The different consistence and durableness of the strata whereof they consist, are more or less.

Woodward.

Duration is a circumstance so essential to happiness, that, if we conceived it possible for the joys of heaven itself to pass from us in an instant, we should find ourselves not much concerned for the attainment of them. Rogers. The glories of her majesty's reign ought to be recorded in words more durable than brass, and such as our posterity may read a thousand years hence.

Swift. Extreme volatile and sprightly tempers seem inconsistent with any great enjoyment. There is too much time wasted in the mere transition from one

object to another. No room for those deep impres

sions, which are made alone by the duration of an idea. Shenstone.

Though art may sometimes prolong their duration, it will rarely give them perpetuity.

Johnson. Plan of Dictionary. SIR F. Pray, madam, do you speak as to duration of time; or do you mean that the story is tediously

spun out?

Sheridan.

DURATION OF ACTION, according to Aristotle, is confined to a natural day in tragedy; but the epopea, according to the same critic, has no fixed

whorish woman.

South.

Notwithstanding the warning and example before me, I commit myself to lasting durance.

Congreve's Old Bachelor. Duresse is a plea used, by way of exception, by him who, being cast into prison at a man's suit, or otherwise by threats, beating, &c., hardly used, seals any bond to him during his restraint. This the law holds as invalid, and supposes to be constrained. Cowell.

Our fame is in men's breath, our lives upon Less than their breath; our durance upon days; Our days on seasons; our whole being on Something which is not us!

Byron.

DURELL (David), a learned divine and critic, born in the island of Jersey, in 1728. He received his education at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he took his degrees in arts, but afterwards became fellow of Hertford College, of which he was appointed principal in 1757. He obtained the degree of D.D. in 1764, and about three years after a prebendal stall in the church of Canterbury. He died in 1775 He published, 1. The Hebrew Text of the Parallel Prophecies of Jacob and Moses, relating

to the Twelve Tribes, with a Translation and Notes, &c. 4to. 2. Critical Remarks on the books of Job, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and Cauticles, 4to.: which is frequently referred to by bishop Horne, in his Commentary on the Psalms.

1471.

DURER (Albert), one of the first engravers and painters of his age, was descended of an Hungarian family, and born at Nuremberg, in He was also a man of letters and a philosopher; and was an intimate friend of Erasmus, who revised some of his works. He was one of the first improvers of the art of engraving. In many of those prints which he executed on copper, the engraving is elegant to a great degree. His 'hell scene,' in particular, which was engraved in 1513, is as highly finished a ecuted. This artist understood the principles of print as ever was engraved, and as happily exdesign; his composition, too, is often pleasing; and his drawing generally good. But he knew very little of the management of light; and still less of grace yet his ideas are purer than could well be expected from the awkward archetypes which his country and education afforded. In a word, he was a man of very extensive genius; and, as Vasari remarks, would have been an extraordinary artist, if he had had an Italian instead of a German education. His prints are They were much admired in very numerous. his own life-time, and eagerly bought up; which made his wife urge him to spend more time upon engraving than he was inclined to do. But he was rich; and chose rather to practise his art as an amusement than as a business. He died in 1527.

DURESS, durities, constraint, in English law, is more particularly applied to whatever is done by man to save either life or limb. If a man through fear of death or mayhem, is prevailed upon to execute a deed, or do any other legal act, though accompanied with all other requisite solemnities, it may be afterwards avoided. And the same is a sufficient excuse for the commission of many misdemeanours. There are two sorts of duress: duress of imprisonment, where a man actually loses his liberty; and duress per minas (by threats), where the hardship is only threatened and impending.

A man who was under duress of imprisonment, being an illegal restraint of liberty, until he seals a bond or the like, may allege this duress, and avoid the extorted bond. But if a man be lawfully imprisoned, and either to procure his discharge, or on any other fair account, seals a bond or deed, this is not by duress of imprisonment, and he is not at liberty to avoid it. 2 Inst. 482.

Duress per minas, is either for fear of loss a life, or else for fear of mayhem or loss of limb. And this fear must be upon sufficient reason: non suspicio cujuslibet vani et meticulosi hominis, sed talis qui possit cadere in virum constantem. Bract. 1. 2. c. 5. A fear of battery (or being beaten) though never so well grounded, is no duress; neither is the fear of having one's house burned, or one's goods taken away and destroyed; because in these cases, should the threat be performed, a man may have satisfaction, by recovering equivalent damages; but no suitable

atonement can be made for the loss of life or limb. 2 Inst. 483.

