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communication is formed with the oppofite fide of the 
river; the breadth of the whole is about 180 feet. In 
floods which fall from the mountains, this cataraft’s 
height is fometimes increafed to thirty feet. The falrnon 
generally begin to run in March or April, and to return in 
Auguft and September, when manyperfons frequent this 
place to fee them leap. Soon as they arrive at the bot¬ 
tom of the fall, they rife juft above the water for near 
half a minute, as if to obferve the height and diflance ; 
then finking, they prefently dart ftraight up from the fur- 
face, fhaking their fins and tails with a quick motion, 
and often clear the leap at the firfl fpring ; but frequently 
the force of the falling water throws- them back upon 
the (helving rocks, from whence they leap back again, 
and wait fome time before they make a fecond attempt. 
On the 25th of Auguft, 1797, one hundred falrnon were 
feen to leap this fall in the fpace of two hours. Thefe 
fifli are taken in great abundance, and the citizens of 
Dublin are at all times fupplied with falrnon at a very 
low price. Upon a richly planted hill, oppofite the fall, 
js eredted a very handfome Gothic temple, which com¬ 
mands a full view of the falrnon leap, and adds much to 
the beauty of this charming fcene. 
About eight miles from Dublin, is that grand promon¬ 
tory, the Hill of Ilowth, magnificently placed in St. 
George’s channel; this is the firfl land which appears 
to the mariner when fleering diredt from Holyhead, Park- 
gate, or Liverpool, for the bay of Dublin: upon the 
fummit of this hill is eredted a very excellent light-houfe, 
whofe brightnefs afFords much fafety to all the (hipping 
fleering thither by night. Many perfons affert, that they 
have feen the Welch mountains with the naked eye from 
the fummit of this hill upon a clear day, being a diflance 
of twenty-one leagues. 
DUB'LIN, a townfliip of the American States, in 
Chefnire county, New Hampfhire, on a branch of Aftiu- 
elot river, and north of the Great Monadnock, contain¬ 
ing 901 inhabitants. It is twenty-eight miles fouth-eaft 
of Charleftown, and eighty-two weft of Portfmouth : in¬ 
corporated in 1771. 
DUB'LIN, a pleafant town of North America, in Phi¬ 
ladelphia county, Pennfylvania, ten miles north-eaft of 
Philadelphia, and as far fouth-weft of Briftol. Alfo, a 
townfliip in Huntingdon county, in Pennfylvania. 
DUB'NO, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Vol- 
hynia : twenty-four miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Lucko. 
DUB'NO, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Belcz ; forty miles north of Belcz. 
DOBO'JA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Brzefc : ten miles weft-fouth-weft of Brzefc. 
DUBOI'S. (William), an extraordinary example of 
corrupt elevation ; the Ion of an apothecary at Brive-la- 
Gaillarde, in Limofin. He was born in 1656, and re¬ 
ceived the rudiments of education in the fchool of his 
birth-place. He early diftinguiflied himfelf for quicknefs 
of parts and vivacity of temper, attended with a great 
propenfity to f.tlfehood. He went young to Paris, and 
entered into the college of St. Michael; but fuch was his 
indigence, that he was obliged for his fupport to ferve 
the principal as his valet. After having acquired fome 
knowledge of philofophy and the languages, he fuccef- 
fively occupied the polls of preceptor in different fami¬ 
lies, till at length he was recommended to M. de Saint- 
Laurent, fub-governor to the young duke de Chartres, 
afterwards the regent duke of Orleans. This was the 
circumftance which introduced Dubois to the path of 
fortune. By his fupple and infinuating difpofition he in¬ 
gratiated himfelf with Saint-Laurent, who caufed him to 
be decently clad, and then placed him with the young 
prince as teacher of the elements of the Latin language. 
