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DABLON DACCA 627 This scheme is illustrated in some of the fol- lowing examples : Gr. Ovydriip, Goth, dauhtar, old Ger. Toclitar, Eng. daughter. Gr. 65ov?, Goth, tunthus, old Ger. Zant, Eng. tooth, &c. Latin : quodannis and quotfannis ; tendo, tensum ; prehendo, prehensutn. Euphonic : prodes, ai/Spe?, French gendre, &c., instead of prp-es, ay-pe?, gen-re, &c. Walla- chian, z&ce, Lat. decein ; d, dies ; ore, hordeum. Ital. 7ra- pani, Lat. Z>repana. D is ejected from the following : Ital. aombrare, Lat. adumbrare ; Po, Lat. Padus, &c. ; Span, oir, caer, creer, Lat. audire, cadere, credere ; so in the French, oulr, Juif, sueur, Lat. audire, Judaeus, sudor. L substituted for D: cicada, Lat. cicada; Span, coin, Lat. cauda; Portug. juJgar, Lat. judicare ; Ulysses, 'OSvo-o-evs ; Jacryma, Sd*cpu, &c. R substituted for D : mendies for inedidies. D is lost in the following: Ital. d,pie, Lat. ad, pede, &c. ; Span./e, Lat. fides. Ger. The, deal ; gutf, good ; Gott, God ; Blu, blood, &c. Ital. dansare, French danger, Ger. tansen, Lat. ten- dere. Ital. Aldobrando, Ger. Atf-brandt; Tancredo, Durik- rath, &c. Eng. ten, tooth, token; Lat. decein, dens, docu- mentum; Ger. sehn, sahn, zeichen, &c. Ger. dick, ZAick; diinn, 7tin; Z>aum, 7iumb; der, die, das, the. Lat. parti- ciple passive, -atfum, -uin; Eng. -ed; Span, -ado, -*do, &c. D began to be used as a numeral sign for 500 about A. D. 1500, when the Dutch printers em- ployed the 10 in the ancient CIO (M), 1,000, combining those signs in the figure of D. It was used by the Romans in the following abbrevia- tions : D. for Decius, Dominus, Divus, Deus, Dictator, Dacia, Diges- tum, &c. ; D. D. for De- cemvirorum decreto ; D. D. D. for Decemvirorum decreto datum, also for Dat, donat, dedicat ; d. for die, dabam (I wrote), &c. ; D. M., Diis mani- bus ; D. O. M., Deo op- timo maximo. With the Catholics D is the do- minical letter when the first Sunday in Janu- ary falls on the 4th. On the reverse of Eu- ropean coins D indicates Lyons in France, Au- rich and Diisseldorf in Prussia, and Gratz in Austria. D in music denotes the second inter- val of the present Ger- man and English diatonic scale, or the third string of the chromatic scale ; this was the re of Guido Aretino, and is the la of the French. DABLON, Claude, a French Jesuit missionary in Canada, New York, Michigan, and Wisconsin, born in 1618, died in Quebec, Sept. 20, 1697. He arrived in 1655, and began a mission at On- ondaga; in 1661 set out to reach Hudson bay overland ; went to Lake Superior with Mar- quette in 1668, and established the mission of Sault Ste. Marie, and one among the Foxes. He became superior of the Canada missions in 1670, and prepared the Relation de la Nouvelle France for 1671-'2, the last published at the time. His Relation for 1672-'3 was printed at New York in 1861, and that for 1675 in 1854, and both at Paris, with some for subsequent years, in 1861. A general Relation prepared by him for 1673-^9 appeared at New York in 1860. The account of Marquette's discovery of the Mississippi, as edited by him, was print- ed in 1853. DACCA. I. A district of the province of Ben- gal, in British India, between lat. 23 12' and 24 17' N"., and Ion. 90 11' and 90 58' E. ; area, 2,897 sq. m. ; pop. in 1871, 1,853,416. It is al- most entirely level, and traversed by numerous rivers which abound with fish. Of wild ani- mals, there are the elephant, buffalo, tiger, bear, and leopard ; of wild birds, the fishing eagle, vulture, kite, adjutant bird, and crane. The porpoise is seen in the large rivers, where the sharp-beaked and the blunt-beaked crocodile are also found. Snakes are numerous. The domestic animals are kine and buffaloes. The number of wild animals is diminishing, and land formerly covered with jungle has been cleared for cultivation. The land is inundated every year, and very fertile ; rice, cotton, sugar, betel- nut, hemp, and indigo and other dyestuffs are produced to some extent. The cotton product has considerably declined since the closing of Dacca. the fine muslin manufactories at Dacca, and the attempts to introduce American cotton have not been successful. The British authority was established in 1765. In the N". part are two distinct tribes, the Kunch and Rajbansi, more vigorous than the rest of the population, which is about equally divided between Brah- mans and Mussulmans ; the latter, however, are considered more numerous. The Eastern Ben- gal railway, 159 m. long, runs from Calcutta to Goalundo at the confluence of the Brahma- pootra and the Ganges, and intercepts the traf- fic which comes down these rivers. The sec- tion from Kootshe to Goalundo was opened for use Dec. 31, 1870. II. The capital of the dis- trict, situated on the Burha Gunga, an arm of the Brahmapootra, 150 m. N". E. of Calcutta, and 116 m. E. S. E. of Moorshedabad ; pop.