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gained him admilfion into the French academy in 1733. 
He alfo wrote an Eflay on the Monies of France, 4to. 
1746, containing many curious refearches, and much ef- 
teemed. Inquiries into the Value of Monies and the 
Price ot Corn, nmo. 17C1 ; an ufeful performance. M. 
Dupre died in 1775, at a very advanced age. 
DUQUEL'LA, a province of Africa, in the empire of 
Morocco, about twenty-five leagues in length, and twenty 
broad ; exceedingly fertile in corn and paftures. 
DUQUE'SNE, a river of the ifiand of Grenada, which 
runs into the fea, in a bay to which it gives name. 
DUQUE'SNE POINT, a cape on the weft coaft of the 
ifiand ot Grenada. Lat. 1-2. 17. N. ion. 61. 29. W. Green¬ 
wich . 
DU'RA, [from the Heb. fignifying duration .] The 
name of a place, fituated in the province of Babylon, 
where king Nebuchadnezzar fet up his golden image. 
Dan. iii. 1. 
DU'RA MA'TER,/! [from durus, Lat. hard, and ma¬ 
ter a mother.] A membrane furrounding the brain, and 
called dura, from its comparative hardnefs with the pia 
mater , and mater from its being the fource of all the other 
membranes. See Anatomy. 
DURABr'LITY, J. [_durabilis, I.at.] The power of 
lafting; continuance; endurance.—Stones, though indig¬ 
nity of nature inferior unto plants, yet exceed them in 
firmnefs of ftrength, or durability of being. Hooker. —Our- 
times upon the earth have neither certainty nor durability. 
Raleigh. 
DU'RABLE, adj. [ durabilis , Lat.] Lafting ; having 
the quality of long continuance.—The glories of her ma- 
jefty’s reign ought to be recorded in words more durable 
than brafs, and fuch as our pofterity may read a thoufand. 
years hence. Swift. —Having fucceffive exiftence : 
Time, though in eternity, applied 
To motion, meafures all things durable 
By prefent, paft, and future. Milton. 
DU'R ABLENESS, J. Power of lafting ; continuance. 
*— A bad poet, if he cannot become immortal by the 
goodnefs of his verfe, may by the durablaiejs of the metal 
that fupports it. Addifon. 
DU'RABLY, adv. In a lafting manner.—There indeed 
he found his fame flourifiling, his monuments engraved in 
marble, and yet more durably in men’s memories. Sidney. 
DURA'KA, a fmall ifiand of Arabia, in the Red Sea, 
about four leagues from the coaft. Lat. 16. 48. N. Ion. 
41.31.E. Greenwich. 
DURAKO'VA, a town of Ruffin, in the government 
of Archangel, on the coaft of the White Sea : fixty-eight 
miles weft of Archangel. 
DURAMPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the country 
of Guzerat, forty-five miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Surat, 
and ninety-fix north-north-eaft of Bombay. Lat. 20. 32. 
N. Ion. 73. 14. E. Greenwich. 
DU'RANCE, f. [from clurejfe , Law Fr.] Imprifon- 
ment; the cuftody or power of a jailor; a prifon.—A 
poor, innocent, forlorn, ftranger, languifhing in durance, 
upon the falfe accufations of a lying, infolent, woman. 
'South. —Endurance; continuance; duration: 
Sick nature at that inftant trembled round, 
And mother earth figh’d as fire felt the wound : 
Of how ftiort durance was this new made ftate ; 
How far more mighty than heav’n’s love, hell’s hate. 
Dry den. 
DURAN'CE, a river of France, which rifes on the 
borders of Piedmopt, paffes near Embrun, Sifteron, Ma- 
nofque, Pertuis, Cavaillon, &c. and runs into the Rhone, 
a little below Avignon. 
DURA'ND (William), an eminent jurift, born in 1237 
■at PuyinoilTon in Provence. He went young to Bologna, 
where he ftudied the canon law under Bernardo du Parma. 
After taking his dodlor’s degree, he began to teach, firft 
at Bologna, and then at Modena, At the age of thirty. 
