I never in my life

Did hear a challenge urg'd more modeftly,
Unless a brother fhould a brother dare
To gentle exercife and proof of arms. Shakesp.
Here the ftands:

Take but poffeffion of her with a touch;
I dare thee but to breathe upon my love.

DAREN, a river of Wales, in Caernarvonshire, which runs into the fea, 15 miles SW. of Pulhely

Shakelp. He had many days come half feas over; and fometimes paling further, came and lay at the mouth of the harbour, daring them to fight Kralles. Matters of the arts of policy thought that they might even defy and dare Providence to the face. South

All cold, but in her breaft, I will defpife; And dare all heat but that in Celia's eyes.

Rejcommon. Time! I dare thee to discover Such a youth, aud fuch a lover. Dryden. Prefumptuous wretch with mortal art to

dare

Immortal power, and brave the thunderer.

Granville. (2.) * To DARE. v. n. [pret. I durf; the preterite I dared belongs to the active dare; part. I hanie dared. To have courage for any purpofe; rot to be afraid; to adventure; to be adventurous-Dur thou be as good as thy word now? Why, Hal, thou know'it, as thou art but a man, 1 dare; but as thou art a prince, I fear thee. Shakefp.-

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I dare do all that may become a man ; Who dares do more is none. Shakefp. They are both hanged; and so would this be, if he durft steal any thing advent’rously. Shikesp. Neither of them was of that temper as to dare any dangerous fact. Hayavood.

The father bore it with undaunted foul, Like one who durft his deftiny controul. Dryd. Deliberate and well-weighed courage knows both to be cautious and to dare, as occation offers. Dryden.-We dare not build much upon fuch a notion or doctrine, 'till it be very fully examined. Watts.

(3-) * 2 DARE LARKS. To catch them by means of a looking glais, or by keeping a bird of prey hovering aloft, which keeps them in amaze till caught; to amaze.--Shrimps are dipped up in fhallow water with little round nets, not much unlike that which is used for daring larks. Caresa. As larks lie dar'd to fhun the hobby's flight. Dryden, (1.) DAREC, a town of Perfia, in the province of Segeftan, 60 miles S. of Zareng.

(2.) DAREC DE CAMUNA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Mecran, 180 miles W. of Kidge. DAREFUL. adj. [dare and full.] Full of defiance: not in use.

We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,

And bear them backward home. Shakesp. DAREL HAMARA, a town of Africa, in the kingdora of Fez, faid to have been built by the Romans. The trade is principally corn and oil. is feated on a mountain. Lon. 6. 35. W. 34. 20. N.

DARELY, a village near Olton, Chethire.

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Lat.

(1) DARENT, a river of England, in Kent, which runs into the Thames, three miles N. of Dartford. The mouth near the Thames is called DARTFORD CREEK.

(2.) DARENT, a town feated on the above ri ver, (N° 1.) between Gravefend and the Crays. DARES, a Phrygian, who lived during the Tro jan war, in which he was engaged, and of which he wrote the hiftory in Greek. This hiftory was extant in the time of Ælian; the Latin translation. now extant, is univerfally believed to be fpurious though it is attributed by fome to Cornelius Ne pos. This tranflation first made its appearance A. D. 1477, at Milan. Homer mentions Dares Iliad, 5. v. 10 and 27%

DAREW, a town of Lithuania," in the palati pate of Novogrodek, 34 miles SE. of Novogrodek DARGAN, a town of Afia, in the country o Charafm, fituated on the Gihon."

(1.) DARGEL, a river of Ireland, in the count of Wicklow, which runs into St George's chan nel, 9 miles SSE. of Dublin.

(2.) DARGEL, or DARGLF, a romantic valle of Ireland, in Wicklow, to miles from Dublin The lofty mountams on each ûde are covere with trees, down to the edge of the river, (N° 1 which tumbles from rock to rock in the bottom forming many grand and beautiful cafcades.

DARGESIN, a town of Perfia, in the provinc of Irac Agemi, 48 miles NE. of Amadan. DARGIES, a town of France, in the depart ment of Somme, 5 miles S. of Pois.

