D W A 
D W A 
Chittenden county, Vermont, twenty miles fquth-eaft of 
Burlington. 
DUY'VELAND, an iHand of Zealand, feparated from 
the fouth-eaft part of Schouwen, by a narrow paflage ; 
its dimenfions about three leagues by two. 
DUZ'DEH, a town of Aliatic Turkey, in the province 
of Natolia : twenty-eight miles weft of Eregri. 
DU'ZEY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Meufe, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriet of 
Eftain : three leagues north of Eftain. 
DWALE,A in botany. See Atropa. 
DWARF, f [bpeopjt;, Sax. dwerg, Dut.] A man 
below the common fize of men : 
They, but now who feern’d 
In bigneF to furpafs earth’s giant fons, 
Novv lefs than fmalleft dwarfs , in narrow room 
Throng numberlefs. Milton. 
Any aniipal or plant below its natural bulk.—Saw off the 
flock in a fmooth place ; and for dwarf trees, graft them 
within four fingers of the ground. Mortimer. —An attend¬ 
ant on a lady or knight in romances : 
The champion flout, 
Eftfoones difmouuted from his courier brave, 
And to the dwaf awhile his needlefs fpcar he gave. 
Spenfer. 
It is tiled often by botanifts in compofition ; as, dwarf. 
elder, *fzr;«>y'-honey-fuckle, See. 
The Romans were paffionately fond of dwarfs, whom 
they called nani or nanee, infomuch that they often ufed 
artificial methods to prevent the growth of boys de- 
figned for dwarfs, by inclofing them in boxes, or by the 
ufe of tight bandages. Auguftus’s niece, Julia, was 
extremely fond of a dwarf called Sonopas, who was only 
two feet and an hand-breadth high. There are many 
curious accounts of human dwarfs, which certainly de- 
ferve the attention.of the phyfiologift, the philofopher, 
and anatomift. Jeffery Hudfon, the famous Engliflf 
dwarf, is a ftriking inftance of the kind. Fie was born at 
Oakham, in Rutlandihire, 1619; and about the age of 
fever, or eight, being then but eighteen inches high, was 
retained in the fervice of the duke of Buckingham, at 
Burleigh. Soon after the marriage of Charles I. the 
king and queen being entertained at Burleigh, little 
Jeffery was prefented by the duchefs to the queen, who 
kept him as her dwarf. From feven years of age till 
thirty, he never grew taller ; but after thirty, he grew 
up to three feet nine inches, and there fixed. Jeffery 
became a confiderable part of the entertainment of the 
court. Sir William Davenant wrote a poem, called 
fffreidos, on a battle between him and a turkey-cock ; 
yet Jeffery was employed on an embaffy to France, from 
the queen of England, to her mother, Mary de Medicis ; 
and on his return he was taken by the Dunkirkers. 
Jeffery, 'hits made of confequence, began to think him- 
leif really fo ; for, feeling himfejf infulted by Mr. Crofts, 
a young gentleman of family, a challenge enfued: and 
Mr. Crofts coming to the rendezvous armed only with a 
fquirt, the high-minded little creature was fo enraged, 
that a real duel enfued ; and the appointment being on 
horfeback with piftols, to put them more on a level, 
Jelfery, with the fir ft fire, (hot his antagonift dead. This 
happened in France, whither he had attended his miftrefs 
in the troubles. He was again taken prifoner by a 
Turkifh rover, and fold into Barbary. He probably 
did not remain long in flavery: for at the beginning of 
the civil war, he was made a captain in the royal army ; 
and in 1644 attended the queen to Frande, where he 
remained till the reftoration. At laft, uponTufpicion 
of his being privy to the Popifli plot, he was feized in 
j.682, and confined in the Gatehoufe, Weflminfler, where 
he ended his life, in the 63d year of his age. 
In the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences, 
a relation is given by the count de Treflau, of a dwarf 
called Bebe , kept by the late Staniflaus, king of Poland. 
