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De Soto

a city of Missouri, in Jefferson co. It is on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern railroad. In the neighborhood are important lead and zinc mines. The city has a large trade in grain, flour, produce, and live stock.

Its industries include a shoe factory, flour mills, and railroad machine shops.

Pop. (1910) 4,721; (1920) 5,003.

Despenser

HUGH LE (de-spen' ser), an English jurist; born about 1210.

He was justiciar of England in 1261 and during the war of the barons with Henry III. joined the former. He was killed at Evesham, Dec. 4, 1265.

Despenser

HUGH LE, an English courtier, grandson of the preceding; born about 1262. He distinguished himself as a soldier and diplomat in the service of Edward II. and became Earl of Winchester in 1322. His tyranny as the royal favorite led to a revolt of the barons and his own downfall. He was beheaded in 1326.

Detritus

applied in geology to accumulations formed by the disintegration of rocks, may consist of angular and subangular debris, or of more or less waterworn materials, such as gravel, sand, or clay, or an admixture of these.

Detroit

the largest city of Michigan, and the county-seat of Wayne co. trary enactment, but by the establish- It is on the Detroit river, along which ment of a co a contrary use, sanctioned by the lapse of time and the consent of the community.

Determinism

a name applied by Sir W. Hamilton to that system of philosophy which holds that the will is not a free agent, but is irresistibly determined by providential motives, that is, by motives furnished by Providence, which turn the balance in our mental deliberations in accordance with its views.

Detonating Powders

certain chemical compounds, which, on being exposed to heat or suddenly struck, explode with a loud report, owing to one or more of the constituent parts suddenly assuming the gaseous state. The chloride and iodide of nitrogen are very powerful detonating substances.

Deva's Vale

the valley of the Dee (or Deva) in Cheshire, England. "He chose a farm in Deva's vale, -Thomson's "Castle of Indolence."

Where his long alleys peeped upon the main."

Development

the gradual advance, stage by stage, of animal or vegetable bodies from the embryonic to the perfect state.

Devil's Lake

a city of North Dakota, the county-seat of Ramsey co.

It is on the Great Northern and the Farmers' Grain and Shipping Company's railroads, and on Devil's Lake. The industries include creameries and flour mills. The city has a school for the deaf, a public park, St. Mary's Academy, and a general hospital. Pop. (1910) 5,157; (1920) 5,140.

Devil's Punch-Bowl

a small lake of Ireland, near the lakes of Killarney, between 2,000 and 3,000 feet above the sea, supposed to be the crater of an ancient volcano.

Devil's Wall

in the S. of Germany, a structure which was originally a Roman rampart, intended to protect the Roman settlements on the left bank of the Danube and on the right bank of the Rhine, against the inroads of the Teutonic and other tribes. Remains of it are found from the Danube, in Bavaria, to Bonn on the Rhine.