Dubois performed his duty with credit, and at the fame 
time acquired the favour of fome of the young nobles who 
h.ad places about the prince ; fo that, upon the death of 
Saint-Laurent, he was made preceptor and reader, with a 
eonfiderable falary. He gave fatisfadtion at court by the 
attention he paid towards bringing forward his pupil .in 
his ftudies, and at the fame time he fecured an afcend- 
ancy over his mind by corrupting his principles. He ac¬ 
companied the duke de Chartres in his campaigns in 
Flanders, where lie difplayed eonfiderable intrepidity, 
and rendered himfelf agreeable to the officers by dextrous 
flattery and lively converfation. Such was his influence 
over the duke, that he was the perfon chiefly employed 
by the court in order to induce him to marry the king’s 
natural daughter, madame de Blois ; and his fuccefs in 
this negociation was rewarded by the abbacy of St. Juft. 
In 1717 he was fent as ambaffador plenipotentiary into 
England, where he figned the triple alliance. On his re¬ 
turn he was made minifter and fecretary of ftste for fo¬ 
reign affairs, and he acquired the entire management of 
that department. The archbiftiopric of Cambray, one of 
the richeft in the kingdom, becoming vacant, Dubois 
wiflied to obtain it; and he was confecrated archbifhop 
in a pompous ceremony, at which the regent himfelf and 
all his court aflifted. This fhameful profufion of court 
favours was aggravated by his elevation to the cardinalate 
in the next year, 1721, not without a long refiflance on 
the part of pope Innocent XIII. whofe forced compliance 
was thought to have fliortened his days. The cardinal 
was admitted into the council of regency in 1722, and 
foon after was declared firfl minifter of (fate. He alfo 
thought it fuitable to his dignity to be admitted among 
the members of the French academy, and his vanity led 
him to make a point of being received by the title of 
mon/eigneur, which had been given to no academician be¬ 
fore him. Thus arrived at the fummit of power and 
place, rolling in opulence, and having feen every thing 
great by rank and title crouch beneath his meannefs, he 
was attacked by a fatal difeafe, the confequence of his 
early debaucheries, which, after a painful chirurgical 
operation, put a fpeedy end to his life. He died in Au¬ 
guft, 1723, at the age of fixty-feven. A mod magnificent 
maufoleum (the mafter-piece of the fculptor Couftou) 
was eredted for him in the church of St. Honore. After 
the enumeration of all his titles and employments, the 
infeription ends thus : “ What are all thefe titles and 
honours but the changing bow of heaven, and the vapour 
that melts into air ! Paffenger, intreat of Heaven, for the 
deceafed, more folid and more fubftantial blefiings.” 
Dubois was a man of parts, but not of abilities equal to 
the great pofts he occupied. He was hafty and impa¬ 
tient, purfuing the bufinefs of the moment with an ar¬ 
dour which obliterated every thing elfe. His papers were 
never kept in any order; fo that he ufed frequently, in 
fearching after any thing he wanted, to fvvear exceflively. 
One of his clerks told him, “ Your eminence had better 
hire a man,to fvvear for you, and then you will gain fo 
much time.” No man had ever a more corrupt heart; 
and fuch was his contempt of virtue, that he fcorned to 
pradtife hypocrify. Yet he had little enjoyment of his 
wonderful elevation, and was ufed to fay to Fontenelle, 
with whom he loved to converfe, “ I wifli I lived in a 
fecond floor at Paris, with an old nurfe, and only five 
hundred crowns a-year!” 
DUBO'S (Charles-Francis), a French ecclefiaftic, born 
in 1661, in the diocefe of St. Flour in Auvergne. He was 
fent for education to Paris, where, after he had gone 
through a courfe of claflical learning and philofophy, he 
devoted himfelf to the ftudy of theology, and took his 
degrees in the college of the Sorbonne, with uncommon 
reputation. He became a favourite of M. Barillon, bi- 
fhop of Liifon, who made him principal archdeacon of 
his church. After the death of the bifhop, feveral other 
prelates wiflied to attach him to their interefts, but he 
chofe to continue his connection with the fee of Lujon; 
and on a vacancy taking place in the deanery, he was 
unanimoufly elected to that dignity by the chapter, un¬ 
der very honourable circumftances. In that fituation he 
remained until his death, in 1724, in the (ixty-fourth 
year of his age. He lived honoured and beloved by all 
ranks; 