D'URFEY (Thomas), an eminent English satirist and songster, whose name is well known, but of whose life few particulars are to be collected. He was born in Devonshire: but when, where, or of what family, are uncertain. He was bred to the law, which he forsook for the more agreeable employment of writing plays and songs; and the latter he had so happy a talent both of writing and singing, that he received many favors from persons of quality on that account. The writer of the Guardian, No. 67, tells us, he remembered to have seen Charles II. leaning on Tom D'Urfey's shoulder more than once, humming over a song with him. This, indeed was not extraordinary in so merry a monarch; but even the phlegmatic king William could relax his muscles on hearing him sing. D'Urfey grew poor as he grew old, and prevailing on the managers of the playhouse to act his comedy of the Plotting Sisters, for his benefit, Addison wrote the above-mentioned paper in the Guardian, with another, No. 82, representing him in a good humored light, to procure him a full house. He died very old, in 1723.

DURHAM, a maritime county of England, is situated between the rivers Tees and Derwent, and along the German Ocean. It is bounded on the north by Northumberland, from which it is separated by the rivers Derwent and Tyne; on the east by the German Ocean; on the south by the river Tees, which divides it from Yorkshire; and on the west by Cumberland and Northumberland. Its form is triangular, extending forty-five miles in length, from its most western extremity, near the village of Kelhope, to Hartlepool on the east; and thirty-six in breadth, from the village of Stockburn in the south, to South Shields in the north. Though only a small part of the county is either of this length or breadth, it is nearly 180 miles in circumference. Its superficial area includes about 610,000 acres, containing four wards, one city, 120 parishes, ten market towns, and 230 villages. It is in the diocese of its own name, and is included in the northern circuit. Durham is divided into wards, and the archdeaconry comprehends four deaneries.

Before the Roman invasion Durham was inhabited by the Brigantes, but, after the conquest of this kingdom, it became part of the Roman province called Maxima Cæsariensis. The Anglo-Saxons included it in the kingdom of Northumberland. The etymology of the present name of this county appears to be derived, according to Bede, from dun a hill, and holm an island. It is usually called the bishopric of Durham, from the great power which the bishop of the diocese formerly possessed. It is, however, a palatine county, deriving its privileges from a grant made by Egfrid, king of Northumberland, in the year 685, of all the land betwixt the rivers Wear and Tyne, to St. Cuthbert, the apostle of the north, and to the ministers of his church for ever. Speed remarks, that the air is sharp and very piercing, and would be more so, were it not that the vapors from the German Ocean help much to dissolve the ice and snow; yet the air is generally deemed healthy. It is milder and more

pleasant towards the sea than in other parts. The general aspect is mountainous. A ridge of hills crossing the western angle has been denominated the English Appenines. They are not, however, extremely elevated. Of the soils of this county Granger says: near the river Tees, and in some spots bordering the other rivers and brooks in this county, the soil is loamy or a rich clay; at a further distance from these rivers and brooks, the soil is of a poorer nature, commonly termed watershaken, with here and there spots of gravel interspersed: but these are of small extent, the middle of none of them being half a mile from clay. The hills between the sea and an imaginary line drawn from Barnard Castle on the Tees, to Alansford on the Derwent, are for the most part covered with a dry loam, the fertility of which varies in proportion to its depth: from this line westward, the summits as well as the sides of the hills are moorish wastes. Mr. Bailey, in his Agricultural Report, remarks that the soils of this county vary in such insensible degrees, that it would be difficult to describe them in all their varieties. The principal distinctions, or heads of classification, may be taken as clay, loam, and peat. The south-east part of the county, from the Tees mouth to a few miles west of Stockton, and from thence by Redmarshal, Walviston, Elwich, and as far north as Hart, consists of a strong fertile clayey loam. To the westward of this, as far as Sedgefield, Trimdon, and Eppleton, and northward to near Sunderland, the soil is principally a poor stubborn unfertile clay. Of the loamy soils there are different varieties, as is the case with the clayey soils just mentioned. The deep, mellow, tenacious, dry, fertile, loams are in general found in the vicinity of rivers. The limestone district, extending from near Sunderland by Houghton-le-Spring, Kelloe, Coxhoe, Ferryhill, and to Merrington, is mostly a dry but not a productive loam. The peaty soils are most prevalent in the western parts, the greatest portion of the moors that have been enclosed being of this description.

