
red on its northern bank, within two or 
three miles of the ayn. Among o ther branches of 
indultry exercifed in or near Wilmingten, are a cotton maa 
nufactory, and a bolting-cloth manufactory, both ef which 
promife to be of lafting benefit to the country. In th 
county of Newcaftie are {everal fulliog mills, two {nuff mills, 
a flitting mill, four paper 
of {chools throughout the flate. T 
snanufacture of flour is oa unto great perecHion in 
“Lz flat 
About Chrifiana the heights are lofty ; fome of 
