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 DOOLY DORAN 213 Kensington museum and Harrow, and also on ancient Greek painting, and on the revival of art in the 12th century. He was elected a fellow of the royal society in 1851, associate engraver of the royal academy in 1855, and a royal academician in 1856. He is best known by his engraving of " Knox preaching before the Lords of the Congregation," after Wilkie ; his " Combat," after Etty ; " Italian Pilgrims com- ing in sight of Borne," after Eastlake; the " Infant Christ," after Raphael; and the " Ecce Homo," after Correggio. His engraving of the " Raising of Lazarus," by Sebastiano del Piombo (1864), occupied him eight years. In 1867 he exhibited " St. Augustine and Monica," after Ary Scheffer. Of late years he has en- graved very little, and has devoted himself to painting portraits in oil. DOOLY, a S. W. county of Georgia, with a level surface, watered by many small creeks, bounded W. by Flint river ; area, 530 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 9, TOO, of whom 4,855 were col- ored. Pine forests occupy much of the land, but the soil is fertile. The chief productions in 1870 were 149,987 bushels of Indian corn, 9,485 of oats, 20,881 of sweet potatoes, 4,132 bales of cotton, and 16,349 gallons of molas- ses. There were 657 horses, 1,636 milch cows, 3,857 other cattle, 5,592 sheep, and 10,104 swine. Capital, Vienna. DOOM, a lake and river of Scotland, in Ayr- shire. Loch Boon is about 6 m. in length, and at no place exceeds three quarters of a mile in breadth. It is enclosed by the Star mountains of Kirkcudbright, abounds in trout, and has an islet on which stands an old castle, reputed to have been once the residence of Edward, brother of Robert Bruce. The river Doon issues from the lake, flows for about a mile through a wild ravine called K"ess Glen, and after a K. W. course of 18 m. falls into the frith of Clyde, 2 m. S. of Ayr. About a mile from the sea, close by the river, stands a mon- ument to Burns. DOOR, a N". E. county of "Wisconsin, consisting of a narrow peninsula between Green bay and Lake Michigan ; area, 625 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 4,919. The chief productions in 1870 were 34,585 bushels of wheat, 22,103 of oats, 43,157 of potatoes, 1,835 tons of hay, and 56,861 Ibs. of butter. The total value of live stock was $103,639. Capital, Gibraltar. DORA D'ISTRIA, the pseudonyme of HELEN GHIKA, Princess Koltzoff-Massalsky, a Wal- lachian authoress, born in Bucharest, Jan. 22, 1829. She is great-granddaughter of Michael Ghika, who was assassinated by the Turks, and niece of Prince Alexander Ghika, hospodar of Wallachia. She received instruction from Professor Pappadopulos, and early acquired a knowledge of the ancient and modern lan- guages. When 15 years old she translated the Iliad into German, and afterward wrote several plays. She travelled in Europe from 1841 to the close of 1848, and on her re- turn to Wallachia married in February, 1849, the Russian prince Koltzoff-Massulsky, with whom she went to Russia. From 1855 to 1860 she resided in Switzerland and Belgium, and became known by her writings in the periodical press, as well as in- published vol- umes. In 1860 she travelled in Greece, and in 1861 went to Italy, taking up her residence at Florence. In 1867 the Greek legislature adopted her as a Greek citizen. She is hon- orary member of several learned societies of Europe, and a Smyrna association elected her president in 1871. Besides her literary works, she has been a successful painter, and two landscapes exhibited in St. Petersburg in 1854 received a silver medal. Among her published works are : La me monastique dans Vffiglise orientals (Brussels, 1855 ; Paris and Geneva, 1858) ; La Suisse allemande et V ascension du Mcench (Paris and Geneva, 1856 ; English trans- lation, London, 1858; German, Zurich, 1857- '9); Lesfemmesen Orient (Zurich, 1860; Rus- sian and Greek translations, St. Petersburg and Athens) ; Excursions en Roumelie et en Moree (Zurich, 1863); La Venitienne (1864); Des femmes, par une femme (Paris and Brussels, 1864 ; translated into Russian, Italian, and Eng- lish); and Gli Albanesi in Rumenia (2 vols., 1873). She is also the author of several nov- els, and of pamphlets on philological subjects. DORAK, a town of Persia, in the province of Khuzistan, situated at the junction of a small river of the same name with the Jerahi, about 30 m. from where the latter empties into the Persian gulf, and about 90 m. S. of Shuster; pop. variously estimated from 6,000. to 12,000. It stands upon a marshy plain, and is defended by mud walls and a fort, and surrounded by date plantations. There is a palace of the governor built of brick, which has long been falling into decay. There are manufactures of Arabian fabrics and garments, and a consider- able commerce by means of the canal connect- ing the Dorak and the Karun, and exports to all parts of Persia and Arabia. DOR AN, John, a British author, born at Drog- heda, Ireland, in 1807. He resided many years in France and Germany, took the degree of Ph. D. at the university of Marburg, and after- ward went to England, became editor of various periodicals, and performed much general lite- rary labor. He is now (1874) editor of" Notes and Queries." His principal works are : "Table Traits, and Something on them " (1854) ; " Hab- its and Men " and " Lives of the Queens of the House of Hanover" (1855); "Knights and their Days" (1856); "Monarchs retired from Busi- ness " (1857) ; " History of Court Fools " (1858) ; "New Pictures and Old Panels" and "The Last Journals of Horace Walpole" (1859); "Lives of the Princesses of Wales" (I860); "The Bentley Ballads" (1861); "Their Ma- jesties' Servants" (1863); "Saints and Sin- ners " (1868) ; and "A Lady of the Last Century [Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu], illustrated in her Un-- published Letters, with a Biographical Sketch, and a Chapter on Blue Stockings " (1873).