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 214 DORCHESTER DORCHESTER, a S. E. county of Maryland, bordering on Delaware and on Chesapeake bay, bounded N. and N. W. by Choptank river, and S. E. by the Nanticoke, both of which are here navigable ; area, 640 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 19,458, of whom 7,556 were colored. It has a level and partly marshy surface, with a soil sandy in some places and clayey in others. The Dorchester and Delaware railroad passes through it. The chief productions in 1870 were 122,460 bushels of wheat, 311,039 of Indian corn, 35,100 of oats, 65,949 Ibs. of but- ter, and 15,368 of wool. There were 1,678 horses, 2,379 milch cows, 5,303 other cattle, 4,401 sheep, and 8,433 swine; 2 saw mills, 2 boat-building establishments, and 3 establish- ments for canning and preserving fruits. Cap- ital, Cambridge. DORCHESTER, formerly a town of Norfolk co., Mass., on Dorchester bay, an arm of Bos- ton harbor, contiguous to South Boston, since 1869 constituting the 16th ward of the city of Boston; pop. of the town in 1860, 9,769; of the ward in 1870, 12,259. It was first settled by a party of English Puritans, headed by the Rev. John White of Dorchester, England, who landed at Nantasket, June 11, 1630, and es- tablished themselves within the limits of the town on the 17th of the same month. They soon erected a church, but no trace of it now remains. The first water mill in America was built here in 1633, and Dorchester has the honor of having originated about the same time the New England cod fishery. DORCHESTER (anc. J)urnovaria), a muni- cipal and parliamentary borough of England, capital of Dorsetshire, near the river Frome, 113 m. S. W. of London; pop. in 1871, 6,915. It contains three churches, several dissenting chapels, schools and charitable institutions, a theatre, large cavalry barracks, and a county museum. It has considerable trade in beer, butter, sheep, and lambs. The Romans sur- rounded it with a wall. Athelstan made it the seat of two mints, and during the civil war it witnessed many severe battles. After the duke of Monmouth's rebellion in 1685, the assizes were held here by Jeffreys, who sen- tenced 109 of the insurgents to death, 13 of whom were executed. In the vicinity are the remains of a Roman amphitheatre with seats for 13,000 spectators, and a camp, and of a British station called Maiden castle. DORDOGNE, a S. W. department of France, bordering on the departments of Haute-Vienne, Correze, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Gironde, Cha- rente-Inferieure, and Charente ; area, 3,545 sq. m. ; pop. in 1872, 480,140. It was formed from the old province of Pe"rigord and parts of Agenois, Angoumois, and Limousin. A large part of the land is occupied by marshes ; nearly two thirds are considered unfit for cul- tivation, but the department is very rich in minerals. Iron, copper, lead, coal, manganese, lithographic stones, and marble are found in large quantities. The surface is hilly, and DORIA covered in many places with extensive forests. Chestnuts are abundant, and are cultivated to a considerable extent. Game is plentiful, but cattle, owing to the poorness of the pasture lands, are raised in very small numbers. Red and white wines of good quality are produced ; the crops of grain are fair, and the truffles of Dordogne are esteemed the best in France. The principal manufactures are iron, paper, brandy, and liqueurs. The largest rivers are the Dordogne (which rises in Auvergne, flows S. W. and W. through the departments of Cor- reze, Dordogne, and Gironde, and with the Garonne forms the Gironde) and its tributary the Vezfcre, both of which are navigable. The department is divided into the arrondissements of Perigueux, Sarlat, Nontron, Bergerac, and Riberac. Capital, PSrigueux. DORE, Paul Gnstm, a French artist, born in Strasburg, Jan. 10, 1833. He early showed a passion for drawing, and his father sent him to the lyceums of Strasburg and Bourg. "When only 11 years of age he published his first lithographs. The next year he was brought to Paris, and entered the Charlemagne lyceum, and in 1848 he published his first series of sketches, the "Labors of Hercules," in the Journal pour rire, for which paper he drew regularly from this time. In 1854 he illus- trated the works of Rabelais. He drew many of the illustrations for the Journal pour torn from its foundation in 1856, and in that year illustrated Balzac's Conies drolatiques and the legend of the wandering Jew. Among the most prominent of the numerous works he has since illustrated are Montaigne (1857), Taine's Voyage aux Pyrenees (1859), Dante (1861-'8), Chateaubriand's Atala (1862), " Don Quixote" (1863), Milton's "Paradise Lost" (1865), the Bible (1865-'6), Tennyson's "Idyls of the King" (1866-'8), and La Fontaine's fables (1867). In 1853 he began to exhibit oil paint- ings, including "Two Mothers," "Alsatian Wom A Mountebank who has stolen a Child," and some landscapes. The most noted of his pictures are scenes from Dante, espe- cially his "Paolo and Francesca di Rimini," the battles of the Alma and Inkerman, the "Rebel Angels cast down" (1866), the "Gam- bling Hall at Baden-Baden," the " Neophyte " (1868), the "Triumph of Christianity," and " Christ leaving the Prffitorium," which last measures 30 ft. by 20. It is said that he has executed over 45,000 designs. DORIA, Andrea, a Genoese statesman and ad- miral, born at Oneglia, Nov. 30, 1468, died in Genoa in November, 1560. He belonged to a family celebrated for the great number of dis- tinguished men it had produced since the 12th century. The influence which this family and those of the Fieschi, the Grimaldi, and the Spi- nolas exerted upon the destinies of Genoa was so powerful that the four families were called MagncB quatuor Prosapice, the Dorias and the Spinolas siding with the Ghibelline party, and , the other two with the Guelphs. The Dorias