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moft confiderable in the country of rece _ extends 
from Nahr-el-Kelb, paffing by anon, as far as Tripoli. 
as not, however, above 6000 abies “The ancient 
port refembles that of Latakia, but isin a coe ficuation 3 
fcarcely any traces of it remaining. The river Ibrahim, the 
ancient Adonis, two leagues to the fouthward, has the onl 
bridge to be feen, that of Tripoli excepted, from thence to 
Antioch. It has a fingle arch, 50 feet wide, and upwards of 
32 high; of an are iteGture, which appears to be the 
work a the ra 
DJEBAL,or Ere H-LANDS,one of the general ails oes of 
Venens in Arabia; the other being Tehama,or the ands. 
The latter contains fix of thofe Sea a anc into hich the 
kingdom of Sana is Pyne se the form 
DIE/CKIRCH, a {mall t of ee in wr depart- 
ment of the Foreits, eae Foret) chief place of a diftrict of 
r Sarre, with a population of 
lis canton has a SS extent of 
ub prefet, 
ice. 
res ai ole cen The 
ae sae nbouriae od of Vianden. 
"There is a mine oak fe e copper, the working of which is 
a on ee of hands. 
The e diftri& contains five cantons, 70 communes, 
and 38,128 eee upon a territorial extent of 12874 
ee 
DRAVA, a hia of Ruffia, on the road from St. 
Peterfburg to Mofcow ; 361 verlts from St. Peterfburg. 
DIEGO ae an ifland in the Southern Atlantic 
Pacts whofe bearing and diftance from the iflands of Triftan 
d’Acunha, according to the a char of Capt. Cook’s 
Third Voyage, are 38° 53’ 
Disco Gareia, or CHa 
Indian fea. 
a an ya ifland in the 
flects. 
He an ne fituation 
to be in S. lat. 7° 14’, and E. long. from Paris’ 
Dieco de Rimi an ifland near the coatt / oe del 
ae S.8.W, of cape Horn, S&S. lat. 56° 39 . long. 
8° 
cee Rias, or Rodriguez, an ifland of Africa, in the 
Undian ocean; 100 leagues E from the oe of Mauritius, 
or ifle of France. S. lat. 19° 30’. E. long. 57° 32”. 
Dizco Seures, an ifland in pag eee ran near the eaft 
ae “a - os nd of ores alca 
Cape, Si. the low out that ie he _ 
ane a the ftrait at Ta Maire, on the ealt co coaft of Ter 
del Fuego. S..lat. 54° ong. 65° a 
DIELCYS’ rINDA, aig the nine a kind of exer 
who, being divided into 
e, in the depart- 
ment + Mane he, with an premiient harbour in the 
Enelith eee which was finifhed in 17313 5 miles 
f Cherbour 
° DIEM Me te it Extremum, in Law, a writ ilued out 
of eee to ie ‘efcheator of thecounty, upon the death of. 
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any of the king’s tenants in capite, to enquire, by a Jurys. a4 
what lands he ae feifed, and of what value, and who 
the as heir to 
DI ee HONY Van, in Biography, a governor 
of ty Dutch Eaft-India fettlements, was born at Kuilen- 
bur e went, in early lite, in a low military capa city to 
adie where he was ch melas employe ed i in 
for the foldiers. He wa ro 
writing Lele 
ote dt ft 
hen bec h 
general of the Ditch fettlements in India 
was appointe ember of the fupreme “council, and in: 
1631 he eae to Holland as commander o the India 
fleet. He remained but a few months in Europe, and when 
he went back to India many important offices dev :lved on 
him. 
olland, — in aa of him, 
of * Van ’s land.” 
n April 1645, having held, with See re pation 
ce pene power in India upwards of nine years 
Dizmen, in Geography, a town of Eloliand ; 4 flee S. 'E. 
of Amfterdam. 
IEMEN, a a of, lie between the coaft of Afia, and 
the nou Jap 
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appellation 
| ves Diemen’s Land, an ifland in the form 
of an asa ae about 160 Britifh miles ane by half 
that breadth, feparated, by a ftrait, or rather nel, mor 
than 3o leagues wide, called, in recent maps, Bale’ 8 ee and 
containing a chain of fmall iflands. running N. and S.,. 
from New Holland, fo called by Tafman, in honour of the 
utch governor-general i in the Eaft Indies, who difcovered it 
in eee er 2. From that ie {ays capt. Cook, it ha 
efcaped all farther fists by Euro i i 
Furaeaux touched at it in March co =o 
at that time that capt. Marion, after having remained here for 
fome time, failed from thence on the 1oth of March a 
t was again vifited by captain Cook in January 1 
land is, for the moft part, of a good height, liver with 
hills and alia and every where of a greenifh hue. It is 
well wooded, and, if one may ee from appearance, faye. 
sage Cook, and from what we met with in Adve 
lied with water, The be a i is a niles 
The bottom is clean, good-holding ground; and the 
epth of water from twelve to five and four fathoms. The 
author has annexed a chart, which gives a better idea of this. 
part of the coaft than any defcription. The following table 
will exhibit both the longitude and latitude at one view : 
La 
. ong. 
Adventure bay += 43°21'20" =  144°29' 0” 
"Tafman’ iia - 43 33 9 + I47 28 
South.c - 43 42 0 + 146 560 
South ee cape = 43 37 © - 146 70 
Swilly ifle + 47 
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