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protnifed to be a heavy and helplefs burthen. Ilis mind 
a flumes the appellation of rational; for it is fitted for the 
•reception and cultivation of useful knowledge ; and all 
the confoling and exalted views that Chriftianity opens 
to mankind, break in upon his foul through the channel 
that has been opened !” 
The fuccefs which attends Mr. Watfon’s mode of in- 
ftruftion, is beyond the conception of any one who has 
not been an eye-vvitnefs of the readinefs of his fcholars, 
who anfvver both by fpeech and writing - with wonderful 
facility. If you afk one of them a que/Iion in a flow and 
diftinbt manner, letting the deaf youth fee the motion of 
your lips and mouth, you immediately receive ananfwer 
in the fame manner, and without any fign or interference 
from the matter. Sometimes they will imitate the mo¬ 
tion of your lips as you fpeak, and thus repeat the quef- 
tion, as it were, to themfelves. Thofe who have been 
fotne time in the fchool will open a book, and read dif- 
tinitly any padage you point out, as well and as diftindf ly 
as fchoolboys in general do ; which was very fatisfadto- 
rily obferved by the editor of this work. A gentleman 
put his watch to the ear of one of the pupils. The youth 
tliook his head ; he heard nothing. The edge of the 
watch-cafe was then put againft his teeth. “ Now do 
you hear it ?” fays the gentleman : “ I feel it,” replies 
the boy. The children are of both lexes. Some pieces 
are publicly recited by them at the anniverfary meeting 
of the patrons of the inftitution. May fuch an inflitution 
never want patrons! 
DUM'DAI-I, a town of Hindooftan, in the Ruttunpour 
country : fixty-fix miles fouth-weft of Ruttunpour, and 
112 ea ft of Nagpour. 
DUMEI'DSJ, a town of Arabia, in the country of Ye¬ 
men : thirty-lix miles north-north-eaft of Cliamir. 
DUMFERM'LINE. See Dunfermline. 
To DUM'FOUND, v. a. To confufe ; to ftrike dumb. 
-—They had like to have dumfounded thejufti.ee; but his 
clerk came in to his afliftance. SpeElator. 
DUMFRI'ES, a county of Scotland, bounded cn the 
north by the counties of Lanerk, Peebles, and Selkirk, 
on the eaft by Roxburgfhire, on the fouth by the Frith 
of Solway, which divides it from England, and the county 
of Kircudbright, and on the weft by Airfliire. Tim coun¬ 
try is generally mountainous, with fome fertile valleys 
on the Aides of the rivers called Nithjdalc, or Niddifdale , 
Annandale, and Emdale ; about fifty miles in length, 
and from ten to thirty broad. The principal towns are 
Dumfries and Annan; and the chief rivers are the Elk,- 
the Annan, and the Nid. It fends one member to the 
Imperial parliament. 
DUMFRI'ES, a town of Scotland, and capital of the 
county to which it gives name, fituated on an eminence, 
near the river Nid, about terf miles from its mouth, in 
the Solway Frith; with a refpedlable grammar-fchool, 
and an infirmary. It is a royal borough, and afiifts, with 
fome other towns, to fend a member to the Imperial par¬ 
liament. About eight or ten coafting veflels belong to 
this town, befides feveral which are employed in the Bal¬ 
tic, and in the wine trade. Forty years ago, a confider- 
able tobacco trade was carried on at Dumfries. At an 
average of four years, 1250 hogfheads were then annually 
imported. It is alleged, that the importation was con- 
fiderably greater, and that in confequence of the detec¬ 
tion of fome attempts at fmuggling, the trade in this ar¬ 
ticle came to be difeouraged. The coafting veflels bring 
in linYe, coals, and merchant goods of various forts ; they 
export potatoes and grain. About a mile eaftward 
from the town is a craig, or rock, curioufly hollowed, 
known by the name of the Maidenbozocr Crag. It is faid 
to have been famous in the times of drui.difm ; and may 
have received its name from being the feene of fome rites 
p radii fed as a teft of virginity. The prefent population 
of the town, as appears from an enumeration lately taken, 
may be fairly eftimated at 5600 fouls-, twenty-one miles 
north-eaft of Kircudbright, and fifty-three fouth-fouth- 
Yol. VI. No. 335. 
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weft of Edinburgh. Lat. 53. S. N. Ion. 4. 25. W. Green¬ 
wich. 
