DEN 
intertourfe with the natives, who exchanged a few dry fith 
for fuch trifles as they could procure; but they were mott 
defirous of knives, and had no diflike of tobacco. Lieutenant 
Gore, who was fent to examine the peninfula, found there 
was little frefh vad and that the wood. was difficult to be 
obtained, as the boats grounded at fome diftance from the 
coat. To the.fouthward of cape Denbigh, was an ifland 
named & Befborough ifland,” S. 52° E., 15 leazuss diftant. 
The adjacent country, where there was no wood, was cover- 
ed with heath and other plants, fome of which produced 
abundance of berries. The underwood, fuch as birch, wil- 
rendered it eroublelome walking amongft 
the trees, which were all{pruce, and none of them, above 
or 8 inches in diameter. All the drift-wood in thefe northern, 
parts was fir. The natives in their fize,and features refembled 
thofe whom the voyagers had met with on every other part of 
beat upon a kind of drun, and another made a thoufand antic 
motions with his hands and body; but there was nothing 
favage either in the fong, or in the geftures that accompanied 
it. Their clothing confifted Saaepally of deer-fkins ; and 
they obferved the cuftom of boring their under lips, and fix- 
ing ornaments to them. Their habitations, { feated clofe to the 
beach, confilted fimply of a floping roof, without any fide 
walls, compofed of logs, and covered with grafs and earth. 
The entrance was at one end; the fire-place juft ye its 
and a {mall hole near the door let out the {moke. ough 
they had fome beads, the article which they feemed aay 
to value was iron; and for four knives made out of an old 
iron hoop, they gave 400 pounds weight of fifh, fome being 
tafte between a muilet and 
ries, hurtle-berries, partridge-berries, an € 
"The low land conne@ting this peninfula with the continent 
was full of creeks, ae abounded with ponds of water, fome 
‘ef which in the month of September were frozen over. 
Here were a great ane geefe and buftards, fome rae and 
on the high ground partridges of two forts. In the woo 
This Sela ‘feemed to 
of the fea having flowed over the ilthmus, and i appeared to 
be kept cut by a bank of fand, ftones, and wood, thrown up 
Cook’s Third Voyage, vol. i. p. 485. See 
DENBIGHSHIRE, a county of North Wales, is 
weft by Caernarvonfhire; on the nort 
Funthhire, Chefhire, and 
gomery fhire. 
and extends from north-north-weft to fouth- eaft about thirty- 
unty. 
report réfpeting Denbizhhhire, itates, ce it contai 
410,000 acres of land, the greater part of which jis eugael 
and mountainous, but the lower grounds being inclofed, an 
in general well wooded, with a 
valieys interfperfed, confiderably foften its appearance. The 
tween this county ad Caernarvonfhire. All the country 
about Wrexham ° (the moft populous, and large& town in 
ane of a very fertile plain, about 242 m 
ty of very rich . 
DEN 
North Wales, lying on the eattern parts of this pra is 
beautifully Nadas aioe hirk caftle, the feat of Mr. 
dleton, within twelve miles from — is iets 
fituated on a rifing g 
tions ; be fide 73a ae number 0 F other 
all of which are en sca with fine 8. 
of the Dee allord aecll ent pafture and hay. 
tenfive valley in this county is the.celebrated vale of Clwyd, 
in which area number cf towns, villages, and gentlemen’s 
{rats Itis above twenty miles in length, and from three to 
eight miles in breadth, according to the approach or recefs 
of the mountains, with ‘which i it is guarded on all fides ope 
on the north. -This vale is in general in a high {tate of cul- 
tivation ; though the a ee parts are more barren, except 
on the fea coaft. The crops principally cultivated are vines 
oats, ae y» and peas, with red and white clover, and r 
Denbighfhire sean 
60 were returned as bein 
d 21,104 in agriculture, 
is the principal object of manufafture of the county, and is 
wrought into cloths of different qualities, and alfo into fo. 
ings, een “Called Angola hofe. Near the village 
of a cry for cannon, and alfo fome iron forges. 
banks of the Dee, i 
fhire. ep nie aa two members to a laenent : 
one for the co aan and one for the county-town. It lies parte 
ly in the diocefe of St. Afaph, and partly in that of Bango 
“* Kay’s General View of the Agriculture of North Wales.’ 
«© Evans’s Cambrian Itenerary.’ 
DENCHE’, Dencuza, or Endenché, in Heraldry. See 
Dancue’ 
NDER, i in Gas aey a river of Flanders, which runs 
into'the Scheldt at Dendermond. 
DENDERA, the ance Tentyris or Tentyra, atown or 
my village of Egypt, built near the ruins of the ancient city 
a fhort diftance from the weft bank of the Nile, at the ex- 
miles S. of Cairo, 
and 48 S.S.E. of Girgé. The furrounding avis which 
aa at excellent oranges, lemons, pomegranates, grapes 
figs, render it a charming place, and afford a delightful 
cee in a mae country. A foreft of palms and 
fruit-trees, mention y the ancients, ftill exifts in its envi- 
rons, and furnifhes cite greatelt part of the charcoal that is 
Arabic prince, with the title of 
brated city of Egypt, and gave its name to the nome Ten- 
ich it was the capital, is little more than a 
.to - of thofe ee But what saan this place 
Smee seed remarkable: was;. Mage which the in« 
-habitants rm to crocodiles the continual war 
wom > 
which they waged againkt thofe Gicaus reptiles, The a 
