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tills town without dunces of figure, who had credit enough 
to give rife to fome new word. Swift. 
Dunce at the be ft, in ftreets but fcarce allow’d 
To tickle, on thy ft raw, the ftupid crowd. Dry den. 
DUN'CHURCH. See Dimchurch. 
DUN'COMBE (William), an ingenious writer, born 
in London in 1690. After a fchool education, he was 
entered at fix teen as a clerk in the navy-office. He had, 
however, acquired a tafte for literature, and made his firft 
appearance in a tranfiatiori of an o ; e of Horace, printed 
in the Wit’s Horace. He next publilhed feparately a 
verlion of the Carmen Seculare, which was foon followed 
by one of Racine’s Athaliah. In 1725 he quitted the 
navy-office, and thenceforth devoted himfelf to a life of 
literary leifure and domeftic friendfhip. He married in 
1726 tlie fifter of Mr. Hughes, the poet, of whofe works 
he afterwards became the editor. It is needlefs ro par- 
ticularife all the pieces written by Mr. Duncombe, con¬ 
fiding of letters, elfays, trarflations, &c. printed in the 
public papers and other colleftions, or feparately. One 
of his principal performances was the tragedy of Lucius 
Junius Brutus, chiefly taken from Voltaire, but with ma¬ 
terial alterations. In 1757 and 1759 he publiftied, with 
the afliftance of his fon, an entire verfion of Horace, with 
notes, in two volumes: of this, an improved edition ap¬ 
peared in four volumes, tamo. 1764. After a long life 
calmly fpent in virtuous and innocent purfuits, he died 
in 1769. 
DUN'COMBE ( John), only fon of the preceding, born 
in 1729. He was entered of Corpus-chrifti-college, Cam¬ 
bridge, in 1745, and diftinguifhed himfelf by a great pro¬ 
ficiency in polite literature. 'He became fellow of his col¬ 
lege, and afterwards took orders, and obtained a redtory 
in the city of Canterbury. In 1766 he obtained a preach- 
erfhip in the cathedral of Canterbury, and was appointed 
mafter of St. Johrfts hofpital in that city, and that of St. 
Nicholas, Harbledow; and was afterwards prefented to 
the vicarage of Herne, near Canterbury. He wrote a very 
confiderable number of poems, which have appeared in 
various collections, as thofe of Dodfley, Pearch, and 
Nichols; and feveral in a feparate form. Of tliefe, one 
of the beft known is The Feminead, a commemoration of 
female excellence. Their general character is eafe and 
elegance, with a fprightly vein of humour when the fub- 
jedt called it forth. 1-le wrote alfo a variety of profe 
elfays in periodical works. Befide his (bare in the tranlla- 
tion of Horace, he publilhed three fermons, and fome 
antiquarian papers in the Bibliotheca Topographica. He 
alfo edited various works; of which were The Corrc- 
fpondence of John Hughes, Efq. The Earl of Corke’s 
Letters from Italy ; and Archbiffiop Herring’s Letters. 
He clofed his ufeful and benevolent life in 1785. 
DUNDA'LK, a fea-port town of Ireland, in the county 
of Louth, fituated on a bay of the Iriffi Sea: manufactures 
of mullin and linen have been eftabliihed here, and are 
in a flourifiling ftate. It is an ancient borough; thirty- 
nine miles north of Dublin. Lat. 53. 5.9. N. ion. 6. 23. 
W. Greenwich. 
DUNDE'E, a large and flouri thing fea-port town of 
Scotland, in the county of Angus, fituated on a river on 
the north fide of the Frith of Tay, which is here between 
two and three miles wide. The harbour is good, and ca¬ 
pable of receiving veflels of 300 tons ; in 1792, there were 
n6 veflels belonging to the port, navigated by 698 men, 
and meafuring 8550J tons. Of thefe, thirty-four were 
employed in the foreign, and feventy-eight in the coaft- 
ing, trade, and four in the whale filhery. The chief 
manufactures are glafs, coarfe linen, fail-cloth, cordage, 
thread, buckram, tanned leather,, flioes, hats, &c. A 
fugar-houfe has lately been ere died, with confiderable 
fnccefs. The number of inhabitants is about 22,000. In 
the latter end of Augult, 1651, Dundee, which was held 
by the royalilts, under the command of general Ltimf- 
daine, was fummoned to furrender by general Monk, who 
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commanded the parliament forces; and, on the gover¬ 
nor’s refufal, was taken by ftorm on the id of Septem¬ 
ber. According to the account publilhed at the time, 
the governor was killed, with between feven and eight 
hundred foldiers and townfmen, and fourfeore women. 
