length, by 12 broad ; it is intersected by the mili-
tary road, from Sterling to Inverness, it contains
a village of the same name on the N. bank of
Loch Tay. Pop. of the parish in 1801, 4,055,
and in 1821,4.508.

Dulmen, a town of Westphalia, in the princi-
pality of Munster, 14 m. S. W. of Munster. Pop.
about 1,800.

Dulverton, a town in Somersetshire, Eng. with
manufactures of coarse woolen cloths and blankets.
It is seated near the Ex, 20 m. S. of Minehead, and
165 W. by S. of London. Pop. in 1821, 1,027.

Dulwich, a beautifully sequestered village in
Surry, 4 m. S. of London.- It is famous for a
college, founded by Edward Alleyn a comedian,
called ihe college of God’s Gift; to which is at-
tached a gallery containing a beautiful collection
of paintings ; the village is seated in a vale. Pop.
included with Camberwell, which sec.

Dumaring, a town of the island of Borneo,
on the E. coast. Long. 117. 30. E., lat. 2. 10. N.

Dumbarton, County of, sometimes called Dun-
barton, formerly Lennox, formed a narrow strip
of territory between the lowlands and highlands
of Scotland, extending W. from near the Frith
of Forth, for about 25 miles to the mouth of the
Clyde, and then N. for about 25 miles more be-
tween Loch Long and Loch Lomond, the mean
breadth not exceeding 5 miles; the grand canal
from the Clyde to the Forth runs along the E.
part of the county, which is divided into 12 par-
ishes : the principal towns and villages are Cum-
beraald and Kirkintilloch in the E. part; Kirk-
patrick, Killpatrick, Dumbarton. Cardcross. Bon-
hill, and Kilmarnock in the centre; and Rose-
neath, Row, Lup, and Aroquhar in the N. The
cotton manufacture is carried on in the central
part of the county, and illicit distillation in the N.

Dumbarton, the chief town of the preceding
county, is a royal burgh, seated on the N. bank,
of the Clyde, at the junction of the Leven, the
outlet of Loch Lomond ; on a point of land form-
ed by the junction of the two rivers is a castle,
occupying a very commanding position, and
formerly deemed the key of the pasturage be-
tween the lowlands on the W., as well as com-
manding the navigation of the Clyde. The
town consists principally of one long street, in
the form of a cresent, parallel with the Leven;
over which is a handsome bridge of five arches.
It has a handsome church, with a lofty spire
erected a: the close of the last century. Its prin-
cipal manufacture is glass; a portion of the in-
habitants are employed in the cotton manufac-
ture in connexion with Glasgow. It has a con-
venient port for small vessels, and a quay, but no
custom bouse, being included in the port of
Greenock. It is 12 miles W. N. AV. of Glas-
gow. Pep. in 1801,2,541, and in 1821,3,481.

Dumhaor. or Domboo, a salt lake on the north
frontier of Boornou, in the interior of North
Africa, fbm whence much salt is carried to
Agades and other parts of western Africa ; there
is a considerable town of the same name on the
W. side of the lake, which is S. of the Tropic
of Cancer, in the long, of 21. 50. E.

Dumfries, a county of the S. of Scotland, being
about 65 miles in extreme length from E. to W.,
and 30 in mean bsemhh its superficial area being
1,006 square miles : it is bounded on the N. by the
counties of Ayr, Lanark, Peebles, Selkirk, and
Roxburg, and E. S. E. by the English border, AV.
S. W. by Kirkcudbrightshire, and S. by the
Solway Frith: is intersected from N. to S. by-
three considerable rivers, abundant in salmon
and trout, viz. the Nith, Annan, and Esk, all run-
ning from the N. into Solway Frith, and is divid-
ed into 44 parishes, including four royal burghs,
viz. Dumfries, Annan, Lochmaber, and Sanquha .
A great part of this county is mountainous, over-
spread with heath, well stocked with game, and
affording pasturage to numerous herds of sheep
and black cattle, which are driven into England,
in great numbers; the valleys watered by the
three rivers before mentioned, and the coast bor-
dering on the Frith, are fertile both in pasture
and tillage; the mountains in the N. W. part of
the county contain a bed of rich lead ore, yield-
ing a small portion of silver ; coa and lime abound
over the greater part of the county, and on the
English border both copper and iron have been
found ; the county also contains a vein of anti-
mony, and two mineral springs. Jt has no man-
ufactures of importance.

Dumfries, a royal burgh, and chief town of
the preceding county, seated on the E. bank of
the river Nith, where thaj, river forms the boun-
dary between the counties of Dumfries and
Kirkcudbright, and about 7 miles above its en-
trance into Solway Frith. Dumfries is a port of
entry⁷, but its external commerce is inconsidera-
ble (except coastwise) ; it derives its chief impor-
tance from being the assize town for the county
of Kirkcudbright as well as for Dumfries, and
from being the seat of the commissary and sher-
iff court and of the Presbytery and Synod,
while the agreeableness of its locality renders
it the focus of gaiety and fashion for all the S.
AV. part of Scotland. It has 2 bridges over
the Nith. one of them ancient, the other modern
and elegant, 2 churches, a catholic chapel, and
4 dissenting places of worship. Its other public
buildings are the town house, guild-hall, infir-
mary, house of correction and lunatic asylum ;
Dumfries is 38 m. AV. N. AV. of Carlisle, 75 S. W.
of Edinburgh, 79 S. S. E of Glasgow, and 80 E.
N. E. of Port Patrick. Pop. in 1801, 7,288, and
1821,11,052. It is the place of interment of Bains.

Dummer, t. Coos Co. N. PI., 20 m. fr. Lancas-
ter. Pop. 65.

Dun, a town of France, in the department of
Meuse, on the river Meuse, 15 m. N. N. W. of
Verdun.

Dun le Roi, a town of France, in the department
of Cher, on the river Auron, 15 m. S. of Bouges

Dunamunde, a town of Russia, in the govern
ment of Riga. It formerly belonged to the duchy
of Courland, but was taken by the Swedes in
their wars with the Poles. In 1700 it was taken
by the Poles, and retaken the next year by
Charles XII. In 1710 it was taken by Peter the
Great. It is situate at the mouth of the Dwina,
15 m. N. AV. of Riga, to which it is the outport,
and 20 N. of Mittau. Long. 23. 41. E., lat. 57.5. N.

Dunaburgh, a town of Russia, in the govern-
ment of ATtepsk, seated on the E. bank of the
Dwina, about 100 m. above Riga. The Rus-
sians formed extensive entrenchments near this
place in 1812, but abandoned them on the ap-
proach of the French towards Moscow. Pop.
about 6,000.

Dunbar, p.t- Fayette Co. Pa.

Dunbar, a town of Haddingtonshire, on the S
E. coast of Scotland, seated on the shore of p
bay opening in the German Ocean, the har
hour, defended by a battery, is difficult of access
but safe and commodious when attained. It is
a port of entry, but its foreign commerce is in-