DARIC, in antiquity, a famous piece of gold first coined by Darius the Mede, about A. A. C 538; probably during his ftay at Babylon, out o the vatt quantity of gold which had been accumu lated in the treatury. From thence the daric were difperled over the east, and into Greece where they were also called fateres, and were th gold coins best known in Athens in ancient times According to Dr Bernard, the daric weighed tw grains more than our guinea; but as it was ver ne, and contained little alloy, it may be reckon ed worth about 255. Sterling. Plutarch inform us, that the daries were flamped on one fide wit an archer clothed in a long robe, and crowne with a spiked crown, holding a bow in his left hat and an arrow in his right; and on the other f with the effigies of Darius. All the other piec of gold of the fame weight and value that wo coined by the fucceeding kings, both of the P fian and Macedonian race, were called dari from Darius, in whofe reign this coin commence Of these there were whole darics and half danc and they are called in those parts of Scriptu written after the Babylonish captivity, a darkenin and by the Talmudifts, DARKONOTH. Greav fays that the daric is ftill found in Pertia; but certainly must be very scarce, and is perhaps doubtful antiquity.

(1) DARIEN, or TERRA FIRMA PROPER, the northern divifion of Terra Firma or Caftile d Oro. It is a narrow ifthmus, that, properly spec ing, joins North and South America togethe (fec AMERICA, § 7.) but is generally reckoned

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of the latter. It is bounded on the N. by the Geweven; on the S. by the South Sea; on Afy the River or Gulf of Darien, and on the Wanother part of the South Sea and the proVeragua. It lies in the form of a bow or ge, but the great bay of Panama, in the van Sea, and is 300 miles in length. Its breadth „mer is been reckoned 60 miles from N. to S. only 37 miles broad from Porto Bello to 1, the two chief towns of the province. Mortener les in Lat. 9. 34. 35. N. Lon. 8r. 52. Tester in Lat. 8. 57. 48. N. Lon. 8: W. To provice is not very rich, but is of the et importance to Spain, and has been the Vend que actions than any other in America. wth of Peru is brought hither, and from zapated to Europe. Few of the rivers in enerantry are navigable, having foals at their its Some of them bring down gold duft; the coat are valuable pearl fitheries. Nei** the oceans fall in at once upon the fhore, - a morcopted by a great number of valuable ra, hat lie feattered along the coaft. The mart part of the isthmus is called fometimes TEMCS OF PANAMA.

2 DARIES, ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF XTENDED SCOTS SETTLEMENT AT. The Con est pouf ihion of part of this province in ms, and attempted to form an establiment chwuld have proved one of the most useful 17mant that ever was projected. Of the pores, and cataftrophe, of this well ima4 bit ill fated, undertaking, Sir John Dal the ad volume of his Memoirs of Great and Ireland, has given a very interefting authenticated in every particular by undocuments. The projector and leader Den expedition was a clergyman of the PATERSON; who, having a violent proto fe foreign countries, made his prode inftrument of indulging it, by going to weler world, to convert the Indians to orizon of the old. In his courfes there, he acquainted with Capt. Dampier and Mr who afterwards publifhed, the one his and the other his Travels, in the region the feparation is narrowest between the Atthe South Seas; and both of whom, y the Srft, appear by their books to men of conûderable obfervation. But much more knowledge from men who rother write nor read, by cultivating the *ance of fome of the old Buccaneers, who, ng their glonies and their crimes, ftill, remity of age and misfortune, recounted port the cafe with which they had passpared from the one fea to the other, res in hundreds together, and driving ftrings efore them loaded with the plunder of and foes. Paterfon having examined the *s, fatisfied himself, that on the Ifthmus of there was a tract of country running acrofs 1. the Atlantic to the South Sea, which the mandalaad never poffefsed, and inhabited by a ctually at war with them; that along , on the Atlantic fide, there lay a ftring es cailed the SAMBALOFS, uninhabited, tal of natural ftrength and forefts, from which

