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CONSULTING ENGINEER E. D. PIERSON

Diamond Mine

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Dagon

a national god of the Philistines worshiped at Gaza (Judges xvi:21- 30), Ashdod (I Sam. v: 5, 7, and I Chron. x: 10), and elsewhere.

Dagupan

a town on the Dagupan river, near the Gulf of Lingayen on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, in the province of Pangasinán; on the railroad from Manila, and about 130 miles N. W. of that city. It is situated in a fertile region, producing chiefly corn, sugar, and tobacco. Pop. about 25,000.

Dahlak

a group of three islands, with many smaller rocks, in the Red Sea, off the Bay of Massowah. They were famous in Roman times for their pearlfisheries, but the beds have long since been exhausted and abandoned. The islands are a dependency of Italy. Area, about 420 square miles; pop. about 1,500.

Daisy

the common name of the wellthe Greek word margarita a pearl. Though daisies are very common in many parts of the world, they are not universally distributed; for instance, the traveler may wander over hundreds of miles in the Indian Empire without seing one solitary daisy.

Damson

a variety of the common rather small and oval, and its numerous sub-varieties are of different colors:

DAN black, bluish, dark purple, yellow, etc.

The damson (corruption of Damascene), as its name imports, is from Damascus.

Dan

one of the sons of Jacob by his concubine Bilhah. At the time of the exodus the Danites numbered 62,700 adult males, being then the second tribe in point of numbers. Samson was a member of this tribe.

Dancing

a form of exercise or Swing" (1914). She died in 1916. "The Heart of a Child" (1908); tly as it was

Danite

a member of a former Mormon secret society whose purpose it was to avenge wrongs committed by the "Gentiles" on the "Saints." They are said to have been organized about 1837. They derive their name from Jacob's blessing to his son Dan (Gen. xlix: 17).

Darien

ISTHMUS OF

Darien

GULF OF, a gulf of the South America, between the Isthmus of Panama and the mainland.