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j commended as food for cattle. Dr. Hunter attempted to make| ale from carrots; but though it worked kiudlv, ami was in all re-spects treated as ale, yet, after keeping it four months, it proved! of a thick muddy appf arance. He attempted to fine it, but ini vain. See Georgical Essays, 177.1. “The taste (he adds) wasby no means displeasing, as it much resembled mall liquor. Myfirst intention being frustrated, 1 threw it into the still, being about40 gallons in measure, and by (wo distillations obtained four gal-lons of a clean proof spirit. It had, however, contracted a flavourfrom the hop, which should be left out when the intention is toreduce the liquor into spirit. From a gross calculation, I am in-duced to think that a good acre of carrots manufactured in thismanner, will leave a profit of 401. after deducting the landlord’srent, cultivation, distillation, and other incidental expences. Inthis calculation, I presume that the spirit is worth 0.?. per gallon,and not excised. An acre of barley will by no means produce somuch spirit. A rich sandy loam is the best land for carrots; whichafter the crop is removed, will be in high cultivation for corn.”Attempts have also been made to prepare sugar from carrots, butwithout success; a thick syrupy matter like treacle being the onlyproduct. A poultice made of carrots has been found to mitigatethe pain, and abate the stench of foul and cancerous ulcers.Crickets are very fond of carrots; and are easily destroyed by-making a paste of powdered arsenic, flour, and scraped carrots,which must be placed near their habitations. A marmalade madefrom carrots, by their strong antiseptic qualities, lias also beenfound useful in preventing and curing the sea-scurvy. The seedslmve been reckoned carminative and diuretic; and were formerlymuch used as a remedy for the stone. Carrots were first introduc-ed into England by the Flemings, in the reign of queen Elizabeth.

J)AV ENTRY, orDAINTRY, a handsome town of North-amptonshire, 10 miles \Y. of Northampton .

DAUGHTER. See Children. Daughters, among the an-cients, were more frequently exposed than sons, as requirin'*greater charge to educate and settle lliem in the world. See Ex°posing ok Children. Those who had no legitimate sons wereobliged, by the Athenian laws, to leave their estates to their daugh-ters, who were confined to marry their nearest relations, otherwiseto forfeit their inheritance; as we find to have been practised like-wise among (be Jews , many of whose laws seem to have beentranscribed by Solon. If an heiress happened to lie married beforeher father’s death, this did not binder the nearest relation to claimthe inheritance, and even to take the woman from her husband ;which is said to have been a common case.

DAVID, [W, lleb. i. t:. beloved,] king of Israel, and He-brew noet, was born at Bethlehem in B.C. 1035, and died B.C. 1014;after naving reigned seven years and a half in Hebron, and thirty.three in Jerusalem . No hero, whose actions are recorded in sa-cred or profane history, exhibits a more striking contrast of cha-racter than David, or a more surprising mixture of the most emi-nent virtues and the most fervent piety, with the greatest crimesand vices. It would be foreign from the nature of this work, toexpatiate upon either of these. Both are fully and impartially re-lated in the Scriptures. Rut w e cannot help observing, that whilethe former have led many well-meaning Christian authors almost toidolize the royal psalmist as a saint, the latter have given occasionto inlidel writers to degrade him to a level with"Nero and theworst of tyrants; and to ridicule revealed religion for siding such acharacter “ the man after God ’s own heart.” Neither the oneparty nor the other seem to have adverted, that this expressionrelates only to David’s government of the kingdom, in establish-ing purity of worship, and preserving the Israelites from those ido-latries to which they were so prone. In this sense, and this alone,Dav id was never equalled by any of his successors either in Israel or Judah. The context (Actsxiii. 21, 572), shews plainly, that itwas in this sense only that David “ fulfilled all his will.” Wclind an cxpicssion nearly similar, used by the Almighty, upon .tsimilar occasion, to a monarch much less eminent for piety, andwhom nobody ever supposed to deserve the character of a manaccording to God ’s own heart, though in this instance he actedproperiv. “ Thou hast done well,/ said the Lord to Jehu , (2Kings x. 30,) upon his extirpating the idolatrous worship-of Baal ,“ in executing thill which is right in mine eyes, and hast doneaccording to all that was in mine heart,” &c. One of the mostunjustifiable actions cf David’s life appears to have been his tor-I turing of the Ammcnites, with saws, harrows, and axes, and in1 brick

Da- All who serve God are kings;

• Ti- Some who serve God are poor;

si, Therefore, some who are poor are kings.

