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1725, 8vo. He had prepared a great work on hernias, for 
which he had made feveral figures, but he did not live to 
finifii it. Dr. Douglas had the merit of patronizing the 
eminent anatomift Dr. John Hunter, who came from Scot¬ 
land recommended to him in 1741. He died in 1742. 
DOU'GLAS, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Lanerk, on a fmall river of the fame name, which foon 
alter runs into the Clyde, near which is Douglas Caftle : 
eight miles fouth of Lanerk. 
DOU'GLAS, a fea-port town of the Ifle of Man, fitu- 
ated in a large bay to which it gives name, in the Irilh 
fea, with a harbour for veftels of tolerable burden ; the 
trade and number of inhabitants have greatly increafed 
within the laft fifty years. Lat. 54. 9. N. Ion. 4. 44. W. 
Greenwich. 
DOU'GLAS, a townfhip of the American States, in 
Worceftcr county, Maflachufetts, having the ftate of 
Rhode Itland on the fouth, and that of Connecticut on 
the fouth-weft, and through it palfes the middle road 
from Bolton to New York : lixteen miles fouth of Wor¬ 
cester, and forty-leven fouth-weft of Bofton. It was in¬ 
corporated anno 1746, and received its name in honour of 
William Douglas, M. D. of Bofton, a native of Scotland, 
and a conliderable benefactor to the tow n. 
DOU'GLAS, a townfhip of the American States, in 
Montgomery county, Pennfylvania. 
DOUGLAS'SIA, f. [fo named in honour of James 
Douglas, M. D.] In botany, a genus of the clafs polya- 
delphia, order polyandria. The generic characters are—- 
Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, turbinate, half fix-cleft, 
permanent; fegments ovate, acute, coloured. Corolla: 
none ; neCtaries fix, ovate on the outlide with two ob¬ 
long pits, on the inlide convex, anther-bearing; termi¬ 
nated by two glands, convex without, concave within ; 
ending at the bottom in a capillary pedicel, fhorter than 
the calyx, inferted at the bafe of the fegments, with a 
viilofe gland on each fide at the infertion of it. Stamina: 
filaments none ; antherae very many, minute, one-celled, 
with the valve opening at the bafe. Piftillum : germ 
ovate, fuperior; ftyle filiform, the length of the ftamens; 
fiigma fix-cleft. Pericarpiui-.i: berry ovate, acute, one- 
celled. Seed: fingle, with a brittle fhell .—EJfcntial Cha¬ 
racter. Calyx, half fix-cleft; corolla, none; nectaries fix ; 
filaments none; germ fuperior; ftigma fix-cleft; berry 
ovate, one-celled ; feed, one, with a brittle fhell. It is 
allied to Poroftema; the fructification is extremely ftn- 
gular ; the fruit aromatic. 
Douglafiia Guianenfis, or Guiana Douglaflta; with al¬ 
ternate lanceolate leaves. This, the only fpecies, is a 
middling lized fhrub, growing in Guiana ; it is about 
five feet high, and branching at the top ; its diameter 
five or fix inches ; the wood white and compaCt ; the 
branches are fubdivided into fmaller ones; the flowers 
grow at their extremities in a kind of draggling ‘clufters, 
and are fmall and yellowifb. See Volka.mek.ia. 
DOU'GLEDY, a river of South Wales, which joins 
the Clethy, about thre'e miles fouth from Haverfordweft, 
in the county of Pembroke. 
DOU'L A B ASSENTAR, a town of Afia, in the coun¬ 
try of Kemaoon : feventeen miles north of Lucknow. 
DOU'LAINCOURT, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Marne, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftriCf of Joinviile, ten miles fouth-weft of Join- 
ville. 
DOU'LENS, or Dourlens, a town of France, and 
principal place of a diftriCt, in the department of the 
Somme *. fifteen miles north of Amiens, and eighteen 
fouth-weft of Arras. 
DOU'LEYENT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Upper Marne, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftriCf of Joinviile : three leagues fouth-weft of Joinviile. 
DOU'LON, a river of France, which runs into the Al- 
lier near Brioude. 
