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* DENBIGHSHIRE. 1J2 DENHAM. the Conwav. It conluins Oti.1 s.juare miles, with 8 iiiilis ofoast. The surfii.e is partly rugged ami miiimtaimiiis: alioiit tw" lliinls is umler eul livatioii. Us oorii, ehoi'sc, butter, and live stock are ^-really esteemed. The ehief towns are Ben- hi-irthe capital. W lexliani, and Llanfjollen. Pop- ulali.iii. in IS'.tl, 117,870; in 1!)01, V.iOMW. DEN'BY, CinKl.E.sl l,S:tn-l!>lt4l. An Anuriean lawyer and diplomat, l;orn at Mount Uoy. a. He "studied at Georfietown I'niversity and the Virjrinia Military Institute; was admitted to the Indiana bar in"lS.')."i, and sulisequently served in the St^ite l-ejiislature. During the Civil War he rose to be colonel successively of the Forty- seecnd and the Eightieth Indiana Volunteer infan- try. From ISS.i to 18!I8 he was I'nited States Min- ister to China, and in the latter year became a member of the commission for the investigation of the conduct of the war against Spain. In ISil'.l lie was appointed a member of the civil commission for the investigation of affairs in the Philippine Islands. Sec Piilt.ll'i'iNKS diaragraph nixtori/.) DENDERAH. den'dOr-a (Gk.TitTvpa.reniiira, Coi)lic Tcnlore, perhaps 'the goddess,' cvi- dentlv the end of a longer, nuitilated name). A village of Upper Fgypl. on the left bank of the Nile, opposite the large city of Keneh, in about latitude 2(i° 12' K. It is celebrated for the ancient temple west of the village, one of the best preserved and most beautiful of ancient Egypt, although onlv of moderate size. The portico (.51 vards wide) has twenty-four col- umns, bearing the head of the goddess of Den- derah; the interior is divided into twenty-seven rooms. This teiuple is said to stand on the site of a building dating from the time of King Cheops (q.v.l. which was restored in the twelfth and eighteenth dvnasties. The present structure was begun under Ptolemy XIII., Auletes, and the temple was dedicate<l under Tiberius, al- though some details of the ornamentation date intm his immediate successors. Among the- many pictures and inscriptions, which are of rather moderate execution, a representation of ihe zodiac (or better, the sky) aroused much interest after its publication in the Drscn;i/iO)i d'Ef)iiptc: it has, however, luoved to be merely a iiVvthological representation and of no value for astronomical purposes. Consult Letronne, 0&srri'(i(ioiis sur I'objet (les rcpresentaltons zodia- calcH (Ic Va,ili,,uile (Paris, 1824). For informa- tion about the cow-formed goddess llathor ot Denderah, see Atiior. The tombs of the ancient princes of neiiderah of the fourth to the eigh- teenth dvnastv were excavated by Flinders Petrie in 18!)8.' For' the inscriptions, consult: Mariette, Dcmlrrah (Paris. 1870-80); Diimichen, «./»;/<■ .irhiihli ,lix Ih iidrrnlimiirls ( Strassburg, 18i,). DENDERMONDE, den'der-mfin'd^. A fortified town of Belgium, in the Province of Kast Flan- ders, at the conllnenee of the Deiider and the Scheldt, 18 miles east of Ghent. It has a line church, which contains a number of paintings by Van Dvke and Pi- Crayer, an <dd citadel, and an elab.iratelv de.-.irated" fonrteeiith-century town hall (Map: Helginm, C 3) . There are also several nianiifacluring establishments for the production of cotton goods, soap, and linen. Denderinonde was besieged in in<',7 by I.onis XIV.. fnnn whose hands it was saved "by the opening of the sliiiees, which resnlled in Ihe llooding of Ihe mirrounding eounlry. It was taken by the French in 17t.. Pol'"'"""' '" IS'Of- i^!'-"'''. DEN'DRITE (f;k. SfySplTJK. tl< ndritCs. of or pcrt;iiiiing to a tree, from iivipov, deiulron, tree I. The peculiar tree-like or branching elTect found in minerals and due to the crystallization in them of certain metallic oxides, espwially that of manganese. The well-known moss-agate or mocha stone is a typiial illustration of the den- ilritic markings ilue to maiiganc-e oxide, which are distributed through the mineral, producing a moss like ap])eaianee. Dendrites arc frequent- ly used as gem stones. DENDRITE. In anatomy, a term applied to certain I't llic processes which pass olT from' a nerve cill. Sf Xkrvovs Sy.stem. ^ DENDROLITES. drn'diiMits. See Petrified V WiHin. DENDROPH'AGUS. Siv Crown Gall. DENFERT-ROCHEREATJ, diixfar' rAshe- nV, I'lKltHK MaHU. I'llHlITK .VUISTIDK (18-23-78). French olliwr, born at Saint-Mai.xent ( Deux- Sevres). He studied at the Kcole Polytechnique, entered the engineer corps, and -erved as a cap- tain in the Crimean War. In lS(i4 he was ap- pointed chief engineer of Helfort. of which fort- ress lie became governor with the rank of colonel in 1870. During the Franco-German Wjir he defended the fortress from October, 1870. to Febrnarv, 1871. and surrendered only when ordered "to do so by the Government (February nn He was elected to the National Assembly in 1871 and 1877. 1I<' assisted Thiers and dc la l.aureiicie in the preparatiim of the llistoirc dc la M defense dc lirlfort (Paris. 1871) : and _wrote nm * droilK poliliiiuex d>.t milildirrs (18741. His heroic di'fense of Helfort is there eomniemoraled by Uarth<ddi"s colossal granite 'Lion.' DENGUE, den'ga (Sp. deiifjue, prudery, fas- tidioiiMicss, from Lat. deiirtiare, to deny, refuse), or HliKAKHO-NK Fkvkk, also called Daxuy and 111 iKKT Fevek. a disease known in the southern parts of the United States and in the West Indies, where it was tirst descrilx-d as having ap- peared in the years 1827 and 1828. Its symp- toms are chill, "fever, headache, pain and swelling about the joints, an.l severe pain m the boiu- a rose-colored eruiilion over the body, and gic:n pioslration. It is rarely fatal. The names deii <n' and 'dandv' arc said to have been applied To the disease because of the stilT eriH-tness and careful walk of tlio.se alllicted. Quinine is used in its tnaliiient. DENHAM. deii'-.m. DixoN (1786-1828). An English explorer. He was born in London, and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, lie foiK'ht in the Peninsular campaign, distinguishe.l hiinself at the battle of Toulouse by his daring and "allantrv. and suhse.iucntly .served in the Xctherlands." He was a-sociated with ClapiM'rtnii and Oudiicv in an exploring expedition to C<'ntral friea, which reached Lake Chad by way of Tripcdi and Murzuk in 1823. In 1828 IVnham became Governor of Sierra Leone. An account of his travels was published by him under the title, yarralive of Titircln and Discoveries in yorllwrn and Central Africa (1820). DENHAM. Sir .loiix (ltn.i-C!t). An English piMl. boni in Dublin. Ireland, the son of an Irish judge beariii'_' the same name. He was educated al Oxford, and studied law at Lincoln ^ Inn. His first publication was a tragedy, called So;./n/ (10421. iii-rformed with applause at niackfriars. To 1042 also belongs the first ver-