DER 
in convents, are in a manner of the religious order, and live 
retired; though 
nvents. Some t 
and yet live with their families, and ace ert 
this kind are the dancing Dervifes at Damatcus, who go 
once or twice a-week to a little uninhabited convent, and 
perform their pale uee) exercifes; thefe alfo feem to be 
a good people: but there is a third fort of them who travel 
about the eee. and beg, or rather oblige ee to a 
for whenever they found their ee fomething muft be giv 
them. ear an 
at their 
ty ps 
fEY, in Ancient aie , a people of Afia in 
the Perfide, according to Her Their fit — is not 
ar alcertained. Some ie place them to the 
north of the Perfian gulf, between the river Tigris to the 
welt, and the Choafpes to the ea 
ERUYTER, in Geography, a poft-town of America, 
in Chenango county, and ftate of “ce York, S. of Cazenovia 
adjoining. It has 310 inhabitan 
DERWENT, a river in Cumberland, England, has its 
ag th Borrow. 
dale, and after pou ring ite foaming ftream over various pre- 
cipices, its current is e arged by feveral fifter branches at 
the bottom of that ae chafm through which it is 
thed from rock to rock, till it flows into the Derwent lake. 
At the foot of this beautiful expanfe of water, it unites with 
t affumes a wefterly direGtion, and flows through a narrow 
wale to Cockermouth, whence, being ined by the waters of 
the Cocker, pales through a more open country to the fea, 
at Workingt The whole. sn of this river affords 
h flow from the 
waters of the Wye. 
nie car vale of Darley, till their channel i 
gulphed between thofe lofty rocks, which in ee winding 
receffes inclofe the romantic eee) of Matlock Dale. 
“¢ Here the High Tor 
Rears its mighty head, slong ome broad bold bafe_ 
Impatient Derwent foams, amo gs 
Roaring impetuous, till hie rane all loft, 
Gentle and ftill, a deep and — ftream, ; 
Fle fcarcely feems to move: o’er him the boughs 
Bend their green nee ‘hivering with the bee 
And dip into his furfac 
Emerging through a high portal of rocks at Cromford, 
the ftream then flows through feveral aud vallies, till entering 
the cultivated vale which a erby, it turns to the 
eaft, and flows i i fs Trent ont in Leloetterthire = 
near Wilne. mper anise of the water of the went 
iz abferved to be higher than that of mot rivers, a icine 
DES 
ftance which is afcribed to the numerous warm fprings that 
x 
This river was ee from the Trent at Wilden Ferry 
to the town of Derby; buton the completion of the Derby 
canal, which opens two other water eee with the 
Trent river, the property in this concern was purchafed 
by the ce ng eh and the river + navigation difcontinued. 
(See C of ite, 
acrofs this ie a“ L ofa aiile 
ma for 4 
oe Brack, for Feeding the fouthern part of the Derby 
anal, independent of the De rwent river, alt hough the canal 
jnterfeets the fame, and barges can proceed up the eourfe of 
the river to Darle 
RWENT Ras in Yorkhhire: this river is navigable 
from its efflux into the York Oafe river, at Barnby, to the 
town of New Malton, a diftance . = 37m miles : i 
navigation, about 40,500 tons of co ly carr 
to New Malton, of which more ee 20,000 tons. are for 
urning lime ee the lower beds of the chalk ftrata of Hur. . 
lock; earl Fitzwilliam’s extenfive brick-kilns near this town 
alfo confume confiderable sag a of coal, 
a a river IEMEN’S bee 
Der ells, a mou a of England, in ne cou 
Cumberland, celebrated for its mines Gf black lead, a littl to 
the fouth or Ke fwick. 
v Water, a lake of England, in the county of 
Cumberland, a by the river Derwent, about four miles 
ng, and rat ore than one wide, including feveral {mall 
iflands, one of ‘which j is called De rwent ; the northern part of 
the la kei ae near Kefwick. 
DERXENA, in yer gens a country of Afia, 
in ene towards the fources of the Eu uphrates : it is 
called Xerxena by Strabo and Steph. Bys 
DER 
or Dericx, Perer Cornenius, in Bion 
graphy, a painter of portraits, Nesaanes and cattle, was born 
at Delft in 1568, and was a‘difciple of Hubert Jacobs. In 
Italy, whither he went for farther improvement, he ftudied 
the ftyles of the moft eminent a and at laft fixed on 
Tn copyi 
3 
n 
animals, w oduced in his compefitions. f. 
tinguithing excellence confifted in hie imitation of the ftyle, 
manner, and tint of colouring of Baflan; which was fo 
perfe&t that even good judges are often deceived by fome of 
the pictures of Peak ae ae in 1630. Pi 
DESAG DERO, ery) riv 
the province of Chase, Gale 
kind of bay towards the S. part of ie lake 
over which is ftill remaining the bridge of rufhes ene 
fth Inca, for tranfporting his 
nimals, hic he pe 
the 
o of thefe pene oa, laid a rofs the ae, fafcines of 
lies were faftened together a laid acrofs them a 
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