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 DALAGUETE — DALMATIA Dalaguete, a town on the east coast of the island of Cebu, Philippine Islands, in 9° 52' N. It has a hot but healthful climate. The growing of Indian corn, sibucao, cacao, copra, and sugar, and the weaving of rough fabrics, are the sole occupations of its inhabitants. The language is Cebu-Yisayan. Population, 21,000. Dalbeattie, a police burgh of south-east Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, 1miles south-west of Dumfries by rail. There are important quarries in the neighbourhood, and steam granite-polishing works in the town. There is a prospect of ironstone being worked. There is a town-hall, a mechanics’ institute, and a church hall. Population (1891), 3149; (1901), 3462. Dale, Robert William (1829-1895), Congregationalist divine, was born in London, 1st December 1829, and was educated for the Congregational ministry. In 1853 he became co-pastor of Carr’s Lane Chapel, Birmingham, with the veteran John Angell James. At first the liberality of his theology occasioned much suspicion and offence, over which, partly owing to the support of the senior minister, he so completely triumphed as to become sole pastor on the latter’s death in 1859. He was for many years one of the most influential personalities in Birmingham, and took the most active part in the remarkable municipal development of that city. He was especially conspicuous in the controversies arising out of the Education Act of 1870, which, so far as Birmingham was concerned, were terminated in 1879 by a compromise, of which Dale disapproved. His adherence to Mr Chamberlain on the Irish Home Kule question did not diminish his influence. His sympathies were broad, and he had many warm friends in the Church of England. He died on 13th March 1895. Dalecarlia, in Swedish Dalarne (“the Dales”), in popular usage the name of a very characteristic region in the middle of Sweden, characteristic in respect of its productions, but even more so in respect of its people. It is virtually the same as the county of Kopparberg, of which Falun is the chief town. The Dalecarlians or Dalesmen speak their own peculiar dialect (see a paper by A. Noreen in De SvensJca Landsmalen, vol. iv., 1881), wear their own peculiar costumes, and are famed for their brave spirit and sturdy love of independence. More than once they have played a decisive role in the history of Sweden. In 1434, led by Engelbrecht, the miner, they rose against the oppressive tyranny of the officers of Erik XIV. of Denmark, and in 1519-23 it was amongst them that Gustavus Yasa found his staunchest supporters in his patriotic task of freeing Sweden from the yoke of the Danes. The districts around Lakes Bunn and Siljan (“the Eye of the Dales”), the principal sheets of water in the valleys of the Dal rivers, are consequently classic ground. The people are for the most part small peasant proprietors. In 1894, out of 27,848 estates, no less than 27,287 were under 50 acres in extent. They eke out their scanty returns from tilling the soil by a variety of home industries, such as making scythes, saws, bells, wooden wares, hair goods, and so forth. The larger portion of the area is, however, covered with forest (75-4 per cent, in 1897), only 7T per cent, being under cultivation. Besides the wealth of the forests, the Dales contain some of the largest and most prolific iron mines in Sweden, especially Grangesberg. In 1898 the iron mines of Dalecarlia yielded 751,038 tons of iron ore, or 32-6 per cent, of the entire output of the kingdom. Nor is iron the only mineral. In Dalecarlia, too, are the far-famed copper mines of Falun, as well as mines of silver and lead, zinc and sulphur. In consequence

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of this the district has numerous smelting furnaces, blasting and rolling mills, iron and metallurgical works, as well as sawmills, wood-pulp factories, chemical works, and so forth. See G. H. Mellin, Skildringar af den Skandinaviska, Nordens Folklif og Natur, vol. iii. (1865), and Frederika Bremer, I Dalarne (1845), of which there is an English translation by Wm. and Mary Howitt (1852). Dallas, a town of Spain in the province of Almeria, 8 miles from the Mediterranean. Population in 1897, 6341. In its neighbourhood are the ruins of an older town, walls, tombs, aqueducts. Between Dalias and the sea are small lagoons and an old castle turned into a guardhouse for the carabiniers. The streets are narrow and irregular, and there is no public building worth mentioning, except a parish church and the town-hall, both comparatively modern. An earthquake on 25th August 1804 destroyed most of the houses and churches, and 162 inhabitants were killed. The trade of Dalias consists of wheat, wine, oil, oranges, esparto-grass, and fruit. Dalkeith, a police burgh and market-town in the county of Edinburgh, situated between the North and South Esk, 61 miles south-east from Edinburgh P.O. and about 5 miles from the city boundary. In 1899 the parish contained 7704 inhabitants (W. parish, 4323 ; E. parish, 3381), and in 1901 the police burgh had 6753. The rental of lands in the parish for 1899-1900 amounted to £40,156. In recent years Eskbank (within the parish and burgh) has been made a handsome residential quarter. The only changes of note in the industries of the town are the closing of the iron-foundry and the opening of a colliery near Eskbank. A pipe supply of water has been introduced from the Edinburgh district works, and has been supplemented by a local water scheme. Dallas, capital of Dallas county, Texas, U.S.A., in 32° 45' N. lat. and 96° 46' W. long., on the eastern bank of Trinity river, which here is not navigable. It is at an altitude of 422 feet. It has a level site, a fairly regular plan, is sewered, and has a good water supply. It is the third city in population and the most important railway centre in Texas, being entered by five railways, four of which are trunk lines. It is in a rich agricultural region, which produces cotton, wheat, and Indian corn, and it has large trade and extensive manufactures. In 1890 its manufacturing capital was $5,250,000, employing 4082 hands, and the products were worth over $9,000,000. Prominent among these were flour and leather goods. In 1900 the assessed valuation of real and personal property, on a basis of about one-half of the full value, was $23,016,600, the net debt $1,759,458, and the tax rate from $24.02 to $24.50 per $1000. Dallas was founded in 1841, but most of its growth has come in recent years. Population (1880), 10,358; (1890), 38,067; (1900), 42,638, of whom 9035 were negroes. Dalmatia (German, Dalmatien-, Serbo-Croatian, Dalmacija), a crownland and kingdom of the Cisleithan part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. It is separated from the rest of Austria by Croatia, which belongs to the Hungarian half of the monarchy. Ethnographically and geographically it is part of the lands of the Hungarian crown, and is still included in the official title of the Kingdom of Croatia. Its reincorporation is one of the objects aimed at by a considerable section of the Croatian people. Population in 1869, 456,961 ; in 1880, 476,101; in 1890, including garrison of 5400 men, 527,426, the equivalent of 106‘83 inhabitants per square mile; in 1900, 591,597. Proportion of females to males (1890), 993 to 1000. The Serbo-Croatians constitute 9 6’2 per cent, and the Italians 3 per cent, of the population, the former increasing, the latter declining. The remainder is made up of S. IIL —47