Hartlepool, situated on a promontory, nearly encompassed by the German Öcean, which forms a capacious bay on the south side of the town, is advantageously placed for the reception of vessels, and landing of troops from the Continent. South Shields, also, sends out many vessels, and Stockton-upon-Tees is well situated for commerce.

The chief rivers which communicate with the sea are the Tyne, the Wear, and the Tees. The Tees rises in those vast moors which separate Yorkshire from Durham, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Northumberland. Its course is at first rather inclined to the south-east, but below Darlington it turns abruptly to the north-east, and falls into the sea below Stockton in this county, which may be called its port. The Wear rises in the same wild moors, but considerably to the north of the Tees. Its course is almost parallel with it, bearing at first to the south-east, and at Bishop's Auckland turning to the northeast; after nearly surrounding the city of Durham, it flows northward to Chester-le-Street, and then inclines a little towards the east, to reach its port of Sunderland. The Wear, Mr Skrine calls the miniature of the Tees, much

resembling that river in character, though greatly its inferior in width and rapidity. The Tyne, strictly speaking, belongs to Northumberland, though it has its source in the Durham Moors. The fish in these rivers are salmon, trout, eels, dace, pike, and spartings in the Tees. The salt springs near Birtley, and the spas at Butterby and Dinsdale, are also deserving of notice. Near the water-gate, at the south side of the town of Hartlepool, is a chalybeate spring, covered every tide by the sea, and slightly impregnated with sulphur.

The mineral productions of Durham are numerous and valuable.-The coal districts, in particular, are extensive in various parts of the county. Mr. Bailey has enumerated thirty-four collieries, which he calls Watersale Collieries, and thirty-five which he calls Landsale Collieries. From these lists it appears that the quantity of coals obtained in this county annually is 1,480,080 chaldrons of thirty-six bushels; 10,650 men are employed. In the year 1809 there were eighty-six lead- mines working in this county. Of these, twenty-three belonged to the bishop of Durham; forty-seven, being all the mines in Teesdale, except one, to the earl of Darlington. Iron ore is found in abundance in the western parts of the coal district. The county, also, produces various kinds of excellent stone for chimneypiece ornaments, mill-stones, grind-stones, &c.; as also fire-stone for ovens, furnaces, &c., and freestone for building; as also gray slates for roofing, &c. The cattle of Durham are in much repute; as for form, weight, produce of milk and butter, and quickness of fattening, they are equal to any in England.

Durham sends four members to parliament: viz. two for the county, and two for the city of Durham. This county was the birth-place of Sir John de Baliol, founder of Baliol College, Oxford, born at Barnard castle, 1248; the venerable Bede, born at Wearmouth, or more probably at Iscomb, 672, died 735; Dr. Sir Samuel Garth; Joseph Reed, a dramatic writer; Rev. W. Romaine, a Calvinistic clergyman of the established church; Dr. Richard Grey, author of Memoria Technica, and many other works on theology, &c.

In this county are manufactures of all kinds of wrought iron, foundries for casting iron and brass, glass-houses, potteries, salt, copperas, salammoniac, coal tar, woollen, cotton, and linen; some silk ribbon, and paper-mills. It abounds in noblemen's and gentlemen's seats.

Here are, likewise, several natural and artificial curiosities worth the notice of travellers: as, the black halls, near Hartlepool, consisting of clusters of rocks, formed by the force and constant action of the waves of the sea, which have created several fine pointed archways and vast towers, resembling those of a cathedral. At Oxenhall are some of those curious cavities called hell-kettles; the diameter of the largest is 114 feet, and that of the least seventy-five feet. Kepier hospital, near Durham, founded in 1112, has only part of the gateway standing, a strong and handsome piece of masonry with pointed arches. Remains of several monastic buildings occur near the church at Monk Wear

mouth; that of Jarrow may still be traced in its ruins on the summit of an elevated ridge near the church; and the ruins of a monastery for grey friars may be seen at Hartlepool. On the east side of the main street of Gateshead are the ruins of St. Edmund's monastery, established, according to Bede, before the middle of the seventh century; and Finchall priory, once beautifully situated in a vale on the banks of the Wear, covers with its ruins an extensive plot of ground. The principal existing ecclesiastical buildings are-Sedgefield church, in the Saxon style; Bishop Wearmouth church, supposed to have been founded by Athelstan; the parish church of Brancepeth, an ancient structure of the conventual form; and the cathedral of Durham, begun in 1093, in the Saxon and Norman style.

