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rect the reader to. The greatest part of them, however, are to befound in a collection of miscellanies,. in 6 vois. )2mo. llis lastwork is his Fables , Which consist of many 01 the most interestingstories in Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer , translate.i or mo-dernized in the most elegant and poetical manner; together withsome orginal pieces, among which is that amazing ode on St. Ce-cilia’s day, which, though written in the very decline ot the au-thor’s life, and at a period when old age and d,stress conspired, as itwere, to damp his poetic ardor, and clip the wings oi fancy, yetpossess so much of both, as would be sufficient to have vend.'redhim immortal had he never written a single line besides, liis cri-tical prefaces are admirable; and his poetry iscoriect, harmonious,and strong, particularly his satires. As a dramatic writer he ehietiyexcelled m tragedy, lie had three sons: Charles became usherof the palace to pope Clement XI. and wa-drowned in 1704;John wrote a comedy, called Th•• [In-band bis own Cuckold ;and Henry entered into a religious older abroad. Though Dry -den was addicted to astrolo y, yet the siovy of his predicting thefate ol his eldest son is not due. He died in 1700, and was buriedin Westminster abbey ; but had no monument erected to bin forseveral ve rs; to winch Mr. Pope alludes in his epitaph intendedfor Mr. Rowe, in this line,

Beneath a rude aud nameless stone he lies.

til a note upon which we are informed, that the tomb of Mr. Dry-den was erected by this hint, by Sheffield, duke ol Buckingham,to which was originally intended this epitaph :

Tills Sheffield rais’d.—The sacred do t below

Was Dryden once ; the vest, who does not know ?

Which was since changed into the plain inscription now upon it,viz.

J. DRYDEN,

Natus Aug. 9, 1031.

Mortuus Maii 1 , 1701.

Johannes Sheffield, dux Buckinghamiensis, fecit.

DRYP1S, in botany, a genus of the trigynia order, and pen-tandria class of plants; natural order, Caryophy Ilea-. CalyxqiiiiK|uedeutated; petals live; opening at the capsule as if cutround horizontally; monospermous It has only one species, abiennial, native ot Paly and Barbarv.

DRY R<>r, a disease incident to timber used for building,such as flooring-boards joists, wainscoting, &r. Dr. Darwin isof opinion, that the dry rot may be entirely prevented, by soak-ing the timber lir-t in lime-water, till it lias absorbed as much of itas possible, and, after il has become dry, immersing it in a weaksolution of vitriolic ac.d in water, which lie supposes will not onlvpreserve it from decay for int'iiy centuries (if it he kept drv), butalso render it less inflammable; a circumstance that merits consi-derable attention in constructing bouses. In the Transactions ofthe Society tor the Enconrairciuent of Arts, we meet with the fol-lowing account of the cause of the dry rot in timber, and the me-thod oi preventing it, communicated by Mr. Batson, of Lime-house. He ob-erves, that the dry rot having taken place in oneof his parlours, to such a degree as to require the puli ng downpart of tile wainscot every third year, and perceiving that it arosefront a damp, stagnated air, and from- the moisture of the earth,he determined, in the month of June, 1783, to build a narrow clo-set next the wall through which the moisture came to the parlour.This expedient had the desired effect. But, though the rot in theparlour was totally stopped, the evil soon appeared in the closet,where fungi oi a y ellow colour arose in various parts. In the au-tumn of the year 178ti the closet was locked up about ten weeks:on opening it, numerous excrescences were observed about thelower part; a white mould was spread by a plant resembling avine, orsca-weed; and the whole of the inside, china, &c. was co-vered w ith a fine powder of the colour ot brick-dust. On clean-ing out the closet, it was discovered that the disease had infectedthe wood so far as to extend through every shelf, and the bracketsthat supported them. In the beginning of the year 1787, he de-termined to strip the whole closet of lining and floor, not to leavea particle of the wood behind, and also to dig, and take away,about two feet of the earth in depth, and leave the walls to dry, soas to destroy the roots or seeds of the evil. When,, by time, the

