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* DALLAS. 744 DALMATIA. Lord Byron. He was born at Kingston, Jamaica, where his father was a physician and owner of a valuable estate. He passed his life in Jamaica, the United States, England, and France. On his return from the East, Byron showed Dallas the MS. of Childe Harold (first two cantos), and was encouraged by Dallas to publish it. In grat- itude for his many services, Byron gave him the sums received for this poem and the Corsair. Dallas's Recollections of Lord Byron appeared in 1S24. Dallas also wrote novels, tales, and tragedies. He died November 20, 1824, at Sainte-Adresse, Normandy. DALLES, dalz (Fr., slabs, flagstones). A term applied, in regions which have been under French influence, to rapids where the rocky river- bed wears in smooth slabs, and consequently especially to rapids produced by the narrowing of rivers between basaltic rocks. The best- known dalles are those in the Columbia, the Wisconsin, the Saint Louis, Minn., and the Saint Croix, IMinn. The dalles of the Columbia are east of the Cascade Mountains, at Dalles City, Ore., where the fantastic shapes which these rocks assume, together with the swiftly moving waters, form a river scene of rare beauty. DALLES, The, or Dalles City. The county- seat of Wasco County, Ore.. 88 miles east of Portland; on the Columbia River, at the head of navigation, and on the line of the Oregon Rail- road and Navigation Company (Map: Oregon. D 4). It is the starting-point for the grandest scenery of the lower Columbia. The city carries on an extensive trade in wool, live stock, grain, and fruit; and its manufacturing establishments include flouring-mills, a wool-scouring plant, and minor industries. A Methodist mission, followed by a trading station and military post, was es- tablished here in 1838. and the settlement was incorporated in 18.58. The government is admin- istered by a mayor, elected biennially, and a municipal council. Population, in 1890, 3029; in inOO, 3542. DALLES OF THE WISCONSIN. A fa- mous goige through which the Wisconsin River flows between Adams and Juneau counties. Wis. It is 7.5 miles long, ending near Kilbourn City, 21 miles aboe Portage. The average width of the river in the Dalles is 200 feet, but in places it narrows to aboit GO feet. The walls of the gorge, about 100 feet high, are Potsdam sand- stone, in which the stream has fashioned many fantastic forms. It is a favorite resort for sightseers. DALTi-ING AND BTTL'WEIl, Baeon. See BuLWEK, William Henby Lttton. DAL'LINGER, William HE^'RY (1841—). An English scientist, born at Devonport. He entered the Weslcyan ministry in 1801, and for many years preaclied in Liverpool. But he also gave a great deal of his time to scientific in- vestigation with the microscope, and this work he continued while acting as principal of Weslev College, Sheffield (1880-88), as well as later. In 1880 he was made a fellow of the Royal So- ciety, and from 1883 to 1887 was president of the Royal Microscopical Society. He has also lectured at Cambridge and at Oxford, and has been senior lecturer to the Gilchrist Educational Trust. His published works include the follow- ing: Minute Forms of Life (1860); The Origin of Life (1878) ; The Creator and What We May Know of the Method of Creation (1887) ; and a thorough revision of Carpenter's The Micro- scope and Its Revelations (1901). DALL'ONGARO, dal-on'ga-rO, Francesco (1808-73). An Italian poet, novelist, and patriot, born near Treviso. Abandoning the priesthood, for which he found himself unfitted, he started at Triest a revolutionary journal, the Faiilla; served under Garibaldi in 1849; and, after living for some years in exile in Paris and Brussels, returned to Florence to accept a chair of litera- ture. Later he taught at Naples, where he closed a life full of sorrow and misfortune. He left a great variety of writings, including plays once quite popular. He is remembered elxiefly, how- ever, for his graceful and spirited poems, many of them in the Venetian dialect, and for having adopted the stornello, a particular form of folk- ]ioem, as a medium for patriotic verse, his famous litornelli politici. DALMANITES, darma-nl'tez (named in hoiuir of the geologist Dalnian). A genus of fossil trilobites found in rocks of Ordovician to Devonian age, especially in those of the Si- lurian, in North America, Europe, Asia, and .Australia. The carapace is depressed, with well-marked axis, is ovate in outline, tapering to the tail, and has eleven thoracic segments, with a large, often pointed, pygidium. The head-shield is broad, sometimes with an anterior l)oint. and the genal angles are pointed. The e3'es are large and usually well raised above the general surface, and are provided with nu- merous distinct facets. The glabella has a liroad frontal lobe and three lateral lobes. Dal- nianitcs has several related genera — Acaste, Chasmops, Pteiygometopus, ete. — which difl'er in more or less conspicuous features, and which are all members of the family Phacopidfp, of which the type genus is Phacops. About 100 species are known in the genus Dalmanites, and of these the best known are Dalmanites limii- lurus of the North American Niagaran series, its representative Dalmanites caudatus, of the English Wenlock, and Dahnanifes socialis, of the Bohemian Ordovician. See Phacops: and fur liililiographv and illustration see Tkilobite. DALMANUTHA (Lat., from Gk.AaVoroi-fld, Dalinnnautlia) . A place mentioned in Mark viii. 10, as the locality ("into the parts of Dal- manitha") whither Jesus retired after feeding the four thousand. It was somewhere near the coast of the Sea of Galilee, but has not yet been identified. In the parallel record in Matthew (XV. 39) the name of the place is Magdala. DALMATIA, d.^l-ma'shi-a. The most south- ern crciwiiland of Austria, occupying a narrow strip of land along the Adriatic, and boimded by Croatia on the north and by Bosnia. Herzego- vina, and ^Montenegro on the east (Jlap: Aus- tria. E 5). Its area, including the adjacent isl- ands, is 4940 square miles. The eastern part of Dalmatia belongs to the region of the Dinaric Alps, which form a wall on the side of Bosnia, while parallel to the coast rise the moimtain chains of Castella, !Mosor. and a few others. The coast is well indented and skirted by many isl- ands. The scenery of the Dalmatian coast is famed for its picturesqueness. The Gulf of Cattaro is one of the finest harbors in Europe. The mountains are generally composed of lime-