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DUMONT

Volume 4 · 81 words · 1778 Edition

(Francis), a Frenchman; compiler of a general collection of treaties of commerce, alliance, and peace, between the powers of Europe. This collection, with Barbeyrac's containing the treaties B.C., makes 16 vols folio, very useful for historical writers. Dumont retired to Holland in 1720. The time of his death is uncertain.

DUMOSÆ, (from dumus, a bush), an order of plants in the Fragments methodi naturalis of Linnæus, containing the following genera, viz. Viburnum, Tinos, Opalus, Sambucus, Rondelletia, Bellonia, Cassine, Ilex, Tomax, &c.