The town was given up to be plundered by the foldiers 
and fenmen. There were at the time about one hundred 
fhips in the harbour, about forty pieces of ordnance, many 
arms, and (lore of ammunition : thirty miles north of Edin¬ 
burgh. Lat. 56.27, N. Ion. 3. 3. W. Greenwich. 
DUNDUKU'VA, a fettlement of Ruffian Siberia, in 
fbe government of Tobollk: 300 miles north-north-eaft: 
of Turuchanfk. Lat. 70. 16. N. Ion. 113.E. Ferro. 
DU'NES, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lot and Garonne, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftridt of Valence : three leagues fouth-eaft of Agen. 
DUNFERM'LINE, a town of Scotland, in the county 
of Fife, wi:h fome confiderable manufactures of linen; 
and contains about 5000 inhabitants. It is remarkable 
for a royal palace, in which Charles I. king of England 
was born, and the princefs Elizabeth, Iris fifter, mother 
of the princefs Sophia, from whom the prefent royal fa¬ 
mily of Great Britain derive their delcent : thirteen miles 
north-weft of Edinburgh. Mr. Campbell, in his Jour¬ 
ney from Edinburgh, &c. piiblifTied in 1802, gives a very 
plealing account of the ftrictnefs with which the fabbath 
is obferved in this town ; and of the general piety and 
longevity of its inhabitants. 
DUNG, f. [oine^. Sax.] The excrement of animals- 
ufed to fatten ground.—For dung , all excrements are the 
refufe and putrefadlions of nouriffiment. Bacon. —See the: 
articles Husbandry and Manure. 
To DUNG, v.a. To manure with dung: 
There, as his dream foretold, a cart he found, 
That carried compoft forth to dung the ground. Dryden . 
DUN'GALAy or Donkala, a kingdom of Africa, 
fituated chiefly on tire weft fide of the Nile, in the coun¬ 
try of Nubia. It owes its name to a populpus town built 
on the river Nile, faid to contain 10,000 houfes of wood. 
Lat. 2*o. 20. N. Ion. 3.0. 37. E. Greenwich. 
DUNG AN'NON, a town of Ireland, in the county of 
Tyrone, near which are coal-mines : twenty-five miles 
north-north-weft of Nevvry, and thirty-fix fouth-fouth-eaft 
of Londonderry. 
DUNGAR'VAN, a" fea-port town of Ireland, on the 
fouth coaft, in the county of Waterford, fituated in a bay 
of the Atlantic, to which it gives name : twenty-one miles 
weft-fouth-weft of Waterford. Lat. 52. 5. N. Ion. 7. 39-- 
W. Greenwich. 
DUNG'CART, f. A cart to carry dung. 
DUNGF.NF/SS, a cape of England, on the coaft of 
Kent, in the Englilh Channel. Lat. 50. 55. N. Ion. o. 
47. E. Greenwich. 
DUNGENE'SS POINT, a cape in the eafiern entrance 
in the Straits of Magellan. Lat. 5.2. 28. S. Ion. 68. 2S.W. 
Greenwich. 
DUN'GEON, f. [from donjon, the tower in which pri- 
foners were_ kept,, whence all prifons eminently ftrong. 
were in time called dungeons. ] A dole prifon: generally 
fpoke of a prifon dark or fubterraneous : 
Now from the north 
0 & Norumbeque, and the Samoed ffiore, 
Burfting their brazen dungeon, arm’d with ice. 
And fnovv, and hail,, come ftormy guft and flaw. Milton. 
DUNG'FORK,/! A fork to tofs out dung from fta- 
bles.— Dungforks and paddles are common every where.. 
Mortimer. 
DUNG'HILL, f. An heap or accumulation of dung. 
—Two cocks fought a duel for the maftery of a dunghill.. 
L'EJlrange. —Never enter into a league of friendlhip with, 
an ingrateful perfon ; that is, plant not thv friend Ill i p 
upon a dunghill: it is too noble a plant for fo bafe a foil.. 
South. —Any mean or vile abode j. 
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