DUMFRIE'S, a port of entry and poll town of the 
American States, in Virginia, and chief town of Prince 
William county, fituated on the north fide of (Xuantxo 
creek, four, miles above its entrance into the Potowmack, 
and ten miles from Colchefter. Its public edifices are an 
epifccpal church, a court-houfe, and jail. The exports 
from this port for one year, ending the 30th of Septem¬ 
ber 1794, amounted in value to 85,635, dollars: twenty- 
eight miles north by eaft of Fredericfburg, and 135 fouth- 
weft of Philadelphia. 
DUM'ME, a river of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and marquifate of Brandenburg, which runs in¬ 
to the Jetze, at Wuftro. 
DUM'MER, a townfhip of the American States, in 
Grafton county, New Hampfhire, incorporated in 1773. 
It is to the fouth-weft of lake Umbagog, on the waters 
of Upper Amonoofuck and of Androfcoggin rivers. 
DUM'MER SEA, a lake of Germany, in the circle 
of Weftphalia, and county of Diepholz, about twelve 
miles in circumference: four miles fouth of Diepholz. 
DUM'MERSTON, a townfhip of the American States, 
in Windham county, Vermont, north of Brattleborough, 
containing 1501 inhabitants. 
DUMMOO'D A, a river of Plindooftan, which runs into 
the Hoogly, twenty-eight miles below Calcutta. 
DUMO'NT (John), baron of Carlefcroon, an hiftori- 
cal and political writer, after ferving fome time in France, 
became a refugee in Holland, and was made hiftoriogra- 
pher to his imperial majefty. He died about 1726. His 
principal works are : 1. Memoires Politiques pour fervir a 
l’Intelligence de la Paix de Ryfwick, 4V0IS. 12010. 1699. 2. 
Voyages tn France, cn Italic, cn Allcmagne, cn Malte, S 3 en 
Turquie, 4 vols. 121110, 1699. 3. Corps univerfel diploma¬ 
tique du Droit dcs Gens, 8 vols. folio, 1726; this contains 
all the treaties of alliance, peace, and commerce, front 
the peace of Munfter to 1709. 4. Lcttres Hiftoriqucs, de- 
puis Janvier, 1652 , jufqu'en 1710. He published feveral 
other collections and compilations. His flile is flat and 
incorredl; but his works contain very ufeful matter. 
DUMO'SiE,/ [from dumus, Lat, a biilli.] In botany, 
the nineteenth order in Linnaeus’s Fragments ; and the 
forty-third of the natural orders in his Genera Plantarum. 
DUMO'SE, adj. [from the Lat dumus, a briar.] Full of 
briars, full of bullies. 
DUMO'SITM, f The ftate of being overgrown with 
bufhes. Scott. 
DUMP,/, [from dom, Dut. ftupid.] Sorrow ; melan¬ 
choly ; fadnefs ; a ditty or other fong : 
Vifit by night your lady’s chamber window 
With fome fweet confort; to their inftrumerits 
Tune a deploring dump: the night’s dead (iler.ee 
Will well become fuch fweet complaining grievance. 
Shahefpcare. 
Play me fome merry dump to comfort me. Romeo and Ju¬ 
liet. —Abfence of.ntind ; reverie.- Locke ufes dump's Angu¬ 
larly.—‘This fhame dumps caufes to well-bred people, 
when it carries them away from the company. Locke. 
DUMP'ISH, adj■ Sad; melancholy; forrowful.—The 
life which I live at this age is not a dead, dumpifh, and 
four, life ; but cheerful, lively, and pleafant. Herbert. 
DUMP'ISHLY, adu. In a melancholy manner. 
DUM'PLING,/. [from du'mp, heavinefs.] A. fort of 
pudding.—Pudding and dumpling burn to pot. Dry den. 
DUM'PLING-E ATER, /. One that eats dumplings, 
—Nor can he fail of cuftom, who has hung out a fign to 
all tru z clumpling-eaters. Arbutknot. 
DUN, adj. [bun, Sax.] A colour partaking cf brown 
and black.—Such as might arife from a mixture of light 
and darknefs, or from white and black; that is, a grey, 
or dun, or ruflet brown. Newton. —Dark ; gloomy : 
Come thick night! 
And pall thee in the dunnejl (make of hell. Shakefpeare, 
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