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when, being there fattened, the index AD muft be moved, 
“till its telefcope exactly a the fame point of the objedt; 
then the divifions on the arch ED, mark out the angle 
‘D , which will be saat, equal to nele B 
And the fide BA being already known, the dittance BO, 
or A may be eafily determined two different ways ; -viz 
uft, by fappofing r the trianvle BO A to be an ifofceles tri- 
;; by fuppofing the triangle ABO right- 
The accuracy of fuch an inflrument does, 
eaters paribus, much depend upon the length of the line 
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“ The conftruction of a fimilar inftrument, on -the prin- 
ciples of Fladley’s quadrant, for naval obfervations, would 
a doubtlefs be an acceptable objeé in navigation, by ena- 
the mariner to afcertain the -dittances of fhips, capes, 
aad other objects, at a fingle obfervation; and a perhaps 
with greater accuracy than can be done by any method now 
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“To bfery a on re this inftrument, it being 
previoully prope adjut ed, the eye is to be applied at the 
fight e {peculum E, <— the face turned towards the 
tee. mie the obje& being received on the aa . 
is refle eed into that at C, and again into that et E 
that at 3 on the ‘index ; the index being then moved a 
the refle ed Pyne in the fpeculum at 3, exactly coincides 
with the obje& in the tranfparent part of the glafs, 
"Then the divifions on the arch D3, fubdivided by the nonius, 
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diftance of O may be determined as before.” 
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meafu red at the Aatiea, where the obferver is fituated, and 
in the direGtion of a diftant object ; oa fize and diftance of 
that obje€& may be determined by the ule : a moft pale 
nt; namely, a telefcope Conihed « 
and thus trees pe other objets may be saecarea? in 
manner extremely anaes ‘and anne accurate 
The problems neceflar ry fi s purpofe, as given by 
Cavallo in the defcription OF a * Pelefcopical Mother-of. 
Pearl Micrometer,’’ will be found under the article Micro- 
METER 
DENDROPHORIA, formed fai — = $:pu, I 
ear, in Antiquity, the car rying trees, In 
ceremony, through a-city, at ae feta: and in shore of 
certain deities 
The dendrophoria was ah at aa pao of ie 
ehus, Cybele, and the god Sylva nobius, lib. 
i that performed i in pee facatiees of ae 
another of the gods. It confifted in carrying a pine in pro- 
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ceffion through the city ; which pine was afterwards planted 
ory of that under which Atys, the favourite of thts 
goddels, mutilated himfelf. ‘Phe branches of thie tree they, 
crowned, in memory of Cyhele’s doing the fame; and they 
covered its trank with wool, becaufe the goddels pare 
Atys’s breatt ae he fame matter. 
The perfons who performed ¢ 
tree were called oo 
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he office of carrying the 
e find mention made of a com- 
his notes to the life of Caracalla by yaaa ee oe be 
the general opinior of all the learned m his time; but 
affures us, that they were all miftaken, and that the dendro- 
ori of the army were the fame with ‘cise of the feafts and © 
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facrifices 
DENEB, an laine term, fignifying tail ; uted by aftro- 
nomers as a a denomination of feveral fixed ftar 
hus deneb elecet fignifies i bright ae in the Lion’s 
deneb adigege, that in the Swan’s tail, 
ENEB, or ALDENEB, sera in the Writing of the Ara- 
bian Phyficians, the name of t uifetum ae rfe-tail s 
there is, however, no gre ages: to be had on cline 
authors fay of this plant. 
ENEVE, in Geography, a a imall town of Franc in the 
department of Maine and Loire ; 9 miles 5. Es. 
DENEITER, a town of America, in the fhate of New 
— and county of Chenango, containing 3 310 ahaa 
NEUVRE, a {mall town of France, int t 
of aa Meurthe ; 3 miles S.E. of Baccarat, 12 miles 
S.E. of Luneville, It is eee on the river Mcurthe. 
DENEZ’E, a town of See in is ee peunet of the 
Maine and sires ; 8 miles of Sau 
DENFIEDLD, a tow oe America, in ae York, and 
county of ee containing 1039 inhabita 
DENGLING, at of Germany, in a Gree of Ba- 
varia, i cde Saltzburg ; 20 miles N.W. of 
Saltzb 
DENGUIN, a aa town of aes i0 = eal 
of the Lower : .3 auiles a {ea 
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Dublin in 1615; his father, fir John, being at the time . 
the fon’s birth, chief baron of the exchequer io Ireland, 
id not ce enjoy, as he sone to Eng 
he young man having laid = — 
of a learned education a a grammar-fchool, was, at the age 
of fixteen, entered a gentleman oo ner in Trinity i 
Oxford. Asa ftudent he did not by any means diftinzuith 
himfeif, but neverthelefs obtained his bachelor’s edtae and 
removed to Lincoln’s-Inn to fludy thelaw. At college he 
had acquired an ar as -propenity for Bamings whi in 
ondon rather eafed t nifhed. theory he 
ch oe man the “folly pa guilt of ie practice, 
but he was ftill a practical gameite 
his father, loft much of the apart ad devolved ta 
him by the folemn event. - the year con he commenced 
a oo career, and ee cmee out ae entitled ‘* The 
Sophy,’? whic ugh n orgotten, was well re. 
ceived on ‘ ftage, and cine in the lee ‘Ast a politi. 
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