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REPORT OF BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES. 
Devils Pulpit; rock, Whitehall Nar¬ 
rows, Washington county, N. Y. (Not 
Devil’s Pulpit.) 
Devils Wharf; post light, Connecticut 
river, 4 miles above Essex, Middlesex 
county, Conn. (Not Devil’s Wharf.) 
Devol; pond in Bristol county, Mass. 
(Not Davols.) 
Dewitt; R. R. station, Carroll county, 
Mo. (Not DeWitt.) 
Dewitt Bar; post light, Ohio river, Meigs 
county, Ohio. (Not De Witt’s Bar.) 
Diadama; see Dameas. 
Diarbekr; city and district, Asiatic Tur¬ 
key. (Not Diarbekir nor Kara Amid.) 
Dias; creek and village, Cape May county, 
N. J. (Not Dyers.) 
Diaz; see Big Cottonwood. 
Dice; head, Castine harbor, Hancock 
county, Maine. (Not Dice’s.) 
Dick; see Dix. 
Dickey; lake and river, Clallam county, 
Wash. (Not Dickodochtedar.) 
Dickinson; see Thumb. 
Dicks; Dick’s; see Dix. 
Dickson; borough, Lackawanna county, 
Pa. (Not Dickson City.) 
Diddell; R. R. station, Dutchess county, 
N. Y. (Not Didell.) 
Dieringer; R. R. station, Pierce county, 
Wash. (Not Derringer.) 
Dillard; wharf, opposite mouth of Chick- 
ahominy river, James river, Va. (Not 
Dollard’s.) 
Dillard; Dillard Mill; see Indian. 
Dille; bottom and R. R. station, Bel¬ 
mont county, Ohio. (Not Dillie, Dil- I 
lies, Dillon’s, nor Dilly’s.) 
Dillen; village, Jefferson county, N. Y. 
(Not Dillin.) 
Dilles Bottom; town, Belmont county, j 
Ohio. (Not Dille, Dille’s, Dillie, Dil- I 
lies, nor Dilly’s.) 
Dirickson; creek, Sussex county, Del. I 
(Not Herring nor Williams.) 
Dirt; see Mud. 
Disappointment; cape at mouth of Co¬ 
lumbia river, Wash. 
Note.— On the 6th of July, 1778, Meares, in 
the ship Nootka, arrived off the cape and found 
that a “prodigious easterly swell rolled on the 
shore,” and he had soundings in 16 fathoms 
over a hard, sandy bottom. “After we had 
rounded the promontory, a large bay, as we 
had imagined, opened to our view, that bore a 
very promising appearance and into which we 
steered, with every encouraging expectation. 
As we steered into the bay the water shoaled to 
9, 8, and 7 fathoms, where breakers were seen 
right ahead, and from the masthead they were 
observed to extend across the bay. We there¬ 
fore hauled out.” The name Cape Disappoint¬ 
ment was given to the promontory. It was 
called Cape Hancock by Gray, in 1792. He 
changed this name to Cape Disappointment 
upon hearing that Meares had so named it. 
Cape Disappointment retained by Vancouver, 
by Belcher in 1839, and by Ex. Ex. in 1841. 
Duflot de Mofras, 1844, calls it Cape San Roque 
or Disappointment. It was called Cape Han¬ 
cock or Disappointment at the first examination 
of the entrance to the river, in 1850, and the 
name Hancock, subsequently, in a secondary 
manner in the Light-House List, but the name 
Disappointment is that used on the official 
charts and by all navigators .—Pacific Coast 
Pilot , 1889, p. U56. 
Dishroon; post light, Mississippi river, 
Tensas parish, La. (Not Dishroon’s.) 
Dividend; see Dividing. 
Dividing; creek, Talbot county, Md. 
(Not Trappe.) 
Dividing; creek, Northumberland 
county, Ya. (Not Dividend.) 
Dix; point, Saint Marys river, Mich. 
(Not Dix’s.) 
Dix; river, Rockcastle, Lincoln, Garrard, 
Boyle, and Mercer counties, Ky. (Not 
Dick, Dick’s, Dicks, nor Dyck’s.) 
Dix; western point of entrance to Duck 
cove, Mount Desert island, Maine. 
(Not Nutter’s.) 
Dix; see Nutter. 
Dnieper; river of southern Russia, tribu¬ 
tary to the Black sea. (Not Dniepr 
nor Dnyepr.) 
Dniester; river of southern Russia, trib¬ 
utary to the Black sea. (Not Dniestr 
nor Dnyestr.) 
Doag; see Dogue. 
Dobbs Ferry; village on Hudson river, 
Westchester county, N. Y. (Not Dobb’s 
Ferry.) 
Dobelbower Landing; post light, Co¬ 
lumbia river, Columbia county, Oregon. 
(Not Dobelbower’s.) 
Dochet; island, Saint Croix river, Wash¬ 
ington county, Maine. (Not Demont’s 
nor Saint Croix.) 
Dockum; village, Dickens county, Texas. 
(Not Dockum’s Ranch.) 
Doctor Merry; post light, Mississippi 
river, Muscatine county, Iowa. (Not 
Dr. Merry’s.) 
