DIG 
in particular, a isieeualce has been added, the flopper of 
which may be loaded by weights, or kept down by a 
lever, fo that the cowe © of | condenfation of the confined 
vapor (and, confequently, the intenlity of heat within) may 
be regulated with Sychaae eee ye 
The inventor, Papin d feveral curious ie pl gona 
with this veffel, par Mtcularly on the folvent power of wate 
thus heated, far beyond its boiling point, over various ani- 
mal and vegetable matters of difficult folubility. He found, 
that by this inftrument, the firmeft bones, when ground 
to powder, were rendered completely foluble in water, and 
cartilages with eafe, and, in general, it may be obferved, 
that aimoft all vegetable and animal matter may be thu 
ditlolved. 
Digeftors, or {trong iron boilers with a very clofely papa 
lid, are es ufed in the making of foups, and other € 
oe purpofes, 
ES, Leonarp, in Biography, who flourifhed in 
the a century, was ae at Digges Court, in the parith of 
Berham, in Kent ed his education at age 
college, where he emplo ed his time fo well, that, in 
world of bufinefs, he obtained the reputation of a fkiiful 
archite&t and furveyor, and a profound mathematician. 
was allo celebrated for his praétical knowledge in fortifica- 
tion. “As an author, he bore a refpeétable character : his 
w re, 1. which treats of menfura- 
tion and furveying as publifhed in 1556 | in ae 
geometrical rene, Gu 
was a polthumous wo ublifhed by h 
gave the world an enlz ee ae of the T'eéton 
«© A Difcourfe on the Piene Bodies :” A mela 
logical work, entitled, ‘ Prognoftication oe of 
right good Effeé&t, or Choice Rules to Judge of the Wea- 
ther by the Sun, sessile Stars, &c.”? This was re-publifhed 
y his fon, with corretions "and confiderable additions in 
1592. He died about the year 1574, leaving behind him 
one fon: viz 
GES , Tuomas, on whofe education great pains were 
ee ca his earlieft years. At a proper time, he was 
xford, where he ftudied with fo much diligence 
and fuccefs, that he became, in due time, one of the firlt 
mathematicians of the age. But his knowledge was not 
: when sey Elizabeth fent affiftance to 
fhe appointed Mr. Digges a wage 
general; in : pe eco rming te = ties of this cffice, 
only ated the part of a faithful and excellent officer, Bae 
found means of perteéting himfeif in every department of 
Befides being the editot of his father’s 
works, he wrote and pubiifhed feveral books, which ob- 
tained os him a good reputation as a fcholar and man of 
: but he was particularly efteemed on account of 
LSS} 
military affairs. 
reCted to his me- 
ory. Fie left behind ae a ae 
Dicces, Dupe 3 born in n 1583, and in 1598 
he was per at Univerlity Glee, Oxford, where he ver 
much improved himfelf in found learning, under the tuition 
of Dr. G. Abbot, who was afterwards archbifhop of Can- 
terbury. He took his degree of bachelor of arts in 160r, 
went and ftudied in the inns of court; and thence he tra 
velicd on the continent the improvem 3 mind, 
d in order t ght attain a flallin foreign ianguages 
a 
a 1618, he was appointed ainbaflalor to the czar o 
ovy, and in two years afterwards he was joined in a com- 
cen to Holland for obtaining reflitution of fome pro- 
perty feized from the Englith in the Eaft Indics, He was 
DIG. 
Villiers, duke of Buckingham ; and for a fpeech which h 
livered at a conference with the houfe of lords, he was 
committed e To The commons, however, vindi- 
c 
cated his caufe, and he 1 was foon difcharged from his con- 
Gicacan: in 1628, he was ele&ted member of parliament 
for the county of Ke nt, and continued for fome ie to a€ 
with the patriotic party, but the temptation of a re erfion- 
ary grant of the office of malter of the rolls was eee 
than he could w : e accepted this in 1635, and 
from that time we hear nothing more of ie public condud. 
m 
e enjoyed the enalatients of office but a fhort time ; 
having obtained them in 1636, and pee March 1639. 
As an author, this gentleman publifhed in 1615 *“* A De- 
fence of Trade; in a Letter to Sir Thomas Smith, é and 
after his death was oe fhed in his name, ** A Difcourfe 
concerning the Rights and Privileges ae the Subject.” This 
was the fubftance iy the fpeech cane e was imprifoned. 
ome other of his fpeeches may be on d in parliamentary 
coileétions. He collected the ee which pafltd between 
the minilters and others gargs the pr ajeted marriages 
between queen Elizabeth and the dukes of Anjou and 
Alengon, a Na ta eae in the year 1655, under the 
mplete Ambaflador, &c.’? In the former 
Bio ographia Britannica, the charaéter of this 
ntleman has been too highly coloured, but the editor of 
the latt anios has fummed it up in few words, and to his 
decifion we cheerfully affent: ‘ He appears to have been a 
firm, but temperate oppofer of the flretches of prerogative, 
by which the reign of king Charles I. was fo unhappily di- 
flinguifhed.” This sada left a fon, who proved hime. 
{clf a zealous friend of the court party, an 
164 rove the unla rms by iub- 
ae againit their fovereign, i cafes a ae which 
s been frequently reprinted. Bio . Brit. 
"Die GES. Cape, in Geography, a aa in > channel a 
Houdfon’ 8 ftraits to Hudfon - 62° 45°. 
long. 79°.—Alfo, a cape in Balk S bays ‘called cape Ded. 
ley. N. lat. 76° 48. W. long. 59° 
DIG GGING, in Agriculture the operation of pla 
a Maik up t y means of a fpade. In cafes 
e labour is ae pre and a fuffisient number a hands 
readily provided, this would be an excellent method of pre- 
fae the ground for potatoe, carrot, and other root crops 
ai a fimilar kind, as the land would be loofened and broken 
up to a better depth than by the plough, a at the fame 
time more effeGtually pulverized and reduced; in confe 
quence of _ weeds and grafs aaul be ite apt to rife, 
and i a tian ~ 
3 
ops. 
In ae alte lands may oftea be broken up and 
bron ne pe ens great advantage and profit, in fuch 
mitan s thofe which have been menti oned. “he 
ovided in it. 
In cafes where the intention is chiefly that of bringing 
the ground into a fuitable ftate of reduction and mellowneis 
of mould, itis only neceilary to have the bufines. of digging 
ented 
