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 630 DA COSTA concerning the comparative merits of ancient and modern literature, Mme. Dacier vigorously sustaining the former in Des causes de la cor- ruption du gout (12mo, 1714), Homere defen- du contre VApologie dupere Hardouin (1716), &c. She also assisted her husband in the translation of Marcus Aurelius and Plutarch's " Lives." She was distinguished for modesty and amiability, and amid her engrossing lite- rary avocations did not neglect her domestic and maternal duties. Dl COSTA, Izaak, a Dutch poet, born in Am- sterdam, Jan. 14, 1798, died in Leyden, April 28, 1860. He was a Portuguese Jew by de- scent, but in 1822, with his wife, became a Christian. He received the degree of doctor of laws at Leyden in 1818, and of philosophy in 1821, and eventually became one of the directors of the seminary of the free Scotch church. He was much benefited by the in- struction and friendship of Bilderdijk, after whose death in 1831 he was regarded as the most eminent poet of Holland. His best poems are, Prometheus (1820), Poezij (2 vols., 1821- '2), God met ons (1826), Festliederen (1828), Vijf en twintig jaren (1840), Hagar (1852), and De slag wn Nieuwpoort (1857). Among his other works are : " History of the Deliveries of the People of Israel" (1840), which has been translated into English and German; "Apologetic Biography of St. Paul" (2 vols., 1846) ; and a complete edition of Bilderdijk's poetry (16 vols., Haarlem, 1857-'60). DACTYLOLOGY. See DEAF AND DUMB. BADE. I. The K W. county of Georgia, bordering on Tennessee and Alabama; area, 160 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 3,033, of whom 245 were colored. It occupies Lookout valley, and is encompassed by mountains of considerable height. Iron, coal, and other minerals are found in various parts. The Alabama and Chattanooga railroad passes through it. The chief productions in 1870 were 26,637 bushels of wheat, 65,488 of Indian corn, and 27,703 Ibs. of butter. The total value of live stock was $109,865. Capital, Trenton. II. The S. E. county of Florida, bordering E. and S. E. on the Atlantic ocean and straits of Florida, and S. W. on the gulf of Mexico ; area, about 4,400 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 85, of whom 13 were colored. Along the coast, which is in- dented by several bays, are numerous islands belonging to the county. Lake Okeechobee occupies the N. W. corner. The surface is low, level, and almost wholly occupied by the Everglades, a vast expanse of shallow water, dotted over with innumerable small islands. Proposals have been made to drain these by canals. During the rainy season they are quite impassable. The county has one good harbor for vessels drawing 9 ft. of water, and on Cape Florida, at the entrance to this harbor, is a lighthouse. Capital, Biscayne, or Miami. III. A S. W. county of Missouri, with a diversi- fied surface and a productive soil ; area, 498 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 8,683, of whom 204 were DAEKDELS colored. Sac river, a tributary of the Osage, is the principal stream. The chief productions in 1870 were 78,016 bushels of wheat, 416,307 of Indian corn, 109,553 of oats, 92,088 Ibs. of butter, 26,482 of wool, and 22,004 of tobacco. There were 3,544 horses, 2,509 milch cows, 5,190 other cattle, 11,476 sheep, and 14,007 swine. Capital, Greenfield. DUDALl'S, a mythical personage, generally represented as an Athenian of the royal house of Erechtheus, though, from his long sojourn in Crete, he is also called a Cretan. Having become a great sculptor, he instructed in his art Calos, Talus, or Perdix, his sister's son, but afterward killed him through envy when he saw the skill of his disciple surpassing his own. Condemned to death by the areopagus, he fled to Crete, where he gained the friendship of Minos; but having constructed the wooden cow for Pasiphae, and the labyrinth of Cnossus, in which was kept the Minotaur, the monster to which she gave birth, he was imprisoned. Released by Pasiphae, and finding no vessel to escape from the island, as Minos had seized all on the coast, he contrived wings for himself and his son Icarus, which were fastened on with wax. He took his flight "fever the JEgean, and arrived safely in Sicily ; but Icarus flew too near the sun, the wax melted, and he dropped and perished in that part of the sea which is hence called the Icarian. According to some writers, Daedalus alighted at Cumse in Italy, where he erected a temple to Apollo, dedi- cating to that divinity the wings which had saved him. When Minos learned his place of refuge, he sailed with a fleet to Sicily, where he was treacherously murdered by Cocalus, king of the Sicani, who protected the fugitive. According to others, Daedalus was protected by the daughters of that king. Several works of art in Greece, Italy, Libya, and the Grecian islands were attributed to him, as well as the invention of several tools belonging to his art. The Greeks gave the name of dadala to cer- tain ornamented wooden images of their gods. DAEL, Jan Frans Tan, a Belgian painter, born in Antwerp in 1764, died in Paris in 1840. He began with architecture, was afterward em- ployed in decorating French palaces, and ac- quired celebrity in France as a fruit and flower painter. He was patronized by Louis XVI., Josephine, and Maria Louisa, and received marks of distinction from Napoleon I. and Louis XVIII. He painted in the style of Van Huysum and of his friend Van Spaendonck, by whose side he was buried in Pere-la-Chaise. His most famous works are " A Girl's Tomb," adorned with flowers and fruit, and "The Crusader." The latter, originally purchased for 15,000 francs by Josephine, afterward be- came the property of the museum of Antwerp. DAENDELS, Herman Willem, a Dutch general, born at Hattem, Gelderland, Oct. 22, 1762, died on the Guinea coast, Africa, May 2, 1818. He took the patriotic side in the political strife of 1787, and on the triumph of the Orangists