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burn Nombre de Dios, and to march thence .acrofs the 
ifthmus to Panama, in order to feize the treafure from 
Pern, lving at that place. Before their departure they 
received advice that the plate-fleet was fafely arrived in 
Spain, except one galleon which had put into Porto Ri¬ 
co. The commanders differed about the expediency of 
attempting to take this veffel, as the queen advifed. An 
attempt was firfl made upon the Canaries, which failed. 
Time was then loft in refitting at Dominica ; and the Spa¬ 
niards had the opportunity of conveying away their gal¬ 
leons from Porto Rico. Vexation threw Hawkins into a 
difeafe, of which he died in November. On the day after 
his deceafe, Drake made a defperate attack upon the port 
and fhipping of Porto Rico, which, though very deftruc- 
tive to the enemy, proved finally unfuccefsful. The fleet 
afterwards took and burnt Rio de la Hacha and Nombre 
de Dios. From the laft place an expedition was fent over 
land again!! Panama, but it was found impradlicable to 
effect any thing. Thefe difappointments preyed upon 
the mind of Drake, and his depreffion, joined with the 
effects of an unhealthy climate, threw him into a fever 
and flux, of which he died on January 28th, 1596, in the 
fifty-firlt year of his age, according to the date of his 
birth given in the Biog. Britan, but in the fifty-fifth ac¬ 
cording' to other accounts. He was a man, upon the 
whole, of an cftimable private charafler; careful of thofe 
under his command, courteous and humane towards thofe 
whom the fortune of war threw into his power, juft and 
generous in his dealings, fober and religious. HepofTeffed 
a natural eloquence, and though without the advantages 
of education, acquitted himfelf with credit on public oc- 
cafions. He was eminently fkilled in all the branches of 
his profeflion ; and with fo much courage and ability did 
he condudt his enterprifes, that fcarcely any name among 
naval adventurers flood fo high, not only in his own 
country, but throughout Europe, as that of fir Francis 
Drake. 
DRAKE, a harbour in California, fo called after the 
celebrated fir Francis Drake, who difcovered and took 
poffefTion of the peninfula of California, for his miftrefs, 
queen Elizabeth. Lat. 28. 15. N. Ion. in. 3. W. 
DRAKE, or Drake’s Bay, a bafon in the middle of 
the Virgin Ifles, in the Weft I ndies, four leagues broad and 
feven long, in which fhips may anchor, landlocked and 
flickered from all winds. 
DRAKE, or DRUsE-HOL,yi A Swediih denomination, 
ufed in their mineralogy to exprefs a duller of cryftals 
which line a cavity in any mineral. 
DRAKE’S ISLAND, or St. Nicholas, an illand in 
Plymouth found. 
DRAKE'NA,/. in botany. See Dorstenia. 
DRA'KENBORCH (Arnold), profelfor of rhetoric and 
hiftory in the univerfity of Utrecht, and one of the molt 
celebrated critics of modern times, born in that city on 
the 1 ft of January 1684. He ftudied the belles-lettres un¬ 
der Gracvius and Burmann, and law under Cornelius van 
Eck, after which he went to Leyden, and in 1706 took 
his degree of LI..D. at Utrecht. In 1716, he fucceeded 
Burmann as profelfor in that univerfity, and died there 
on the 16th of January 1748. His works are: 1. Difpit- 
tatio P/iilolog. Hijl de prajeLlis. urbis, Traj. ad Rhen. 1704, 
4to. On account of its merit and great fcarcity it was 
reprinted in fix Iheets, at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, in 1750, 
by profelfor Uhl, with the author’s life ; and at Bayreuth 
in 1787, by J. C. Kapp, co-redlor of the gymnalium at 
Hof, with correftions and annotations. 2. Difputatio de 
officio prtrfeElorum pratorio, Traj. ad Rhen. 1707, 4to. 3. 
C. Silii Ila/ici Punicorum, libri xvii. Traj. ad Rhen. 1717. 
4to. 4. T. Livii Patavini hijloriarum ab urbe condita libri, 
qui fuperfunt, omnes. Accedunt Supplementa deperditorum T. 
