DOR'CHESTER, a (mail town of the American States, 
in Charleftown diftridrt, South Carolina, feated on the 
north-eaft bank of Aftiley river, eighteen miles weft- 
north-weft of Charleftown city. This place was fettled 
and named as early as 1700, by a colony from Dorchefter 
and its vicinity in Maffachufetts. 
DORDO'GNE, a river of France, which rifes about 
feven miles north-weft from Beffe, in the department of 
the Puy-de-Dome, pafles by Bort, Argental, Beaulieu, 
Souillac, Limeuil, Bergerac, Caftillon, Libourn, See. and 
joins the Garonne, between Blaye and Bourdeaux. 
DORDO'GNE, a department of France, part of the 
province of Perigord, bounded on the north-eaft by the 
department of the Upper Vienne, on the eaft by the de¬ 
partments of the Lot and Correze, on the fouth by the 
department of the Lot and Garonne, on the weft by the 
departments of the Gironde and the Lower Charente, 
and on the north-weft by the department of the Charente. 
Perigueux is the capital. 
DORE, a river of France, which rifes in the depart¬ 
ment of the Puy-de-Dome, and joins the Allier, near 
Ciidet, in the department of the Allier. 
DORE l’EGLISE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment ot the Puy-de-Dome : five leagues eaft of Iffoire. 
DOREBAT', a city of Arabia, in the province of Ye¬ 
men, and capital of the territories of Schiech Ibn Aklan, 
who refides there. Its fituation, on the fummit of a hill, 
renders it naturally ftrong : ten miles diftant from Mocha. 
DORE'E, or John Doree,/. in ichthyology. See 
Zeus. 
DO'RENBERG, or Duirenburg, a towm of Germa¬ 
ny, in the circle ot Weftphalia, and county of Ravenf- 
berg : three miles north-weft of Bielefield. 
DO'RENHAGEN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Weftphalia, and bifliopric of Paderburn : five miles 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Paderburn. 
DO'RENTHAL, or Dorotheenthal, a town of Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of Upper Saxony, and circle of Erzge- 
birg : thirteen miles fouth of Freyburg. 
DORET'TE, a riv.er of France, which runs into the 
Dive, near Troan, in the department of the Calvados. 
DOR'FEN, a town of Germany, in Low'er Bavaria, on 
the I fen: twenty-feven miles eaft-north-eaft of Munich. 
DORFF, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of Auf- 
tria, on the.Danube : eleven miles north-weft of Bruck. 
DORF'FLIS, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of 
Auftria : feven miles fouth of Zifterftorf. 
DORF'MARK, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and principality of Luneburg : twenty 
miles north-weft of Zelle. 
DOR'PIEIM, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Upper Rhine, and county of Hanau Mtinzenberg: twelve 
miles north of Hanau. 
DORHO'BUSS, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Volhynia : fixty miles eaft of Lucko. 
DO'RIA (Andrew), a gallant Genoefe fea-officer, born 
in 1466, He entered into the fervice of Francis I. of 
France; but preferved that true fpirit of independence, 
which gained him univerful admiration and regard. When 
the French attempted to render Savona, long the object 
of jealoufy to Genoa, its rival in trade, Doria remonftrated 
againft the meafure in high terms; which bold action, 
reprefented by the malice of his courtiers in the moft 
odious light, to much irritated Francis, that lie ordered 
his admiral Barbelietix to fail to Genoa, then in the hands 
of the French troops, to arreft Doria, and to feize his 
galleys. This order being communicated fecretly to 
Doria, he retired with all his galleys to a place of fafe- 
ty ; and, while his refentment was thus railed, he clofed 
with the offers of the emperor Charles V. returned his 
commifiion, with the collar of St. Michael, to Francis, 
and hoifted the imperial colours upon all the ftiips of his 
fquadron. To deliver his country, weary alike of the 
French and imperial yoke, from the dominion of fo¬ 
reigners, was now Doria’s higheft ambition; and the. fa- 
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vourable moment offered. Genoa was afflicted with the 
peftilence, the French garrifon was greatly reduced and 
ill-paid, and the inhabitants were fufficiently difpofed to 
fecond his views. He failed to the harbour with thir¬ 
teen galleys, landed five hundred men, and made himfelf 
mafter of the gates and the palace with very little re¬ 
finance. The French governor with his feeble garrifon 
retired to the citadel, but was quickly forced to capitu¬ 
late ; when the people ran together, and levelled the ci¬ 
tadel with the ground. It was now in Doria’s power to 
have rendered himfelf the fovereign of his country ; but, 
with a magnanimity of which there are few examples, 
he affembled the people in the court before the palace, 
difclaimed all pre-eminence, and recommended to them 
to fettle that form of government they chofe to eftablilh. 
