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•fa tower in the palace of Ubertino Carrara, lord of Pa- 
via. It was a finking clock, of twenty-four hours. A 
more famous machine, kept at Padua, reprefenting the 
motions of all the heavenly bodies, as well as pointing 
out the progrefs of the day and the year, has been ufu- 
ally attributed to James de Dondi. But Tirabofchi ren¬ 
ders it probable that it was the work of his fon John, a 
famous phyfician and aftronomer, a philofopher and poet, 
and an intimate friend of Petrarch. From this curious 
piece of machinery the family of Dondi acquired the fur- 
llame of de Horologia. 
DONE, part. paj[. of the verb To do: 
Another like fair tree eke grew thereby. 
Whereof whofo did eat, eftfoons did know 
Both good and evil: O mournful memory ! 
That tree, through one man’s fault, hath done us all to 
dye. Spenfcr. 
The old infinitive of do. —Ne to your lady will I fervice 
done. Spenfcr. —As maydens ufed to done. Id. 
DONE, a kind of interjeElion. The word by which a 
wager is concluded: when a wager is offered, he that 
accepts it fays done. —'Twas done and done, and the fox, 
by confent, was to be the judge. L'Ef range. 
One thing, fweet-heart, I will afk ; 
Take me for a new-fafhion’d mafk, 
— Done: but my bargain (hall be this, 
I’ll throw my mafk off when I kifs. Cleaveland. 
DONE'E, f. [from dono , I.at.] One to whom a gift is 
made.—Touching the parties unto deeds and charters, 
we are to confider as well the donors and grantors, as 
the donees or grantees. Spelman. 
DO'NEGAL, a town of Ireland, which gives name to 
{he county, fituated at the mouth of the river Efk, on a 
large bay of the Atlantic, on the weft coafl of the ifland, 
called from the town, The Bay of Donegal: nine miles 
north-north-eafl of Ballyfhannon. 
DO'NEGAL, a county of Ireland, bounded on the 
weft and north by the fea, on the eaft by the counties of 
Londonderry and Tyrone, and on the fouth by the county 
of Fermanagh, and an arm of the fea, called The Bay of 
Donegal, about feventy miles in length, and from ten to 
thirty in breadth : it is computed to contain only forty- 
two parifhes, 23,531 houfes, 140,000 inhabitants. The 
furface is generally rugged and mountainous, in fome 
parts boggy, with fome rich vales between the moun¬ 
tains and by the Tides of the rivers. The chief town is 
Ballyfhannon. The principal rivers are the Finn, the 
Dale, and the Guibarra. 
DO'NEGAL, the name of three townfhips of the 
American States, in Pennfylvania; the one in Lancafter 
county, the other in that of Weflmoreland, and the third 
in Wafhington county. 
DO'NETSK, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Ekaterinoflav, on the river Donetz : 140 miles eaft of 
Ekaterinoflav. Lat. 48.30. N. Ion.56.15.E. Ferro. 
DO'NETZ, a river of Ruflia, which rifes near Bielgo- 
rod, in the government of Kurik, and runs into the Don, 
near Kotchetovfkaia, in the country of the Coflacks. 
DON'GES, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Seine : feven leagues weft-north-weft of Nantes. 
DOh^'GO. See Angolo. 
DONGO'LA, a province of Nubia, to the north of the 
Nile, abounding in forefts of acacia, full of paroquets. 
DO'NI (Giambatifla), a learned Italian writer, de- 
fcended from a noble family in Florence, born in 1594. 
He had his early education in the jefuits’ college at 
Rome, where he greatly diftinguiflied himfelf by his abi¬ 
lity and application. He afterwards ftudied at Bourges, 
where he added the knowledge of jurifprudence to his 
other acquifitions ; and, on his return, he took his de¬ 
gree in law at Pifa. He ftudied the oriental languages; 
and, making a fecond vifit to France with the nuncio 
Corfino, in 1621, he cultivated an acquaintance with all 
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the learned men, and examined the libraries of that coun¬ 
try. He then began to make a very copious colledlion 
of infcriptions, which, after remaining a century in ma- 
nufcript, was publifhed in 1731 by the learned Gori. 
