from his father's play, L18,000 at Astley's.
Dibdin was prompter and pantomime writer at Drury Lane until 1816, when
he took the Surrey theatre. This venture proved disastrous and he became
bankrupt. After this he was manager of the Haymarket, but without his
old success, and his last years were passed in comparative poverty. In
1827 he published two volumes of _Reminiscences_; and at the time of his
death he was preparing an edition of his father's sea songs, for which a
small sum was allowed him weekly by the lords of the admiralty. Of his
own songs "The Oak Table" and "The Snug Little Island" are well-known
examples. He died in London on the 16th of September 1841.

DIBRA (Slav. _Debra_), the capital of a sanjak bearing the same name, in
the vilayet of Monastir, eastern Albania, Turkey. Pop. (1900) about
15,000. Dibra occupies a valley enclosed by mountains, and watered by
the Tsrni Drin and Radika rivers, which meet 3 m. S. It is a fortified
city, and the only episcopal see of the Bulgarian exarchate in Albania;
most of the inhabitants are Albanians, but there is a strong Bulgarian
colony. The local trade is almost entirely agricultural.

DIBRUGARH, a town of British India, in the Lakhimpur district of eastern
Bengal and Assam, of which it is the headquarters, situated on the Dibru
river about 4 m. above its confluence with the Brahmaputra. Pop. (1901)
11,227. It is the terminus of steamer navigation on the Brahmaputra, and
also of a railway running to important coal-mines and petroleum wells,
which connects with the Assam-Bengal system. Large quantities of coal
and tea are exported. There are a military cantonment, the headquarters
of the volunteer corps known as the Assam Valley Light Horse; a
government high school, a training school for masters; and an aided
school for girls. In 1900 a medical school for the province was
established, out of a bequest left by Brigade-Surgeon J. Berry-White,
which is maintained by the government, to train hospital assistants for
the tea gardens. The Williamson artisan school is entirely supported by
an endowment.

DICAEARCHUS, of Messene in Sicily, Peripatetic philosopher and pupil of
Aristotle, historian, and geographer, flourished about 320 B.C. He was a
friend of Theophrastus, to whom he dedicated the majority of his works.
Of his writings, which comprised treatises on a great variety of
subjects, only the titles and a few fragments survive. The most
import