Durham is also rich in civil architecture and remains: amongst the most conspicuous are Hilton castle, an ancient baronial residence of a family of that name, situated on the north side of the Wear, about three miles from Wearmouth; its form is an oblong square, the interior consisting of five stories. Ravensworth castle, which seems anciently to have formed a quadrangle, having four square towers, connected by a curtain wall; two of the towers are built up, and the others are in ruins. Brancepeth castle, an irregular stately pile, erected about Stephen's reign. Lumley castle, about a mile to the east of Chester-le-Street, a seat of the earl of Scarborough; it is a quadrangle, with an area in the centre, and at each angle are projecting turrets of an octangular form. Bishop Auckland's castle, standing on the north angle of the town, and covering with its courts and offices about five acres of ground. Raby castle, the magnificent seat of the earl of Darlington, enlarged on the basis of a more ancient castle which stood here prior to the year 1379. Barnard castle, situated on the southern acclivity of an eminence, rising with a steep ascent from the river Tees. And the castle of the county town. See DURHAM, the city.

Roman coins have been dug up at Gateshead, on Fulwell Hill, and at South Shields, which was clearly the ad finem of Richard of Cirencester's Itinerary. Binchester, the seat and manor of the Wren family, is the site of the Roman station Vinovium; and Evchester is supposed to be the Vindomara of Antoninus, many Roman inscriptions, and an urn of uncommon form, having been found here. The latter was nearly a yard high and seven inches wide, having in the centre a small cup. Chester-le-Street has been supposed to be the Condercum of the Romans. It is situated on the military way leading to Newcastle. Glanibanta, near Lanchester, is another, and remarkably distinct Roman station. It is of an oblong figure, 174 paces from north to south, and 160 from east to west, within the vallum, which occupies a beautiful eminence. In some parts, the wall remains perfect; the outside is perpendicular, twelve feet in height, built of ashler work in regular courses, each stone being about nine inches thick, and twelve long. The site of the Pretoriuin is very distinctly to be traced.

Three miles west of the city of Durham, and to the right of the road, is Brandon, a village.

situated in the vicinity of a high hill. On the summit is a remarkable tumulus, of an oblong form, 120 paces in circumference at the base, and about twenty-four feet in perpendicular height; but it does not appear that this tumulus was ever opened. It is now covered with a thick plantation of fir, and seems a relic of British antiquity. Near Eggleston is an ancient structure, called the Standing Stones, also of this class: it originally consisted of a cairn in the centre, surrounded by a trench, and encompassed by a circular arrangement of rough stones; many of which have been removed and broken to repair the roads.

Durham is termed a county palatine (à palatio) because the owners thereof had, in this county, the authority to use the royal prerogative as fully as the king had in his palace. Its privileges are thought to have been originally granted to the county, on account of its bordering so near upon Scotland, in order that the inhabitants, having justice administered at home, might not be obliged to go out of their county and leave it open to the enemy. The bishopric of Durham was dissolved, and the king to have all the lands, &c., by a statute (7 Ed. VI.) not printed. But this act was afterwards repealed (1 Mary, stat. 3, c. 3), and the bishopric newly erected, with all jurisdiction ecclesiastical and temporal annexed to the county palatine. The justices of the county palatine of Durham may levy fines of lands in the county; and writs upon proclamation, &c., are to be directed to the bishop. (Stats. 5 Eliz. c. 27, 31 Eliz. c. 2). Writs to elect members of Parliament in the county palatine of Durham, also go to the bishop or his chancellor, to be returned by the sheriff, &c. There is also a distinct court of chancery in this county; and the bishop is at the head of the whole administration of justice.

