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* DNIEPER. 337 DOANE. DNXEPEB, ne'pfr, Rttss. pron. dnyep'er. A river •'{ Itu-^iii, the largest in Kurope with the exception of the Volga and the Danube (Map: Uussia. D 51. It takes its rise in the swamps of the Government of Smolensk, and. after leav- ing that government, Mows In a southern direc- tion as far as Kiev. At that city it turns soutli- cast. and maintains that direction down to Yekaterinoslav, where it again turns to the south. In this part of tl>e river the hanks are rocky and elevated, and the river forms its famous rapids, which can be passed only at full tide and with the assistance of experienced pilots. Below Alex- androvsk the Dnieper assumes a soit Invest em course, emptying into the Hlack Sea below Kher- son, where it forms a w iile estuary, known as the Dnieper Linian. The total length of the river is over 1400 miles. It is navigable for nearly its entire length, and is of great conunercial importance. Its chief tributaries are the Beresina, Pripet. and Ingulets from the right, and the Soj and Desna from the left. The basin of the river is estimat- ed at 200 000 square miles, almost entirely with- in the boundaries of Russia. The waters of the Dnieper abound in fish. There is steam naviga- tion from Orsha, in the northern part of the (rtivernment of "tohilev, to Yekaterinoslav. and from Alexandrovsk. below the rapids, to Kher- son. The freight- carried on the Dnieper consists principallv of gi-ain and lumber, and has an an- nual value of about .$40,000,000. The Dnieper communicates with the Baltic Sea through the Beresina Canal, which connects the Beresina with the Dvina. the Oginski Canal connecting indirectly the Pripet, a tributary- of the Dnieper, with the Xiemen, and the Dniejier-Bug Canal, connecting the Pripet with a tributary of the Vis- tula. In its upper course the Dnieper is usu- ally frozen over from December to April, while at Khfrson-, near the mouth, it is ice-bound for only two months, from .January to March. In ancient times the Dnieper was known as the Boristhenes or Danapris. DNIESTER, ne'ster. Ifuss. pron. dnyes'ter. A river of southern Europe, rising in the Car- patliiau Mountains, near Sambor, in the Aus- trian Crownland of Oalicia (Map: Russia. C 5). It flows in a southeastern direction through Ga- ' lieia, and enters Russian territory near Khotin, Bessarabia. Its course through Russia, where it separates Bessarabia from Podolia and Kherson, is very tortuous, but has a general southeastern direction. It empties into the Black Sea between Ovidiopol and Akkerman, forming the Dniester Liman, a shallow sheet of water about 20 miles long and 5 miles wide. The total length of the river exceeds 8.50 miles, of which over .500 is in Russia. The Dniester run*mostly through an ele- vated country. At Vanipol rapids formerly inter- fered with navigijtion. but they have been partly overcome, and steam navigation begins at Khotin. The chief tributaries of the Dniester are the Stry from the right and the Sereth from the left. The Dniester is rich in fish. Its commercial im- portance has been much increa.sed owing to im- provements introduced by the Russian Govern- ment. The chief articles of tralTic are grain and lumber. In ancient times the Dniester was known as the Tyras or Danaster. DOAB, dr.-:ib' nr drm-lib' (from Pers. a,i. two -f'/'), water). A word applied, in Hindu coun- tries, like the Greek iitesopolaniiu to any region between two rivers. When inlrotluced, liowever, without Ioc;il reference of any kind, the Doah means the land inclosed by the •lunula on the soutliwest and the Ganges on the northeast — a, district extending from Allahabail to the base of the Himalayas, a distance of upw:ird of .'lOO. with an average breadth of 55 miles. The fertility of this region has been much increased by the Ganges ( :inal (q.v. ). DOAK, dok. S,vMi-Ei. ( 1749-1830). An Ameri- can clergyman and educator, a jiioneer in the movement for the immediate abolition of slav- ery in the I'nited States. He was Born in Augusta County, Va. : graduated at Princeton in 1775; studied theology; and was licensed to preach in 1777. He then migrated to the Hol- ston Valley, and later to .Salem. Tenn.. where he established an academy which subsequently grew into Washington College, of which he was president from 1795 to 1818. In 1818 he re- moved to Bethel, Tenn., where he helped to establish and conduct Tusculiim Academy, which, in 1844. became Tusculuni College. In allusion to his remarkable intluence. particularly in re- ligious affairs, among the pioneer settlers of East Tennessee, he was generally known as 'the Pres- byterian Bishop.' He early became convinced of the iniquitv of slavery, freed his own slaves in 1818, and during the rest of his life, both as a preacher and as a teacher, used the whole of his powerful intluence to further the cause of immediate aljolition. He is frequently referred to as 'the apostle of learning and religion in the West.' A sketch of his life is given in vol. iii. of Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit (New York. 1857). DOANE, don, Geokge Wa.shixgtox ( 1799- 1S5I1|. An eminent American clerg;iman of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was liorn in Trenton. X. .1.: graduated at Union College in 1818; studied in the (General Theological Semi- nary, and was ordained as a deacon in I82I, and as a priest in 182,'?. For three years lie was the assistant of Bishop Hobart in Trinity Church. New York. He was then successively assistant minister and rector of Trinity Church, Boston, until 1832, when he was elected Bishop of Xew Jersey. His interest in Christian education soon led him to establish Saint Mary's Hall for Girls at Burlington. X. J., and in 1840 a school in the same town for boys. He published a volume of poems entitled Soih/s- hii the ir</i/ (1S24). be- sides many familiar hymns, among them "Softly Xow the Light of Day." C<msult The Life and ^Vritings of George 11'. Doune (4 vols.. Xew York. 1800-61), edited by his son. Bishop W. C. Doane. DOANE, WiLLi.!i[ Cboswell (IS.-JS— ). An einincnt American clerg^'man of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the first Episcopal Bishop of Albany. He was bom in Boston, and graduated from Burlington College, Xew .Jersey, in 1850. Six years later he was ordained priest by his father. Bishop (!. W. Doane. Vhom he assisted in Saint Mary's Cliiirch. Burlington. .Afterwards he became rector of Saint .John's. Hartford. Conn., and of Saint Peter's, Albany. X, Y, In 18G9 he was consecrated Bishop of .Mbany. He organized the Cathedral of All Saints in Alliany, and founded Saint .gnes's School for Girls. In 1902 Bishop Doane was chosen Chancellor of the Re- gents of the University of the State of Xew York.