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Doubling highest has the benefit of throwing first, and what he tatio sterilis, and dubitatio efficax. The former is that where Lomu
Doubting. tlro^s he down, and so does the other; what the no determination ensues; and in this manner doubted the ||f!
one. t,irows and has not, the other lays down for him, but Sceptics and Academics, who withheld their assent from AoJ
on his own account ; and thus they proceed until all the every thing. The latter is followed by judgment, which
men are down, and then they bear, as it is called. He distinguishes truth from falsehood; and such is the doubt-
who is first do wn bears first, and will doubtless win the ing of the Peripatetics and the Cartesians. The dubitatio
game it the other throws not doublets to overtake him; perpetually inculcates the deceitfulness of our
which he is sure to do, since he advances or bears as senses, and teaches us that we are to doubt of every one of
Jfie d°ub.lets make, namely, eight for two fours. their reports till they have been examined and confirmed
UUUliLINCr, in the military art, is the putting of two by reason. On the other hand, the Epicureans teach that
ranks or files, of soldiers into one. Thus, when the word our senses always tell truth ; and that if we deviate ever so
or command is double your ranks, the second, fourth, and little from them, we come within the province of doubting
sixth ranks march into the first, third, and fifth, so that DOUDEVILLE, a market-town of the department of
the six ranks are reduced to three, and the intervals be- the Lower Seine, with 386 houses and 2984 inhabitants,
tween the tanks become double what they were before. DOUDPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of
• c’iV*0’’ :iam.c,nS hunters, is when a hare keeps in Gundwana, possessed by independent Goand chiefs. It
plain fields, and winds about in .order to deceive the hounds, is thirty-five miles south by east from Bustar. Lono-. 83.
Doubling, in the manege, is a term applied to a horse, 10. E. Lat. 19. 36. N.
who is said to double his reins, when he leaps several DOUPARRA, a town of Hindustan, in the south of
times together, in order to throw his rider. Thus it is said, India, and district ofCommin. It is eighty-seven miles
“ the ramingue doubles his reins, and makes pontlevis.” north from Cudapab. Long. 79. 4. E. Lat. 15. 43. N.
Doubling) in Navigation^ the art of sailing round or DOUGLAS, Gavin, bishop of Dunkeld, was the third
passing beyond a cape or promontory, so that the cape or son of Archibald earl of Angus, and of Elizabeth the
point of land separates the ship from her former situation, daughter of Robert Lord Boyd, who for some time filled
°r T^riPT^n,vr ber anc^ any distant observer. the office of high chamberlain. He appears to have been
JJUUbLON, or Dubloon, a Spanish and Portuguese born in 1474, or the ensuing year. With the place of his
tbe double of a pistole. birth or education we are not acquainted, but we may sup-
HOUBS, a department of Prance, formed out of the pose his course of study to have been suitable to his pro¬
ancient province of, Franche-Comte, and the lordship of fession. Having entered into holy orders, he was collated
Mompejgard, to which in 1816 were added the cantons of to the rectory of Hawick d and as the dormant energies
Montbehard and Audincourt, which were taken from the of the human mind are awakened by external objects,^his
department of the Upper Rhine. It is bounded on the early residence amid the fine pastoral scenery of Teviot-
north by the departments of the Upper Rhine and Upper dale may have had a strong tendency to cherish in his
Saone, on the east and south by Switzerland, and on the imagination the seeds of genuine poetry. In the year 1509
west by the department of Jura. It extends over 2230 we find him described as provost of the collegiate church
square miles, and the inhabitants amount to 242,597. The of St. Giles in Edinburgh.1 2 This preferment was in the
divisions are four arrondissements, and the subdivisions gift of the crown : it placed him in a situation of no small
twenty-seven cantons and 633 communes. It is generally dignity and emolument, and he appears to have held it
a mountainous country; the ranges traverse it in different with his other benefice. It was while he occupied these
directions, but none exceeds 2000 feet, and they are all of less elevated stations that he composed the very ingenious
calcareous formation. Between the mountains are pictu- works which have rendered his name so conspicuous in the
resque and fertile valleys, with the exception of which the literary annals of his country.
w hole department may be described as an ungrateful soil, His father, who is sometimes denominated the great
and nearly one fifth of the surface is covered with scanty earl of Angus, and sometimes Bell-the-cat, followed the
woods. The land on the hills scarcely ever brings even standard of James the Fourth when he invaded England;
oats to perfect ripeness; but in some parts the pasture but finding his prudent counsels disregarded, he excused
land is good, apd especially for the dairy; and many himself on account of his advanced age,"and withdrew from
calves are bred for the neighbouring departments. The the army. His two eldest sons, George and William, to-
sheep are £:w, but the goats are numerous. There are gether with about two hundred gentlemen of the name
some iron names and iron works, and some small manu- of Douglas, perished in the fatal battle of Fioddon-field.
factures made from iron, besides articles made of wood, This calamity to the nation in general, and to his own
which comprise the industry of the district. The wine of family in particular, made so deep an impression on his
late years has increased both in quality and in quantity, heart, that having retired to St Mains, a religious house in
1 1nAf?ttSr'rTT etan9°n* 1- . Gahoway, he died there within the space of twelve months.3
DUUD i4 UL Island lies in the South Pacific Ocean, His title and estates descended to his grandson Archibald,
in ong. I4L oB. Vv. and lat. 1/. 20. S. It was so named a young nobleman whose personal attractions were so un-
by Captain Cook, and was seen by the French navigator rivalled that he speedily obtained the tender regard of the
Bougainville. I here is another small island of this name widowed queen, and their nuptials were solemnized be-
near the south coast of New Ilolland, so called by Captain fore she had completed the year of mourning. This pre-
Vancouver, from his uncertainty whether it was connected cipitate match, which had been concluded without the
with the Continent. Long. 119. 49. E. Lat. 34. 23. S. concurrence of the principal nobility, excited general in-
UUUDlliNCr, the act of withholding assent from any dignation : the queen was no longer willingly acknowledg-
proposition, on suspicion that we are not thoroughly ap- ed as regent; the pre-eminence of her husband rendered
prised of its merits, or from not being able peremptorily him odious in the eyes of the more powerful subjects;
to decide betvyeen the reasons lor and against it. Doubt- and the house of Douglas was involved in persecutions
ing is distinguished by the schoolmen into two kinds, dubi- which this resentful spirit of jealousy excited.
1 Alexandri Myln Vitse Episcoporum Dunkeldensium, p. 72. Edinb. 1823, 4to.
* Keith’s Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops, p. 03.
3 Hume’s History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, p. 235. Edinb. 1644, fol.