The people, animated by his fpirit, forgot their faiftions, 
and fixed that form of government which has fubfifted 
ever fince with little variation. This event happened in 
1528. The Genoefe, in gratitude to Doria, erefted a 
ftatue to him in the midft of the great fquare of their 
city; built for him a palace in the fame place, which 
was for ever to be called by his name ; ordained that 
himfelf and his pofterity fhould be exempted from im¬ 
ports of all kinds ; and were defirous of erecting a fortrefs 
for him upon a fpot which commanded every part of the 
city, that in cafe of any confpiracy againft his life, or in- 
furredlion of the refractory inhabitants, he might retire 
in fafety, till his friends and fellow-citizens could repair 
to his aftiftance. But to this he returned the following 
memorable anfwer: “ God forbid, that to infure the 
fafety of the remainder of my life, my country ftiould be 
rendered obnoxious to flavery ! This fortrefs, which you 
feern anxious to build, would only contribute, one day 
or other, in the hands of a defpot, to reduce the repub¬ 
lic to a ftate of fervitude. For remember, that neither 
men nor ftates can preferve their liberty by mere ram¬ 
parts and garrifons ; that ineftimable blefling can only be 
perpetuated by the difintereftednefs of the nobility, and 
the obedience of the people.” Doria lived to the great 
age of ninety-two or ninety-four years, refpefted and be¬ 
loved as a private citizen ; and is ftill celebrated in Ge¬ 
noa by the moft honourable of all appellations, “ The 
father of his country, and the reftorer of its liberty.” 
DO'R-IA,y; in botany. See Senecio, Solidago, and 
Othonna. 
DO'RIA BALTE'A, or Grand Doria, a river of 
Piedmont, which rifes in the Alps, on the borders of the 
Valais, and, after winding through the valley of Aorta, 
&c. empties itfelf into the Po by two branches, between 
Chivazzo and Crefcentino. 
DO'RIA RIPA'RIA, or Little Doria, a river of 
Piedmont, which rifes in the Alps, on the borders of 
France, paffes through the valley of Sufa, &c. and runs 
into the Po a little to the north-eaft of Turin. 
DO'RIANS, a people from Egypt, who came into 
Greece, or Hellotia, under the name of Adorians; and 
from their fimplicity of manners, and their little inter- 
courfe with foreigners, preferved the purity of their an¬ 
cient tongue. The ancient hymns, fung in the Prutaneia 
all over Greece, were Doric : fo facred was their dialeft 
efteemed. As every colony, which went abroad, took to 
themfelves fome facred title, from their particular mode 
of worfhip ; this ftiled themfelves accordingly Dorians. 
They were fo named from the deity Adorns, who by a 
common aphserefis was expreffed Dorus. The country, 
when they arrived, was inhabited by a people of a dif¬ 
ferent race ; whom they termed, as they did all nations 
in contradiftinflion to themfelves, BapSapoi. With thefe 
original inhabitants they had many conflicts ; of which 
we may fee fome traces in the hiftory of the Heraclidas : 
for the Dorians were the fame as the Herculeans ; and 
did not fettle in Greece only; but in many parts of the 
world, whither the Amonians in general betook them¬ 
felves. Paufanias imagines that the Dorians were com¬ 
paratively of late date; yet he ftiews, from many evi- 