admission of air, and good brushing, it had become properly dryand cleansed, he tilled it, of sufficient height ;or the joists, withanchor-smith’s ashes, because no vegetable will grow in them. Thejoists being sawed off to their proper ieugths, and fully prepared,they and their plates were well charred, and hud u,,on the ashes;particular directions being given, that no scantling or board mightbe cut or planed in the place, lest any dust or sh .vmgs might dropamuig the ashes. The flooring-boards being very dry, he earnedthem to be laid close, to prevent the dust getting down, whichperhaps, in the course of time, might bring on vegetation. Thetraining of the closet was then fixed up, having at! the lower pan-nels let in, to be fastened with buttons only, so that, it any vegeta-tion should arise, the panuels might w : th ease be taken out-ynd ex-amined. In some situations it might ne exped’ent and necessaryto take out a greater depth of earth; and where adie-' can be hadfrom a foundry, they may be substituted for those of anchor-smiths;but house ashes are by no means to be depended upon. At theexpiration of seven years from the period of making this experi-ment the wauiscotWoS removed, and the flooring-boards also takenup, when they were found entirely tree from am appearance ofthe rot: two pieces of wood (y ellow tir) w hich had been driveninto the wall as plugs, without being previously charred, wereaffine affected w ith tnis disease.

DhAPRONG, or CIIaPARANG, a considerable citv ofAsia , in Tiubet. Lon. 78. 42. L. Lat. 34. 0. N.

DoJaBBEL, an island in the Red Sea , lying N. of the Straitsol Bab. I M..n id.

L'.’jJLiil, a district of Arabia , in Sana, wherein there are a greatmilliner oi schicchs.

Ds'Ebi, the capital of the-above district. Lon. 43. 50. E. Lat.14. 37 N.

DSJ EDSJAL, asect of Mohammedan Arabs, chiefly inhabitingMecn.n, a maritime province of Persia . “ Its first author, saysMr. Niebuhr, was a venerable old man, who was found by somewood-cutlers shut up in the middle of a tree, and having a bookin liis hand.” 'I his miraculous origin, he was informed of at Ma-skat, hut “ each sect,” lie add-, “tells ridiculous stories of theothers to bring them into contempt.”

DSJENNLD, a town of Yemen . Lon. 43. 49. E. Lat. 15.39. N. ,

DbJESAN, a town of Yemen, on the coast of the Red Sea .Lon. 41. 50. E. Lat. 10. 45. N.

DSJ1DDA, or JIDDA, a city and sea-port of Arabia , in thecountry of Hedsjas, near Mecca , in the dominions of the sherrilfeol Mecca .

DsJILIBAT, and DSJLMl'M, two districts of Arabia , in thecountry oi Hedsjas, on the coa-t of the Red Sea .

DSJOBF.L ALA, a town of Arabia, in the province of Yemen .Lon. 43. 38. E. Lat. 15. 47. N.

DbJOBLA, an ancient city of Arabia, in the province of Ye-men. Its streets are paved, which is not common in Arabia .Lon. 44. 10. E. Lat. 13. 55. N.

DSJCERHAMIE, a tribe of Arabs who inhabit between Ramaand Jerusalem .

DSJOF, a large province of Arabia, in the country of Yemen ,extending S. from Nedsjeran to Hadraniaut, and E. from Ilas-chid-u-Bekil to the Desart, by w Inch Yemen is separated fromOman . It is full of sandy aud desart plains.

DSJULFAR, a principality.of Arabia , in the province ofOman , called also Seer.

DUAL, [ duutix , Lat.] expressing the number two.

DUBK1, a town ot Russia , in the government of Petersburgh,on the Gulphof Finland, 1G miles N. N. W. of Petersburgh.

DUBLIN, a county of Ireland, in the province of Leinster ;bounded on the N. by the county of Meath , on the E. bv theIrish sea, on tiie S. by the county of Wicklow, and on the west bythose of Meath and Kildare. Il is 25 miles long from N. to S.and from nine to 16 broad; and contains about 142,050 acres.The soil is fertile.

Dublin, the metropolis of Ireland , the second city in his ma-jesty’s dominions, and esteemed the tilth for magnitude in Europe ,is situated in the province of Leinster, and county of Dublin , atthe bottom of a large bav. The river Liffey , which here disem-bogues itself into the ocean, divides the* tow n nearly into two equalparts. Dublin is situated GO miles W. of Holyhead in Wales : and330 N. W. of Loudon. Lon. G. G. W. Lat. 53. 20. N, Dublin is

a place