DARNETAL, a town of the department of the Lower Seine, in France, about two miles from Rouen, containing 600 houses and 5230 inhabitants, who make many of the finer kinds of woollen goods, as well as flannel and blankets. There are also tanneries, paper-mills, and cotton-spinning machines.
DARNLEY'S ISLAND, an island in the Eastern Seas, lying in Torres Strait, between New Holland and New Guinea. It is about fifteen miles in circumference, and covered with rich vegetation. It is inhabited by a treacherous race. Long. 142. 59. E. Lat. 9. 39. S.