Livii libror. a J. Frcinfiemio concinnata, Lugd. Batav. 1738, 
1746, tom. vii. 4to. with the author’s portrait. Seven of 
Drakenborch’s letters to La Croze may be found in The- 
faurus Epift. La Crozianus, part. i. and others in Sylloge 
nova Epifolarum, Norimb. 1713, 8vo, 
Vol. VI. No. 331. 
DRAM, f. [from drachm ; drachma,, Lat.] In weight 
the eighth part of an ounce. See Drachma. —The trjial 
being made betwixt lead and lead, weighing feverally 
feven drams in the air, the balance in the water weigheth 
only four drams and forty-one grains, and abateth ot the 
weight in the air two drams and nineteen grains : the ba¬ 
lance kept the fame depth in the water. Bacon.- —A fmall 
quantity, in a kind of proverbial fenfe : 
One loving hour 
For many years of forrow can difpenfe ; 
A dram of fweet is worth a pound of four. Spenfer. 
Such a quantity of diftilled fpirit as is ufually drunk at 
once.—Every dram of brandy, every pot of ale that you 
drink, raifeth your charadler. Swift. —Spirits j diftilled 
liquors : 
A fecond fee, by meeker manners known, 
And model! as the maid that ftps alone ; 
From the ftrong fate of drams if thou get free, 
Another Durfy, Ward! fliall fing in thee. Pope. 
To DRAM, v. n. In low language, to drink drams ; t® 
drink diftilled fpirits. 
DRA'MA,/i [Gr.] A poem accommodated to aflion ; 
a poem in which the aition is not related, but reprefented; 
and in which therefore fuch rules are to be obferved as 
make the reprefentation ftridlly natural and probable. 
The drama includes both tragedy and comedy ; for 
the origin, ftyle, and proper vcrfification of which, fee 
the article Poetry. — Many rules of imitating na¬ 
ture Ariftotle drew from Homer, which he fitted to the 
drama ; furnilhing himfelf alfo with obfervations from 
the theatre, when it flourilhed under Aifchylus, Euripi¬ 
des, and Sophocles. Drydcn. 
DRA'MA, a town of European Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Romania : fixteen miles north-eaft of Emboli. 
DRAMA'TIC, or Dramatical, adj. Reprefented 
by adlion ; not narrative.' —I hope to make it appear, 
that, in the great dramatic poem of nature, is a necellity 
of introducing a God. Bentley. 
DRAMATICALLY, Reprefentatively ; by re¬ 
prefentation.—Ignorance and errors are feverally repre¬ 
hended, partly dramatically, partly limply. Dryden. 
DRA'MATIST, f. The author of dramatic compo- 
fitions.—The whole theatre refounds with the praifes of 
the great dramalijl, and the wonderful art and order of the 
compofition. Burnet. 
DRAM'BURG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and New Mark of Brandenburg: forty 
miles fouth-fouth-eall of Colberg, and 118 north-eaft of 
Berlin. 
DRAN, a river of Germany, which runs into the Drave, 
four miles fouth of Pettau, in the duchy of Stiria. 
DRAN (Henry Francis le), an eminent French furgeon, 
born in 1685, the fon of Henry le Dran, a furgeon at Paris, 
diftinguifhed for the treatment of cancers. Henry Francis 
was a man of great experience and ability. He wrote, 
1. Parallele dcs dijferentes Maniercs de tirer la Pierre hors de la 
Vejfie, 1730, 8Y0. 2. Obfervations de Chirurgic, avee dcs Re. 
fcElions, 2 vols. i2mo. 1731. 3. Traite ou Ref ettions tire'es 
de la Pratique fur. les Playes d'Arm.es a Feu, 1757, 1 21110. the 
refult of his own army-pradlice in gun-lhot wounds, and 
inculcating bold and efficacious modes of treatment. 4. 
Traite dts Operations de Chirurgic, 1743, 1 imo. To Gataker’s 
Englifh tranllation of it, Chefelden made fome valuable 
additions. 5. Confultations fur la plupart des Maladies quifont 
du Rejfort de la Chirurgic, 1765, 8vo. He died at Paris in 
1770, at the age of eighty-five. 
DRANCE, a river of Swiflerland, which runs into the 
Rhone, near Martigny, in the Valais. 
DRANK, the pret. of drink ; and,yi a provincial term 
for the wild oat. 
DRANS'FELD, a towm of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and principality of Calenberg ; fix miles 
fouth-welt of Gottingen. 
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