DER 
‘leagues and on — inland. It is yeas inhabited by 
wandering the amount of 3 eae Ae 
Pay a {mall trite . the bey of ‘Pripo i It i 
" every where ith a kind of plant or ene. ak 
: ‘api a jae leaf, a) a yellow flower that blows the great- 
eft part of the year. The bees chiefly feed upon ae ee 
which gives an excellent taite to their honey. ‘N. lat. 32° 
55. E, 
; DERNETAL: ion iaig es 
DERNIER eee in Law e Ressor 
Whatever power is committed “the a to any ach . 
‘the dernier reffort is ftill remaining in himfelf; fo that he 
may fit in court and take cognizance of all caufes: ex- 
“cept in treafons, and other cafes, where he himfelf is a 
party. 
. DERNIS, or eet in Coen) a town and for- 
~trefs of Dalmatia, fituat a ntain near the river 
Kerka, taken from the Turks ‘by ie Venetian in the year 
1684. 
DEROGATION, from derogo, an act eonteiy to the 
ceding one, that annuls, detroys, and revokes it, oe 
pre 
either in seca 
* Derogations, in a general terms, are not ds Span in judi- 
cature ; ve mutt be in fpeeific, and in formal t 
‘A new law imports a Seri ofa former one: 
> teftament is a derogation of a fir 
. DEROGATORY, a claufe importi ng eae eis io 
’ By the French Jaw, if a perfon own himfelf iced ina 
certain fum ; notwithitanding any quittance he has obtained 
“for the fame, the a& is derogatory. 
DE 
a " fecond 
E, in Geography, a town of Egypt, . in - 
“an rand forme by the aia Cairo and Rofett 
N. lat. 30° go’. E. long. 31° 
“DERPT. 
See Dorpart. 
f 
RRA, a town of Arabia, in the country of Yemen ; 46 
DE 
“miles S.E. of wee 
{RI 1, in Ancient Geography, 
“place of che Peloponneis, i in ae which gave name to 
the temple of Diana Derrheatis, Steph. Byz. It was 
fituated on mount "Taygatea, | in the vicinity of the town of 
nue according to Paufanias. It had a ftatue of 
—Alfo, a town of Macedonia, onthe Thermzan gulf, 
iny. 
DERRHE, a people S aa ay 
DERRHIMA, a town of Afia, in 
need a pneu of Abies, in Meco 
~ See 
; pene oe in Ship. Rigging, a jacks ufed at the outer 
qua of a mizen-yard, conlilting of a double and fingle 
Hock, “conneéted by a fall: alfo, a diagona eect a fup- 
oo my. 
“hangs~a tackle over the pen the heel working in a 
‘fockct of wood, faftened on the 
‘ DERRIK, in Geography. a on ‘of Perfia, in .the pro- 
vince of Ghilan, 150 miles-N.W. of Refhd. 
raenene in Botany, (Seppis, a fkin, from 
nous leg me,) Loureiro Cochinch. 432. Clafs and amen 
Diadelphia Becandria Nat. Ord. Pupilionacee, Linn. Le- 
suming) a; 
h. Cal. Perianth tubular, coloured, its border 
ee wih five notches. Cor. papifionaceous; petal 
nearly equal in ern ftandard ovate3 wings o sions: keel 
“Junate ; all falcate at the bafe, ae flanding on fiender 
‘claws. Stam. eon ro, all c Tae into a fheath, 
“equal, fhort ; ant of two meena 
even compreted *fhyle equal to the Gon. 
the membra 
ftigma 
o ? and the lips 
Lea ave 
ee 
Nicholfon, he chee of the hiftorical libraries of Parise: 
Se 
-in 1751, and containing 557 inhabitants; 42 mi 
vince of oo. 
Db 
tan; 120 miles E. N 
R 
Lombards 
R 
four, - 
Pift, Germen - 
department. of the Lower Loire, near Chateaubriant, a 
DER 
fimple. Perie. Legume oblong, obtufe, remarkably com- 
prefled, membranous, {mooth. Seed one, oblong, flat. 
Eff. Ch. Cal. with five notches, iced "Petals with 
— thaped claws. 
. D. pinnata. “ Climbing. Leaves pinnate. Stalks 
eee cea late sa ur. Aclimbing fhrub found 
int ds of Cochinchina. Stem long, much branched, 
a. 
without de ng. eee alternately pinnate, of numerous {mall 
s, which are ovate-oblong, {quare at the bafe, {mooth, 
Flowers white. The root is red and flefhy, and 
ps 
8 ternate. 
is called San ledo tau. 
without slau nae "E hae a wing fub 
root. ternate, eolate, entire, fae atk 
ere in cee axillary fen a white calyx, as well as 
Germen with the rudiments of two or three feeds 
DERRY. See oo 
Derry. The nam 
etals. 
fh bifhopric in nee pro- 
vince of sal etree in the II 58 
and was firft ca ahs Te reateft per is - and 
its greateit breadth 43 Irifh miles, including the greateft 
f Londonderry, with a part of Donegal and T'yrone. 
The'bifhop’s patronage is confiderable, and his revenue is 
the greatett, 8 primacy, being faid to exceed ge of, 
ann. 1ofe who have filled the fce was Dr, 
Ireland, a prelate of great erudition. “The 
s, which are divided inte 
sotland, and 
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a 
aa 
ad 
a 
mo 
“ 
oO 
Ww 
s 
parifh churches and os 
one entirely without glebe. 
Derry, a townlh of America, in . Pennfylvania, i in the 
county of Dauphin,on the E. fide of Swetara creek, two miles 
above its eouPuencé with the neuer a or its 
in} {o, ow 
] pe “boule, whilft there is only 
Beaufor 
land, containing 15 
county of Wellmorcland, containing 7993 inhabitants. 
ERRY, Dery, efry, a river oO rth eae which 
runs into the ocean near Dolgelly, in Merionethiie 
-DERRYFIELD, a eae of America, in 
New 
Hamphhire, on the E. bank of Merrimack river, a ae 
Portfmouth. 
oe in Ancient Geography, a people of Thrace, N. 
of Abder 
DERSENA, in AE a town of oo in.the pro= 
n; 228 miles S$. Ww. of Z eng. 
THA, a sh of Perf in es prance of Segef- 
. &. of Zareng 
DERTONA, or Zor A, in Ancient Geography, a 
town of Italy, hen potion of by Alboin, king of the 
, in the. 3790 
A, oe To ORTORA, a town.of Hither Spain, 
fituated at a {mall diftance from the mouth of the Iberug. 
It was acolony,.and made municipal-by Scipio. It was.un- 
der the protection of 
L, in Geograph by, afmall town of France, in the 
