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DAVIDS

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or ST DAVID'S, a city and bishop's see of Pembroke-shire, situated near the Irish channel, about twenty miles north-west of Pembroke: W. long. 5° 20', and N. lat. 52°.

ST DAVID'S is also the name of a town and fort situated on the coast of Coromandel, in the hither India, about eighty miles south of Fort St George: E. long. 79° 40', and N. lat. 11° 45'.

DAVIS'S STRAITS run north-west from Cape Farewell, in 60° N. lat. to Baffin's bay, in 80° N. lat., separating Greenland from North America.