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 DORCHESTE R — DORSETSHIRE with an area of 1700 square miles and an altitude of 500 feet above the sea; Aberdeen, altitude, 130 feet; and Baker, 30 feet above the sea. Discovered in 1770 by Samuel Hearne, the Doobaunt was explored by J. B. Tyrrell in 1893, and the Thelew by David Hanbury in 1899. Dorchester, a municipal borough, market-town, and county town in the southern parliamentary division (since 1885) of Dorsetshire, England, on the Frome, 120 miles south-west by west from London by rail. Recent erections are the Dorset County Museum, an isolation hospital, and a statue to the Dorsetshire poet, William Barnes (1889). The borough gardens were bought and laid out by the corporation in 1896. Area, 1653 acres. Population (1881), 7567; (1901), 9458. Dordogne, a department in the south-west of France, watered by the Dordogne. Area, 3561 square miles, distributed among 47 cantons and 585 communes. From492,205in 1886 the population decreasedto448,545 in 1901. Births in 1899, 9377, of which 361 illegitimate ; deaths, 9831 ; marriages, 3777. There were, in 1896, 1220 schools, with 62,000 pupils, and 15 per cent, of the population was illiterate. The area under cultivation in 1896 comprised 1,887,952 acres, of which 1,104,600 acres are arable land, 494,229 acres are woodland, and 54,365 acres vineyards. The wheat crop of 1899 amounted to the value of £1,980,300 ; maize returned £173,800 ; potatoes, £630,500; mangold - wurzel, £155,000; the natural pastures, £604,000. Hemp, yielding in 1899 altogether a value of £3940, and tobacco £85,800, are also cultivated with success. The produce of the vines in 1899 amounted to the value of £680,000 ; of chestnuts, £92,000 ; of walnuts, £83,000. The live-stock in 1898 comprised 16,290 horses, 21,650 asses, 201,900 cattle, 399,000 sheep, 175,750 pigs, and 9150 goats. The mining industry turned out in 1898 2500 metric tons of lignite, 1200 tons of peat, and 1300 tons of iron. Building stone is quarried in abundance, and the metallurgic industry yielded in 1896 £32,000 worth of iron. With the exception of paper manufacture, the other industries are in a backward state. The capital town, Perigueux, has a population of 31,400. Dordrecht or Dordt, one of the oldest towns in the province of South Holland, Netherlands, 10 miles southeast of Rotterdam, on the main line between that town and Antwerp, at the junction of the Old and New Maas (Noord), the Merwede, and the waterway to Zeeland. As Tiel was deprived of a portion of its trade by Dordrecht, so the trade of Dordrecht has in part been diverted to Rotterdam. The shipping trade of the town, however, still remains very considerable, 2600 ships passing weekly. The trade is mainly in wood (imported from Germany, Scandinavia, and America), salt, oil-seeds, wine, grain, and petroleum. The town has numerous engineering works, sawmills, distilleries, stained-glass works, and shipbuilding yards. The Gothic Greek church was successfully restored in 1882, the theatre of the Musis Sacrum enlarged in 1885, and a new theatre erected in 1889. Population (1900), 34,386. Dor£, Louis Auguste Gustave (18321883), French artist, the son of a civil engineer, was born at Strassburg on 6th January 1832. In 1848 he came to Paris and secured a three years’ engagement on the Journal pcmr Eire. His facility as a draughtsman was extraordinary, and among the books he illustrated in rapid succession were Balzac’s Contes Drolatiques (1855), Dante’s Inferno (1861), Don Quixote (1863), The Bible (1866), Paradise Lost (1866), and the works of Rabelais (1873). He painted also many large and ambitious compositions of a religious or historical character, and made some success as a sculptor, his statue of Alexandre Dumas in Paris being perhaps his best-known work in this line. He died 25th January 1883. Dorking, a market-town in the Reigate parliamentary division of Surrey, England, on the Mole, 26

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miles south of London by rail. Recent erections are the Roman Catholic church (rebuilt), a drill hall, and a literary institute. Area of urban district, 1347 acres. Population (1881), 6328; (1901), 7670. Area of old civil parish, now comprising both Dorking and Dorking Rural, 10,028 acres. Population (1881), 9577; (1901), 11,410. Dornbirn, a township in the district of Feldkirch, Yorarlberg (Austria), on the Yorarlberg line of the Austrian State Railway. A busy industrial centre, the regulated Dornbirner Ach furnishing motive-power for several factories. The industries include the manufacture of machinery, hardware and metal goods, jewellery, cotton spinning, weaving, and printing, and a model dairy farm. Population (1890), 10,678; (1900), 13,052. Dorner, Isaac August (1809-1884), German Lutheran theologian, was born at Neuhausen-ob-Eck, in Wurtemberg, 20th June 1809. He studied at Tubingen, and then returned to his native village and assisted his father in the pastorate of the parish. He afterwards visited Holland and England, in order to investigate the condition of Protestantism in those countries. He was made professor of Theology at Tubingen in 1838, at Kiel in 1839, at Konigsberg in 1840, of the Protestant Faculty of Theology at Bonn in 1847. Thence he removed to Berlin. Though a student at Tubingen, he did not embrace the well-known views on theology and early Church history which originated at that university. In his famous History of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ, in which he investigated with remarkable skill and clearness the teaching of the leading divines of the first five centuries, he has left an indelible record of his ability and research. He was a voluminous writer, and among his most important works are a History of Protestant Theology (1867), and his System of Christian Doctrine (1879-81), and System of Christian Morals (1888). He also contributed to Herzog’s well-known Encylop.ddie fur Protestantische Theologie. For many years he assisted in editing the Jahrbucher fur Deutsche Theologie. He died at Wiesbaden, 8th July 1884. (j. j. l*.) Dornoch, a royal and parliamentary burgh (Wick group) and the county town of Sutherlandshire, Scotland, on the Dornoch Firth, 7 miles south-south-east of the Mound station on the Highland Railway. A light railway between the Mound and Dornoch is being constructed. The tower of the cathedral, built by Bishop Gilbert de Moravia (1222-45), remains; the main body was rebuilt in 1837, and is used as the parish church. On the site of the Bishop’s Palace, of which the tower is still standing, are the county buildings. There are well-known golf links and a public library. Population (1881), 497; (1901), 624. Dorohoi, a town in Rumania, and chief town of the district bearing the same name, about 80 miles north-west of Jassy, on the river Shiska, tributary of the Pruth. It has an extensive transit trade in the products of Northern Europe. The Church of St Nicholas, built by Stephen the Great in the 15th century, is remarkable. The annual fair held on 12th June is important. Population, of which between 50 and 60 per cent, are Jews (1900), 12,701. Dor pat.

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Dorsetshire, a south-eastern county of England, bounded S. and S.W. by the English Channel, W. by Devon, N.W. by Somerset, N.E. by Wilts, and E. by Hampshire. Area and Population.—The area of the ancient and administra-