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of words by having them palled upon little flat tablets or 
flics. Watts. 
DIE, / plur. dies. The damp ufed in coinage.—Such 
variety of -dies made life of by Wood in (tamping his mo¬ 
ney, makes the difcovery of counterfeits more difficult. 
Swift. 
DIE, a town of France, and principal place of a dif- 
tridl, in the department of the Drome, fituated on the 
Drome; before the revolution, the fee of a bifhop: ten 
leagues north-eaft of Montelimart. Lat. 44. 46. N. Ion. 
23. 4. E. Ferro. 
DIE'BACH, a town of the duchy of Luxemburg: 
four miles weft-fouth-weft of Luxemburg. 
DIE'BURG, or Depurg, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of the Lower Rhine, and electorate of Mentz : 
twenty-four miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Mentz. 
DIECBO'LIUM, /. [from ha, and eyfah Aw, to eaft 
out.] A medicine caufing abortion, or the premature 
ejection of the foetus from the womb. 
DIEC'MANN' (John), a learned German Lutheran 
divine, born at Stade in the duchy of Bremen, in 1647. 
He purfued his (Indies fucceffively at the univerlities of 
Gielfen, Jena, and Wirtemberg. He completed his courfe 
of (ludy in 1672, and three years afterwards was made 
rector of Stade. In 1683 he was appointed to the dig¬ 
nity of fuperintendant of the duchies of Bremen and Ver- 
den, and died in 1720. He was the author of feverab 
works diftinguifhed by erudition and ingenuity, among 
which are, 1. Dc Naturalifmo cum aliorum, turn maxime Jo- 
annis Boclini, ex opere ejus manufcripto Anecdoto, de Abditis 
rerum fublhnium arcanis, fchediafma, 1684, 121110. 2. Speci¬ 
men Glojfarii, Latino-theodifci. 3. Dijfertationes de Sparfvone 
Florurn. 4. De Dijfenfu Ecclefia Orientalis & Latina circa 
Purgatorium. 5. Limeades Animadverfwnum in diverfa Loca 
Annalium Cardinalis Raronii. 6 . De Vocis Papa JFtatibus. 
7. De quatuor Operationibus Mentis Humana. 8. De Typorum 
ccelejlium paradoxo Helmcntiano. 9. De Demonomagia ; and 
various treatifes in the German language, which were 
colledled and publiflied in one volume 4(0. in 1709. He 
is alfo more generally known by an.edition that he gave 
of the Bible at Stade, which is a reviflon of Luther’s 
German Bible. 
DIE'GO GARCIAS, or Chagas, an ifland of Africa, 
in the Indian Sea. Lat. 8.45. S. Ion.68.10.W.Greenwich. 
DIE'GO DE RAMIRES, an ifland near the coaft of 
Terra del Fuego, fouth-fouth-weft of Cape Horn. Lat. 
56.39. S. Ion. 68.45. W. Greenwich. 
DIE'GO RIAS, or Rodrigue, an ifland of Africa, 
in the Indian Ocean; one hundred leagues eaft from the 
ifland of Mauritius, or ifle of France, and laid down in 
it. Lat. 19. 30. S. Ion. 57. 32. E. Greenwich. 
DIE'GO SOUREZ, an ifland in the Indian Sea, near 
the eaft coaft of the ifland of Madagafcar. Lat. 11.50. S. 
Ion. 73. 27. E. Ferro. 
DIE'LE, a river of European Turkey, which runs in¬ 
to the Prutli, near Czezora. 
DIELET'TE, a river of France, which runs into the 
Englifli Channel : five leagues weft-fouth-weft of Cher- 
burg. 
DI'EM CLAU'SIT EXTRE'MUM, a writ which 
iflued out of the court of chancery to the efcheator of the 
county, upon the death of any of the king’s tenants in 
capite, to inquire by a jury of what lands he died feifed, 
and of what value, and who was the next heir to him. 
This writ to be granted at the fuit of the next heir, See. 
for upon that, when the heir came of age, he was to fue 
livery of his lands out of the king’s hands. F. N. B. 2.51. 
DIE'MEN, a town of Holland : four miles fouth-eaft 
of Amfterdum. 
DIE'MEN (Straits of), between the coaft of Afia and 
the iflands of Japan. 
