[Delta], the signature of D. Macbeth Moir in Blackwood's Magazine.
[Deluc, Jean André], geologist, born in Geneva; lived in England; was reader to Queen Charlotte, and author of several works (1727-1817).
[Deluge], name given to the tradition, common to several races, of a flood of such universality as to sweep the land, if not the earth, of all its inhabitants, except the pair by whom the land of the earth was repeopled.
[Dem`ades], an Athenian orator, a bitter enemy of Demosthenes, in the interest of Philip of Macedon; put to death for treason by Antipater, 318 B.C.; was a man of no principle, but a great orator.
[Demara`tus], king of Sparta from 510 to 491 B.C.; dispossessed of his crown, fled to Persia and accompanied Xerxes into Greece.
[Demavend, Mount], an extinct volcano, the highest peak (18,600 ft.) of the Elburz chain, in Persia.
[Dembea], a lake, the largest in Abyssinia, being 60 m. long and 6000 ft. above the sea-level, from which the Blue Nile issues.
[Dembinski, Henry], a Polish general, born near Cracow; served under Napoleon against Russia, under Kossuth against Austria; fled to Turkey on the resignation of Kossuth; died in Paris (1791-1864).
[Demerara], a division of British Guiana; takes its name from the river, which is 200 m. long, and falls into the Atlantic at Georgetown.
[Demeter] (lit. Earth-mother), the great Greek goddess of the earth, daughter of Kronos and Rhea and sister of Zeus, and ranks with him as one of the twelve great gods of Olympus; is specially the goddess of agriculture, and the giver of all the earth's fruits; the Latins call her Ceres.