DUR 
four he publilhed liis famous work entitled Speculum Juris, 
w'hich was fo much efteemed that it acquired him the 
furname of Speculator. The learned Baldus ufed to fay, 
that without pofteffing that book a man could not deferve 
the name of a lawyer. The cardinal of Oftia took Du¬ 
rand as his afteftbr in deciding caufes, and made him fo- 
advantageoufty known at the court of Rome, that he was 
employed by pope Clement IV. and four fucceeding pon-- 
tiffs, in important and honourable charges. Gregory X. 
made him his legate at the council of Lyons in 1274. 
He fuftaineu various governments in Italy, and was railed 
to the dignity of count of Romagna. In 12S5, Hono- 
rius IV. appointed him to the fee of Mende, but he was 
prevented by bufinefs from taking pofteflion of his bi- 
thopric till 1290. Four years afterwards he--was recalled 
into Italy,.and made marquis of the march of Ancona, 
and again count of Romagna, which provinces he go¬ 
verned during the tumults of tire Guclf and Ghibeliine 
factions* He died at Rome in 1296, and a magnificent 
monument was eredted to his memory in the church of 
St. Maria s. Minerva. Befides his Speculum, he wrote 
Rationale Divinorum OJjiciorum, a work of celebrity in its 
time; and alfo a Commentary o-n the Canons of the 
Council of Lyons; and an Abridgement of the Glofles 
and Text of the Canon Law. 
DURA'ND (William), nephew of the preceding, was 
made archdeacon of Mende, and became biftiop of that 
fee, in which he remained until his death, in 1328. His 
name is now chiefly recolledted on account of his being 
the author of a work highly efteemed in the catholic 
world, which treats “ of the manner of lidding a general 
council,” and prefents us with a vaft number of regula¬ 
tions made by councils, and the fathers, for reforming the 
abufes and diforders of the popes and court of Rome, of 
the prelates, the ecclefiafjacs, and religious orders. It is 
fpoken of as a very ufeful work, on account of the infor¬ 
mation which it conveys, and the valuabLe advice which 
it fuggefts. 
DURA'ND de St. POURCAIN (William), a learned; 
French prelate, in the fourteenth century, born in the 
town indicated by his furname, in the diocefe of Cler¬ 
mont. He acquired very high reputation by the profi¬ 
ciency which he made in theological and philofophical 
ftudies. In 1313 he was created doftor in divinity by 
the univerfity of Paris, and fome time afterwards obtained 
the fituation of mafter of the facred palace at Rome, 
where his office called him to deliver public lectures on 
facred literature. In 1318 he was nominated biftiop of 
Puy ; and in 1326 tranflated to the bifhopric of Meaux, 
by pope John XXIL He made himfelf fo famous by 
his acutenefs and perfeverance in difeufling the 1110ft 
crabbed and difficult topics in fcholaftic theology, that 
he obtained the title of the mrjl refolute doHor. At firft he 
was a follower of Thomas Aquinas, but lie afterwards 
adopted the opinions of the Scotifts, which he defended 
with equal abilities and zeal. He was the author of 
Commcntaria fuper Libros IV. Sententiarum, of which the beft 
edition was publifhed in folio, in 1571; Liber de origine 
JurifdiHionum, Jeu de ecclcfiajlica JuriJd.iH.ione, & TraHatusde 
Legibus, printed in 4to. in 1571; and other treatifes, many 
of which are to be met with in a collection of his works 
publilhed under the care of Dr. Merlin, in 1515. 
DURAN'GQ, a town of North America, in the pro¬ 
vince of New Bifcay, the fee of a biftiop, fuffragan of 
the archbiftiop of Mexico. The air is healthy, and the 
land about it fertile in corn, maize, and fruit: 335 miles 
north-north-weft of Mexico. Lat. 24. 10, N. Ion. S7. 15,, 
W. Ferro. 
DURAN'GO, a town of Spain, in the province of Bif¬ 
cay : about three leagues from the fea coaft, and four eaft 
of Bilboa. 
DURAN'TA,y. [fo named by Linnaeus in memory of 
Caftor Duranles, phyfician to pope Sixtus V. He pub¬ 
lifhed Herbarium, 1584. Plumier named tliegenusCa)?orei2. ] 
In botany, a genus of the clals didynamia, order angiol- 
permia^ 