laft circumftance one of them was called the ISLAND OF THE PINES; that the feas there were filled with turtle and the manatee or sea cow; that midway between Porto bello and Carthagena, but near so leagues diftant from either, at a place called Acta, in the mouth of the river of Darien, there was a natural harbour, capable of receiving a large fleet, and defended from forms by other islands which covered the mouth of it, and from enemies by a promontory which commanded the paffage, and by hidden rocks in the patlage itself; that on the other fide of the ithmus, and in the fame tract of country, there were natural harbours, equally capacious and well defended; that the two fe as were connected by a ridge of hills, which, by their height, created a temperate climate in the midst of the moft fultry latitudes, and were fheltered by forefts, yet not rendered damp by them, because the trees grew at a distance from each other, having very little under wood; that, contrary to the barren nature of hilly countries, the foil was of a black mould 2 or 3 feet deep. and producing fpontaneously the fine tropical fruits and plants, and roots and herbs; that roads could be made with cafe along the ridge, by which mules, and even carriages, might pass from the one fea to the other in the space of a day; and coufequently this paffage feemed to be pointed out by nature, as a common centre, to connect together the trade and intercourse of the universe. Paterfon knew that ships which stretch in a straight line from one point to another, and with one wind, run less risks, and require fewer hands, than fhips which pals through many latitudes, turn with many coats, and require many winds; in evidence of which, veffels of 7 or 850 tons burden are often to be found in the South Seas, navigated by no more than 8 or 'ro hands, because these hands have little elfe to do, than to set their fails when they begin their voyage, and to take them in when they end it; that as soon as ships from Britain got fo far $. as to reach the trade wind, which never varies, that wind would carry them to Darien, and the fame wind would carry thips from the bay of Panama, on the oppofite fide of the ifthmus, to the Eaft Indies; that as foon as hips coming from the East Indies to the bay of Panama got fo far N. as the latitude of 40°, to reach the wefterly winds, which, about that latitude, blow almost as regularly from the W. as the trade winds do from the E. thefe winds would carry them, in the track of the Spanish Acapulco fhips, to the coaft of Mexico; from whence the land wind, which blows for ever from the N. to the S. would carry them along the, coaft of Mexico into the bay of Panama. So that in going from Britain, ships would encounter no uncertain winds, except during their paflage S into the latitude of the trade wind; in coming from India to the bay of Panama no uncertain winds, except in their paffage N. to the latitude of the wefterly winds; and in going from the other fide of the isthmus to the E. no uncertain wind whatsoever. Gold was feen by Paterfon in fome places of the ifthmus; and hence an island on the Atlantic fide was called the GOLDEN ISLAND, and a river on the side to the South Sea was called the GOLDEN RIVER; but these were objects which he regarded not at that time,

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cured a ftatute from parliament, and afterw a charter from the crown in terms of it, for ating a trading company to Africa and the worid, with power to plant colonies and forts, with confent of the inhabitants, in pl not poffeffed by other European nations. P fon, now finding the ground firm under him, that he was fupported by almost all the po and talents of his country, the character of cher, and the sanction of an act of parliament royal charter, threw his project boldly upor public, and opened a fubfcription for a comp The zeal of the Scots nation to fign the fol league and covenant never exceeded the rap with which they ran to fubfcribe to the D Company. The nobility, the gentry, the chants, the people, the royal burghs withou exception of one, moft of the other public bo fubfcribed, Young women threw the little tunes into the ftock, widows fold their join to get the command of money for the dame pofe. Almost in an instant L.400,000 were fcribed in Scotland, although it be now kn that there was not at that time above L. 800 of cafb in the kingdom. The famous Mr. then a youth, afterwards confefled, that the lity with which he faw the patlion of fpecul communicate itfelf from all to all, fatisfied hi the poflibility of producing the fame effect the fame caufe, but upon a larger fcale, whe Duke of Orleans, in the year of the Misha engaged him against his will to turn his bank a buble. Paterton's project, which had bee ceived by ftrangers with timoroufiefs when o ed to them in private, filled them with h when it came to them upon the wings of F fame: For Colonel Erfkine, fon to Lord Car and Mr Haldane of Gleneagles, the one a rous branch of a generous kem, and the ot country gentleman of fortune and character wing been deputed to receive fubfcriptions in Ind and on the continent, the Englith Lubic L. 300,000, and the Dutch and Hambu L. 200,000 more.

