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tile, and his execution [pirited ; and if he had taken time to 
correét his fir ideas, he would have produced works that 
might have given him rank among the firft artifts; but being 
much employed in making drawings for prints and books of 
prints, be hurried his co mpottions, without ened to the 
ase of his choice. He , however, to im!- 
ted Rubens with fuccefs ; ie en well, an pees. great 
foree to his palatings by his fingular flciil in the chiaro-fcuro. 
ere oe fubjects” with great fuc- 
s. Strutt and "Pilkingto 
DIEPHOLD, or ie Dip a in Geography, 
{mall town of Germany, in the circle of Weltphalia, ha 
ated on the lake Dummer, (which fee) 30 miles S. 
eer » 36 N. W. of Minden, and 30 N. E. of Ofnabr ie 
Lat. 45. It is the chief place of a county of the fame 
name, eee in the eleGtorate of sean i now in 
the confcription of the new kingdom of Weftph 
PE, a confiderable fza-port town of eee in the 
department of the Lower Seine, chief place of a diftri& of 
the fame name, fituated near the Englifh channel, at the 
mouth of the river ag ae 138 ee N. W. of ri and 
42 miles N. of Rouen. E. long. 1°12’. N, lat. 49° 55’ 17”. 
well-built ung the flreets oo ftraight 
are two fubur d Le Paulet is chiefly 
inhabited by failors and fifhermen. At the weftern extre- 
mity of the town is an old, but cuba, and badly forti- 
ed ‘calle at the - end is the harbour, in the 
of veffels en- 
livres, 
livres, frefh at 20, and red herrings at 163 
fhort interval = peace from 1801 to 
duce was not more than 40,000 barrels. The whiting ae 
lafts during ae antl of ‘December, January, and Feb 
ary, and is chiefly for the Paris market, The average pro 
duce of the mackarel fifhery is 280,000 livres. It employ 
from 40 to 50 veffels. 
- time of peace there are regular packet-boats between 
e and Brighton. The pa flage is only 66 Enghifh 
a ia takes from yo to 24 hours. The diftance from 
London to Paris, by Brighton and Dieppe, is 87 Englith 
seed be than by Dover and Calais. 
the fitheries, the moft important trade at Dieppe 
is its thread lace manufacture; which, in I chee occupied about 
rane nel fifh. 
ermen’s janght ers aie wives. Its annual produce was efti- 
mated at 400,000 liv . The merchants fell the thread to the 
f F 
"The barrel of falt ole is set erally ae at 21 
. Daring th 
o 
diffe penny a ‘bale Neue to fifteen 
and ixteen fhillings  terling ayard. They ufe chiefly Flemi 
ad ommon lace. confumes more 
thread than the fine bone lace. 
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to four-pence a day; the belt frow fix-pence to eight-pence, 
and even se fhilling a 
y. 
anufacture of ivory and bone toys, of excellent 
0 20,000 individuals, of the canton 
is 12 kiliometres and a half; it includes only two communes, 
and paren altogether, 20,500 inhabitants. 
hief place of a diftrict Dieppe has a fub-prefe@, a 
eouce ale e, a tribunal of commerce, and a regilter office. 
The foil of the diftri@ is very fertile, and produces all forts 
of corn, vegetables, fruits, hemp, and flax, but chiefly a plant 
called vetch, (la vefce) which is confidered as an excellent 
fodder for cattle. 
The difiridt of Dieppe Ag ee upon a territorial extent 
of 12374 kilometres, eight cantons, 222 commuses, and 
109, 082 inhabitants. Herbin. Statiltique cela France. 
DIEPPENHEIM, a townof Overyffel; 20 miles E. of 
Deventer. 
DIER. See Dre 
healed in pee Geography, a town of Dacia. 
Ptolem 
DIERDORF,i in Geography, a town of Germany, in the 
la of Weftphalia, and county of Wied Runkel, feated on 
iedbach, with a caftle, the refidence of the counts, 
The inhabitants are are and employed in agriculture 
and commerce; eight miles N.N.E. of Coblentz 
DIERNBACH, a pe of ie in the archduchy 
ef Auftria; 11 cailes S. of Ste 
DIERNBERG, a town of Cg in the duchy of 
Stiria ; fix miles N. oe Nitterfeldt. 
DIERNPACH, a town of oe in the archduchy 
of Auttria, five miles E, of Mieffau 
DIERNSTEIN, or Tyansteiy, a {mall t town of Au- 
ut 5; 
by general ene fought their way cesuge 
20,000 Ruffians in the yea 
seer ae in Botany. oe Lonicera. 
a Se 
Digs, in Comm oe, There are two kinds of days, 
jnridii, es non pur 
Diz — or all are all daye wherein juftice is admi- 
‘ailedia 
Dis non n juri or nef aft, are all Sundays in the year: 
and in Eafter term, the featt of the Afcenfion of our Lor . 
in Trinity cn, The Nativity of St. John the Baptift : 
Michaelmas term, the feaft cf All Saints, and All Souls : 
and in Hilary term, the Purification of the Bleffed Virgin. 
The fame diftinion holds not only as to legal proceedings 
in court, &c. but alfo as to contracts 
Dies, in fome Ancient Authors, is alfo ufed for daily pro- 
vifion. “ Et reddebat dimidium diem eh i, if 
honey as ferved the king’s family half a 
1ES datus, isa day, or time of refpite aes to the tenant, 
or defendant, by the court. 
1£8 Marchie, was a day of congrefs, or meeting of the 
Englifh and Scots, appointed annually to be held on the 
marches or borders, to 7 pa all differences between them, 
and preferve the articles of peace 
DIES » in Geograph ” a {mall town of Switzer- 
land, in the canton of Berne, remarkable for its excellent 
al manufactures 
