DIN 
Monnet in 1769. It contains carbonate of iron, muriate of 
foda or potafh, and carbonate of earth, (carbonate terreux.) 
Its tafte is ferruzinous. iffluing from the fource it is 
perfetly Sarai but if left expofed to the air it grows 
t the bottom of the veffel in which it is 
contained an oc 
tallic tafte, and becomes infipid, like common water. It ought, 
therefore, to be dra cat the {pring, — taken cold, as it is 
a 5 Geterlive, altringent, 
nd co a “The of this water is particularly 
recommended. in ae. Scales ne from deficient or 
ae aan ge sa iia difchar 
As of a diftric, Dinan has a fub- prefeét, a 
court st “aftice, and a regifter office. The whole diftri@ 
contains £0 cantons, 92 communes, and 96.327 inhabitants, 
upon a ale extent of 1460 een The foil is 
uces abundance . corn, hemp, and flax. 
°, filh, honey, wax, Linen 
cloth, iron, and fome Eee a are the principal trade 
of the diftri 
wo of France, in the department of 
mbre Cy chief place ofa diftri&, fituated on the 
sane fhore of the Meufe, between che river anda fteep rock, 
which renders it very ais 18 miles S. of Namur, 45 
S. E. of Mons, 48 5. W. of Liege. Lat. a Tt has a 
population of 2964 individuais. The canton contains 36 
communes and 10,051 inhabitants, upon a Sono extent . 
of 245 kiliometres. 
on chief place of a diftri&, Dinant has a fub-prefeét, a 
court of juftice, and a ta r-office. The fo il of the ditri@ 
is toleraly fertile. There fone: iron mines, rich quarries 
of white, black, and red nele, copper founderies, forges, 
basics and breweries. Leather, copper utenfils, bar-iron 
wrought iron, and beer, conftitute the panies articles of 
trade. 
The diftri&t of Dinant -comprifes five cantons, 137 com- 
munes, and 37,321 inhabitaats, upon a territorial extent of 
11775 penser ian 
a ,ab 
ment of Finifterre, in the 
road and the bay of Denne N. lat. 4 
me 
y of France,.on the W. coaft of the depart- 
oglifh channel, betwee o Brett. 
5° 13". W. long. 
DINAPORE, a village of Hindooftan, in the diftriG of 
Patna, lies about 14 cofs W. ot Bankipore, one of the fub- 
t ee ee te is a military canton- 
It is 
ti 
at co) 
accommodation affarded by any o 
land. The private foldiers are alfo provided with large aa 
well-aired lodgings ; but the troops belonging to the native 
ttali 1 {mall tents, a little fuperior to thofe 
of the patives. ” For fev sor miles around aig adjoining villages 
quart 
n 
i 3 its level is {till more inconfiderable. 
fore is not more than two or three fathoms from the furface; 
and the method of raifing it is very fimple. ‘T’wo long 
bamboos are raifed upon a frame about 10 or 12 feet, which 
the moving power which raifes the leathern bags to the 
re of pe per e-mc eee are cotton, 
an or-oil plant, which latter rifes to t 
€ 
height of a ee fab, and ie below its broad leaves 
DIN 
the dohl and an he csi! aa of mixed with a 
kind of {mall pea, common produce in this vi- 
Almoft ey common aadle of food is here ver 
Tens sacs Indian oe vol. 
; a mountain ‘erlia. 
DINARITUM, i in Ancient Geography, a promontory of 
the ifle of Cyp now o St. sindrea; placed by M. 
D’Anville at oe moft € eatery pout of the ifland, near the 
ifles called Clides. 
AS- MAWDDWY, or Daews OUTHY, in 
graphy, a townfhip and market town in the parifh of I ‘an 
y-Mowdda, or Mallwyd, in the hundred of ea eae Me- 
rioneththire, Wales. It is feated on the river Dyfi, at the 
junGtion of three Manel near a memarable and romantic 
ae ce Airis Cc 
te 
mile from of more con- 
fequerce ces its refent ftate indicates cannot be denied ; 
indeed the annals of Wales (vide Warrington) notice it as ies 
ing been the feat ofa chieftain ; and its vicinity the fcene of 
many a st > valour and barbarity.”? (Evans’s Tour through 
en Wales.) Svans infers that this town derived 
a Dina 
Ge ore as uff 
uered country.””? This place is the capital of an 
extenfive lordfhip belonging to the Mytton family. Accords 
ing to Pennant, it is governed by ‘a mayor, aldermen, re- 
corder, and feveral See ae ? the former tries criminals, and 
i Sagres in the abfence of the lord, hears and determines 
caufes of debt, &c. not exceeding forty: thillings. ee Pen 
nant’s Tour in Wales, vol. ii.; and Evans’s Tour cigh 
North Wales. 
DINAW, a town of Poland, in dle palatinate of Lem. 
berg; 60 miles W.S.W. of Lember 
NCKEL, a river of Germany, which runs mto the 
Vechl, about feven miles N. from Nianhuys, in the county of 
Beat ie eee fo, : river rof Germany, Tinea runs into the 
mmer, near Wob n the county o 
DINDARI, in ye Geography, a a of Hlyria, in 
Dalmatia, 
INDIGUL, in Ceagraphy, a town of India, in the 
Myfore country, capital iftriG&t or circar, to whic hit 
gives name; 51 miles - Ww. of Tritchinopoly, and 70 S. E, 
of Coimbore. N. lat. E. long, 78° 6’, 
DINDYMIS, in oe Cane. one of the names of 
Cyzica, fituated in Afia Minor, at the foot of mount Didy- 
mos, on the borders of the caear a 
S, a mountain o ia Minor, in the ‘ae 
fula of which Cyzica 8 a tee se The mother of 
the gods had a temple in this mountain; it is thought to 
have been: confecrated — the Argonauts. 
DINESTONS, in Geograph, , a town of America, in the 
ftate of Pennfylvania; 25 miles E. of Pillfbur 
G, in Commences a name which the Siamele give in 
general to alt forts of w 
DINGAS, or Bolas barbs, in se ats are veffels” 
ufed at Bombay and places adjacent, which are fometimes 
- navigated 