Vot. VI. No, 337, 
V37 
and who died in 1764, at the age of twenty-three, when 
he meafured only thirty-three inches. At the time of 
his birth, he meafured only between eight anti nine 
inches. But that the fize and ftrength of the intel¬ 
lectual powers are not aft'etted by the diminutivenefs or 
tenuity of the corporeal organs, is evident from a Hill 
more ftriking inftance of littlenefs, deferibed by the fame 
nobleman, in the perfon of M. Boruluwfki, a Polilh 
gentleman, whom he faw at Luneville, and who, at the 
age of twenty-two, meafured only twenty-eight inches. 
Yet this miniature of a man was in no refpett deficient, 
at that age, in mental powers and attainments ; but is 
deferibed by the count as pofleftin’g all the graces of 
wit, united with a found judgment and an excellent 
memory. He continued to grow till he was about thirty, 
when he attained the height of three feet two inches. 
At forty-one years of age, he married a woman of the 
middle fize, and had three children, neither of them 
dwarfs. 
Dr. Guthrie, in his Antiquities of Ruflia, gives the 
following remarkable defeription of a dwarf. “ One 
woman, in the houfe of a venerable nobleman, formerly 
attached to Peter the Great, and whom I have the 
honour of frequently feeing, particularly engaged my 
attention. The emperor took pleafure in viewing this 
dwarf, and ufed to call her his puppet, which the little 
creature is ftill proud of relating. From an infcrfption 
under her portrait, in the pofleflion of her prefent ntafter, 
it appears that the was firft made prifoner of war in 
Poland by prince Mentchicoifi; after whole difgrace (lie' 
came into the hands of the princefs of Hefle-Homburg; 
and, when [he died, general Betlkoy, the princefs’s heir, 
took her as a part of his inheritance. The infeription 
fhews her to be nearly a century old. She is ftill brilk 
and lively, having the full ufe of her eyes, legs, and 
teeth, with an infantine voice when flie cries, which often 
happens to her at the recollection of her antient court 
drefs, which flie regrets exceedingly. Seen from behind, 
flie would be taken for a child of five or fix years old, 
an age that her ftature indicates. She is at this day, 
(October 15, 1794,) without any infirmity of age, after 
an abode of eighty years in Ruflia.” 
A few years ago there was feen at Batavia, a native of 
the ifland of Bali, named Kitip, who was fo frnall, and at 
the fame time diminilhed in fo fymmetric a manner, 
that he deferves to be confidered as one of the rareft 
phenomena in the animal ceconomy of nature. His' 
whole length amounted only to two feet eleven inches 
Englilh meafure; and the reduction of his body 
on both iides fo regularly alike, that the opinion of 
Button relpeCting the power of Ample parts acting on 
both Tides with equal force, from which arife the double 
parts on the expanfion of the animal body, feems to be 
fully confirmed. The head, though by far too large for 
the body of this dwarf, and which might have fuited one 
of fix feet, exhibited in other refpeCts nothing remark¬ 
able. His hair was long and black, but here and there 
a little grey, becaufe he had already attained to the 
fortieth year of his age. Like ntoft of his countrymen, 
he had no beard. His (kin was of a brownifh colour. 
His (boulders were broad, and his cheft ftrong ; the belly 
had the ufual form, only that it was too much contracted 
towards the lower part. His arms were too long in 
proportion to the body, and a little twilled or turned 
outwards ; the lower part of the arms was only half as 
long as that above the elbow : the hands were (hort, 
broad, and of a round form before. The fingers confided 
of round (tumps, which were totally loofe, without being 
ftrongly connected with the bones of the hand behind, 
and which were capable of no movement. They were 
furniftied with nails, and confided of the third row only 
of the finger joints, as the firft and fecond were totally 
wanting. Each hand had fix of thefe (hapelefs fingers ; 
two (landing clofe together in the place of the little 
finger, and the other four in the place of the thumb, the 
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