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ANTON VAN, a Dutch ador a cameo and intaglio die between to India, he speedily rose to the highest which a piece of sheet-metal is pressed dignities, and was at length, in 1636, into shape by a blow or simple pressure. made governorgeneral. He administered In coining, both dies are intaglio, so as the government with much ability, and to make a cameo or raised impression contributed much to the establishment upon each face of the planchet. The of Dutch commerce in India. Abel Tasupper die has the obverse, the face, man, whom he sent with a vessel to the which is often the bust of the sovereign South Seas in 1642, gave the name of or national emblem. The lower die has Van Diemen's Land to the island now the reverse, with an effigy, legend, value, called Tasmania. Van Diemen died in escutcheon, as the case may be. Owing 1645. to the escutcheon, as the case may be. Owing 1645. which ornaments are disposed on coins, any general defilonger meet all cases. die will sometimes deliver 250,000 im- A pressions before it is necessary to remove it from the coining-press; and sometimes a die will crack at the first impression.
DIEGO GARCIA (dyāgō gär-thea), an island of the Indian Ocean, in lat. 7° S., and lon. 72° 73° E., extends in an irregular horseshoe shape, and is 30 miles long, embracing between its ex- DIEPPE (de-ep'), a seaport town of France, department of Seine-Inférieure, on the English Channel, at the embouchure of the Arques, 93 miles N. N. W. of Paris. Almost the only public edifices worth special notice are the two Gothic churches, St. Jacques, begun in the 13th and the old castle (1433), now a barcentury, and St.
Rémi, founded in 1522, rack. To the W. of Dieppe proper is side of the harbor La Pollet, inhabited the suburb La Barre; and on the opposite chiefly by sailors and fishermen. The DIESEL port is spacious, admitting vessels of 1,200 tons burden; but it cannot be entered at low water. Dieppe is one of the chief watering places of France, and is much frequented by visitors in summer and autumn. The great bathing establishment forms a luxurious retreat ks in for bathers and invalids, and includes a ball-room and other attractions. The manufactures include works in ivory, the most famed in Europe; works in horn and bone, lace-making, sugar-refining, ship-building, etc. There is a busy fishery, and the foreign trade is still considerable. There is constant steam intercourse between this port and Newhaven. In early times Dieppe was the chief port of France, but its prosperity diminished after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). Pop. about 25,000.