a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, and district of Mymunsingh, situated on the west side of the Brahmapootra, 110 miles north-west from Dacca. Long. 89. 40. E. Lat. 25. 7. N.

DE WIT, John, the famous pensionary, was born in 1625, at Dort, where he prosecuted his studies so diligently, that, at the age of twenty-three, he published Elementa Curvarum Linearum, one of the profoundest books in mathematics at that time. After taking his degrees, and travelling, he in 1650 became pensionary of Dort, and early distinguished himself in the management of public affairs. He opposed with all his might the war between the English and the Dutch; and when the event justified his predictions, he was unanimously chosen pensionary of Holland. In this capacity he laboured to procure a peace with Cromwell, in which he succeeded; and a secret article was introduced by one side or other for the exclusion of the house of Orange. In the war with England after the king's restoration, when, on Opdam's defeat and death, it was thought expedient that some of their own deputies should command the fleet, De Wit was one of three put in commission; and he wrote an accurate relation of all that happened during the expedition he was engaged in, for which, on his return, he received the solemn thanks of