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DAFFODIL DAGOBEET 631 fled to France, and engaged in business in Dunkirk. He became colonel of a corps of volunteers in the French army in 1793, and served in the expeditions of Dumouriez and Pichegru against Holland, rising to the rank of brigadier general ; and upon the expulsion of the house of Orange by the latter he entered the service of the Batavian republic, and took part in the organization of the government. He commanded one of the three divisions which in 1799 repulsed the descent of the Russian fleet on the coast. In 1803 he resigned, but on the outbreak of war in 1806 he entered the service of the king of Holland, and was re- stored to his former rank, and served against the Prussians. In October, 1806, he occupied East Friesland, and was made governor of Mtinster. He was subsequently made com- mander-in-chief of the cavalry, marshal of Holland, and governor general of the East Indian provinces, holding the last office from 1808 to 1811, displaying great administrative ability, and introducing important reforms. He subsequently served in the Eussian cam- paign, and after the fall of Napoleon was in- trusted with the organization of the E. African colonies which had been restored to the Dutch. He published an account of his East Indian administration, Staat der Nederlandschen Oost- indischen Bezittingen, which gave important information of the resources and moral condi- tion of Java and the neighboring islands. DAFFODIL. See NAKCTSSUS. DAGGETT, David, LL. D., an American jurist, born at Attleborough, Mass., Dec. 31, 1764, died in New Haven, Conn., April 12, 1851. He graduated at Yale college in 1783; was admitted to the. bar in New Haven in 1786; was elected representative to the legislature in 1791 ; and, after holding other offices, was in 1813 chosen to the United States senate, where he continued till 1819. In 1824 he became instructor in the law school in New Haven ; in 1826 was appointed Kent professor of law in Yale college ; and in the same year was chosen judge of the superior court, and received the degree of LL. D. from Yale college. In 1832 he was made chief justice of the supreme court of the state, retiring by limitation of age in 1834. A sketch of his life and character, by the Eev. Dr. Dutton, was published in 1851. DAGGETT, Naphtali, an American clergyman, born at Attleborough, Mass., Sept. 8, 1727, died in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 25, 1780. He graduated at Yale college in 1748; in 1751 was ordained pastor of a Presbyterian church in Smithto wn, Long Island ; and in 1 755 was chosen professor of divinity in Yale college, which office he held till his death. On the resignation of President Clap, in 1766, he was chosen president pro tempore, and in this capa- city officiated for more than a year. In July, 1779, when the British attacked New Haven, Dr. Daggett took part in the resistance to them, and being taken prisoner, was treated with so much severity that he never recovered from the effects of it. He published several sermons, and in 1780 an account of the famous " dark day " in New England. DAGHESTAN, a province of Eussia, comprising most of the E. slope of the Caucasus toward the Caspian sea, from the Sulak or Koisu river on the north to Mount Bazardynsi on the south, between lat. 41 and 43 30' N. and Ion. 45 30' and 48 30' E. ; area, about 11,000 sq. m. ; pop. in 1867, 449,096. Three principal branches of the Caucasus advance into Daghestan, ter- minating respectively about lat. 41, 42, and 43. The second of these divides the country into northern and southern Daghestan, and forms the famous Derbent pass. Parts of the country are very mountainous, with deep val- leys, numerous lakes, streams, and glaciers. The highest peaks rise to an elevation of about 14,000 ft. The rivers are for the greater part mountain torrents flowing into the Caspian, whose shores have few harbors. The moun- tains of original formation are extremely rug- ged, and the climate in the higher regions severe ; the narrow valleys are fertile, pro- ducing grains, rice, millet, saffron, fruit, nuts, wine, and fine timber; the iron, lead, and sulphur mines are only developed to supply the necessities of war, and the weapons manu- factured here are justly celebrated. Cattle are raised in large numbers, as well as ex- cellent horses, asses, camels, and a species of fat-tailed sheep. Western Daghestan is the chief abode of the powerful tribe of the Lesghians (the Albani of antiquity), chiefly Mohammedans of the Sufi sect. The Lesghians are still virtually independent of Eussia, to which their country nominally belongs. Fur- ther north in the hilly region live Tartar tribes of Mongol descent, all of them Mohammedans, and more or less nomadic, living principally by the raising of cattle and horses. Most of them are peaceable Eussian subjects. A few towns of some commercial importance, among them Derbent, the capital, and Tarku, are situated along the Caspian coast, which is flat, marshy, /or sandy, and in many portions not well watered. The great rising against Eussia in 1823 commenced in Daghestan. (See CAU- CASUS.) The name Daghestan is also used in a wider sense, in which it embraces the adjoining territories W. to the vicinity of the Kasbek and S. to the peninsula of Apsheron. DAGOBERT I., king of the Franks, born about 600, died at Epinay, Jan. 19, 638. He was the son of Clotaire II., and by the help of the great feudal lords became king of Austrasia in 622, during the life of his father. Upon his father's death in 628 he inherited Neustria and Bur- gundy, and three years later he reannexed Aquitania, which had been inherited by his brother Charibert. He then reigned over the whole Frankish dominion, and successfully op- posed the encroachments of the Frankish lords, repelled an invasion of the Yascones, and forced the Bretons to acknowledge his supremacy. His court almost equalled in magnificence that