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tyrite purfued the crocodile into the water, overtook him, 
d ran a ftick into his mouth, wich 
tails of two fifhes. The | 
enormous columns, which a pe es ect in circum mfer erence. 
Their capitals are of a fingle piecc, and reprefent heads or 
broad faces placed oppofite to each other, upon a fef- 
n 
‘The interior of the Soldne is divided into feveral apart- 
ments walls of which are covered with hieroglyphics 
The exterior walls are alfo charged 
feveral ee 
are pee ae (dogsheade) or other 
pad 
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uman form appendages affimilating cae to ariel 
“The flowers ‘are probly thofe of the lotus, or water-lily, a 
plant which was famous in Egypt, asa proof of the necef» 
‘far see jena of the Nile, and as one ofthe moft common 
articles of fubfiltence of the inhabitants. ‘The figure of Ofi- 
ris or Ifis has the head of a {parrow-hawk ; but it is impof- 
fible to determine whether it be a man or a woman 
head-drefs is compofed of the fun’s difk and the lunar 
agciog. 3 it holds in one hand the shaw, or handled crofs, and 
re capped with a aaa n of the fruit of 
se the plants moft 
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kings of Syria and Babylon ae i e the fleur-de-lis 
at the end of their fceptre. The g of part of this 
aemple i 18 painted i in frefco, of the Paes azure blue colour, 
recently cae 
We have daly obferved, that the facade of this temple 
is more than 132 feet inlength. The depth of the a 
of the 
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two party-walls. 
aa 6 broad. Such is the rae aan ace 
chat has taken place io Egypt with regard to the arts, which 
aad their birth bere, and which had arrived at a high degree 
DEN 
of ganas that a number of figures et difappeared in 
this wonderful m ean ae s of 
othe 
arts, in general ; and, in particular, to re prefentations of ante 
mated nature. Allthe figures, within their reach, are ina 
ae meafure deftroyed, Several Greek and Roman capa 
ruins of Ten ntyris. 
tions made by Mr. Broce. the latitude of Dendera is deters 
mined to be 26° 10’, Sonnini’s Travels in Upper and 
Lower Epypt. 
DENDERMOND, Dermonpe, Yenermonde, Tenera- 
munda, but at prefent gerierally called Termonde, is a town of 
France, inthe department 7. the Scheldt (Efcaut), at the con- 
fluence of me river Scheldt and Dender, which traverfes the 
town; 18 oe of haces. 18 miles W. of Ma mile and 
18 miles N. W. of Bruffels. lat. e mond is. 
well Fortified. its environs can eafily be laid _ eae er, and 
fome works which e lately been added, er it ver 
ttrong, and pacicdlei important in time of war rt facilitate 
of to impede the communication between Gand and An- 
twerp. it is the chief place of a diftri& of the fame name, 
and counts 5028 inhabitants. Its canton has an extent of 
90 kiliometres, 11 communes, and a population of 18875 
individuals. The whole diftri@ contains 11 cantons, 73 
communes, 180,576 corm and a territorial extent of 
892 kiliometres and a oil is uncommonly fertile, 
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producing all forts of oa elds he oP and flax. It has 
excellent paftures, and is remarkable fo oh Ses es ie 
DENDRANATOMY, from Yodpor tr 
LTO py 
anatomy, a term ufed by Malpighi, ando ee hs pee the 
diffe€tion of the ligtteous parts of trees and fhrubs, in order 
to the examination of their ftruGure and ufes. Galen has 
ufed the fame word, and taken fome pains to difcover fome 
of the fubjects of thefe refearches. ‘There is a very remark- 
able analogy between the parts of fome trees, and thofe of 
peculiar parts of animal bodies; and Malpighi bas, with 
ale aan ufed the comparative a of trees, to exe 
plain, by the formation of the galls, and other ia edea 
tumors on them, t oe and other unnatural fle ve 
crefcences on animal 
DRITES, Pe ance. This » derived 
from dedeuv, atree, is applied to thofe cryfalizatons of ae 
and other bodies that aflume a ramified The 
he work se forms on aa hae 
er. Salammoniac and n 
alfo be made to depofit fe of geet ‘beauty by aie 
a few drops of a watery folution of e {urface of a 
=i of glafs, and allowing it to dry a 
Of the mineral fubftances, thofe the nee liable to this 
kind of cryftallization, are native copper, filver, and gold, 
and the mixed oxyds of iron and manganefe. The latter 
forms thofe extremely delicate blackifh brown {prigs refem~- 
bling mofs, and the {maller kinds of fea-weed by which the 
furface of many kinds of marble is variegated, and which, 
when imbedded in aa ae cha reat form thofe pretty 
pebbles‘called Mochoa fton e rgupiiis by the 
ey are ch called not bee they come from 
iC n Arabia, Aes from a oonueaan of 
the German term at ig ofs.fton 
DENDROBIUM, in Botany, (from dwdpoy, atreg, and Gros, 
life} 
