DIP 
manfhip ; and the feckets wherein the pivots move ought 
to be made of agate. 
The only thing which remains to be added for the com- 
pretion of this article, is a flat age - fome of the beft ob- 
ihe that ae een made the e dipping needle ; 
re ing this, 
contdenne that he aced upon mo 
of thefe cbferrations, eee thofe that have been made 
fea. In general it may be obferved with refpe& to the 
dipping needle in different parts of the world; 1ift. that its 
tage does not alter regularly in going = ae . 
outh vice verfa, along any meridian; and 2dly, t 
he Gees ya eH dip at the fame place, but at dierent 
a is pe 
ie dip, as obferved by Norman, Coe inven- 
tor | i Sipe — ying Le was 71° 50. 16 
1¢) 
it was 73° 47’ according t In ae Mr. 
Whitton made it 75 10. Ia 1723 Mr. Graham found it 
to be 73$° or 75°. In 1775 Mr. Cavendifh made it 
TS? 306 
Tasce of Dips. 
[he north end} Years in 
Latitude Longitude | of the need'e | which the 
North. Hat aelow the hori-/Obfervations 
zon. were made. 
° ‘ ° 4 ° Ul 
53 55 193 39 69 10 1778 
49 30 233 10 72 29 
Wel. a 
52 24 83 30 79 17 1775 
44 5 8 71 34 1776 
38 53 12 1 7O 30 
34 87 4 § 66 12 
29 «18 16 7 62 17 
24 24 18 41 59 Oo 
20 47 19 36 56 15 
15 8 23 38 51 0 
2 1 23 35 43 26 
100 22 52 44 12 
5 20 19 37 «25 
South. 
, 0 8 27 38 30 3 
4 40 30 34 22 15 
7 38 33 21 17 57 
FEE 25 34 24 4 a 
South and be 
j Eat. low 
16 45 208 12 29 «28 
1g 28 204 II ql oO 
21 8 185 39 «CO: 1794 
35 55 18 20 45 37 1774 
4r 5 174 13 63 49 01777 
4547 166 _18 70 5 1773 
A great many mars —— made with the dipping 
needle may be fou the accounts of voyages, tranfac- 
tions of learned Taviet ties, &c. 
IPPO, in ducient Geography, a town of Spain, marked 
in Antonine’s Itinerary, between Cordoua and Merida. 
DIPPOLDISWALDA, in soar aphy, a {mall town of 
Saxony, in poe circle of eee eee miles fouth of 
Drefden, towards Bohe with a ere of 1200 indi- 
viduals, ane pancipal cae conte in hewing excellent 
DIP 
mill and whet-ftones, out of the a aaa aad 
Their cutlery and potters’ ware is - 
Near Dippoldifwalda is the es a ens called 
Muftapha Sulkiwicz, who, in an ae years war, fell a as the 
firft lieutenant in a Saxon regiment of Coffacks. It was 
erected in the year 1762, but time had eae injured 
it, when the Pruffians, againft ae ought, bus 
who honoured his valour, refiored it 578. 
DIPSACEZ, in Botany, t me cerita order in Juf- 
fieu’s fy ftem, or the firft of his eck clafs. The definition of 
this clafs is, cotyledons. 2 Flowers monopetalous, fuperior. 
Anshers diftin&. Proper calyx, or perianth {uperior, of one leaf, 
bw of one petal, Hel rarely of many Ary pala by 
famens 0 
i the corolla, es cee feparate. 
ferior ; flyle often fingle, fometimes manifold, or elfe want- 
ing; itigma fimple or divided. Seed inferior, or rather, for - 
the moft part, the fruit is capfular or pulpy ‘of one or 
many cells, and containing one or es 
The chara@ters of the ord F Dipl are, a fimple 
ordouble. Corolla le vik a divi Stamens of 
a definite number. Szy/e one; ftigma fim oe on for the 
ie part oo a Ga feed, and not barfting, having 
afpect o naked feed; very rarely it has two or 
ae cells, with. a feed in each. 
albumen, its radicle fuperi 
g flowers, cont 
fe€tion compofed of aggregate 
Dipfacus, i Knautia, and Alfionia 3 3 Me fecond fedtion,. 
en for are only Valeriana. Juffieu, in a 
lea ene olland hee Opercularia, im 
he dike ol. of te Asnales du Mufeum, 418, confiders it 
forming a new natural order between the Dip/acea and Rudi. 
acee,to which the aes eu Adanfon’s Fedia, (Valeri 
ana Locufa, &c. of uld ve removed. Ventenat 
remarks, Tabl. du cpus ea « 25 , that Adanfon 
was the firft botanift who detected she effential diftinGions of 
the order Dipfacea. We are at a lofs to account for Juf- 
fieu’s referring the Morina to the feéticn of aggregate flow- 
ers, with which it = in no other refpeéi than pope | 
a double calyx. See Flora Greca Sibthorpiana, t. 28. 
The floret tee is truly whorled, and each flower has its 
alk. 
feparate 
DIPSACUS, fo called by Pliny after Theophraftus, from 
dnbew, to be thirity, (alluding: to the batins formed b 
leaves for holding 
oak 
taining many prowess ; its leaflets longer than the flowers, 
roper Perianth {mall, fuperior, of one leaf. 
Cor. the ene one i geet prope 
oO 
fh r 
the corolla ; 
columnar, crowned with the partial calyx. Common recep- 
np conical, befet with long chaffy {cales Siac the, 
owers. ; 
Eff. Ch. Common calyx of many leaves ; perianth fupe- 
rior, 
