Dordogne
a department of France which includes the greater part of the ancient province of Périgord, and small portions of Limousin, Angoumois, and Saintonge. Area, 3,546 square miles. The chief minerals are iron, which is abundant, slate, limestone, marble, and other stone. Mining, iron manufacture, etc., are carried on to a considerable extent, and there are a number of vineyards. The climate is mild but somewhat changeable. Pop. about 440,000. The river DORDOGNE, principal river of the department, rises on the flanks of the Puy-de-Sancy, flows W. S. W., and after a course of 290 miles unites with the Garonne in forming the Gironde. DORDRECHT. See DORT. DORÉ (dō-rā), PAUL GUSTAVE, a French draughtsman and painter; born in Strassburg, Jan. 6, 1833. He studied at Paris, contributing, when only 16 nal pour Rire." He distinguished himself greatly as an illustrator of books. His illustrations of "Rabelais," of Perrault's "Tales," Sue's "Wandering Jew," Dante's "Divina Commedia," and Cervantes's "Don Quixote," displayed a great fertility of invention. His illustrations of the Bible, of Ariosto's "Orlando, Furioso," and Milton's "Paradise Lost," are also of high excellence. As a painter he had grandeur of conception and a bold expressive style. Among his chief works are "Christ leaving the Prætorium," "Paolo and Francesca di Rimini," "The Flight into Egypt," etc. In later years Doré also won fame as a sculptor. He died Jan. 23, 1883.
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Dore Agrippa
a French scholar; born near Pons, in Saintonge, Feb. 8, 1552, of a noble family, he early entered the military profession, and distinguished himself by his services to the Huguenot cause. He was subsequently rewarded by Henry IV., who made him Vice-Admiral of Guienne and Brittany. His severe and inflexible character frequently embroiled him with the court; and after Henry's assassination (1610), he betook himself to Geneva, where he spent the remainder of his life in literary studies. His best known work is a "Universal History." He died April 29, 1630.
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Doremus
ROBERT OGDEN, an American chemist; born in New York City, Jan. 11, 1824. He was graduated at New York University in 1842, and from its medical department nt in 1850, having established his chemical laboratory in New York in 1848. He has filled the chair of chemistry at Bellevue Hospital Medical College and at the College of the City of New York. He patented noted chemical processes and fire extinguishers and was a noted expert in toxicology. He died March 22, 1906.
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Dorian Mode
or DORIC MOOD, the first of the authentic church tones or modes, from D to D, with its dominant A.
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Doric Land
Greece, Doris being an important part of it.
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Dorking
a town in Surrey, England, 22 miles S. W. of London, noted for the its breed of fowls. It is the scene of fictitious "Battle of Dorking," an imagi- Dorking nary narrative of invasions and conquest of England by a foreign army, written by Gen. Sir George T. Chesney in 1871.
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Dorkings
an English breed of silver and gray domestic fowls. They originated in the vicinity of Dorking, a town of Surrey, twenty-two miles southwest of London. The Dorkings are not so popular with poultry raisers as they once were. See Chickens
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Dormant
in heraldry, in a sleeping posture.
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Dormer Window
a window piercing a sloping roof, and having a vertical frame and gable of its own. The gable is sometimes in the plane of the wall, or is founded on the rafters; sometimes a succession of stories on the roof are provided with dormers.
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Dornick
a species of figured linen, named from Tournay or Doornik in Flanders. The "mystery," introduced into England, was long confined by law to inhabitants of Norwich and Pulham.
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Dorpat
or DERPT, a town of Esthonia. The university, founded in 1632, by Gustavus Adolphus, was re-established by Alexander I. in 1802, and since May, 1887, has been thoroughly Russianized, the final reorganization of the law faculty taking effect in 1889. Dorpat was a Hanse town in the 14th and 15th centuries, and was alternately captured by the Swedes, Poles, and Russians till 1704. Now called Yuriev. Pop. about 45,000.
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Dorranceton
a borough of Pennsylvania, in Luzerne co. It is opposite Wilkes-Barre, and on the Susquehanna river, and on the Delaware, Lackaw Lackawanna and Western railroad. It is entirely a residential city. Pop. (1910) 4,046; (1920) 6,334.
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Dorsanes
the Indian Hercules.
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Dorse
a fish of the cod genus, called also Baltic cod.
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Dorset
or DORSETSHIRE, a county of England, in the southern part. It is situated on the English Channel, between Devonshire and Hampshire, and has an area of 987.9 square miles. The chief industries are agriculture and stock-raising. Along the coast are many of the most popular watering places of England, including Lyme Regis, Bridport, and Lulworth. The capital is Dorchester. Population of the county, about 225,000.
EARLS OF. See SACK- VILLE.
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Dorsetian Downs
THE, the uplands of Dorsetshire, England. DORSTENIA (named after Dr. T. Dorsten, a German botanist), a genus of plants belonging to the natural order Urticaceæ. The receptacle is slightly concave and broad, bearing numerous naked flowers. D. contrayerva, D. houstoni, and D. brasiliensis furnish the contrayerva root of commerce. They are natives of tropical America. The rhizome is used as a stimulant tonic, and diaphoretic.
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Dort
or DORDRECHT, a town of the Netherlands, in the province of South Holland; on an island formed by the Maas, 10 miles S. E. of Rotterdam. An inundation in 1421, in which upward of 70 villages were destroyed and 100,000 people drowned, separated the site on which Dort stands from the mainland. It is one of the oldest, as in the Middle Ages it was the richest of the trading towns of Holland; and its trade is still considerable. Among its chief buildings are a Gothic cathedral (1363) and a handsome town hall (1339). The town is traversed by canals, and the largest ships are accommodated in its roomy harbor. Close by are a large number of shipyards, corn and saw mills, and manufactories of oil, sugar, ironwares, and machinery. Dort was founded in 1013. Here, in 1572, the states of Holland, after the revolt from Spain, held their first assembly; and sat from Nov. 13, 1618, to May 19, 1619, the conclave of Protestant divines known as the Synod of Dort, which condemned the doctrines of Arminius as heretical, and affirmed those of Calvin. Dort is the birthplace of the brothers De Witt, of Cuyp, and Ary Scheffer; to the last a statue was erected in the market-place in 1862. Pop. (1918) 53,828.
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