the name of several kings of Persia. See PERSIA.

DARJEELING, in Hindustan, a sanatorium station founded by the British government for the reception of invalid European soldiers from one of the military divisions of the presidency of Bengal. It is situate on a strip of mountain territory ceded in 1836 by the Rajah of Sikkim in consideration of a pecuniary equivalent. The spot possesses great advantages for a sanatorium, in the salubrity of its climate and facility of access from the plains of Bengal. Its elevation is 7218 feet above the level of the sea, and as in India generally, the temperature is observed to fall one degree for every 300 feet of elevation. Its mean temperature is about twenty-four degrees below that of Calcutta, or only two above that of London. The grant of L600 per annum, which was made to the Rajah of Sikkim as compensation for the cession of Darjeeling, was declared to be forfeited in 1850 in consequence of gross outrages committed by that prince against British subjects. Lat. 27. 2.; Long. 88. 19.

Darling, one of the principal rivers of Central Australia, formed by numerous streams between S. Lat. 26 and 27., and E. Long. 151. and 152. Its general course is S.W. to about 142. E. Long, whence its direction is S. to the Murray river, which it joins about S. Lat. 34.; E. Long. 142. During the greater part of its course its waters are salt.