DURHAM, a principal city of England, the capital of the foregoing county, is sixteen miles south from Newcastle, and 259 north from London. This city was founded in 995, on the monks of Landisfarne removing to this spot, and making it the sacred depository of the relics of St. Cuthbert. It is nearly surrounded by the river Wear. Its situation, and the venerable appearance of its public buildings, strike the eye very agreeably at the southern entrance of the city. Altogether it is about a mile square, and is well paved, watched, and lighted. The municipal government is vested in a mayor, recorder, twelve aldermen, twenty-four commoncouncil-men, who are chosen from twelve chartered trading companies, and an indefinite number of freemen: the corporation and freemen amounting in the whole to about 1000 electors, who return two members to parliament. The cathedral and castle occupy the crown of an eminence, eighty feet perpendicular from the river, and enclosed by the remains of the old city walls. At the bottom flows the Wear. The slope of the hill is decorated with hanging gardens and rich meadows, and the opposite banks are clothed with wood and fruit trees. The cathedral is itself 411 feet long, the length of the nave 200 feet, and the width seventy-four; the great cross-aisle has an aisle towards the

east, at both ends, 170 feet in length, and fiftyseven wide; the middle tower is 214 feet high. It is divided into five aisles by four rows of pillars. The pillars are vast cylinders, twentythree feet in circumference, and, with the whole of the interior, are adorned with carvings, exhibiting fine specimens of the early Norman style. Near the west end is the font, an elegant marble basin, ornamented with carved red-oak. The oak-skreen at the entrance of the choir, as well as the bishop's throne, and the stalls for the bishop, dean, and prebendary, are finished in a magnificent style. The founder's tomb is on the south side of the throne. The beautiful mutilated screen, on the eastern side of the choir, was the gift of John lord Neville. Behind the highaltar stood the shrine of St. Cuthbert, once the richest in England. The north aisle of this cathedral is now used as a register-office for wills. In 1782 several parts of this structure being found in a ruinous condition, they were restored with considerable taste. The Galilee, or St. Mary's chapel, at the west end of the cathedral, is said to have been built as a place of worship for those females who were not allowed to enter the cathedral. The old Frater House is converted into an elegant library. The College is an oblong square, containing the deanery and prebendal houses. The kitchen here is curious, and at the upper end of it is a beautiful fountain. On the north side of the church-yard is the grammar-school, and the master's house.

Durham has six other churches, namely, St. Oswald's, an ancient structure, with a curious vaulted roof of wood, and some fine painted glass: St. Nicholas, an ancient but plain edifice, at which the corporation attend divine service: St. Mary-le-bow, built of hewn stone, in 1685; here the bishop and archdeacon's visitations are held and St. Margaret's, St. Giles's, and Little St. Mary's. In the city are two Roman Catholic chapels, a quakers', presbyterian, methodist, and other meeting-houses.

On the Palace-Green stands the castle, first erected by William the Conqueror, and part of which has been repaired, and made the residence of the bishop occasionally. The great tower stands upon an artificial mount, and is of an irregular octagonal form, sixty-three feet in diameter. It formerly contained four tiers of apartments, but nothing now remains of it except the vaults, and part of the keep. Round the mount are three delightful terraces.

The market-place is large and spacious; in the centre is an excellent fountain, from which the inhabitants are supplied with water. A spacious piazza has been built, where the market for corn, provisions, &c., is held. Near it is the Guildhall, where the public meetings are convened. Among the recent improvements, are a new gaol, house of correction, countycourts, and governor's house. There are three stone bridges in this city. The New bridge was finished in 1777, at the expense of the dean and chapter. Framwellgate bridge consists of two elliptic arches, and crosses the canal. Elvet bridge is at the southern entrance to the city. Between the New bridge and St. Oswald's church are the public walks called the Banks,

which afford an agreeable retreat in fine weather. An extensive cloth and carpet manufactory has been established, from funds bequeathed by a Mr. Smith, which affords employment to a great number of men and boys. A county infirmary is also well supported. In the town are many public charities, a subscription library, and several other literary and useful institutions. A neat little theatre was erected in 1791, and annual races are held in July.

Durham market on Saturday is well supplied with corn and all kinds of provisions. Sea fish are brought from Hartlepool and Sunderland. Fairs are held on the 31st of March, for cattle; Whit-Tuesday, for sheep and swine; and on the 15th of September, for horses; they each continue three days.

About half a mile eastward are the remains of a fortification called Old Durham and Maiden castle; and two miles and a half east stands Sherborn House, an hospital founded by bishop Pudsey, for a master and sixty-five lepers; in which are now maintained fifteen in-brethren, each having a separate room, good diet, a suit of clothes annually, and 40s. in money: there are also fifteen out-brethren. In a deep vale, near the river, are the ruins of Finchall Abbey, founded in 1196 for Benedictines. On the west of the city is an old cross, erected by Ralph, lord Neville, in memory of a battle between the English and Scots, wherein the latter were defeated with the loss of 15,000 men, and their king David II. taken prisoner.