He was made profelfor of eloquence in the univerfity of 
Florence, and was aggregated to the Florentine academy, 
and to that of La Crufca. He continued to purfue his 
ftudies with his ufual ardour, and to publifh learned 
works, till his death in 1647. It is chiefly as a writer 
upon mufic that Doni has perpetuated his name; and his 
works on this fubjedt were numerous. In 1635 he puh- 
liflied, Compcndio del trattato de gcncri e de' modi della Mu- 
fea, con un difcorf0 Jopra la perfettione de' concenti ■, to this 
was added, Dif corfo fopra la perfettione del/e melodic. In 
1640 appeared his Annotazionifopra il compcndio de' generi. 
e de' modi della Mvfca, accompanied with various tradls 
and difeourfes. In 1647 he publifhed, De praflantia Mu- 
fca veteris, a dialogue comprifing a curious and learned 
difqiiifition on ancient and modern mufic, with arguments 
in favour of each, but ftrongly inclining to the caufe of 
antiquity. 
DONI'FEROUS, adj. [from the Lat. donum, a gift, 
and fero, to bear.] Bringing gifts. Scott. 
DON'JON, f. [now corrupted to dungeon, from domnio- 
num, low Latin, according to Menage. ] The higheft and 
ftrongeft tower of the caftle, in which prifoners were 
kept; as in Chaucer. It is now ufed of fubterraneous 
prifons : 
The grete toure, that was fo thicke and ftrong, 
Which of the caftle was the chief dongeon, 
Wherein the knightes were in prifon. Chaucer. 
DON'JON (Le), a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftridt, in the department of the Allier: eight leagues 
fouth-eaft of Moulins. Lat. 46. 21. N. Ion. 21. 28. E. 
Ferro. 
DON'KEY,/ A young afs. 
DON'KOV, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Riazan, fituated near the fource of the Don : fixty miles 
fouth of Riazan, and 480 fouth-fouth-eafl of Peterfburg. 
DONNE (John, D.D.), a poet and divine, fon of a 
merchant in London, born in 1573. He was fent to ftudy 
at Oxford fo early as his eleventh year, at which time we 
are told that he was a kind of prodigy of abilities. After 
a ftay there of three years, he paired as many at Cam¬ 
bridge, and was then entered at Lincoln’s-inn for the 
ftudy of the law. This, however, he laid alide for that 
of controverfial divinity ; for his relations, being papifts, 
had infufed into his young mind the principles of their 
faith, and he now thought it time to fix his religious 
profeflion by enquiring for himfelf. The refult ot his 
examination into the controverted points was, a firm de- 
cifion in favour of proteftantifm. He attended the earl of 
Eflex in 1596-97, on his expeditions againft Cadiz and 
the Azores ; and he afterwards paflfed fome years in Italy 
and Spain. On his return he became fecretary to lord- 
chanCellor Egerton, and continued in that employment 
five years, when a clandeltine marriage he contracted 
with a niece of the chancellor caufed his difmiflion. 
The young couple llruggled with difficulties, which were 
in fome degree alleviated by fir Francis Wooley and fir 
Robert Drury, who gave them apartments at his houfe 
in Drury-lane ; and, in 1612, he accompanied that friend 
on his embafly to Paris. On his return, many of the no¬ 
bility urged king James to confer upon him fome civil 
employment; but his majefty, who had fecretly refolved 
to make a divine of him, rejected their folicitations. He 
had already inftigated Donne to draw up a treatife on the 
controverly then depending concerning the oaths of alle¬ 
giance and fupremacy required from the Roman catho¬ 
lics; and the refult was his work, intitled, Pfudo-Mar- 
tyr, printed in 1610. He was now ordained deacon and 
priell by the bilhop of London, and was prefented with 
the degree of dodlor of divinity by the univerfityof Cam* 
bridge j after which he was made preacher of Lincoln’s- 
G inn. 
