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_ Hebrew, elewen parafches, ian only ten in: the eildond of 
“the rabbinis at Venice; twenty.chaptersand 95 nthe 
ag nk and other i? ie it contains ag. four chap- lor 
- ters aft was-not written’ hy Mofes, becaufe it contains 
a en of. ig de ath. and-burial. - Some Tay it. wasxad 
ofhua, sumediatelg yatter Mokes’s death ; others will 
ae it, added _, by. a Me *-moft: probable. opi- 
“4 e. 
me interpolations in the boo 
ve . tii, x Ejichorn, 
in his « fii duaion S ce Old ‘Teftement,” Sablithed at 
Leipzig, in four volumes, 1787—1795, eonfiders this book 
as the work of another and els an than Mofes, who 
had furvived feverai of thofe leaders of the: people, who had 
heen educated in the fchools of the prophets. Dr, Kenni- 
‘eott, in i ‘< State of the printed Febrew Text of the Old 
Teftament, &c:?? ( 
erin in this book ; “and reftored the true reading, 
ee, in chap. 3 cxxii, r—y. See Pewrareucn. 
EROPOTMYI, Asrepororjo, from deurspos, fecun 
and moro; fortuna, or mers, among the Athenians, a 
igignation given to one wh 
after the celebration of the ie neral rites, unexpectedly re- 
covered. It was unlawful for the deuteropotmi to enter 
into the temple of the Eumenides, or to be admitted to 
the holy rites, till after they were purified by being let 
through the lap of a woman’s gown, that they might {eem 
new ae Pott. Archeol. Giec. tom. i. lib. il. 
voli 1 j has peinted 
Te OEUTE EROSIS, the ea ‘name by which the Jews 
«alled their mifchna, or fecond law. Deuterofis in Greek 
has the fame fignification almo{t as mifchna in Hebrew; 
‘both fignify an iteration, Eufebius accufes the Jews with 
corrupting the true fenfe of Scripture with the trifling ex- 
pianation of their deuterofes. Calmet, Dict. Bibdl. in voc. 
DEUTICHEM, or Deurtixem, in ed a {mall 
‘town of Holland, in the department of Guel n the 
O.d Yflel, fameus for a confiderable iron ae a 
DEUTSCH, Nicuoras aoe: in Biography. an 
eminent artift, was a native of ‘Berne, in Swiczerland, an 
He is mentioned as a Seine _ inter 
in his time. He al o cut on wood feveral of his own de- 
figns in a bold and free, but flight ftyle ; end the “naked 
p A re. The two fol- 
e 
f{ are mentioned by Stru Viz. 
a eee fize upright print, an 
“«¢ Several women fi in compotition’;”’ aifo 
‘middling. fized Ba “engthovays. To the initials of his 
name cde 
£ added the date 1518. 
Strutt, is one oe his ae and belt engravings. 
DEUTSCH EYLAU, in Geography. See Eyrav. 
DEUTSCHBROD, Breda Germanica, in the Bohe- 
mian language Grod Niemeczky, is an ancient town of Bohe- 
nata, in the circle of Czaflaw. I is called Dcutich, or Ger- 
This, fays 
own int m, in the 
w cn the Huffites “raffered a contents defeat j in he year 
1434. 
UTZIA, in-Botany, (in honour a Prefident er 
D-utz, one of the magiftrates of Amfter a patro 
Thunberg, who promoted and acca to ae oe 
of his botanical expedition to Japan.) Thunb. ay Gen. 
falc. r. 19. Ic. BH . ro, Linn. Syft. Veg. ed. ae. 
Schreb. 309.. . Pl. v. 2. 730. Juff. 431. Chats and 
pa Beeandria Trigegia. Nat. Ord. probaoly Saxifrage 
° 
Pry 
Ca, Ch. Cal. Perianth of one leaf, inferior, fomewhat 
four, cals burfting Hnally at the hafe. | 
-cell, | 
o had been.thought dead, and . 
-part of the dominions.of the elector, now king @ 
DEUV 
bell- thaped, three time’ fhorter than the petals, downy, 
vit e,’ rarely fix, : ovate, ‘Shenle, upright, deciduous teeth. 
tals five, rarely f fix; inferted'i into the” vim’ ‘ofithe calyx, 
a, 
8 oan two ‘re Piff. Gehan inferior, 
bofe, crowned with a rominent bordér ; ftyles three, 
a. four, fpreading, threadithaped, the length of the fta- 
mens; ftigmas obtufe. Peric. Capfule’ ‘globofe; Lee 
fhe. fize of a {mall pea, perforated, hard; rou #y fom 
three-cornered, crowned With the hardéndd fpreading “bales 
of the ftyles; internally of ‘three valved. 2 three, rarely 
Seeds ‘feyeral in each 
Eff. Ch. Calyx bell- hhaped: itl Petals five.’ Files 
ments with three points. Capfu of te celles crowned 
with the permanent tls, boring at i 
oe n 
eae in and hae It 
forms a {ma branching tree like elder, with round, flender, 
purplith, fomewhat hoary branches. Leaves oppofite, moftly 
ftalked, = aa ovate, acute, ferrated, veiny, very rough on 
both fide fninute atry briftles. Buds of feveral 
ovate, hoat - ei {cales. ‘Stipulas none, "lowers in tere 
ee ice panicles, white, the fize of thofe of the common 
lim 
ae fays the wood is hard, tough, and {mooth, 
ufed for making cabinets and very fine bodkins ; and that 
the inner bark, which is gree and very bitter, enters inte 
the compolition of platters. ‘LT a informs, us that the 
leaves are uled for polithing the articles made of the wood.. 
DEVUIDER, in the Manege, is applied to a horfe, that, 
Paget working: upon volts, makes his fhoulders go too faft 
r the group to follow ; fo that inftead of going: upon twe 
e acre be en on one, 
: the 
againt the hes ; or from the fault of the horfe-man, who 
is too Baty with his hand. See Haste. 
ONTS, in German Zwejbrick, in Latin Bi- 
Seg in Ceegraph 1, was formerly the capital of the Ger 
man duch the fame name, in ei e circle of the Upper 
Rhine, nck, at the peace of Lun 
French, together with feveral other counts fituated on the 
weftern fhore of the Rhine. It conftituted at that time 
avaria, 
Deux-Ponts at prefent is atown of France, in depart- 
ment of Mont Tonnere, chief place of a diftri& of the fame 
name, fituated on the river Erlbach, 45 miles S. W. of 
Worms, 66 N. by W. of Strafburg, 57 N. EE. of Metz, 
fe) 
63 S. W. of Mayence, N. lat. 49 aan Tt has a einen 
fect, a court of ain and a regifte Its canton 
contains only 3 ¢ penal a9 5532 fclauieanes, ee 
whom belong to ue town 
The foil of the diftrié a Deax-Ponts i is mountainous and 
not very fertile, ch it produces fufficient food for its inha- 
bitants. Madders and potatoes thrive well ; 
are excellent ; d : 
The vine grows aiong the banks of the river Glane. 
There are tron, copper, and coal mines, anda mine of agate, 
which contains ftones as precious as any of the Indian 
They are ufed for {nuff boxes, rings, feals, ag 
uttons, &c. Contwig has a iteel aes and Fon 
bourg a manufacture of muflin. . 
The 