DATIVE, [_(Litii'us , Lai.] 1. [in grammar.] The epithet ofthe case that signifies the person to whom any thing is given. 2.£ln law.] Those are termed dative executors who are appointedsuch by die. judge’s decree; as administrators with us here inEngland.

DATOLA, one of the Lipari islands, in the Mediterranean .It is 10 miles N. E. of Lipari.

DATUM, or DATt S, in ancient geography, a town ofThrace , situated between N'eapolis, and the river Nessus. It was■taken by Philip of Macedon , who changed its name to Philippi,■being originally called Crenides on account of its springs.

DATURA, the Thorn-apple, in botany, a genus of the mo-nogvuia order, and peutandria class of plants; natural order, Lu-ridax Corolla, funnel-shaped, plaited; calyx tubular, angulated,deciduous; capsule quadrivalved. There are eight species; all,except one, annual herbs.

.- DA'l US. See Datum.

■ DAVA, or UtiPO, a province of Japan .

DAYAL, Peter, Esq. F. It. S. an eminent English mathema-tician. lie was bred a barrister at law; was afterwards master inchancery; and at last accountant-general of that court. He trans-lated the memoirs of Card, vie Rctz, printed in 12mo. 1723. Inthe dispute concerning elliptical arches, when Black-friars bridgewas built, his opinion was applied for by the committee. Ilis an-.svver may be seen in the London Magazine for March 17G0. Hedied January 8, 1763.

DAXALLIA, in botanv, a genus of the cryptogamia, filices.Fructification in roundish distinct dots near the margin; involucremembraneous from the surface, half-hooded, distinct, somewhattruncate, opening toward the margin. There are eighteen species.

DAUCUS, the Carrot , a genus of the digynia order, andpeutandria class of plants; natural order, Umbellat-je. Corolla alittle; radiated, all hermaphrodite; fruit bristly, with short hairs.'There are eight species; but the one which chiefly merits attentionis the

D. Carota, or Common Carrot . There are several varie-ties, as the white, the orange, and the purple carrot; hut of thesethe orange carrot is the most esteemed. It grows longer, larger,and is generally handsomer than the others, being often 15 or ISinches long in the eatable part, and from two to four in diameterat top. Carrots are propagated by seeds, sown at different seasonsof the year, to afford a supply for the table at all times. The sea-son for sowing for the earliest crop is soon after Christmas . Thesituation should be open, but near a wall; though if they are sownclose under it they will be apt to run up to seed too fast, and giveno good roots: the most proper distante is eight inches. '1 hey<h-light in a warm sandy soil, which should be light, and well dugto a good depth, that the roots may meet with no obstruction inrunning down, so as to make them forked, and shoot out lateralbranches. 'This will happen, especially when the ground has beentoo much dunged, the same year that the seeds were sown, whichwill.also occasion them to be worm-eaten. The hairiness of theseseeds makes the sowing of them difficult, on account of their beingapt to -tic k together. They should, therefore, be put through atine chaff sieve; and a calm day should be chosen for sowingthem. When sown, they should be trod in with the feet, and theground raked level over them. When they first come up, theyshould he cut up to four inches distance, and a inon'h alter thisthey are to lie < leared again ; am! if drawn while young, they arenow to he left at six inches distance every way; if they are tostand to grow huge, they must be separated to It) inches distance,'i he second season for sowing carrots is in February. This mustbe dime under a wall or hedge, on warm banks: hut those whichare to be on open large quarters should not be sown til! the begin-ning of March. In July, carrots maybe sown for an autumnalcrop; and lastly, in the end of August, for tho'e which arc tostand the winter. 'I here last will lie lit for use in March, beforeany of the spring ones; but they are seldom so tender or welltasted. In order to preserve cairots for use all winter, they are tobe dug up in the beginning of November, and laid In a dry placein sand; and these roots being again planted in February, will ripenseeds in August (or succeeding crops: the longest and straightestroots are to i>e chosen for til 's purpose. Carrots have been re-