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sperfons make 4 permanent fettlement. ae ape of 
"two parifhes, and achapelry: and is provided w 
churches and one chapel, belonging to i eiablithed religion. 
Befides thefe there are four mecting-hou 
pi eerean of Devizes, and Jofeph Allen. were natives of 
t 
~. About two miles north-eaft of Devizes is Roundway-hill, 
on the fummit of which is a large entrenchment, which 
comprehends an area of deo 140 yards, 120 yards, 
North-eaft of this is another oe eae work fortrefs, called 
Oldbury caftle. Between thefe area very confiderable val. 
um and ditch, 
the eait, and is known by the 
ticinity of Devizes is Nea a a 5 eneicee feat, belong- 
o Mrs. Sutton: = Stoke park, ae ee of ie 
Beitr, efq. e latter houfe is modious and 
, a building aa the park shears ail fine: es 
ted with a large lake 
and i ig orn 
: Devizes e enti 890 houfes, and 4851 inhabitants. It 
Rago two ep markets, arid fix fairs annually. 
a {mall river of the department of the North 
h forms the canal of Douay at Lil He, and 
DEULEMONT, a town: in France, in the department 
of the’ north, at the conflux of the Deule and the Lys ; - 
miles 
_ DEU 
e Deva 
ught to, or 
34° Edw. 
carrie 
to the kin ng for mierchand: ize brou 
oe c. 18. 
Calais, when our ae was there. 
_ 2 Rich. II. ftat 
’ Devoir is French, Signy yi ng duty 
DEVOLVED; fomething ee a right of devo- 
lution. Such a right is devolved to the crown: {uch an 
éftate-devolved on M by the death of 
~."Ehe word is alfo ek at a oS acquire 
of conferring a bene nferior, and ordinary 
collator, -has nope . Seles or ee conferred it on an 
anda ualified perfon 
- Ifa patron neglects to prefent a benefice in fix months, 
the prefentation lapfes, or devolves, upon: the bifhop, from 
d from thence to the kin 
nthe French Lao, a right gequie’ 
by defcent, or fucceffion, from degree to degree. 
Devolution, in general, is an impediment provided by the 
eultoms of feveral provinces, — eby the A 
vives his wife, or the wife furviving her hufband, is 
a and anereebre effeéts of the de- 
red iby a  faperor 
bited to bergen the rea 
ee obli 
fro 
ee riv 
ONA, in mead Cua by, a town of Geta, 
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varied and saad Sea and the heights in many parts, but 
or and its vicinity, {well into moun- 
: bas altitudes of aie principal eminetices prac from 
co to 1800 fe approaching this tract 
fouth an fouth-eaft the eye is bewildered by an pare 
wafte, exhibiting gigantic toré, large furfaces covered with 
vaft maffes of {cattered granite, and immenfe rocks, whic 
feem to have ipi € 
into the vallies, prominen 
is Dartmoor, ot Dartmoor Foreh, ‘which has been valeegy 
sae ae in a fornier volume of this wor 
vale appearance from 
ise nese: 
Tiverton and Exeter, and the latter place and Clladipane 
it has an irregular billowy furface, and prefents eminences 
of confiderable magnitude ; 
a preferve t aad ses character 
ntains about 200 fquare miles : 
north, are the hills on ‘range from ppt by Hal- 
berton and Uffculm, to Blackdown, a drear mountainous 
ridge, ” which, with its contiguous branches, iit the eaftern 
fide of the wales on the fouth-eaft it is bounded 
eights of Sidmouth- nill, Eaft-down, an Woodbury ; and 
on the wett by. the ag es ian . _Haldon, and the 
oe eminences that tch t d Bow. 
nict called the South- piesa is  requenty termed the 
of Devonfhire, from its fertility. Its 
; fquare miles. "This tract 
- is ftrikingly oe pel bold {wells, winding coombs, and 
fine vales; and in ma ales ed Be towards the 
orth, the {een eee is pice efque, an y romantic. 
Niwcce: {prings flow from the ides of the Rill, and unite 
ing-into brooks and rivulets, fpread luxuriance cand beauty 
ra t 
ter; and as almoft every chard, th 
gen a produce affords a ecuedeaile fli i exporta- 
tion. Preference is generally given’ to thofe apples which 
are moft juicy, pet they are ar ge forted : 
is the igerede eee aa 
cyder is chiefly m 
ie fame. kind o ne as the rou 
guous places, is deemed o 
alfo a confer quantity of butter is 
churn. 
atk i ig iato an sar ae kind 
eed of catttle in Devonthive is Sipoken’ of by Mr 
Ma in oa ee Economy of the’ behes of Englaid, 
according to Pto efpe€ts the m in*England. 
- DEVO NSHIRE, in Geography, a county of Eng ane. gue curate ae rver imagines all the vite to be {prung 
bounded on the north by the 7 oe on the‘fo ‘he native breed of the’ ifland.a nd r Ks, hat with 
by the Englifh diene on the merfetfhiré and the exception colour, the excl aie the wild 
Dorfetfnire, and on the weft’ by ‘Comeau £ his: area of cattle’ which are ftill preferved at’ Chillingham park, in 
country meafures- about 73 miles in ae and 63 in Northumberland. The. Devonfhire breed are’ of the middle- 
breadth; and is eftimated to contain nearly 1 ood'’acres horned kind, but vary confiderably, both i fize and form 
1,600 
of land. The external afpe& of the ony is cscectigly 
, Vou SI 
bier pane of the county. * North Devon,” fays 
35 Mr. 
