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 DALLAS DALMATIA 645 the United States for the recall of Sir John Crampton, British minister to the United States. Both these questions were amicably settled. In 1861 he was succeeded as minister by Mr. Charles Francis Adams, and retired to private life. During the civil war he strongly supported the cause of the Union. DALLAS, Robert Charles, a British author, brother of A. J. Dallas, born at Kingston, Jamaica, in 1754, died at St. Adresse, Nor- mandy, Oct. 21, 1824. He was educated at Kensington, England, entered the Inner Temple as a law student, and returned to Jamaica in 1775, where he remained three years, after which he took up his residence in England. His sister having married Lord Byron's uncle, Byron and he became friends, and it was by his advice that " Childe Harold" was pub- lished, Byron giving him the 600 which he received for the copyright. After Byron's death he prepared for the press " The Pri- vate Correspondence of Lord Byron," but was restrained from its publication by an injunction obtained by Byron's executors. He however prepared his " Recollections of Lord Byron," which was published posthu- mously. Among his publications are : " Mis- cellaneous Writings" (4to, 1797); "Annals of the French Revolution," from the French of Bertrand de Moleville (9 vols. 8vo, 1800- '2); "The History of the Maroons " (2 vols. 8vo, 1803-'4); "Aubrey," a novel (1804); " The Morlands, Tales illustrative of the Simple and Surprising " (1805) ; " The Knights, Tales illustrative of the Marvellous " (1808) ; " The New Conspiracy against the Jesuits " (1815) ; and several translations from the French. DALL> ONGARO, Francesco, an Italian poet, born at'Oderzo, Venetia, in 1808, died in Na- ples, Jan. 10, 1873. He completed his studies in Padua and took orders; but his sermons being regarded as too independent, his preach- ing was interdicted. Subsequently he became a journalist at Trieste. His drama Fornoretto and two other plays appeared in 1838. He was expelled from Trieste in 1847 for some political remarks at a banquet in honor of Cobden. Afterward he lived in the principal Italian cities, and acquired celebrity by his hymn II ritorno del tricolor e. He left Rome for Yen- ice in March, 1848, having declined to edit the official organ of Pius IX., became one of the leaders of the Venetian movement, and found- ed a journal, Fatti e non parole. He aided in organizing the Garibaldi legion in Rome, and became a member of the constituent assembly. On the capture of Rome by the French he went to Ancona, and subsequently to Switzerland, whence he was expelled in 1852, and spent four years in Belgium, where he repeated the lec- tures upon Dante which he had formerly given in Trieste. He afterward wrote for newspapers and periodicals in Paris, and was only saved by the intervention of an influential French official from expulsion at the time of Orsini's attempt upon the life of Napoleon. In 1859 he return- ed to Italy, and subsequently became pro- fessor of literature in Milan and in Naples. He achieved a high reputation as author of tales, novels, poetry, and dramas, and of a work on dramatic literature. His Novelle nuove e vec- chie, containing sketches of Italian life, has passed through several editions. In 1865 some of his tales were translated into French by Caroline Cornan, under the titles of Le palais des diables and Fanny. DALMATIA, a crownland with the title of kingdom in the Cisleithan half of the Austro- Hungarian monarchy, forming a narrow coast strip along the E. shore of the Adriatic, W. of the Dinaric Alps, which form its frontier toward Turkey, and embracing a large number of isl- ands, mostly close to the coast. It lies between lat. 42 10' and 44 55' N., and Ion. 14 30' and 19 E., and is the southernmost province of Austria; area, 4,940 sq. m. ; pop. in 1871, 449,253, of whom 87 per cent, are Slavs, and about 13 per cent. Italians. Capital, Zara. The Roman Catholic religion is predominant ; the non-united Greek church numbered in 1869 78,305. The formation of the frontier mountain chain (rising to a height of 6,000 ft.), which has a picturesque and rugged outline, is of liinestone with many mammoth caves, not perfectly explored, and subterranean lakes and rivers; but the surface is dry and bare, the rivers and lakes drying up during the sum- mer, and leaving the inhabitants nothing to drink but cistern or marsh water. The slope is sudden, the rivers descending in cataracts ; the few fertile valleys are narrow. The coast consists of bold promontories with deeply in- dented bays, before which a series of long and narrow rocky islands stretch in a S. E. direc- tion nearly parallel to the mountains, forming a great number of excellent harbors. The largest of these islands, from N. to S., are Pago, Grossa or Lunga, Brazza, Lesina, Curzola, and Meleda. The climate is mild along the coast, the average temperature being 59 F. at Ragusa, and not severe on the mountains, ice and snow being almost unknown ; rains prevail when the bora, a northerly winter storm, blows, but the av- erage annual fall is only 12 inches at Cattaro and Ragusa, and further north somewhat more. In spite of this, the climate is not very healthy, owing to the swamps along the coast range of mountains. The country might support a far larger population but for the frequent emi-. grations, and the quarrelsome and indolent habits of the people. Husbandry and the rearing of cattle are neglected, 4 and Dalmatia is less productive than any other dependency of Austria. Ship building is carried on to some extent, from 300 to 400 vessels being built annually, but more than 90 per cent, of them are only small boats for fishing and the coast trade. The aggregate value of imports and ex- ports, inclusive of the transit trade, is estimated at 16,000,000 florins, of which 33 per cent, be- longs to the imports by sea, 8 per cent, to the imports by land, 27$- per cent, to the exports