DIS 
Difk is alfo ufed for the middle part of the upper furface 
of a leaf, exclufive of all lobes, fegments, or indentations. 
DISKO 
feparatiog the m 
ay there isa ealeude of {mall iflands, the principal being 
the Weft, Whale, Green, Dog, and Dunk iflands. Some 
of thefe are extended eaftwards as far as Spiring oe and 
fome northwards to Difko ifland. N. lat. 68°— W. 
long. about 45° 46’. ‘The whole bay is about ic leagues 
in circumference. The land is high, flat above, and covered 
with ice. Beneath, near the fhips’ road, the country is flat 
and level. The Dutch maps intimate, that on a place they 
call Schaus, good coals have been found, but they were 
never ufed. On this ifland are many rein-deer, which are 
Aa on no other ifland. ‘The water between this and the 
rm land is called Waigat, and is fix leagues broad. The 
shery in the ee is the bett in the whole country ; in the 
winter, when the water of the bay is frozen, the Green- 
landers take a al ade of feals on the ice, and in the {pring 
Place on the coatt, ex f 
whfre no colonies have hea eftablifhed. Difko is alfo the 
bet fae for trade. Several colonies were eftablifhed by 
the Moravian miffionaries, in the vicinity of this bay, from 
The Greenlanders of 
upward, that is, as far as the 73th degree, but very thinly ; 
for though there is plenty of eider fowls, white bears, feals, 
and whales, yet no perfon wifhed to live there for a long 
time, on account of the tedious melancholy winter cent 
They alfo were in want of food and iron, which they pro- 
cured in barter from the Southlanders for unicorn-horn 
he land was nothing but rock and ice, and — 
fur grafs. work. 
and turf, they make them with the horn of unicorn-fith, ee 
and feal-fkins. The land is faid to ftretch N.W., towards 
ey and is fenced with many iflands. Here and 
there, it is faid, there are ftones ftanding ereét, with arms 
Postion ae like the guide-pofts in our country. Fear has 
o the poe that there ftands 2 great 
. iy aren ” or Euro 
offer a, piece of whale-bone when they pafs by 
reports, that in <o Day, on a oint y 
ba is 309 accor deep, feveral ice mountains have 
flood faft for many years; one of which they call the city 
of Harlem m, and another, Amfterdam. Sometimes they 
faften their fhips to them, “and unload their oo barrels on 
the flat ice. Crantz’s Hift, of Greenland, v 
DISLOCATION, in Geology, ignites ‘de a wee 
ments of the parts of mountains, and the pieces of the ftrat 
of the earth, from the fituation which the cae once occu- 
pied, when in contact with each other. The fiffures, faults, 
flip:, dykes, troubles, hitches, traps, rifts, breaks, loads, 
veins, knots, &c. which occafion fie dilseacions: are evi- 
dent fractures of 
edges, in moft inftances, prefent evidence o 
mechanical aN and rubbing sla aati ae er er (Philofo- 
phical Mag XXviil. pe 120.) 1A ng nani having 
fre uently il id, or ground againft e pie r,e where n 
now obfervable. e ConTINENT, DENUDATION, 
DISL_OCAFION, in Surgery. See LUXATIONs. 
5 
ie members are feparated. 
DIS5- 
DISMAL, in oe »a aay of N. America, *in- 
the townthip of Milton, Lincoln c 
partiy in Virginia, and partly i in N, Carol naviga~ 
ble rivers, befides creeks, rife from it; vad run into Virgi- 
nia, viz. the S. branch of Elizabeth, and S. branch of Nane. 
icra river 5 and three into N. Carolina, viz. North river,. 
North-weit river, and Perquimons. The heads of thefe 
rivers lie concealed in the D:{mal, as no figns of them appear: 
wit a: 1O or 12 
with rigs briars. hae thefe ous tee and sever 
a cyprefs, or a white cedar. Towards the S. end is a 
te trad - ments which oe ga green and waving 
the rs is called the green fea many. parts, . efpe~ 
ecilve the shear is pied ia ee an ever-green> 
fhrub, called the gall-bufh, from its bearing a berry, which 
dyes a black colour like the gallofan oak. No beaft, bird, 
reptile, or infeét, approaches this horrible defert. The- 
noxious vapours that afcend from it infe& the air about it, 
and occafion agues and-other diftempers to the neighbouring. 
inhabitants. This dreadful fwamp was judged impaffable,. 
ull the line, ante piles from-N. Carolina, was ee 
through it, in N. lat. 36° 28’, in the year 1728, by order of 
company, which owns 40,000 
. {wamp.isa lake, about feven miles long, called “¢ Drummond’s. 
pond,”’ whofe waters difcharge themfelves into Pafquotank. 
river, that empties into Albemarle found, and on the north. 
into Elizabeth and Nanfemond rivers, which fall into James. 
river. A navigable canal is forming in order to connc& the 
navigable water of Pafquotank and Elizabeth river, through. 
a diltance of about 14 is canal wi 
is opened, the c 
and the nae parts conneGted w 
DISMASTED, in Sea pple denotes the ftate of a 
fhip, i fhe has loft her malts by engagement or bad. 
weather. 
DISMEMBERED, in Heraldry, is applied to birds that. 
have neither feet nor legs ;: as alfo to lions and other animals,. 
See MemBeren. 
ISMES, Decimg, in our Law: Books, tithes. See. 
“DISMISS, ina Military Senfe, relates to the difcharge. 
officer from the king’s fervice. This is occafionally. 
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jefty in any military capacity.’ 
Me o: tion has been rendered highly neceflary, on account of the 
alteration in the — of the diflocated parts of ie ftrata are- 
circumftances. which attended the late lord George Sack- 
ville, whofe admiffion into the houfe of peers, and efpecially. 
into his majefty’s privy council, was ftrongly oppofed, be- 
” cauie. 
