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DAVID

Volume 4 · 216 words · 1778 Edition

king of Israel, and Hebrew poet, was born at Bethlehem 1085, and died 1014 years B.C. His history is particularly recorded in the sacred writings.

ST DAVID'S, an episcopal town of Pembroke-shire, in S. Wales; but has neither market nor fair. It is seated in a barren soil on the river Ilen, not a mile from the sea-shore. It was once a considerable place, and had walls, which are now demolished; but it is small at present, and thinly inhabited; however, the cathedral is a pretty good structure. From the cape, near this place, there is a prospect into Ireland. W. Lon. 5. 20. N. Lat. 52. 0.

ST DAVID'S, a town and fort of Asia, in the peninsula on this side the Ganges, and on the coast of Coromandel. It is an English factory, and one of the strongest places they have in the East-Indies. The fort stands close to the river, and the territory belonging to it is 8 miles on the sea-shore, and 4 within land. It produces good long-cloths, chints, callicoes, and muslins. Each house has a garden; and there are plenty of black cattle, but small. The rivers and sea abound with excellent fish. It is 80 miles S. of Fort St George. E. Long. 79. 55. N. Lat. 11. 30.