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government, thefe earls paid very little attention to its or- 
‘ders, and carried on Big pia ith the Orm 
and other chieftains. The 1 
k,& 
$5 in Botany, (decuos, @ chain, alluding to the 
chain- ee or rather beaded, form of the feed-vefle la,) a ge- 
nus founded by Loureiro, I. al ae 3.5% Clafs and order, 
Poband Polygynia. Nat. a, Jull. 
Eff. Ch. Calyx o  bitals fix, lanceo- 
numerous bead-like 
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which it has no affinity, nor fcarcely any refemblance ; 
he rightly indicates its relationfhip to Uvaria, Annona, &c. 
Malab. It o, which laft 
fhould feem to be Uw. varia jini ct anes It appears 
probable that the above plant of Aublet, which is a tree, and 
the two {pecies in Loureiro, both {mall fhrubs and very nearly 
akin to hese re may properly belong to the a Unona, 
Lion. Suppl. 44 & 270, the pet of which Webs in 
that cafe poe emendation ; or r perhaps the Uno. 
itfelf, along with - plants in aa ee. ought afeogetnest - 
be referred to Uvar 
ESNY, in Gaui. See Dez 
DESOJA, a town of Spain, in Pane To miles S. W. 
of Eftella. 
DESOLATION, Capz, the S. E. point of the bay of St. 
Barbara, ead ye ftraits of Magellan nor shone Hie fo ani 
by captain C d the 
and barren count he ever fawe Iti 13  Rtuated? in Sl ie 54° - a 
ong. 72° 12’, About four leagues to the eaft of this 
cape, isa tes inlet, at se entrance of whic 
o e ifland d, and fome others of lefs note 
e 
The mountains terminate in 
horrible precipices, whofe craggy fummits fpire up to a va 
height; fo that hardly any thing in nature can appear with 
ought to be'ong to the m del 
Fuego, and the latter to be iflands, fo iehy as apparently 
to forma ions 
EsSOLATION J/land, a name es 2 ils Cook in 
‘his se dace to Kerguelen’s-land, whic * 
EMESNE, word 
form, ufed in an action of trefpafs by one ofr ae to the de- 
Drs s, FRA 
illece a ‘couqad a in Champa 
iol 
. his matter. ; . did it 
<* de fon tort demefne, rae ce que C. luy commande modo et 
forma ;” that id it of his own hl without C.’s 
commanding him in fach a manner and for 
DESPAIR, is the thought of the “orattanablenel of 
any good, producing i in fome minds, and o ccafions, 
> cuneatinefs or pain ; on others ae and indo 
ESPAIR, In Geography, a bay on the fouth. weftern fide 
of the ifland of Newfoundland, adjoining to Fortune bay on 
the ce eaftwa 
ARS. or Dz Parti a ed a in Baer 
ae of Tournay, where he was wards the 
the fourteenth century, was in high pele ae as 
divine, and asa phyilician. He wasone of the canons, and 
treafurer to the church at Tournay. In aes he was fent 
by the univerfity at Paris, as one of the deputies to the 
os > eee He abe aie to the = a filver 
mac ar 1410, a 14553 , to be 
car na tele ile eta in onli ae a which the 
pape?) inftituted a mafs, to be aie annually on the 
Returning from 
14.533” fo that he employed twenty-one years on the work. 
The art of printing was divulged foon after the death of 
a “~ this work was ae nted in four volumes folio, 
14.98. 1504, his “ Gloffa interlinearis i in praGticam 
Alexandr” was printed in 4to, at Lyon a 
his works were printed in fucceffion. The} 
their time; but are now little noticed. “a their titles, fee 
Eloy. Di&. Hitt. 
DESPORTES, Joun Bartist, pe to the king 
of France, and correfpondent member of the Royal Academy 
of Sciences at Paris, was a native o ie a nae in Bre- 
tagne fter practifing fome years at Paris, he was ap- 
ari 
pointed phyfician to the ifland of Domingo, eicre he died, 
ee a refidence of about ten years, in 1748. He left an 
interefting and curious work, “ Hiftoire des Maladies de 
Saint vl tamow Bet oe was printed in the yea 
efide 
mingo, it erates defcriptions _ . the ees which 
the catiar found in the ifland. In this he has correéted 
feveral érrors in the accounts left by Plomicr ai Barrere 
and has added, where he could silane them, the names by 
e Caribbees; alfo a 
pharmacopoeia, giving the Pie < or Pilea of the plants. 
Eloy. - . ne 
$, an eminent painter, was born at the 
ne, inthe year 1661; 
and being a difciple of Nicafius Bernard, imitated his 
manner of painting. The fubje&s which he feleéted were 
flowers, infects, animals, and reprefentations of the chace, 
and thefe he defigned and coloured with much truth; his 
2 and the aerial perfpeétive 
hiefly employed in the fer- 
e of Lewis XIV. ; 3 and secoapanie the French embaf- 
fador, the duke d’Aumont, to London, where he was much 
encouraged. He died in 1743. Pitkington 
DESPOT, a title or quality given to the Gilaa. 
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