DURHAM, a township of Connecticut, in NewHaven county, settled from Guildford, in 1698, and incorporated in 1708. It is about twentytwo miles south-west of Hartford, and eighteen north-east of New-Haven. It was called Cagingchague, by the Indians; which name a small river that chiefly rises here still bears.

DURHAM, a township of the United States, in Cumberland county, district of Maine, on the south-west bank of the Androscoggin, which separates it from Bowdoin on the north-east. It lies 145 miles north-east of Boston.

DURHAM, a post town of New Hampshire, in Strafford county, seated on Oyster river, near where it joins the Piscataqua; twelve miles west of Portsmouth. It was incorporated in 1633. It was formerly a part of Dover, which adjoins it on the north, and was called Oyster River. On the top of a hill in this town is a rock, computed to weigh sixty or seventy tons, so exactly poised on another rock, as to be easily moved by one's finger. Its situation appears to be

natural.

DURIO, in botany, a genus of the polyandria order, and polyadelphia class of plants: CAL. a monophyllous perianth: cor. petals five growing to the calyx; stamina conjoined in five bodies; germ. roundish; style bristly, the length of the stamina: FRUIT a roundish apple every where muricated: SEED containing mucous orilla. Species one only, a native of the East Indies.

DURLACH, a well built town of Germany, formerly the capital of the margraviate of BadenDurlach, now of the circle of the Pfinz and Enz, in the grand duchy of Baden. It is situated on the Pfinz, at the foot of a long and lofty range

of mountains called the Thurmberg. It was burnt down in 1689, and, though rebuilt at the peace, never regained its prosperity. It contains 4000 inhabitants, for the most part Lutherans. Here is the ducal castle of Carlsburg, an elegant church, and an academy; but the seat of government has been removed to Carlsruhe. It is remarkable for its manufactory of porcelain. A considerable trade is also carried on in corn, madder, and tobacco. Durlach is five miles east of Carlsruhe, fifteen north-east of Rastadt, and thirty-two N. N. W. of Stutgard.

DUROBRIVE, in ancient geography, a town of the Catyeuchlani, in Britain, now in ruins; which lies on the Nen, between Castor and Dornford, in Northamptonshire, on the borders of Huntingdonshire.

DUROBRIVE, OF DUROCOBRIVE, a town of the Trinobantes, in Britain; whose ruins are situated between Flamstead and Redburn, in Hertfordshire. See CATTI.

DUROBRIVIS, an ancient town of Britain, twenty-five miles west of Durovernum, or Canterbury; now called Rochester, which, in the charter of the foundation of the church, is styled Durobrevis.

DUROC (Marshal), duke of Friuli, was born at Pont-a-Mousson in 1772, and studied in the military school of that place. His father, who was a notary, intended him for that employment; but in 1792 he became a lieutenant of artillery, and soon after emigrated into Germany. Returning home, we find him aid-de-camp to general Lespinasse, and engaged in that capacity, in his first revolutionary campaigns. In 1796 he was appointed aid-de-camp to Buonaparte, in Italy, and distinguished himself at the passage of the Isonzo. He was also in the expedition to Egypt; and being wounded by a cannon-ball, at the siege of Acre, returned with Buonaparte to France. Duroc after this had several important missions to Berlin, Stockholm, Vienna, and St. Petersburgh; in which he is said to have been remarkably successful. He was a great favorite with Napoleon, and an adroit diplomatist; but he never acquired much military renown. He was killed by a cannon-ball at Wartschen, May 22d, 1813.-Biog. Univ.

DUROA, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order and hexandria class of plants: CAL. cylindrical and loped above; the border sixparted; there are no filaments; FRUIT a hispid apple. Species one only, a Surinam tree.

DUROTRIGES, an ancient British nation, scattered in that part of the country which is now called Dorsetshire. Their name is derived from the two British words dur, water, and trigo, to dwell; and they got it from the situation of their country, which lies along the sea coast. It is not certain whether the Durotriges formed an independent state under a prince of their own, or were united with their neighbours the Danmonii; as they were reduced by Vespasian under the dominion of the Romans, at the same time, and with the same ease, and never revolted. Dorchester, its present capital, seems to have been a Roman city of some consideration, though our antiquaries are not agreed about its Roman name. It is most probable, that it was the Dur