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7 his portrait of Hugo Grotius, dated 1662; and ee 
neat and much more finifhed manner, as we find, 
‘Sra, in the admirable portrait of Michael Miravele, rack 
a picture of Vandyck. He ufually figied his name at 
den gth, and fometimes fubftituted the letters G. V co) 
) and 2 D. It ne 
2 
ay 
Dz, 
3 not appear 
n ie nd yet he engraved feveral 
-Enghfh portraits, as Charles 7 of En gland, Henrietta Ma- 
ria, “his qu ueen, George Villars, duke Be Bu uckingham, & &e. 
and ftyles himfelf the king’s engraver. He died in 1661, 
‘Pilkington and Stratt,. 
bale in Latin Delphi, in Geography, a confiderable 
‘and handfome town of the kingdom of Holland, in the de- 
patna of the Maefe, or Meute, on theriver Schie between 
? 
Tt has 25,;002° inh abi tants, is nearly two miles in 
-eiveum:! erence, and detended again by three 
dams or dikes. cious canale 
wn 
Leal . 
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ea publi 
an republic, who was balely 
-affaflinated in 1584; and in another church a marbie manu- 
anent erected to the memory of ca Tro 
— owes its origin to Godfrey the Fioncibeee duke . 
er Lorraine, who built a caitfe here in 1071, but iti 
eae remarkable for 
arthen ware is known in commerce by the 
AND, was ae that portion or diftri& 
sof the jae nt ef th aefe, in Holland, in which 
aefe, onthe mouth of the river Macle, 6 miles 
Delft, with which it is oor by a handfome eau 
-is in faG@ the harbour o 
DELFZYL, a {mall town of the kingdom of Holland, 
-in the department of Groeningen, with a caftle near the 
‘mouth of the river Eems at its a with the Fivel, or 
° 
“Tt 
Damfter Diep, 3 miles N. of Dam, 18 mile . of 
oe and 12 S.W. of Emden. N. lat. 53°. 18%. 
6° 20 
EE. long. 
E ADO, ‘Capz,a a on the cof coaft of Africa, 
‘in the Indian fea. .S. lat eng. 40°.—Alfo, a 
eapeion the eaft coaft of Africa, in the Toate fea. N. i 
“y? cee I. long. 50°. 15’. 
LGOV ITIA, in Ancient bale a il place of ene 
aa in : ter 
vigantes, 
merally placed by antiquarians at Wighton, or at Godman 
cham, a village about half a mile from it. 
' DELHI, orem, piecide der: foubaks, or provinces, 
.into which Acbar, during-his long reign inthe rath century, 
divided Hindooftan Proper; to which four more were after- 
wardsaddec. It was formerly akingdom or empire of confiders 
-able extent, containing {everal provinces or circars, and 
many cities and towns; aving been the feat 
continual wars for mo and encroached 
uced into a 
fo} 
vn 
3 ndaries have been flu@uat 
ee prea as well as nee limited. The country 
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is almof depspvlated, and moft ] sy ee are oe walte; 
ha wretched ae tanis not da more than 
the ere province of See ad ban up eny 
degree of nlation ; and rr endered the fov 
moft miferable of inhabitants; {uch is the dire 
effet of ie annie of their fuperiors, and fo dearly do 
mankind pay for it ; who, mifcalculating their powers, think 
they can govern as much as they can a he on 
Sadi) remaining to eg tribe of Timur or Tamerlane is a 
spines 
. 
,or Dehli, the chief town of the fore-mentioned 
: once a celebrated city, the capital of Muff 
man fovercignty in Hindocftan, and in more early times, Ge 
feat of Hindoo dominion over northern India. We firt hear 
of it, as the capital of Hindooftan, sah i year 1200 and 
it 13 faid to have been hae b 
e Indus; and foon after his arm proceeded in pane 
divifions to Delhi, which fae without what 
pro pny termed a battle 
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coft above 50 lacks ot rnpees, or 625,00 t this time 
the yearly revenue of Delhi amounted to 100 krores 
~ dams, or (reckoning each dam at the goth part of a rupees 
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