province of Nubia, extending along the banks of the Nile, from about 18. to 19. 30. N. Lat., but having generally a breadth of only from 1 to 3 miles. It is chiefly famous for its horses, which rival in beauty the finest Arabian breeds, besides being larger, and having more bone. The principal towns are New and Old Dongola.

Dongola, New, or Marakah, stands on the left bank of the Nile, in Lat. 19. 7. 30. N., and Long. 29. 54. 35. E., according to Linant; but according to Rüppell, in Lat. 19. 10. 19. N., Long. 30. 22. 15. E. It has taken its rise within the last forty years; and is now a considerable town, and a resting-place for the caravans from Kordofan and Senaar. The bazaar is well supplied with shoes, printed cottons, calicoes, rice, sugar, coffee, hardware, &c., from Cairo. It has large barracks, and a manufactory for indigo. Pop. about 6000.

Dongola, Old, lies to the S. of the preceding, on the right bank of the Nile. It was formerly a place of some importance, but is now in ruins, and does not contain more than 300 inhabitants. The sand has accumulated here in such quantities, as in many parts to conceal the houses, while others of them are only accessible by the roof.

Dongurpore, in Hindustan, a town, the chief place of a petty native state of the same name, situate in the province of Rajpootana. This territory extends from Lat. 23. 35. to 24. 3., and from Long. 73. 40. to 74. 18. It contains an area of 1000 square miles, and its population is estimated at 100,000. Its chief is descended from a branch of the Odeypore family, whose ancestors became dependent on the emperor of Delhi, and so continued until subjugated by the Mahrattas, from whose yoke the country was rescued by the British. The treaty by which the British connection was established with this state was concluded in 1818. The town of Dongurpore is distant north from Bombay 345 miles. Lat. 23. 50. Long. 73. 50.

Donjon, or Dungeon, the principal tower in ancient castles, underneath which there were vaults in which prisoners were confined. It was likewise called the Keep. See Castle.

Donne, Dr John, a poet and divine, was born at London in 1573. His parents were of the Roman Catholic faith, and used their utmost efforts to keep him firm in the same persuasion; but an early examination of the controversy between the Church of Rome and the Protestants determined him to adhere to the creed of the latter. After having prosecuted the study of law for some time at Lincoln's Inn, he travelled into Italy and Spain, where he learned the languages of both countries to perfection. Soon after his return to England, Sir Thomas Egerton, keeper of the great seal, appointed him his secretary; and in this post Donne continued five years. Having however married privately Anne, the daughter of Sir George Moore, then chancellor of the garter, and niece to the lord keeper's lady, he was dismissed from his situation at the instigation of his father-in-law, and thrown into prison. But he was afterwards reconciled to Sir George by the good offices of Sir Francis Wooley. In 1612 he accompanied Sir Robert Drury to Paris. During this time many of the nobility solicited the king to give him some secular employment. But James I., who took pleasure in his conversation, and was highly delighted with his Pseudo-Martyr, a polemic treatise against Catholicism, printed at London in 1610, prevailed on the author to enter into holy orders, and appointed him one of his chaplains. He also procured him the degree of doctor of divinity from the university of Oxford. In 1619 Dr Donne attended the Earl of Doncaster in his embassy into Germany. In 1621 he was made dean of St Paul's; and the vicarage of St Dunstan in the West soon afterwards fell to him. Besides the work above men- tioned, he wrote *Devotions upon emergent Occasions; the Ancient History of the Septuagint*, translated from the Greek of Aristaeus, 1653, 12mo; *Three volumes of Sermons*, 1640, 1649, 1660, folio; *A Treatise against suicide*, entitled *Bia- thanatos*; and Poems.

Donne's writings show him to have been a man of wit and learning; but he chiefly excelled in satire. Lord Falkland, no mean judge, styles him one of the most witty and most eloquent of modern divines. His reputation as a poet was higher in his own time than it has been since. Dryden, with his usual judgment and discrimination, characterizes him as "the greatest wit, though not the best poet, of our own nation;" and adds, that "he affects metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign, and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts and entertain them with the softness of love." Donne's numbers, if they may be so called, are certainly the most rugged and uncouth of any of our poets; yet he was certainly not ignorant nor unskilled in the higher attributes of style, for he wrote elegantly in Latin, and displays considerable taste in some of his smaller pieces and epigrams.

**DONNYBROOK.** See Dublin, County of.

**DOOMSDAY Book.** See Domesday Book.

**DOON,** a small river of Ayrshire, Scotland, immortalized by Burns. It rises in Loch Doon, a lake about 6 miles in length and 3/4ths of a mile in breadth; and after a course of 18 miles falls into the Firth of Clyde, 3 miles S. of Ayr.

**DOORNIK,** the Flemish name of Tournai. See Tournai.

**DOOSHAK,** a town of Afghanistan. See Jalalabad.

**DOR,** the English name of the black beetle, or the hedge- chafer, a species of Scarabaeus.

**DORADO,** a southern constellation of six stars, not visi- ble in our latitude. It is also called *xiphias*.

**DORAK,** or Felahi, a town of Persia, province of Khuristan, situated in low and marshy ground, on two branches of the river Jerahi, 75 miles S. of Shuster. It is surrounded by mud walls about 2 miles in circumference, 16 feet thick; and flanked with towers. It contains few houses within the walls, as the majority of the people prefer living in the suburbs, under the shade of date trees. Dorak is celebrated for its manufacture of Arabian cloaks, which are exported in great numbers, but it has little other trade. Pop. about 8000.