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232 DOVER on the night of June 27, 1689, when 23 of the inhabitants were killed and 29 carried into captivity. A city charter was granted in 1855. DOVER, a town of Morris co., New Jersey, on the Rockaway river and Morris canal, about 7 m. N. N. W. of Morristown and 32 m. W. by N. of New York ; pop. about 2,000. It is on the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western railroad, and is the terminus of the Chester branch. It is situated in a region abounding in fine natural scenery, but derives its chief importance from the iron mines of the vicinity, and from its iron manufactures. The town contains an extensive rolling mill, a planing mill, a sash, blind, and door factory, a steam saw mill, a carriage factory, a brass and iron found ery, a printing establishment, and ma- chine and car shops. There are six churches, four hotels, a national and a state bank, two savings banks, and a newspaper. DOVER, a town in the hundred of the same name, capital of Delaware, and seat of jus- tice of Kent county, situated on St. Jones river and the Delaware railroad, 48 m. S. of Wil- mington; pop. of the hundred in 1870, 6,394, of whom 1,839 were colored; of the town, 1,906, of whom 501 were colored. It is regu- larly built, mostly of brick, on high ground. The streets are wide, straight, well shaded, and cross each other at right angles. The princi- pal public buildings face an open square, planted with elms, the E. side of which is occupied by a handsome state house. A new county court house and a new post office are in process of construction. The town contains a flour mill, two saw mills, a national and a state bank, an insurance company, two hotels, an academy, seven public and three private schools, a week- ly newspaper, and six churches. Dover is the centre of the fruit-canning trade. DOVER, a township of Tuscarawas co., Ohio, on the right bank of Tuscarawas river, near the mouth of Sugar creek, about 70 m. S. by E. of Cleveland ; pop. in 1870, 3,515. The village of Canal Dover in this township (pop. 1,593) is regularly laid out on the W. side of the Ohio canal, across which and the river there is a bridge 346 ft. long. It is the shipping point for large quantities of wheat and flour. It contains mills, furnaces, and tanneries, and a woollen factory. DOVER, Strait of (Fr. Pas de Calais; anc. Fretiim Gallicum), a strait connecting the English channel with the North sea, and sep- arating England from France. It extends from Dungeness and Cape Gris Nez N. E. to the South Foreland and Calais; length, 24 m. ; breadth at Dover, where it is narrowest, 21 m. DOVER'S POWDER, a preparation of ipecac- uanha and opium, each a drachm, and of sul- phate of potassa an ounce, rubbed together into a very fine powder. Though called by the name of Dr. Dover, it differs from that originally recommended by him, which con- tained also nitrate of potash and licorice. It is admirably adapted for promoting perspira- DOW tion, and possesses at the same time the proper- ties of an anodyne. It is given after depletion, in cases requiring profuse diaphoresis, and is particularly used in dysentery, diarrhoea, and affections of the liver nd of the bowels. DOVREFIELD (Dan. Dome Fjeld), a moun- tain range of Norway, extending from the ter- mination of the Langfield range, near lat. 62 N., to the beginning of the Kiolen range, about lat. 63. SneehsBtten, its principal peak, lat. 62 20' N., Ion. 9 20' E., is one of the highest mountains of the Scandinavian peninsula (7,562 ft.), and its summit is always covered with snow. Four passes cross the Dovrefield range, the most frequented being on the E. side of the Sneehatten, on the road between Christiania and Drontheim. These mountains are granitic in character. In some of the highest gneiss pre- dominates ; in others mica schist. Red por- phyry is found, which at a certain depth has the characteristics of syenite. Among the metals produced are iron, copper, and silver. DOW-, Lorenzo, an eccentric American preach- er, born in Coventry, Conn., Oct. 16, 1777, died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 2, 1834. At an early age he was greatly distressed by re- ligious speculations, until his acceptance of Methodist doctrines and his determination to be- come a preacher of that denomination, though his education was very limited. In 1796 he made an unsuccessful application for admission into the Connecticut conference ; but two years later he was received, and in 1799 was ap- pointed to the Cambridge circuit, New York. During the year he was transferred to Pitts- field, Mass., and afterward to Essex, Vt., but re- mained there only a brief time, as he believed he had a divine call to preach to the Catholics of Ireland. He made two visits to Ireland and England, in 1799 and 1805, and by his eccen- tric manners and attractive eloquence drew after him immense crowds, who sometimes in- dulged in a spirit of bitter persecution. He introduced camp meetings into England, and the controversy about them resulted in the or- ganization of the Primitive Methodists. In 1802 he was preaching in the Albany district, N. Y., "against atheism, deism, Calvinism, and Universalism." He passed the years 1803 and 1804 in Alabama, delivering the first Protestant sermon within the bounds of that state. In 1807 he extended his labors into Louisiana, following the settlers to the ex- treme borders of civilization, and preach- ing to half-civilized throngs in the forest. After 1799 he had no official relation to the ministry of the Methodist church, but con- tinued to adhere to and to preach the promi- nent doctrines of that communion till his death. During his latter years his efforts were more specially directed against the Jes- uits, whom he regarded as dangerous enemies to pure religion and to republican govern- ment. Among his numerous writings are : " Polemical Works " (12mo, New York, 1814) ; "The Stranger in Charleston, or the Trial and