DOUR'DAN, a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftriCf, in the department of the Seine and Oile, on 
the Orge. The corn-market is large, and there are uu> 
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nufaCfures of worded and filk-hofe : twenty-five miles- 
fouth-weft of Paris, and eight north of Eftampes. 
DOUR'GNE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Tarn, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCf of 
Caftres : three leagues fouth of Caftres. 
DOUR'LERS, or Doulers, a town of France, in 
the department of the North, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftriCf of Avefnes : two leagues fouth of 
Mauberge. 
DOU'SA (Janus), properly John Vandcrdoes, lord of 
Noortwyk in Holland, born in 1545. He ftudied at Lier, 
Louvain, and Paris. On his return lie had various em¬ 
ployments ; and, in 1574 was entrufted by the prince of 
Orange with the government of Leyden. He defended 
that city during its famous fiege by the Spaniards, and 
obtained great reputation for his valour and conduct. 
Upon the foundation of the univerlity there, he was no¬ 
minated its firft curator; and he didinguilhed himfelf as 
much by his learning at the head of a literary inftitution, 
as he liad done in his former pod by his military quali¬ 
ties. He died of the plague in 1604. Dotifa was the au¬ 
thor of a number of Latin poems, confiding of epodes, 
epigrams, fatires, elegies, &c. and fix books of the An¬ 
nals of Holland in elegiac verfe. This laft has been 
printed feparately, with a commentary by Grotius. His 
verfes deferve the praife of elegance and purity. He left 
four fons, all of them proficients in letters. Of thefe the 
mod celebrated was 
Janus Dousa, the Younger, born In 1572. His extra¬ 
ordinary acquifitions.at a very tender age have given him 
a place among thofe who became celebrated for literature 
in their .childhood. He w'as a poet, a critic, a mathema¬ 
tician, and philofopher. He wrote commentaries upon 
Plautus, in his dxteenth year; and upon feveral other 
authors, at the age of nineteen. He afterwards acquired 
the knowledge of jurifprudence and hiftory, and had been 
Juft appointed preceptor of Henry-Frederic prince of 
Orange, and fir ft librarian to the univerlity of Leyden, 
when he was cut off in his twenty-fixth year. His poems 
were collected after his death, and publiflied at Leyden 
in 1607. 
D 01 P 5 ABEL, \_Douce-et-bdk, Fr. fweet and fair.] A. 
proper name of women. 
To DOUSE, v. a. [Lei; ; but probably it is a cant 
word formed from the found.] To put over head fud~ 
deniy in the water. 
To DOUSE, v. n. To fall fuddenly into the water: 
It is no jefting, trivial matter,. 
To fwing i’th’ air, or dovfe in water.. Hudibras. 
DOU'TREMERE, adj. [Fr.] Brought from beyond 
fea ; feafaring, travelling beyond fea. Obfolete. 
DOUW (Gerard), an eminent painter of the Dutclr 
fchool, born in 16:3 at Leyden, where his father was a 
glazier. His early inclination for painting caufed him-, 
to be placed firft with Dolendo, an engraver, then with 
Peter Kouwhoorn, a painter on glafs ;. and, for farther 
improvement, Ire was fent to ftudy under Rembrandt. 
From that great mafter he imbibed the true principles of 
colouring, and a perfect knowledge of the chiaro-fcuro ; 
but, in other refpebts, he formed to himfelf a manner 
totally different. ' Douw excelled all the artifts in exqui- 
fite delicacy of finidi. He copied after nature, and was not 
contented without rendering every objeft, however incon- 
fiderable, with an exaftnefs of imitation that would bear 
the clofert infpeiftion. As he worked in fmall fize, the 
patience and labour required for fuch minute accuracy 
may be conceived, as it has given a lafting value to his 
performances.. The prices his pictures bore even in liis 
own time and country were extraordinary, and at this 
time they are highly valued all over Europe. He died at 
Leyden in 1674. His works are difperfed through the 
different cabinets of Europe. 
DGUX. See Doubs. 
DO'VY, or Douye, a river of Wales, which rifes in 
the louth-eaft part of Merionethlhire, palfes by Machyn¬ 
lleth- 
