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the 15th to the ait degies of ‘latitude, fae collefted mate- 
‘Yials for a greater quantity of new land. Within this new- 
‘formed land, and about mi¢-way between the Godavery and 
. Kiftnah, ‘lie foil forms a hollow fpace, which in its loweft 
-part is a lake at all feafons; and in all the other parts an ex- 
-tenfive inundation, during t the feaion of the periodical rains; 
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°L-PHANIL, in Ancient Geography, a town of the 
a aes placed by Steph. Byz. between Tacena and 
feffen 
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broadeft portion, which c 
afe of the pg from the fcapula _ clavicle Ge 
over the hea the rons, ‘and, y con- 
in ae place, by a mixture of tendino 
ane ton the whole length of the inferior mar- 
gin of the {pine of the fcapula; from the outer convex edge 
of the acromion ; 5 and from one-third of the anterior margin 
- of the clavicle; in that part which is towards the mde 
From thefe different points the fibres all defcend, and con 
verge to one infertion; the pofterior portion pafles very ob- 
liquely forwards, the iniddle of the arma is firft bent over 
the head ike the umerus, and then cends in a flraight 
d the anterior aah procceds ies backwards. 
courte ; 
ie eae takes place, a ft tendon, 
more vilibl inner than on the outer ee into a 
large pervaaiee| fituated on as external, and rather above 
the middle of the hum It extends cau an inch 
bifurcation of the brachialis internus. 
is covered on its external furface for the moft part by a 
‘fkin; but throughout a {maller portion, near its upper a 
‘anterior part, by the latiffimus colli. On the infide it is in 
& behind with the infra- {pinatus, tores minor, and the 
long head of the triceps near its origin; towards the middle, 
_ with the tendon of the fupra-fpinatus, the core ceanil 
eg ae the upper pe als 
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ced die it and the correfponding margin of the pec- 
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The are of the deltoid mufcle are arranged in large 
on the furface of the 
becomes an iee necefla ary he on account of the fri 
tion created by the numerous and extenfive moun of Ae 
os humert. 
This niufcle baie move the humerus or the feapula, ac- 
cording as the or the other of thefe parts is the mott 
moy veables The iatter mult in the ‘great majority of ins. 
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ftances be regarded as the fixed point. Suppofing the arm 
to hang by the fide of the body, the de ltoid will raife it ; 
ployed in the clevation. 
the clavicular fibres will carry it towards the ft 
the fcapular fibres towards tne back: the latter at the fam 
time deprefs the arm, if it has been carried upwards bey on 
the level of the {pine of the {capula. When the arm is 
drawn up from the fide in the mic direction between the 
anterior and pofterior, the elevation begins by the middle 
fibres of the deltoid, for the anterior and pofterior portions 
then acting together would draw the arm ft:ll clofer to the 
fide ; and either of thefe parts, being employed feparately, 
would incline the limb forwards or backwards. But, as the 
elevation proceeds, more and more of the fibres come into 
action ; until at laft the whole mufcle is employed. In ele- 
vating the arm, the deltoid is affifted by the fupra-fpinatus 
mufcle, which fee. When the humerus is fixed, the deltoid 
will draw the {capula towards that bone;-and, as the latter 
part is united by various mufcles to the trunk of the body, 
— eltoid will concur in moving the trunk upon the upper 
“DELTOIDEUM Fouium. See Lea 
DELTOTON, a asia aii the ae as 3 the Northern 
TRIANGLE, which fee 
DELUBRUM, in Roman Antiquity, a temple with a 
large [pace of confecrated ground round it. See Temexe. 
LVE, in Agriculture, a term fometimes employed to 
fignify to dig with a fpade. 
DELUGE, Dinvuvium, i in Natural Hiflory, a flood, or 
“inundation of water, covering the earth, either in the whole 
t with divers accounts of deluges in ancient hif- 
that which ha 
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lioneum, is famous: 
Its date is fixed tothe year before Chrift 1529, being the 
third year before the Ifraelites’ coming out of Egypt, accord- 
ing to the computation of Petavius, Rat. Temp. par. i. lib.i. 
cap. 7. or according to Blair’s Tables, about 1503 years 
B.C. e Devcation. 
The Pate of Ogyges happened about 269 years before 
hat of Deucalion, 1020 years before the firfk Olympiad, and 
1796 ata Jefus ie a to the fame ware 
cap. 4. ii, lib. ti. cap. 5. 
oe years B.C (See Ocycss.) This 
fad 
mp. par. 1. 
aceontns to Blair, 1 
only ravaged At 
Thefle two deluges Wa frequently mentioned, in ancient 
Greek authors, under the denomination of catacly{mus prior 
a pofterior. Devealion’ s flood in Theflaly, and alfo thofe 
Ozyges in Attica, and of Prometheus in Egypt, have 
‘teen thought the fame with that of Noah. 
Of the like kind were the deluge in Syria, which, in 1095, 
rowned.a ee number of people ; a de uge in Friel. 
land, which, in 1164, covered the whole environs of the coafts, 
and drowned fever thoufands : the inhabitants ; oe 
inundat whic ely ¥00,0C0 
dd tae in ne Nethetlands, w i 
and covered with fea all that par 
| Wetherlands ; 3 aa ad in 1421, all that part 
between Holland 
But the raokt memorable de eluge i is which we particu- 
larly, . by way of emincnce, cail the d yor the untiverfal 
deluge, or Noah’s eee recorded in oe as a general 
inundation ient by God to punifh the corruption of the 
worid, 
