DEW 
_ ee through the heat of the day, very com. 
fair weather, reak up and evaporate in the 
he dew is forming aaa 3 thew: ving 
that the region in which picoue placed is gro 
Such, then, beina the law of the nodtueeal Bei 
tion, it follows that the lowelt ftratum of the a 
feated over waters and in vallies, ought to be 
part with its excefs of water. When the air about fun- 
certain regina from a height even of fome hundred feet ; 
as may be concluded from the appearance of the haze we 
have mentio 
ceordng to the hypothefis of Prieur, sat ought to fell 
over - whole furface, without regard to hill or valley. 
explanation above ina it ought S be rare on the 
his the fa& ; e di aie between the di- 
urnal and aoe anal aca is there neither fo confi- 
derable, nor fo fudderly ‘produced: indeed cs are fubje@, 
if of great height, to the effect of the heat afcending from 
the vailies into the atmofphere around them, as above de- 
cribed. 
The name of dew has likewife been applied to other 
things, ancl either “re to fr 
a 
cc orded in one of the firft numbers of the Philofo- 
phical "Tranfa&tions, that in the year 1695, there fell in 
Ireland, and particularly in the provinces of Leinfter and 
Munfter, during a great part of the winter and pring; a Fatt 
fubftance, fomewhat like butter, inftead of the ufual dew. 
This sap rile is faid to have been of a dark sAliea colour, 
and felt clammy, whence the natives called it Tie. Je 
fell in the one of the night on the moorifh low grounds 
and it w e morning, attached to the leaves of 
grafs, to die thatches of houfes . &ec. in the form of pretty 
large lumps, and it is added, that it feldom fell twice in the 
fame place ad an offenfive {mell, like = ofa yee 
yard; yet it lay upon the ground a for night before 
changed colour, after which it dried up and becam ® black 4 
but it never bred worms, nor did it prove noxious to cattle 
that fed in the fields where it fell, During the winter of the 
above-mentioned year, fome very flinking fogs were obferved 
on th e fame places where the aioe leat a 
a great part of the which the re- 
that many perfons obferved a ae kin 
upon the leaves of trees, as if ad a glutinous nature had 
been depofited from the ‘atmofphere ; but we do not find 
that any particular ie agra were made or the purpofe 
of iar pal the natu 
ated coca confiderabe celebrity anne? the 
mae perfons of a century or tw wonder- 
ul properties are attributed to it, and ieecully i a {pirit 
DEW 
which is faid to be obtainable from it. But it is needlefs to 
recite particulars, clanning little or no credit. See Phil, 
Tranf for May 1665 
Dew, Voy: This i is a {weet vifcid liquor, found fome- 
times in great abundance on the hazel, the lime, the elm, 
&c. and on fruit trees 
from the atmofphere, a as isevident by the na 
given to it: others have thought it the fe of the plant, 
fecreted in eat _ an injury, ba pate by fudden 
changes in th certain its real origin, we have 
of the ae immediately 
“They will be found covered 
with an infeét, of the gens Aphis, which, ioferting its pro- 
_ bofcis into the fine fap veffels, draws out the fap, and by a 
peculiarity of conftitution rejeéts, in the form of excrement, 
a product abundantly more rich and faccharine than the 
liquid it imbibes. Sve 
Mar ey of Cattle, an exceflive {well- 
ing of the ie pr ee ie the greedinefs of a beaft to 
eed, when put into rank paftur 
This {welling is er fo greil, that the creature runs 
the utmoft hazard of burfting ; in which cafe it fhould be 
made to ftir much, and purge well; but the proper cure is 
to bleed the creature in the tail, then put ting a nutmeg 
into an egg, to thrulft it down the creature’s throat, fhell and 
all ; after which, by walking him up and down, he will foon 
recover, 
w-Lap, in Rural Economy, a name applied to the flefhy 
menbensc us paaeou ia which hangs down from the throats 
of cattle of the nea 
DEWAE T in Caen an inconfiderable ifland, 
lying at fome diftance E. of Terra Magellanica, in South 
America ; fo called on its firft difeover er. 
Hi, or Gocra,a river of Hindooftan, which tra~ 
verfes the country of Oude, and joinsthe Ganges; fifteen miles 
W. of Patna. 
t thirty he had completed his Ovincipal work, viz. oe iocciile 
of the Parliaments under Elizabeth, and had in his inquiries 
been enabled, according to his own account, to correét Cam- 
den’s Britannia in almoft every page. He was appointed 
ments, and i inc 
tween him and his antiquarian friends, are preferved in the 
Britifh Mufeum. Biog 
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