DEY 
DEY, the title e the fovereign of Algiers, pan = 
bt eae called at Tunis the b 
was appointed by the Gilar. at 
the requeft of the Turkith foldiers, in the year 1710. 
term dey, in the Turkith language, fignifies an uncle by the 
mother’s fide; and the reafon of the denomination is this ; 
that the Turkifh military confider the grand feigmior as 
their me ie the republic as their mother, by w they 
are nouri and maintained, and the dey as the oie, of 
the republic, = confequently the uncle of all who are un- 
der his dom 
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ey is pehcles out of the army ; each order, even the 
moft inferior, having an equal! right and title to that dig- 
nity with the higheft. Every bold and afpiring foldier, 
however obfcure his original a rank, sae ‘ aaah as 
the heir apparent to the throne; an 8 farther ad- 
vantage, that he hes rng no cece os a till fcknefs 
the prefent ruler; it As fufficient 
particular, but rather to chee own fuperior good aie 
in preventing an iufurrection, by cutting off the con{pirators- 
Befides 
before they could put their defigns in execution. 
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and the other Mary,” in which the figure of our Saviour is 
accounted in no refpect inferior to Vandyck, either in colour- 
ing or ier Sat 
nted in the grand ftyle, and much in the tafte of 
fition called “ fphaltum vase 
His daughter, Anna, i died in 1746, aged 50, painted 
in the ftyle and manner of her father, ear ae his touch 
and colouring fo exactly in the copies after her father’s 
works, that the ableft judges could not h Siaea diftinguith. 
the copies from the originals, Pilkin 
D I » in Geo graphy, afmell cowl of France, in 
the department of the Ardéche ; 12 miles W. of Annonay. 
DEZALLIER, D’ ARGENVILLE, ANTONY-JOSEPHS 
in sonia’ ok was born at Paris in the beginning of the laft 
pieege was educated in his native city, but a confi- 
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He wrote fome confiderable articles in the French Encyclo- 
pedia; and in 1747 he publifhed, in quarto, a treatife on 
the theory and practice of gardening, and in 1757 a larger 
treatife on aaa ath in two volumes oS This is 
is moft valuable wor rrangement is 
md me 
a) 
soa to which 
the age, experience, and valour, which are neceffary he claffes them as univalve, bivalve, and multivalve :. he then 
qualifications ' a perfon to be elected to the offic ce of divides them again into fhells of the fea; of frefh water ;. 
ey, he muft aifo bea native Turk, a ave the and of the lands. He alfo pave an accotnt of the feveral 
voyage to Mecea 
tinue; he ‘prefides at the divan, and is moit diftinguifhed by: 
the refpe@ and fubmiffion which are paid him. 
DEYDESHEIM, or Dipivesnetm, in Geography, a 
town of Germany, in the circle of the Upper Rhine, - and 
bifhopric of Spire; 14 miles of Spi 
Y ee DEINSE. 
r Van, in B 
His fubjeéts 
anual compofitions of the 
years more at is . 
fition led him to feclude himfelf from public notice, after 
is retur ountry ; but fe erformances 
for the ee in which he engaged, made him more — 
. be s moft capital oo are 
he Virgi n,” and the “ Refurretion o 
a Oo 
Chrift, with the scene of Chrift to Mary Magdalen, : 
lives of architects and fculptors. 
' fuppofed to be the 
tan, 110 miles E. 
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or fix years, and by co- 
genera of animals that inhabit fhells. He publithed a work. 
on oryGthology, ora treatife on foffils, Perhaps his mott. 
confiderable literary production was a biography of celebra- 
ted painters, which was eee in a volumes quarto,. 
and rae in’ four volumes o ied at Paris in. 
17 is fon’ has concaned aie bio ography began by 
the father by "the addition of two volumes, containing the 
Gen. Di& 
ZAZE, ia ees a town of Egypt, on the Nile,. 
place where the prophet Jeremiah was- 
buried, near Cairo 
KAK, a town of ieee in the province of Segef-- 
hee 
ot Desny, a fall of Bohemia, in the: 
circle of Bechiny or Bechynoko, pees for its excel- 
lent mineral wate 
DEJEFAN, a cor of Arabia, in the’ country of Ye- 
men, fituated on the coaft of the Red fea 5. 22 miles W. of 
Abv-Arifch.. 
DGIARON, a town of Perfia, i in the province of Far- 
fiftan ; 84 miles Ss. of Schiras. 
DH » a town of Hindooftan, in the aaa . Male. 
wa ;.42 miles W. of Indore, and 3 ein 
DHARAMS ALEH, a town “of the ening of "Loibet, 
60: miles from at! 
HAT a een 
or Dau 
DHOOLEOUR, a town ‘of Hindooiany in the country 
of Agra; 32 miles S. of Agr 
DHUL, or Dut, ae “Of Afia,. in the country of’ 
Cafhmere’; five miles N. E. of Caflimere.. One branch of 
the Baghyretty river is faid to proceed from this lake 
above Cafhmere; but: . pre cia. that as this. 
ake has no outlet on the eaft, from the valley of Cafh- 
mere, every. branch of Ge Ganges that cdiries- his ean 
hewelt: 
