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Colne. Area 1,260 acres. Pop. 3,906. In this | NW course of about 24 m., falls into the sea of township are the villages of Dalton-Fold and Dalton Green. Also a township, in judicial processes styled Dalton-cum-Hutton, in the p. of Burton, in Kendal, Lancashire. Area 2,230 acres. Pop. 155. DALTON-LE-DALE, a parish and township of the co. of Durham, 63 m. S of Sunderland, on a branch of the Wear. Area of p. 3,940 acres. Pop. 2,709. Area of township 830 acres. Pop. 2,017. DALTON-IN-FURNESS, a parish of Lancashire, 25 m. WNW of Lancaster, and 54 m. WSW of Ulverston. Area 16,210 acres. Pop. 3,231.

DALTON (NORTH), a parish in the E. R. of Yorkshire, 7 m. SE of Great Driffield. Area 3,890 acres. Pop. 450.

DALTON-PIERCY, a township in the p. of Hart, co. of Durham, 83 m. NNE of Stockton-upon-Tees. Area 960 acres. Pop. 78.

DALTON (SOUTH), a parish in the E. R. of Yorkshire, 5 m. NW of Beverley. Area 1,750 acres. Pop. 269.

DALTON-UPON-TEES, a township in the p. of Croft, N. R. of Yorkshire. Area 1,440 acres. Pop.

219.

DALUM, a town of Denmark, in the island of Fyen, bailiwick and 2 m. S of Odensee, and on the 1. bank of the river of that name.

DAMALA, a town of Greece, in the Morea, cap. of the dep. of Trozène, in the hypodiocese of Hiermionide and Trozène, on the N side of the mountain-range of the same name, 2 m. from the shore of the gulf of Ægina, and 35 m. ESE of Argos. The number of its houses does not exceed 45, and it is extremely unhealthy. In the environs are extensive ruins, supposed to be those of the ancient Træzène.

DAMANHUR, or DAMANHUR-EL-WEHEH, a town of Lower Egypt, in the prov. of Bahireh, 28 m. S of Rosetta, and 39 m. ESE of Alexandria, on a canal of the same name. It is large, but is ill-built; a Coptic church is the only edifice which it possesses worthy of notice. It has, however, a large woollen factory, at which coarse cloth is woven for the army; and enjoys an active trade in cotton, the produce of the environs, but monopolized by the pasha.

DAMANHUR SHUBRA, or SHOBRA, a village of Lower Egypt, in the prov. of Ghizeh, 5 m. N of Cairo, on the r. bank of the Nile. It contains a summer - palace belonging to the Pasha of Egypt. See CAIRO.

DAMAQUIL, a river of New Grenada, in the prov. of Choco, which runs NW, and after a course of 69 m. falls into the gulf of Darien, in N lat. 8° 40′. DAMAR, a town of Arabia, cap. of a small dis

DALUPIRE, the most westerly of the Babuyanes islands, in the Philippine group, in N lat. 19° 8', Etrict in Yemen, 66 m. S of Sana, on a hill, and near long. 121° 15'. It is about 32 m. in circumf.-Also a small island in the same group, to the NW of the island of Samar.

DALVAULT, a village in the p. of Bonhill, Dumbartonshire. Pop. 71.

DALWHAT WATER, a small stream in the NW of Dumfries-shire, an affluent of the Cairn.

DALWOOD, a chapelry in the p. of Stockland, Dorset, locally in the co. of Devon, 33 m. NW of Axminster. Area 3,950 acres. Pop. 513.

DALYA, a town of Hungarian Slavonia, in the comitat of Verocza, 20 m. ESE of Esseg, and 45 m. WNW of Peterwardein, on the r. bank of the Danube. It possesses 2 Greek churches. Fishing forms the chief occupation of the inhabitants.

one of the head-streams of the Shab Arabs. It is open, but is defended by a large and well-built fortress. The houses, which are generally detached, number about 5,000. It is noted for a college belonging to the sect of the Zeites, and has some handsome mosques. The bazaars and khans are numerous and extensive. The district is fertile, and is celebrated for its horses.

DAMARAS, an extensive family of African tribes located to the N of the Namaquas, but of whom comparatively little is known, except that, from their physical appearance and colour, they appear to approximate to the Negroes of Congo on the W ther, and covering them with skins, like the N. American wigcoast. They construct their habitations by placing poles toge

wams.

DAMARISCOTTA, a river or arm of the sea, in DALY'S-BRIDGE, a village of co. Cavan, on a Lincoln co., state of Maine, U. S. It receives the tributary of Lough Sheelan, and 44 m. NW of Old-outlet of the pond of the same name; and is navicastle.

DALYSTOWN, a village of co. Meath, in the p. of Trim. Pop. in 1831, 118.

DALZIEL, a parish of Lanarkshire, comprising an area, of irregular outline, of 2,283 Scotch acres, bounded on the S by the river Clyde. It is about 1 m. from Hamilton, and is intersected by the Wishaw and Coltness railway. Pop. 1,457.

DAM, or DAMME, a town of Belgium, in the prov. of W. Flanders, 5 m. NNE of Bruges, on a canal of the same name, which extends from Bruges to Moerkerke, a distance of about 12 m., but which from neglect is now nearly unfit for use. Pop. 832. The commerce consists chiefly in grain and cattle. D. was formerly a place of great strength and opulence. In 1213, its port, in which a fleet of 1,700 sail might have found shelter, was destroyed by Philip Augustus. The town was afterwards rebuilt and fortified, and in 1384 sustained a long siege by Charles VI. of France. Its name is derived from a strong dyke built to prevent the encroachments of the sea.

DAMA'K, or DEMAK, a town on the N coast of the island of Java, cap. of a district, and on the 1. bank of a river of the same name, 12 m. NE of Samarang. It was formerly the cap. of a principality, and is still a large and important town, although its pop. does not now exceed 3,000. The district is level, and extremely marshy, and is intersected by numerous canals and water-courses.-The river D., after a

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gable for large vessels to the bridge between New Castle and Nobleboro, a distance of 16 m. Shipbuilding is extensively carried on on the banks of this river. A village named Damariscotta-mills is situated at the outlet of D. pond.

DAMAS, a village of Sennaar, on the r. bank of the White Nile, in N lat. 14° 8'. Near this v. are three luxuriantly wooded islands, the largest of which is called Tauowat.

DAMASCOVILLE, a village of Columbiana co., in the state of Ohio, U. S., 174 m. ENE of Columbus.

DAMASCUS, a pashalic of Asiatic Turkey, the most important of the five into which Syria is divided. It comprehends the whole eastern part of that country, being bounded on the N by the pashalics of Aleppo and Diarbekir; on the E by the Euphrates and the Syrian desert; on the S by Arabia Petræa; and on the W by the pashalics of Gaza, Acre, and Tripoli. It extends from near Shogre on the Aasi, under the parallel of 35° 50′ N, to the SE corner of Palestine, and the lower Ghor to the S of the Dead sea, a distance of nearly 300 m.; and has its E frontier formed by the Euphrates from a point about 10 m. above Beles to the ruins of Erzi, 80 m. below Kakisia. Its greatest breadth is on the parallel of 34° 20′, from Erzi on the E, to the chain of Anti-Libanus which runs along its W frontier, being 180 m. To the S of this parallel it contracts considerably. Within these boundaries are comprised the valley of the

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