becaufe far greater were in his eye; the removing of distances, the drawing nations nearer to each other, the prefervation of the valuable lives of feamen, and the faving in freight, fo important to merchants, and in time, fo important to them and to an animal whofe fe is of fo fhort duration as that of man. By this obfcure Scotfinan, a project was formed to fettle, on this neglected spot, a great and powerful colony; not as other colonies have for the most part been fettled, by chance, and unprotected by the country from whence they went; but by fyftem, upon forefight, and to receive the ample protection of thofe governments to whom he was to offer his project. And certainly no greater idea has been formed fince the time of Columbus. Paterson's original intention was to offer his project to England, as the conntry which had most interest in it, not only from the benefit common to all nations, of fhortening the length of voyages to the Eaft hadies, but by the effect which it would have bad to connect the interefts of her European, Weft Indian, American, African, and East Indian trade. But Paterfon having few acquaintance, and no protection in London, thought of drawing the public eye upon him, and ingratiating himself with monied men, and with great men, by affifting them to model a project, which was at that time in embryo, for erecting the Bank of England. But that happened to him which has happened to many in his fituation: the perfons to whom he applied made ufe of his ideas, took the honour of them to themfelves, were civil to him for a while, and neglected him afterwards. He therefore communicated his project of a colony only to a few perfons in London, and these few difcouraged him. He next inade offer of his project to the Dutch, the Hamburghers, and the Elector of Brandenburgh; becaufe, by means of the passage of the Rhine and Elbe through their states, he thought, that the great additional quantities of Eaft Indian and A ́merican goods, which his colony would bring into Europe, would be distributed through Germany. The Dutch and Hamburgh merchants, who had most interest in the subject of his vifit, heard him with indifference: The Elector, who had very little intereft in it, received him with honour and kindness. But court arts and falfe reparts loft him even that prince's favour. Paterfon, on his return to London, formed a friendship with Mr Fletcher of Salton, whofe mind was inflamed with the love of public good, and all of whofe ideas to procure it had a tublimity in them. Fletcher brought Paterfon down to Scotland with him, prefented him to the Marquis of Tweeddale, then Minifter for Scotland; and then, with that power which a vehement fpirit always poflefles over a diffident one, perfuaded the Marquis, by arguments of public good, and the honour which would redound to his adminiftration, to adopt the project. Lord Stair and Mr Johnften, the two fecretaries of ftate, patronifed thofe abilities in Paterfon which they poffeffed in themselves: and the Lord Advocate, Sir James Stuart, the fame man who had adjufted the Prince of range's declaration at the Revolution, whofe fon was married to a niece of Lord Stair, went naturally along with his connections. Tacfe perfous, in June 1675, pro

(2.) DARIEN, ACCOUNT OF THE SHAME OPPOSITION MADE TO THE SETTLEMENT “In the mean time the jealoufy of trade, (con; Sir John,) which has done more mifchief trade of England than all other caules put ther, created an alarm in England; and the fes of Lords and Commons, without previo query or reflection, on the 13th of December concurred in a joint addrefs to the king, a the eftablishment of the Darien Company, trimental to the interest of the Eaft India pany. Soon after, the Commons impeached of their own countrymen for being inftrum in erecting the company; and alfo fome d Scots nation, one of whom was a peer, Lord haven; that is to fay, they arraigned the fu of another country for making ufe of the of their own. Among 600 legiflators, no had the happy ray of genius to propofe a mittee of both parliaments, to inquire in: principles and consequences of the ellablin and it these fhould, upon inquiry, be found! the benefit of it thould be communicated, participation of rights, to both nations.