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 DINANT DINORNIS 115 Dinan. virons are chalybeate springs, much resorted to. It was often besieged in the middle ages. DINANT, a town of Belgium, on the Meuse, 14 m. S. of Namur; pop. about 7,000. It is i situated at the base of limestone cliffs, on the summit of which are a citadel and a chapel. The cliffs are accessible by winding stairs cut
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i to the walls of the fortress. The town has only one narrow street, with a small market I place. In the vicinity are quarries of black marble ; and there are some manufactures. I Dinant cakes, made of honey and rye flour, are famous. Brass and copper ware are called from this place dinanderies. Dinant was sacked 1 in 1466 by Philip the Good of Burgundy, in his warfare against Louis XI., and again in 1554 by the duke of Nevers, who served under Henry II. against Charles V. ; and it was captured by the French in 1675. DINAPORE, a town of Bengal, India, on the S. bank of the Ganges, 10 m. N. W. of Patna and 300 N. W. of Calcutta; pop. about 16,000. It I is an important military station, noted for its handsome and extensive cantonments, capable of containing 5,000 troops. Around the station small parks and gardens. The town, a con- fused assemblage of thatched huts and brick buildings seldom more than one story high, I extends about a mile along the banks of the river. The native troops at Dinapore muti- nied and gave much trouble in 1857. DINDORF, Wilhelm, a German philologist, born in Leipsic, Jan. 21, 1802. His father was professor of oriental languages at the university in his native city, which he entered in 1817, and where he continued, when not more than 17 years old, the commentary and scholia on Aristophanes begun by Beck. He published subsequently a new edition of the Greek au- thor (Leipsic, 1820-'28), and received in 1828 a professorship of the history of literature at Leipsic. He began his lectures in 1830, but resigned the chair in 1833 in order to devote himself entire- ly to classical labors. He went to Paris, and edited there, in con- junction with his brother and Hase, Stephens's Thesau- rus Graces Lingum (1829-'63). He is one of the principal edi- tors of Didot's Bi- bliotheque des clas- siques grecs, and of the Oxford and Teub- ner's (Leipsic) edi- tions of Greek clas- sics. His brother LUDWIG, born Jan. 3, 1805, is specially known as the editor of the writings of Xenophon, Diodorus Siculus, Pau- sanias, and of the chronography of Joannes Malalas. D1NGELSTEDT, Franz, a German poet and novelist, born at Halsdorf, in Hesse, June 30, 1814. Having studied theology and philology, and served as a professor at Cassel and Fulda, he became in 1850 intendant of the royal the- atre at Munich, and in 1867 director of the royal opera house in Vienna. He has pub- lished collections of poems entitled Lieder eines Tcosmopolitisclien Nachtwdchters (1840), GedicMe (1845), and Nacht und Morgen (1851), and a number of romances, dramas, and books of travel. In 1840 he married Jenny Lutzer, a celebrated singer. DINGO. See DOG. D1NKELSBUHL, a town of Bavaria, on the right bank of the Wernitz, 44 m. S. W. of Nuremberg; pop. in 1871, 5,213. It has sev- eral fine churches, an orphan asylum, and two hospitals. It suffered heavily during the thirty years' war, and is still declining; but it has considerable manufactures of woollen hosiery, linen, paper, hats, and stone slabs for tables, besides dyeworks, a brewery, and several mills. It was formerly a free city, but came into the possession of Bavaria in 1802. It is on three hills, and its ancient walls are still standing. DINORNIS (Gr. 6eiv6?, terrible, and 6pvi$, bird), a gigantic extinct bird, whose bones have been found in New Zealand. The history of this genus, established by Owen, is one of the most remarkable examples of the correct- ness of the great laws of the correlation of parts so beautifully elaborated by Cuvier. In vol. iii. of the " Transactions of the Zoological Society of London " is the first paper by Owen on this subject. He had received from New Zealand a fragment of a femur, six inches long, with both the extremities broken ; from its tex-
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