DIE'MEN’s LAND, the fouthern coaft of New Hol¬ 
land, fo called by Tafman, who firft difeovered it in 
1642. This name was given to it by the Dutch naviga¬ 
tor Tafman, in honour of Antony Van Diemen, who was 
Vol. V. No. 3p6. 
at that time the Dutch governor-general in the Eaft In¬ 
dies. It has been recently afeertained to be an ifland, 
in the form of an oblong fquare, about 160 Britifh miles 
in length, by half that breadth, being divided from New 
Holland by a ftrait, or rather channel, more than thirty 
leagues wide, which .in recent maps.is called Bafs’s Strait, 
and contains a chain of ftnall iflands running north and 
fouth. During his laft voyage, cap* tin Cook, in January 
1777, vifited Dietnen’s-Land for fupplies of wood and wa¬ 
ter. They were met by fome of the natives, who were 
entirely naked ; of a common ftature, but (lender, the 
(kin being black, and the hair as woolly as that of any 
native of Guinea, but their lineaments were more pleafing 
than thofe of African negroes. The hair and beards, 
and the faces of fome, were fmeared with red ointment. 
They feern to prefer birds to all other food; and the 
kanguroo they prefer to other animals, becaufe, by hop¬ 
ping on two legs, it fomewhat refenibles a bird. The 
land is chiefly good, diverfified with hills and valleys, and 
moftly of a greenifti hue, being well wooded and water¬ 
ed. The Fluted Cape of Diemen’s Land appears to be 
compofed of a very fine white fandftone, which in many 
places bounds the (hore, and the foil is either fandy, or 
confifts of a yellowifn mould, and in fome places of a 
reddiftt clay. The Cored trees feem to be all of one kind, 
growing quite ftraight to a great height, and may be well 
adapted for mails. The only quadrupeds obferved were 
opoflums and kanguroos; and the birds differ not from 
thofe of New Plolland, to which there is, as it were, a 
paflage by intermediate ides. The hovels refemble thofe 
of New Holland ; but fometimes large old trees are hol¬ 
lowed out by fire to the height of fix or feven feet, fo as 
to form a rude habitation. Captain Flinders, in his Ob- 
fervations on the Coaft of Van Diemen’s Land, publiflied 
in 1801, fays, that the capes are moftly bafaltic, and he 
includes the Fluted Cape, the columns being fometimes 
fingle, fometimes grouped like (lacks of chimneys. Upon 
Cape Barren is found the new animal called womat by 
the natives near Port Jackfon, refembling a little bear. 
In general, he fays, Van Diemen’s Land prefents a dreary 
and inhofpitable lhore, mottled with rocks of white 
quartz and black bafalt. Port Dalrymple is the only, 
harbour upon the north coaft, which teems pleafant and. 
fertile. 
DIEM'ERBROECK (((brand van), an eminent phy- 
fician, born in 1609, at Montford, in Holland. He ftudied 
at Utrecht and Leyden, and then vifited France, and took 
his degree of dodtor of medicine at Angers. He was fome 
time an army-phyfician, and then fettled at Nimeguen. 
He afterwards removed to Utrecht, and was made profef- 
for-extraordinary of medicine in the Univerfity in 1649, 
and profeffbr in ordinary in 1651. He died in 1674, and 
his funeral oration was pronounced by the learned Gras- 
vius. The work by which he is bed known, is his trea- 
tife De Pejle, in 4to. printed at Arnheim in 1646, and at 
Amfterdam in 1665. It gives the hiftory of the plague 
of Nimeguen, of which he was a witnefs, followed by 
the prophylaxis, and cure of the difeafe, and feledt cafes 
and obfervations. It is (till reckoned a valuable repo- 
litory of fadts on the fubjedt. His other medical publi¬ 
cations are : 1. De Variolis & Morbillis, liberfingularis. 2. 
Obfervationes & Curationes Medica centum. 3. Difputationes 
PraElica de Morbis Capitis, Thoracis, & imi Ventris, Uitr. 
1664. 4. Anatome Corporis humani, Ultr. 1672: this has 
been feveral times reprinted, and tranflated-into French 
and Englifli. It is a complete compendium of anatomy 
and phyfiology. All the works of Diemerbroeck were 
publiflied in folio, 1685, by his fon, an apothecary at 
Utrecht. 
DIEN'NE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Cantal: four leagues north of St. Flour. 
DIEN'NIAL, adj. [diennis, Lat.] Of or belonging to- 
two years. 
DIENVIL'LE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Aube, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict. 
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